I was really excited when I got a call from a man inquiring if we had any young does for sale. As we talked he told me that he'd bought Silver Foxes a few years back from a line out of Michigan, AG Fox. He'd not done much with them, but wanted to expand his herd with a new line. I got Black Diamonds, and he got a Rogue Wild's doe. Everybody went home happy! This fall we'll be introducing her kits!
We've gotten lots of questions about our new floor. We used rough hickory straight from the mill, it cost a little over $200 for 1075 ft. Since it was rough lumber, we got 6", 7" & 8" widths and the lengths varied from 6' to 16.2'. Our rabbitry is about 41' x 12', there were 3 rows using 12' pieces and the 4th row was a little under 6'. It took them (my husband & his helper) about 4 hours, 2 saw blades, many rechargable saw & drill batteries and about 10lbs of ribbed nails (I don't know the cost of the nails because they were given to us in exchange for eggs, rabbit meat & frozen vegis from the garden). I can tell a huge difference in temperature, which has helped with preventing the water bottles from freezing. I'm also using half of the 8 heat lamps instead of all of them during the night. Cleaning is super quick since the floor is level/even now (we don't yet have trays under the cages, so it all falls on the floor). |
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