Weaning, Weighing & Sexing Baby 6 Week Old Bunnies | BONUS Mating Buck & Doe!!!

[@HighlandHomesteadGoGoMomma]

Aww..love it...thanks for sharing..great video about the rabbits my friend 👍 😀 Eva

[@RidgeLife]

Thanks Eva!

[@BandJslittlefarm]

Nice tutorial and explanations !

[@RidgeLife]

Thank you!

[@edensgarden1775]

Beautiful baby bunnies. Cannot decide my favorite. They are all so beautiful. Have a great day Tim.

[@RidgeLife]

Thank you! You too!

[@AuntieAnn]

Great idea for the scale, it worked perfectly!... I'm always a sucker for the runt, so of course my favorite is the little 2lb one 😃❤️. You are amazing at explaining everything Tim 👍👊

[@RidgeLife]

Thank you Ann! The baby scale idea was Starla's!

[@AuntieAnn]

@@RidgeLife of course it was, there's always a brilliant woman, behind the scenes 😃

[@diamondbellranchhomestead4298]

Really enjoyed watching the babies rabbits 🐇. They are all beautiful each in their own way. Blessings to you and your wife remembering you both in our family's hearts and prayers 🙏.

[@RidgeLife]

Thank you so much!

[@bamaoutdoorsofficial]

Very well explained Tim. Answered alot of questions I had being fairly new to rabbits! Awesome

[@RidgeLife]

Glad it was helpful!

[@suburbanhomesteaderwy-az]

Love the bunnies Tim.

[@RidgeLife]

Thank you Sandie!

[@PaffordHomestead]

That's great Tim didn't take long to get in the rabbit business... Beautiful babies love it👍

[@RidgeLife]

Ha! Thank you!

[@terminal_goat2604]

Donut or taco!👌 Looking great Tim! L#9👍🐐 Love the black buck!

[@RidgeLife]

Ha! That's how I was taught!

[@lauryn_21420]

Great job on your first litter, Timmy! So proud of you!

[@RidgeLife]

Thanks so much and thanks for your advice! I'm sure I will ask for more!

[@maryranch5329]

Beautiful bunnies and of course what a nice setup.👍😊

[@RidgeLife]

Thank you! 😊

[@FullCircleHomestead]

Such great information, thanks for educating!

[@RidgeLife]

Glad it was helpful!

[@YowellsHoppinHilltopFarm]

I love your bunnie setup it is so cool!

[@RidgeLife]

Thank you very much! I am building another grow out hutch soon!

[@LittleFrenchyinBigTexas]

Great explanations. Love watching the Little ones. They grey one is still my favorite 🥰.

[@RidgeLife]

Glad you like them! Thanks!

[@lilahnewton7940]

Very educational video Tim, thank you. Prayers for Mrs Ridgelife.

[@RidgeLife]

Thank you kindly!

[@lindawall6504]

Nice job. Maybe Cupcake is ready to be a mom now

[@RidgeLife]

I hope so! Thanks!

[@CynthiasCraftsandmore]

Love watching the baby bunnies. How old will the babies be when you have to separate the boys from the girls? Thank you for sharing. Have a beautiful and blessed week my friend ❤️🤗

[@RidgeLife]

They are for sale now and any left over by 12 weeks will be processed. If kept longer, they really should be separated if not sooner.

[@CynthiasCraftsandmore]

@@RidgeLife If I lived close I'd buy one of the broken ones.😥🐰❤

[@RidgeLife]

Thx. They sure are pretty!

[@twopassionsfishing386]

Great video friend

[@RidgeLife]

Thank you 👍

[@GardeningintheNorth]

Great video! Thx

[@RidgeLife]

Glad you liked it!

[@TheAdaptiveMaritimer]

How cute

[@RidgeLife]

Thanks!

[@joshandhuntersadventures5046]

I had thought about getting some meat rabbits one time but never did they get big don’t they

[@RidgeLife]

They get big quickly!

[@ErnieHatmaker]

I could've sworn I saw this yesterday, but here it still sits in "Watch Later".

[@RidgeLife]

HA! Sure!

[@paulhoneyman6923]

hey Tim, I see SMOKEY was a pound .1 heavier than CHARCOAL lol Happy New Year to you all mate

[@RidgeLife]

UGH! Don't name them!!!! HA!

[@FleetwoodPatch]

Hi Tim! How long does it take newborns before they start eating hay?

[@RidgeLife]

It was just a couple weeks and they started. They could actually be weaned by 4 weeks but I believe 6 is better.

