Regal Farm and Fiber - Regal Fur and Fiber Rabbitry

01/09/2026

FOUND THEIR HIDDEN NEST

One hen sitting on 62 eggs 🤦🏼‍♀️
Did she really think she could hatch that many?

Into the incubator 50 of them go! Left her with just a dozen

01/06/2026

Update on the chicken p**p: I was cleaning up the toys in the living room and tossed a toy egg into the toy bin… it cracked. It was a real egg 🙃🤣

01/06/2026

Woke up to find chicken p**p in my house… I’m not gonna even ask why/how that happened 🙈

01/05/2026

Wild West of Craigslist strikes again, partner.

This time: unsolicited advice on how to ‘deal’ with my dogs and some charming coyote curses for my chickens.

Here on the farm, we value our livestock, our dogs, our chickens, and our sanity … and yes, even the cat, whose new home will be carefully vetted.

Yeehaw, partner, keep your hate and coyote curses to yourself!

01/05/2026

Craigslist: the Wild West where ‘free’ cats ride shotgun with audacity and zero common sense.

In other news our barn cat is looking for a new job, liberty hill Tx!

01/04/2026

This is Theo! He is a male medium ebony chinchilla born 11/11/25 - just a baby!

He is out of a dark ebony Royal Persian angora female and a standard grey (blue diamond carrier) male.

Theo is a really mild tempered, laid back boy. With some growth and socialization he will be a really buddy buddy type of personality! You can reach in his cage and easily grab him and hold him with minimal fussing!

He has been raised in a household environment and exposed to children, dogs, loud noises and general household noises!

He is a beautiful and intelligent young boy! Chinchillas have special care, so be sure to do your research!

We feed Kalmbach guinea pig food, you can find it on chewy!

Located in liberty hill Tx, he does have a rehoming fee!

I breed a handful of chinchillas and have his full sister and parents so he will not fit my breeding program but will make a wonderful pet or breeder for someone else

I’m willing to meet within a reasonable distance! I am willing to mentor and guide you if you are new to chinchillas!

01/02/2026

Clifford the lamb is HUGE now! Well, he has always been huge but now he seriously impresses me with how big he is!

His ears are still big like a bat 🦇

01/02/2026

Shhhh don’t tell em I’m excited about em.

If you do it will be a rooster and then it will unalive itself, cuz that’s how it always goes 🐓

01/02/2026

Peekaboo I see you…

12/30/2025

Well put food for thought!

This person repeatedly commented that there must be something genetically wrong with rabbits because they always see rabbit breeders talking about needing to cull. While they were being disingenuous and finally just admitted they have a problem with rabbit breeders, I thought there may be other people who see the number of rabbits culled by breeders and wonder the same thing.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with rabbits. It’s simply a numbers game. Rabbits produce significantly more offspring per year than other types of livestock. While pigs come close, the reason you don’t hear the word culls used quite as frequently with pigs is because piglet culls are often called “feeders” and sold for somebody else to raise for the freezer. They’re still a cull, they’re just being butchered after a longer growing period than rabbits.

Other types of livestock definitely still have culls. Because they have fewer numbers of babies though it seems like they cull less. But if a cow has only one baby and you cull it, you’ve culled 100% of her offspring. Whereas in a litter of ten kits you might keep one, sell three to other breeders, and butcher six. Sure you butchered six kits but that was only 60% of her offspring from that litter.

Not only do rabbits produce more babies than other livestock, they have more pregnancies per year. Pigs can farrow twice per year. Goats usually kid once per year. Cows calve roughly yearly. Rabbits however can easily kindle four litters per year. So you’re going to see rabbit breeders talking about new babies more frequently than other livestock breeders and inevitably some of those new babies will be culls, so breeders will be culling more frequently too.

