#rabbitry

[buckwildrabbitry]

most scrungly creatures on earth just discovered ‼️

[foxxmeadows]

Proud to announce the addition of these two girls to the herd!! Welcome Marigold and Flopsy :)

[artenderfoot]

A whimsical illustration of a Rabbit Family celebrating Christmas Eve, filling the room with warmth and love. I imagined the everyday routine of our families, how our parents work hard for us and we as children have such playful spirits that without a care in the world we only enjoy, laugh and love. This art shows the strong family bond and undying love. I think this also makes a great teaching illustration for the kids. Personally, I adore children books and whimsical characters in the books. Kinda makes me feel nostalgic. I hope this art brings back some great memories from your childhood as well🧡❤ #rabbitry #rabbityear #rabbitlife #whitebunny #whitebunnybaby #easterbunny #easterbunnycame #easterbunnydecor #easterbunnypicture #childrenbookart #ChildrenBookstore #childrenbookillustrator #gouacheartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CpEm96PvkSH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mephorash]

PSA to rabbit owners: sore hocks are NOT always because of extremely long nails/neglect. A lot of the time, it is just a hereditary disease. Some breeds, like the Rex, are especially genetically prone to getting it. Having sore hocks doesn't mean you or someone else is a neglectful rabbit owner.

[lionsoulhomestead]

Homesteading can be hard but with good planning, and hard work it's a very doable goal! 🤠

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#lionsoulhomestead #homesteading #homesteaddlife #farming #raisingchickens #backyardchickens #chickens #meatrabbits #peltrabbits #rabbitry #rabbits #rexrabbit #astrexrabbit #astrexfur #familyhomesteading #familyfarming #familyhomestead #homestead #farm #goats #goatmilk #dairygoats #milkfromgoats #pigs #kunekune #kunekunepigs

[wildflowerrabbitry]

[pittielove]

More fuzzies.

[somebunny2love]

Sweet baby bun buns. ❤🐇🐇🐇🐇

[coyotecreek]

You know what I hate? Having all these bucks that I like too much and am tempted to hold onto "just in case" my next litter doesn't work out in my favor, or whatever.

Lookin' at you, Mal. You pretty little shit.

[buckwildrabbitry]

3 (three) beans

[rmspeltzfarm]

Easter Bunnies on the Farm

Easter Bunnies on the Farm

[shutterandpencil]

“Bunnies & Blooms”

There was a new event at Krohn Conservatory that I just had to go to. I’m a sucker for lop rabbits. 

[meowmeowriley]

CHANGING MY ASK!

How does Ghost react when Soap comes back from visiting the family farm to help with mating season? Reeking of other horny buns? (yes Resi is in my head)

😈 all I'm gonna say is, rabbit breeding season spans all summer. If they happen to go on leave during that time Soap learns the hard way that he is to shower the second he gets home, after he went into the rabbitry and was attacked by every doe there. Poor guy was very confused. Covered in scratch marks, bites and bruises.

Ghost, when Soap came back to base, was told what happened. Shown the bruises and bite marks. And was pissed, jealous, and territorial. That's HIS boyfriend Sergeant. And he's gonna have to fight the urge to set the record straight. 😁

[bunposting]

Turns out an 80% hay diet - which House Rabbit Society purports as part of what they consider to be the only humane diet for rabbits - may actually be in and of itself actively harmful to rabbits.

Post directly copied from MMC Farmstead on Facebook:

"This is what the back teeth and cheek of a rabbit who was feed a 80% hay diet looks like.

the dental spurs caused by the hay are razor sharp and sliced groves into the inner cheek and tounge.

Every bite this rabbit took was agony due to how a hay heavy diet unevenly wears the teeth and causes malocusion.

Pellets are formulated to help prevent this by being the correct hardness. A healthy well bred rabbit does not require any thing special to keep teeth in check they file them down naturally in a motion referred to as " Bruxing".

This is one of many reasons why Hay should be restricted in Rabbit diets , and is not nessicarry when fed a properly balanced complete pellet .

We do not recomend Feeding hay to rabbits as a staple.

Hay is for enrichment and medicinal/transitional use only.