[@SmokyMountainBlessed]

We appreciate all the information you give in these videos, you have a teaching gift on you. Questions you can address on another vlog if you want... When do you separate the males from females? Do you have to get unrelated males to breed with females you might keep? Do you sell your babies or are they your meat rabbits? (We’ve never tasted rabbit yet, we do not like the taste venison, but Elk was ok and we liked Bison)

[@RidgeLife]

Thank you so much. If you let them get 8-12 weeks, it would be good to separate them any later. Siblings shouldn't mate but is can be done if the traits you like are in both. You can mate child to parent without too much worry. I am selling them but those that reach 12 weeks will be processed for food. It tastes GREAT!!!

[@OddPaw]

Weights on the babies are looking good! I know you said you noticed the blood on your buck, it looks like it is coming from his hocks. You're going to want to do something to remedy that as they can get infected quite easily. Best solution is to put something in the cage to get him off the wire. Best of luck!

[@RidgeLife]

Thanks. He has flat tile to rest on. I checked him the next day and all was good and no sign of injury. It was very weird.

[@NoneyaTexasontheback20]

Morning

[@RidgeLife]

Good morning!

[@Peacedragon-rp4in]

Want I see is food your weighting. Meat rabbit jerky is great with honey BBQ sauce smoked with cedar wood. Try it.

[@RidgeLife]

Sounds good!

[@SunnieDIY]

Catching up on videos. Awe they are so big now 💕 keep in mind that there is a thing called split penis so sometimes a boy looks like a girl and then heals usually in time. We usually have one once in a while. They say its hereditary but it can also happen due to injury with early checking sometimes injuring them. Tiny parts are delicate and sometimes even trying to check gently hurts them. It usually heals but if they are already sold or kept for the breeding program some people dont check later assuming they were 100% correct. So if you are sure someone is a girl but their behavior is super odd overly dominant etc wanting to hump on everyone suddenly its ok to second guess and check again. Also by the time they are much older testicle will appear if its a boy (4 months or so some earlier). If you think its a boy its a boy but sometimes one of the girls is a secret boy thanks to split penis lol. Just something to look out for. Also it is more common than people realize even some show breeders I know have had this issue where I've received a "girl" and its a boy. Jack our Flemish was suppose to be Pumpkins daughter lol. With Magnus he was already a year old and these people just had to look and see he had testicles. They had him in with his sister for a whole year old. Poor Dolly was so scared of "Maggie". See the thing is girls have tricks to avoid babies if they dont want to be bred but 24/7 Dolly was in with him she couldn't stop him. Also rabbits are induced ovulators so constantly being bred since she was like 5 months up to that year daily caused her to absorb the pregnancies. They never saw her have babies, she never pulled fur. She was legitimately constantly pregnant and early miscarrying or absorbing the pregnancy. For 6 or 7 months depending when he started. Maybe even longer if he started earlier. They constantly handled Magnus is what I dont understand. They said they did and he is the most mush rabbit I've ever met. You can hold him any way and he doesn't scratch hes super trusting. Cute but not super bright. Super mellow. They didnt hold poor Dolly much because she was "Skittish". 10 minutes after we got home he was acting odd and she was hiding behind a hay bale (finally had something to put some space between them they were in the back of my truck with a camper shell). We flipped him over and there were the "berries". How they could have them and hold him for a year and not have figured it out is confusing. They told me they only ever check once and never second guess themselves down the line if it looks like a girl its a girl and that is that. They even told me no way he can be a boy since they never had babies. With that much stress on her body she likely just absorbed all the pregnancies (daily breeding even through pregnancy would cause more eggs to drop thus being constantly impregnated). When she was separated from him she got her confidence back and she is a total love now. She was relaxed enough that she miscarried finally rather than absorbed them. 2 weeks after having her. I know it doesn't seem like a big deal especially if you have them you would notice if something was off Im more than sure since you are very observant and take good care of your animals. Some people don't know much so if you do sell or give family some "sisters" it would good to have them keep an eye out and if behavior seems off then recheck them or have them recheck. So many boy rabbits I've gotten that were suppose to be girls due to this. Jack was suppose to be a girl so was Moses, I was given Cupid the chinchilla mini rex mix boy (father to many of my mini rex mixes) because he was held back for her breeding program and then she realized he was a boy and she thought he was a girl so she gifted him to us, at least we knew this one was a boy when we got him lol. Magnus was Maggie which I mentioned. In the passed we had "Melanie" which ended up being a Mel lol. It is something to keep in mind and be open to checking later down the road. The split penis issue also goes to show why when people say their rabbits "turned into a boy" its never they turned into a girl. Its just that it healed and became obvious it was a boy. I learned in all this its ok to check later if something seems off and ALWAYS check when getting rabbits from someone lol. Moses almost got killed. Our girls don't take kindly to boys in their pen unless they want to breed. When we were told he was a she (this was from a friend who had bunnies for years, everyone has come across this if they've had rabbits even if it never was brought to their attention by someone they sold it to its just part of having rabbits lol) we put him in the pen with the girls and they were bullying him more than just if he was a new girl. Normally they chase and get over it in like 15 minutes they would not stop. We brought "her" inside and after a while Ivy began holding him like a baby sometimes since hes super mellow. She said um mom Maia is not a girl 🤣 so then it made sense they didn't want him there. I find it to be a really good laugh usually but with Dolly and Magnus that was pretty sad. I havent bred her at all since I've had her I figure her body needed a break. She seems to have recovered more though she was flirting with Moses when his hutch was on the ground in the girl pen. So next year I'll likely see if she is up for having some babies. So since I've seen how bad it can be and how common it is Ive tried to let people know. Rosalee is just a pet she won't be intentionally bred (sometimes love finds a way like with Topaz last year breaking into Cupids house) since she is inbred. The couple we got them from had an oohps litter from housing their "sister" rabbits together and turns out he was a boy. Some people notice their secret boy rabbit breeding so she wasnt constantly bred. They saw him get her and separated them immediately when they noticed. Some of them had no tails as odd as that is. One of them was missing an ear (so it makes me wonder if the inbreeding was more than one generation since some inbred babies seem fine and so much was wrong with that litter). We took some in just to give them a home. Rosalee is the only survivor. Not sure if the others just had something more wrong with them. So she's just a pet.