Another difference? Many (but not all) large livestock breeders send their culls off to a meat processor. There aren’t many meat processors these days that will do small animals. Most rabbit breeders have to learn to do it themselves unless they can find a cull buyer. But many of the larger livestock can be loaded onto trailers and taken to the processor or even the sale barn. And while you will often see pig breeders selling their piglets to individuals, you need to remember they’re selling them to other people to raise up for their freezers. We are all butchering them, it can just look different to outsiders depending on the species and the options the breeder has available.

So no, rabbits don’t have more genetic defects than other livestock. And rabbit breeders aren’t killing more animals just cuz they’re murderous lunatics. It’s literally just the critter math. 🤷🏻‍♀️ If each cow popped out 10 calves 4 times per year, I promise you’d see just as many posts from cattle farmers talking about culling. You’d prolly also see a lot more cussing from them every time the cows got out. 😂

Edit to add since there seems to be some confusion: cull just means to select or remove from breeding. Once you eat it, you can no longer breed it. You have removed it from breeding. So all meat comes from cull animals cuz you chose not to breed it, or not to continue breeding it, for whatever reason. But not all culls are meat because you can remove an animal from your breeding program and make it a pet. It’s still a cull just by choosing not to add it to your breeding program. But before you ever decide to turn an animal into meat, you have to decide if you’re going to breed it and if the answer is no, you’ve culled it.

12/29/2025

Neat little example of the four different coats! I love following breeders working with reza (satirized Rex) as it’s not a project I currently want to work on!

What is the difference between normal, satin, rex, and satinized rex fur? I have all 4 fur types who are all the same color- black/orange tri, in one shot... sort of... 😅

See the video (in the comments since Facebook won't allow me to post video abd pictures in the same post) for a bit more explaining, and a lot more chaos. I'm telling you, whomever coined the term "herding cats" never tried keeping young rabbits still, much less all going in one direction!

12/28/2025

I strongly believe this!

Let’s Talk About Pasteurella, Carriers, and Culling

One of the most common myths in rabbit circles is this:

“If a rabbit has Pasteurella, you have to cull it. Once they have it, they always have it.”

The fact of the matter. Most rabbits already carry Pasteurella long before they ever show symptoms. They don’t “become” carriers because they got sick, they got sick because they were already a carrier, and something weakened their immune system.

This is echoed in the Textbook of Rabbit Medicine, which notes that Pasteurella is an endemic in many rabbit populations, and that disease often results from stress or co-infection not from a new exposure.

Once symptoms subside, they return to their original state, asymptomatic carrier, just like the majority of your herd.

According to the Merck Veterinary Manual, rabbits are usually exposed to Pasteurella shortly after birth, and colonization increases until about 5 months of age. Many remain asymptomatic carriers for life.

And the Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine confirms that Pasteurella is “frequently isolated from the nasal cavity of clinically normal rabbits,” reinforcing that carrier status is common and not inherently dangerous.

So what does that mean?

• A rabbit can carry Pasteurella in its nasal passages without showing any symptoms.
• The real risk is during active infection. Sneezing, nasal discharge, or eye issues. That’s when a rabbit is most contagious.
• Stress, another illness, or poor husbandry can trigger flare ups in carriers but that doesn’t mean they “caught” something new.

It’s important to understand that culling known carriers of Pasteurella is not only unnecessary but it’s often not beneficial. Unless a rabbit is in active infection it does not pose a meaningful risk to your herd. In fact, culling based solely on carrier status can weaken your herd, reduce herd resilience, and create a false sense of control. Lack of early microbial exposure can impair immune development in rabbits, and culling asymptomatic carriers may actually reduce herd resilience by disrupting microbial diversity and immune training. The focus should be on managing stress, supporting immune health and maintaining clean, well ventilated environments, not eliminating animals for something that’s already present in most of the population.

📚 Sources:
• Merck Veterinary Manual
• Textbook of Rabbit Medicine, Frances Harcourt-Brown
• Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine, via ScienceDirect

💡 Wondering about the role of genetics in immune strength? I’ve got a separate post that breaks that down because spoiler, resilience is built, not just bred.
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