COTTONTAILS VS DOMESTICATED/ ADVICE FOR NEW RABBIT OWNERS

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We raised up a wild cottontail and enjoyed watching it grow. We attempted to handle it daily. In this video we share some information on cottontails as well as our 8 weeks we spent raising it. Lastly, we discuss our return policy and why we don't give any guarantees or promises made. Thank you for watching!
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[MurderDronesFanLife]

I rescued a cottontail because it was hurt and its doing really well right now. It was stuck under a car but I brought it in and fed it milk. Now its 3 months old and its so cute!

[rurunstenristare]

I had a doe that escaped and we brought her back the next day and shortly after she had a litter. Now we have some california/cottontail cross. They are huge and docile with cottontail markings. Very cool!

[bizzybee]

You seem very educated about rabbits, not sure how someone with so much knowledge about rabbits, doesn't know that you should not keep rabbits on wire bottomed cages. As you well know, rabbits paws and hocks are very sensitive, and hopping around on stiff metal wire with large openings can lead to sore and painful hocks. On the hocks of an adult rabbit, you will usually find a small, bare, pale pink callused area right at the tip of the heel, covered by a fold of fur. The fur provides a cover for normal pressure and activity applied to the hock area. “Sore hocks” or Ulcerative Pododermatitis, are inflamed and painful areas on the heel. This area may weep, bleed or become infected. This is a serious concern, but it can be remedied and your rabbits will be happy and pain free. You can easily eliminate the problem the way we have for our rabbit "peekaboo", (he's a pet, not raised for food, but care is the same), we place a piece of cardboard down to cover the wire bottom of peekaboo's cage, then we add a layer of thick straw bedding. We use a coarse straw hay, which is not only really cheap, ( $3 and change for a tightly baled bag that lasts 2+ months for 1 rabbit), we found it works much better than the more expensive, finely shredded, softer, types of bedding, which tend to clump up and compact when wet. The coarser straw adds more loft making for softer bedding, and it absorbs his urine while allowing his poops to fall through the straw to the bottom of the cage. This prevents the rabbit from sitting in wet urine, or getting poops stuck to his fur and paws. I understand the purpose of wire bottom cages is to let their poop fall thru the cage, but I know you would never want to hurt your rabbits, and it is easy to add a fresh 2-3" layer of straw every day or two to keep your rabbit on dry bedding, and then once a week you just empty the entire cage onto your compost pile, or directly onto your garden, and you refill your rabbit's cage with a fresh 5-6" layer of straw.
Sore hocks are not always the result of neglect, even well cared for house rabbits get sore hocks. There are many predisposing factors that cause sore hocks:

Poor Hygiene
Damp Bedding
Long Nails
Rough or Unsuitable Flooring
Obesity
Immobility
Excessive Thumping
Certain breeds/fur types (Rex for example)
Flooring is often the culprit. Inadequate or hard flooring can create pressure on hocks, removing fur covering and causing the skin to become raw and even break apart. Abrasive floor, including some rugs or play area surfaces, wear away the fur on the hock resulting in injury.
👉Hutches or cage systems with wire or hard surfaces are injurious to rabbit feet.👈 This type of housing is so problematic. We strongly discourage using outdoor hutches.

[Chris-ygvh]

Your channel has been one of the most helpful and informative to our little farm. This last year i finally sat down and created a book for our genetics and we are going full time in our bunny production.

[rhondaparks]

I like how you care about your bunnies and how you handle them very carefully

[Melayan]

Fascinating! I love this comparison between the two. Must have been a fun experiment for you, too.

[joeryerson]

I am still very new to breeding and selling my rabbits, but I adopted basically the same policy as you with the few that I've sold.

[hillockfarm]

From someone who had pet rabbits in a run in the yard who ended up with a mixed litter (tame doe, wild buck european rabbit), it became very clear that the wild part is inherited. They where around humans daily and always scared of them. So no, wild animals even crossed with domesticated don't make happy pets.

