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29/06/2025

Teal Stone Rabbitry wrote a fabulous post yesterday. Her post inspired me to do a deep dive study. The warmer / muggy weather and inconsistent patterns in climate are the perfect breeding grounds for bacteria & parasitic infections. Coccidia is prevalent in most livestock across the board. Some adult rabbits can even be asymptomatic carriers.

This event is normally seen in weanlings or younger age rabbits.

Coccidia can be Hepatic or Intestinal. Both requires the host to ingest infected oocysts (Parasitic Protozoa), but the process for regeneration remains the same.

Not too long ago I was using Corid (amprolium). Little did I know that it only stops the reproduction of eggs. I also recently learned that it may have harmful side effects. So do your own studies. It doesn’t actually kill the full cycle. It’s normally a prevenative, not the actual treatment. The best treatment to use is Toltrazuril Liquid Solution 5%.

Symptoms to look for:
Diarrhea
Weight loss or poor growth
Loss of appetite
Lethargy
Bloating

Prevention:
Regular Cleaning
Dry Bedding
Clean Water and Food Bowls
Balanced Diet- Avoid sudden food changes
Wire Bottom Cages

Coccidia is a highly contagious parasite. It spreads quickly and can devastate litters at a time. I hope that this guide can be helpful in understanding the cycle and how to treat. I highly recommend learning how to do necropsies at home. If you suspect coccidia, you can always check the liver and other organs for signs. A liver may show raised bumpy yellowish/ white lesions. Which can be an easy marker to know what you are dealing with.

16/06/2025
12/06/2025
Some animals do still do better in a confined environment rather than just running free in nature, but the point is so m...
08/06/2025

Some animals do still do better in a confined environment rather than just running free in nature, but the point is so many no longer have the connection with where their food comes from, how it's raised and what it's been given

When I was a young boy, my father always kept a sheep or two in the backyard. They would graze quietly, and when Easter came around, we celebrated the cycle of life, and it was always delicious.
My father learned this from his parents, and he passed it down to me. It was simply a part of living, something natural, something real, but somewhere along the way though, that knowledge was pushed aside, tucked away under the banner of health and safety. We were told we couldn’t live like that anymore, not allowed to farm our own animals, or allowed to live off our land the way generations before us had done, without being buried in paperwork.

Of course, on paper, we can still keep a sheep or a few chickens on our property. It’s not illegal. But the truth is, it’s getting harder and harder. The rules and conditions are different everywhere you go. One council might allow a sheep if you have enough land, another might say no altogether or bury you in paperwork and permits and regulations until you give up. They call it health, safety, biosecurity and I get it, to a point, but the end result is the same. Fewer and fewer people are raising their own animals or growing their own food, and that knowledge our ancestors once possessed is slipping away with every generation.

When I look back and compare the two ways of life, I can’t help but point to the white elephant in the room. There is plenty of science now to show that nothing improves soil health better than animals on pasture, sheep, chickens, a cow if you’ve got the space. They graze, they mow, they fertilise, and they cultivate the soil all in one motion. No synthetic fertilisers, no chemical inputs, just good, wholesome manure going straight from the animal to garden, the way nature intended.

Today, our gardens have shrunk to the size of a pathway where the sun barely reaches, and the soil we do have is anything but fertile. We don’t farm our own animals anymore we don’t have to close the carbon loop in our backyards anymore. Instead, it’s all done for us, wrapped up neatly in some plastic and handed/sold back to us. Bu**er me, what a mess. We have stripped away the lifestyle that kept us connected to the land. We have sterilised our surroundings and convinced ourselves that we are fragile beings who need to be protected by more chemicals, more interventions.

From where I sit, there are major flaws in the system. Just look at the carbon footprint. How is it better for the environment to mass-breed livestock in confinement, pump them full of treatments to keep them alive in unnatural conditions, ship their feed in from faraway places, truck them to be processed, package, freeze, store, transport again, and sell them to us, so we can drive to buy it, drive home, and then freeze or cook it ourselves? We all know the answer to that, it’s not better. It’s a ticking time bomb, wrapped in plastic.

Now, compare that to the old ways, a sheep or two in the backyard, a few chickens scratching about. Fence off the veggie garden, scoop up the manure now and then, throw it over the beds, and let nature do her work. No miles travelled, no pollution, no middlemen. Just life, feeding life. Simple, honest, and clean, the way it was always meant to be.

We can’t turn back time and undo the shrinkage of our properties. That chapter is behind us. But what we can do is support the farmers who are still doing it right, the ones who raise their livestock out on paddocks, not in cages. Farmers who work with the seasons and the soil, not against it. It’s a shift the industry needs to consider seriously if we are ever going to heal the land and ourselves. And the more we support these good farmers, the more we encourage better farming habits for the future.

The message here isn’t to scare or shame, but to awaken. To remind us that there is a better way, a way we already know deep down. To make us stop and think about where we are getting our food and fertiliser, what we are putting into our soils, and ultimately what we are putting into our bodies. The truth is, nature had it right all along. It’s us who have strayed, but we can always find our way back.

Maresi! 👍

19/05/2025
Well this is never good when there's 3 day old chicks under lights and in the brooder 😔Power has already been off since ...
07/05/2025

Well this is never good when there's 3 day old chicks under lights and in the brooder 😔
Power has already been off since 135p and it just now went across the scanner.. Someone also said there's a blown transformer a block north of this report so who knows how long it's going to be out

04/05/2025

And of course, it's right where I'm working 😂

03/05/2025

Working on a name for my new boy. Still a little shy for me to handle as I've only had him a week but he sure loves throwing his ball around ❤️
A big thank you to Forest's Edge Homestead for this beautiful lil guy!

01/05/2025

Good luck to all!!

French Lop page has been updated on the website! Pictures are now posted! Should be adding some mini rex and Rex in a co...
30/04/2025

French Lop page has been updated on the website! Pictures are now posted!

Should be adding some mini rex and Rex in a couple weeks. Unfortunately no New Zealands at this time. Fingers crossed the does are bred now!

Edited to add a collage pic of one of our Flop mother/daughter duos, Nelly and Lucky. These 2 are NFS but there are some of thier offspring listed on the page

How to wash and dry the 48' tarp that encloses the north side of the rabbitry during the winter. Pool ladders come in ha...
22/04/2025

How to wash and dry the 48' tarp that encloses the north side of the rabbitry during the winter. Pool ladders come in handy lol

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