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Great link Dirty Harry, thanks... Regarding the feeding of cole crops, my buns don't get a lot, but I do occasionally give them kale and broccoli leaves. It's been a couple of weeks though.

Wow, I hadn't thought of them acting "normal" to avoid showing weakness to potential predators...I appreciate all your time and feedback, lots of tidbits I'll add to my bag of tricks.

The thing is there was no sign anything was amiss until literally hours before they died, that's what I don't get...would any of the possible culprits mentioned - cocci, blockage or entritis - present that way? I'll definitely start to regularly feel their abdomens to try to recognize future...

Funny Farm, what do you add to the meat to make your sausage? Rabbit meat is so lean it hadn't occured to me you could make rabbit sausage. Thanks!

Thanks everyone... You know the thought crossed my mind to butcher them just for practice, but I was (and still am) leery of opening up an animal that died of a mystery illness...pity, that hopefully would have shown blockage. Coccidiosis I was unfamiliar with and will read up, thanks for that...

I appreciate the quick responses... In my case, the water bottle has luckily not had any issues dispensing water...and these little guys go through a LOT of water. In regards to the possibility of pesticides, we don't use any pesticides anywhere on our property (as evidenced by our bumper crop...

Hi everyone, I'm new to raising rabbits and am raising my first litter of kits to slaughter weight. They are New Zealands, 8 kits, have been weaned for several weeks. Since being weaned, their diet has consisted of alfalfa pellets, dandelions, plantain, raspberry leaves, radish greens, kale...