The Jaeger Machine Company Dept. 204 Columbus, Ohio 
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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 11, 1922 
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A Sturdy, Standard, 
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Trouble with Rabbits 
> I linve rabbits, and within a week about 
six died. They are indoors, with plenty 
of air and sunshine. I feed oats, corn 
and some cabbage, plenty of fresh water. 
They show no sign of sickness. They are 
dead in a few hours. They do not have 
much flesh on them. G. A. 
Medford. N. Y. 
"Without more particulars about the 
condition of your rabbits it is hard to tell 
exactly what nils them. Your food is not 
quite as desired. Oats are lino, but corn 
must not be fed except in cold weather, 
and then not too often; it is too heatiug. 
Cabbage is dangerous for food in Winter; 
it may freeze before consumed, and 
frozen cabbage will always result in trou¬ 
ble, often causing death. Feed your rab¬ 
bits hay and pats, with some carrots or 
turnips, or if you have it. moist boot pulp 
mixed with bran four to one. If your 
rabbits have not much flesh ou them, 
they may have snuffles. The symptoms 
are continuous snoozing and discharge 
from the nostrils, which they clean away 
with the front paws, thus making the 
hair inside the paws sticky and matted. 
For snuffles there is no remedy, except 
the hatchet, and quick action will pre¬ 
vent the disease from spreading through 
the whole rabbitry. F. l>. G. 
Slobbers 
'What kind of a disease is it that makes 
young rabbits wet under the chin, and 
die afterwards? Is it from cold weather 
or a sickness? E. Y. 
Freehold, X. J, 
This is a case of slobbers. It is caused 
mostly from feeding green food to young 
rabbits, sometimes also from overeating. 
Only young rabbits under five months 
are affected by slobbers; this is one of the 
reasons why green food should not be fed 
to young stock. Rub common table salt 
oil the jaws in the corner of the mouth 
and parts that are wet. Isolate the rab¬ 
bit and feed crushed or rolled oats and 
some bread and milk; no water until 
cured. F. D. G. 
Defects in Housing Rabbits 
Can you tell me what to do for my 
rabbits? I started in September with an 
old doe and a young buck. For hutches 
we used old tireless brooders for chicks, 
sunk in the ground, with a wooden run¬ 
way leading to the hutch. In October 
the doe had six young ones, of which she 
raised three. No oilier litter has lived. 
About a week or 10 days ago we found 
the buck dead, and we supposed it was 
caused by dampness, which l have been 
told is bad for rabbits. We moved them 
at once to tin old brooder house with a 
dirt floor. We covered the floor with 
wire, then with cow pea hulls and chaff 
and put old chicken coops in for hutches 
(with wooden floors in the coops 1, Since 
then two of the young have died. Their 
feed until about two months ago was 
mixed feed, hut as that was so expensive 
I used the regular feed for the chickens— 
bran, cob meal and 20 per cent meat 
scrap. Since the buck died I have cut¬ 
out the meat scrap, j'nst using plain bran 
and bread and milk, corn fodder and no 
green feed at all, The trouble seems to 
be a sort of diarrhoea, and in some cases, 
before there were any signs of sickness, 
the rabbit died, and in every case the 
death was very sudden. Is it due to any¬ 
thing in the feed, any lack of something 
or dampness? f. j. b. 
Seaford, Del. 
The main trouble with your rabbits 
seems to be the housing problem. Do¬ 
mesticated rabbits should be kept in dry 
hutches, on wooden floors at least 9 in. 
off the ground, preferably outdoors. If 
these hutches are made draught-proof you 
will eliminate 50 per cent of your trou¬ 
bles. Ir is hard to tell what caused the 
death of your rabbits without having 
more details. If yon are sore That no 
rats or other vermin got a Way with the 
litters, you may blame the mother for 
killing her young. Dampness will always 
cause the snuffles. The symptoms are 
continuous sneezing and a discharge from 
the nose. There is no remedy for snuf¬ 
fles. except the hatchet, and quick action 
will prevent the spread of the disease to 
other stock. Your feeding is all wrong, 
and the use of plain bran is the cause of 
the dinrrlnna. The corn is too heating 
for rabbits, and should be fed sparingly 
in Winter only. A good balanced ration 
for rabbits is moist dried beet pulp mixed 
with bran and Alfalfa meal. 4—1— 
(the Alfalfa meal may be left out), one 
good handful mornings to matured s‘ook. 
Evenings, one good handful of oats. 
Water and hay should be kept before 
them all the time, also a spread of salt. 
F. D. G. 
Grubs or Abscess 
I have a white rabbit that has sore 
bunches on his back about as big as a 
half walnut. They appear to he grubs. 