[@RidgeLife]

Thank you. I have heard of that but not seen it as of yet. I will be on the look for it and be sure to do repeated checks. Thanks again!

[@SunnieDIY]

@@RidgeLife they really don't need lots of checks but definitely before they go to new homes if you give or sell any and just keeping an eye out for odd behavior. Girls are dominant too and girls can hunch on others too Ive had some females who did this if I tried to breed them. They would run out from under the male and hunch on him lol. Emily was notorious for it. She was for sure a girl she had babies even. We rehomed her since she was eventually bullying the other girls so severely that either she was going to hurt one or they were gonna gang up on her and hurt her. Still even as weird as she was Magnus was being dominant in a possessive way? I put my other new girls in the back of the truck so all the "girls" could get to know each other in a neutral environment. He started rubbing his chin on their heads one by one like he was counting them and marking them like "mine" lol. It was so odd I was like "cant hurt to check" and there they were lol. Just sometimes something seems off and it doesn't hurt to check and if they are adults its even easier.

[@JacobsTriangle]

Bunny porn!!! 😂 The kits are growing fast and looking good. Are you going to save some for breeders, or all going to freezer camp?

[@RidgeLife]

Ha! Sell and eat!

[@WestTennessee]

👍🏻😎☺️

[@RidgeLife]

Thanks!

[@kevywilliams3304]

You might want to bring a bottle pad ..

[@RidgeLife]

A what?

[@lauryn_21420]

Yeah, rabbit claws suck especially when you're dealing with a whole litter. I have scars all over me just because of them, i guess they don't appreciate all we do for them lol

[@RidgeLife]

Ha! Very true. Maybe it has to do with what we have in store for them!!!

[@kevywilliams3304]

We can’t see the sexing….. and that doesn’t necc work

[@RidgeLife]

Picture a donut (male) or taco (female).

[@tonyaburnside1037]

Nora people go out and buy to Bunnys three Bunnys nope I went out and bought nine Bunnys from different places got seven of them in my bathroom. All the girls and the boys are in cages building a humongous bunny colony.

[@RidgeLife]

Nice! Good luck!

[@kevywilliams3304]

Too much dust coming off that over head feeder… the dust is so old it’s crumbling into their eyes.

[@RidgeLife]

Thanks!

[@BushcraftFamily]

food related gender revile lol

[@RidgeLife]

HA!

[@bucktaylor4960]

How can somebody reply to you,that this video is very well explained,it’s bad,you just talking about donut 🍩 and split,but nothing can’t be seen on video,how it supposed to look’s like.Bad posted video!

[@RidgeLife]

This works pretty well. Sorry you feel that way. I thought the depiction of a donut vs a taco would suffice. It is hard to zoom in that close. I am sure there are pictures on the internet to google. I just try to help the best I can.