Howdy!! On the hunt for a new breeding buck. I haven't even started this year and our semi-annual cleaning took my only Senita breeding buck. He was gorgeous. The girls are looking great and packed on the pounds. We are starting to trim back to 10oz of pellets a day to get ready for breeding season in a few short weeks.

Hi, Does anyone change the amount of pellets based on the season? I used to feed hay with the pellets but I’ve removed the hay. Life has been better. Soooo much better. Wish I’d done this 3 years ago. But I was wondering if I should expect to increase the pellet amount once it starts to get colder. I figured I can always reduce if it doesn’t get eaten. But just curious what others do and what to expect. I have Netherland Dwarf that eat Rowe (16/18 non-medicated) and Blanc de Hotot & English Spots that eat Heinhold Family (orange bag).

Pasteurella, often called “snuffles,” is one of the better-known bacterial diseases in rabbits. It is most commonly associated with Pasteurella multocida and can cause sneezing, thick white or yellow nasal discharge, wet front paws, raspy breathing, pneumonia, ear infections, abscesses, reproductive infections, and in severe cases systemic disease. One of the confusing things about Pasteurella is that exposure does not always mean illness. Some rabbits may carry the organism without obvious symptoms, while others develop clinical disease when stress, environment, bacterial load, concurrent illness, or individual susceptibility tip the balance. For breeders, that means there are really two separate questions: can an individual rabbit be treated, and should that rabbit remain in a breeding herd? Those are not the same question. Culling Is Still the Primary Herd-Control Tool Antibiotics can save individual rabbits, but they do not replace herd selection. In a breeding program, repeatedly treating rabbits that develop respiratory disease can keep animals in the herd that consistently fail to remain clinically healthy under normal conditions. It can also maintain infectious pressure within the rabbitry. That does not mean every rabbit that develops Pasteurella has “bad genetics.” Heat, poor ventilation, ammonia, transport, pregnancy, stress, concurrent infections, and exposure level can all affect disease expression. But long-term herd management should still favor rabbits that stay healthy. For that reason, culling clinically affected breeding rabbits remains our preferred approach. Treatment is reserved for special cases. Where Draxxin Comes In Draxxin is the trade name for tulathromycin, a long-acting macrolide antibiotic. It is not labeled specifically for Pasteurella in rabbits, so its use in rabbits is extra-label. However, published research has shown promising results. A 2017 study by Edrees, Abdellatief, and El-Sharkawy found that tulathromycin significantly improved clinical signs, mortality, growth, blood values, and tissue damage in rabbits experimentally infected with Pasteurella multocida.

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I have an untried trio of rabbits I was hoping to breed next week. I live in northeast Kansas and like the rest of the US we've had lots of really hot days this summer, and we are expecting another round of 95-100 degree days next week. I've recently read about heat induced infertility and how it can affect bucks up to 5 months later! Is this really something I need to worry about? I figured I would have to wait at least until this next heat wave was over, but should I wait even longer?