[wildesage]

We had pet rabbits when I was a kid (only rabbits, due to cat & dog allergies), so I know I couldn't kill a rabbit, just as most of us couldn't kill a cat or dog. However, I gotta admit, they've gotta be up there among the most efficient ways to transform a bunch of brush into a bunch of meat. I really feel for the wild cottontails; it's just running for your life until the day you get picked off (or run over, if in cities). Keep up the good fight, little dudes!

[ronroth]

When, in the 1959s, I was about 12, my family rented a bungalow is the Catskills. My father was driving alone along a small country road one day, and he eaw a black wild rabbit by the side. He stopped the car, opened the door, and the rabbit hopped in. Back at the bungalow I think the next day, abulldog near the bungalow chased the rabbit (who we had named Cricket) under a very nearby truck- then came out squealing in pain, for it had ripped is back on the truck underside. Cricket was nowhere to be found. Gone forever, probably severely injured, we thought. One or two days later, it reappeared at our screen door - and we took in back in. At the end of the summer, we took it back to our Bronx apartment, where, after some missteps in rearing (a temporary, isolating, TV-box-home, for example) we all settled in in earnest. Cricket was WONDERFUL, and my dad even trained it so shit and pee in a metal bin he fabricated.

[scottmclaughlin]

Glad I have found your channel. We are just getting into raising rabbits. My wife and I have had a couple medical issues and we were looking for a way to help supplement out meat and possibly income until I get back to work. I have learned a lot from watching your channel. You give great easy understanding content. Keep up the good work. God bless.

[ndnhlni]

In my experience they just get horrible anxiety from being picked up but eventually can get friendly I have my wild bunny on me right now… it’s a process to get them to trust you

[rabidfarmer]

I just saw a very large black rabbit lounging around my driveway as I was working. So huge rabbit and pretty friendly - I was thinking maybe the neighbor's pet got loose. I gave it some lettuce and chewed it some...then thing fell asleep under my boat. LOL>

[lydiaramdeen]

we need weekly videos lol.. i always get ideas for my rabbits from you. thanks!

[jessamyers]

My husband rescued a cottontail from 3 crows trying to eat him. He was about 4 weeks old. We brought him home. He was very injured. We didn't think he would live through the night. But he did. And his back leg is permanently damaged so we kept him. He is almost 2 years old now. He runs around our house and has a giant hutch in my kitchen. A year ago we seen someone trying to find a home for a domestic bunny and we had to say yes. We brought her home a year ago. It has not been easy. They have to be kept separated because my cotton tail will attack her if he is around her. So we have a great system of letting him be more dominant and run wherever he wants all day and night. In the day he likes to stay upstairs, so then we let her out to run around at that time. It's not always bad between them but our cottontail was here first and this is his territory, I think that's how he looks at it

[keithbk]

I have a sizeable commercial property with cottontails. Every summer, I will have to pack up a litter or two in a cage while mowing, then return them to their nest when done. If I miss a nest, I could kill them by accident. Nests are typically easy to locate because there will be a brown patch with a little tuft of hair that the mother rabbit has left behind. The tuft of hair is probably there to distract other animals from the scent of the litter. Touching a rabbit will not stop the mother from returning. If you have to relocate a nest, do so only for a short time and return it because most people cannot nurse wild rabbits successfully. Wild rabbits will always be jittery, but ones you have handled will recognize your voice and that you are not a predator if you talk to them from the time they are young. They won't want you close, but they typically will not run when you talk to them in a calm voice. Yesterday, 2 adults and 3 babies were on the property and they all continued to eat as I walked past them.

[nbfarmandpets]

So informative, Thanks for sharing this ideas

[horizanadventures]

All rabbits come from wild originally, domestics are hard to skin. Cottontail skin like paper. I will take cottontail over demotic any day.

[KatWest]

Thanks for the policy idea! I'm definitely going to use that

[riahsrabbitry]

Another great video Bobby! It’s fascinating the difference between cotton tails and domestic rabbits.
Ps have you ever seen channel pints with aquinas? That guy Matt looks like your Aussie cousin! Lol