Hay dilutes the nutrients already in a balanced feed regimen, causes dental impaction, tooth spurs, abscesses. Its difficulty to chew causes mechanical maloculsion.

Hay from a nutrition perspective is not easily defined as a base nutrient , with the levels of protien and quality of other nutrients dependent on the individual harvest .

Hay is also a vector for disease, coccidia, mites, RHDV2, EC ,And many other vectors are carried into the Rabbitry on hay.

We also Run bunclub which is an educational group here: Bun Club

references :

2017 Shape Variation in the Craniomandibular System and Prevalence of Dental Problems in Domestic Rabbits: A Case Study in Evolutionary Veterinary Science

Vet Sci. 2017 Mar; 4(1): 5. Published online 2017 Jan 24. doi: 10.3390/vetsci4010005 PMCID: PMC5606619 PMID: 29056664 Christine Böhmer1,* and Estella Böhmer2 Patrick Butaye, Academic Editor https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5606619/

" Hay seems to be the most mechanically challenging food as it is tougher and stiffer than pellets ......... [70]. It requires more chews per gram to be processed which results in longer chewing bouts compared to pellets and carrots. This means that over a longer period of time the teeth are predominantly axially loaded due to the elevated bite force. If we take into consideration that hay with a lot of hard stems has reduced nutritive properties and potential limits on digestibility, then rabbits eating predominantly hay need to consume large quantities to meet basic metabolic and nutritional demands [70]. All of this promotes retrograde tooth elongation and incursion of the apices into the adjacent bone (most common finding in malocclusions) [1]. Furthermore, hay also promotes periodontal diseases (impacted food) and, therefore is not the best nutrition for rabbits [31]. Grasses and other fresh plants, however, are abrasive, but relatively soft and, thus, can be ground down with relatively low axial load of the cheek teeth as the primary strain on the (pre-) molars occurs in a more physiological laterorostral direction with the aid of the shearing power stroke"""

"Considering additionally that hay is more resistant than fresh grasses, it seems logical to develop further the hypothesis that pet and breeding rabbits had to develope stronger jaw muscles and secondarily larger axial bite forces than their wild counterparts to be able to crush their unnatural food more effectively. This might be supported by a shorter skull and more vertically oriented muscle fibers whereas a longer skull with a more anteriorly positioned masseter muscle (as seen in wild rabbits) reduces the vertical bite force due to a greater distribution of bite forces on all cheek teeth. As teeth at the rear of the dentition generally exert higher bite forces than the more rostrally positioned teeth, this might be an explanation for the found tendency of the cheek teeth to shift caudally in the group of the domestic rabbits. Furthermore, the presence of stronger muscles may explain the more salient appearance of the caudoventral part of the masseteric fossa (mandibular angle) in pet rabbits, as in different mammals (re-)modeling of the mandibular cortical bone has proven to be associated with oral processing of tough food (reviewed in [70]). This research has shown that especially a postnatal variation in diet-related jaw-loading patterns had a marked influence on the masticatory bone formation, leading to morphological variations between sister taxa in the long term [70]. With age, however, plasticity decreases. Based on this, rabbit breeders feeding predominantly pellets and hay seem to promote malocclusions in adult rabbits unknowingly as the masticatory apparatus of the weanlings is exposed to unphysiological strains that may result in changes of the skull morphology."

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Genetic and environmental factors influencing tooth and jaw malformations in rabbits

Korn, A. K., Brandt, H. R., & Erhardt, G. (2016). Genetic and environmental factors influencing tooth and jaw malformations in rabbits. Veterinary Record, 178(14), 341–341. doi:10.1136/vr.103293

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.103293

<- this describes tooth morphology but also makes a strong case to increasing rabbit calcium levels as I have stated in earlier posts. all these rabbit were fed with free choice hay . latter studies showed a correlation between hay and instance of tooth issues when rabbits were fed a limited diet."

Pictures mentioned in the post added below 👇

[tetedurfarm]

absolutely gutted. emailed arba to ask if i would lose my rabbitry number if i changed my rabbitry name and they said yes

i don't really vibe with frithyeer anymore but my rabbitry number is D6669 and i just don't know if i can give it up

[wildflowerrabbitry]

These perfect little babes!