I did not notice them until about three 
days ago. Can you tell me what to do? 
Avon, Conn. c. w. H. 
If the boils on your rabbits are caused 
by grubs they can he squeezed out and 
the pus removed ; wash the parts affected 
with lukewarm water and carbolic soap. 
If it is an abscess, clip the hair around 
'•he abscess and open it with a very sharp 
instrument (a razor blade is best) and 
remove pus; treat as before. f. d. g. 
Prospects of Rabbit Keeping 
Will you give some information about 
the care, management and marketing of 
rabbits, utility and show? What is your 
candid opinion of the rabbit business? 
Brooklyn, N. Y. j. s. w. 
I Would advise you to buy and read a 
good book on the care and management 
of rabbits: there are a few good ones on 
I he market. The rabbit business is as 
hard to learn as poultry or live stock. 
It depends entirely upon the man behind 
the business to make it a success. Many 
rabbit breeders have made good, but you 
have to be experienced to go into it. ‘ A 
newcomer may start with a few utility 
rah hits and learn gradually; then when 
ho knows the main facts about the care 
of rabbits be can invest in purebred stock 
and go in deeper. Fnlcss you can grow 
most of the food yourself it will not pay 
to breed for meat purposes only. The 
breeding stock brings much better prices 
than the utility, and it is in this class 
that several rabbit breeders have de¬ 
veloped a big and paying industry. 
F. D. G. 
Caring for Rabbit Skins 
( an you give me a little information as 
to taking care of dead rabbit skins? I 
am lulling quite a few this season, and 
would like to keep them until such times 
ns I can have them dressed and made up. 
New Jersey. s. c. p. 
Itabhit skins are easily cured and then 
kept for a long time before tanning. Take 
a piece of i ,-in. wire about -DA ft. long 
and bend in the form of a hairpin, mak¬ 
ing a loop (in the bend) of about 2 to 3 
ill. diameter, thus: Put skin inside out 
over this wire, the tail end towards the 
end of the wire, and so that the skin will 
he as in natural position without stretch¬ 
ing. one wire going along the middle of 
the hack, the other along the middle of 
the belly. Hang in a dry. airy place 
until dry. I)o not use salt on the skins. 
F. D. G. 
Marketing Rabbits 
I have been raising a few rabbits on 
my father’s farm, and I now have some 
to sell, either for meat: or for breeding 
purposes. 1 have some Belgian hares and 
some New Zealand*. W’here could I find 
a market for them? a. b. 
North Dana. Mass. 
If you desire to sell your rabbits for 
breeding purposes you must advertise 
them. Those for meat purposes might he 
sold locally if yon could convince your 
townspeople of the quality of the meat. 
If you want to ship them to market, there 
are commission men to handle them. 
F. D. 0. 
Will Rabbits Pay? 
Would it pay to go in the Flemish 
hare business? Is there a good market 
for them, and could you recommend a 
few reliable markets? j. a. t. 
Ilaledon, N. J. 
No one can tell in advance whether a 
business will succeed or not; it depends 
on the man behind it. There are at the 
present quite a number of rabbit breeders 
who have made good. It takes time, how¬ 
ever, to get acquainted with the rabbit 
business, aud for a beginner ir is unwise 
to invest in it heavily from the start. He 
should rather work tip into it gradually, 
and when he knows the finer points of the 
game be can make good if lift puts in 
enough energy. The Flemish Giant is 
very popular, and good prices are paid 
for high-class breeding stock. The New 
York hotels use a considerable amount of 
rabbit meat, and the demand for this 
meat will increase in the future. 
F. D. G. 
Thyroid Treatment for Lamb 
In your December 17, 1921, issue, 
under “Things to Think About,” are some 
notes bearing on gland medication, which 
balled to mind mi experiment bj a neigh¬ 
bor of tniue. This neighbor is much in¬ 
terested in the raising of sheep, and her 
general enthusiasm leads me to believe 
that she has been more or less successful 
with them. A year or so ago a number 
of lambs were horn, and it happened that 
one of them failed to develop. After it 
was several months old it was such a 
puny specimen that it was Hardly worth 
raising. This lady by chance knew the 
dose of thyroid extract, or whatever the 
thyroid preparation is called, that had 
been preseribed for a child, and thought 
she would try same on the lamb, at the 
same time taking all the precautions that 
would be observed in the case of a human 
being. The little fellow immediately be¬ 
gan to develop, and in a few months was 
as lively and practically as large as all 
the others that were born about the same 
time. j. c.'C. 
Massachusetts. 
