Middletown, OhioHeritage rabbits • Honest education • A little controlled chaos

We’re raising the next generation of rabbit keepers.Come in—we saved you a chair.

No pop quiz. The rabbits provide enough judgment for all of us.

The Library • Learn

Learn how. Understand why.

Clear explanations, practical tools, and an educational path that grows from first rabbit to thoughtful mentor.

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The Rabbitry Handbook

One learning path. Five stages of growth.

The Handbook is designed to stop the endless scavenger hunt for answers. Each volume builds on the last, moving from daily care to stewardship, business, preservation, and mentorship.

Volume I

Foundations

Care, feeding, housing, grooming, behavior, health monitoring, and confident first decisions.

Volume II

Rabbitry Management

Quarantine, sanitation, routines, records, equipment, seasonal care, and working systems.

Volume III

Stewardship

Responsible breeding, genetics, litter management, herd evaluation, and conservation.

Volume IV

Business & Marketing

Buyer education, contracts, costs, customer care, honest promotion, and sustainable planning.

Volume V

Master Breeder

Bloodlines, long-range herd improvement, mentorship, preservation, and the legacy you leave behind.

The Nutt House Academy

Courses that hold your hand without talking down to you.

Beginner Rabbit

A guided start for the person who wants the whole picture—not scattered advice.

Workbook • Video • Printable • Checklist • Quiz • Nutty Tip

4-H Success

A child-and-parent learning path for projects, showmanship, fair preparation, and confidence.

Workbook • Video • Printable • Checklist • Quiz • Nutty Tip

Heritage Conservation

Breed history, stewardship, purpose, evaluation, and preservation-minded breeding.

Workbook • Video • Printable • Checklist • Quiz • Nutty Tip

Creator Academy

For breeders ready to teach, document, market, and share their own experience responsibly.

Workbook • Video • Printable • Checklist • Quiz • Nutty Tip

A small lesson from the preservation shelf

Saving a breed takes more than making more rabbits.

Numbers matter, but thoughtful numbers matter more. Open each note to see what turns an ordinary breeding decision into real conservation work—without requiring anyone to wear a tweed jacket and speak entirely in pedigree abbreviations.

Meet our three breeds

Purpose keeps a breed present

Meat, fur, show, 4-H, homestead, and family uses give people a genuine reason to learn the breed and keep good animals in capable homes. Preservation without purpose can become a crowded barn instead of a future.

Records protect tomorrow’s choices

Accurate pedigrees, litter notes, health observations, weights, and honest evaluations help breeders avoid narrowing a small gene pool by accident. “I am pretty sure they are not related” is not a conservation plan.

More good homes make a safer map

Healthy populations need committed breeders in different families and places. That distribution gives a breed a better chance to withstand disease, disaster, one retiring breeder, or one famously inconvenient Ohio ice storm.

Quality belongs beside quantity

Conservation breeding still asks for health, temperament, useful traits, breed character, and responsible placement. The goal is a living, working population—not the largest possible number of rabbits by next Tuesday.

Searchable Resource Library

Find the next answer without digging through the whole house.

Rabbitry Health & Disease Reference Library

Know what normal looks like before something feels wrong.

Health monitoring, emergency warning signs, common illness references, first-aid basics, medication logs, and practical observation tools belong together—not scattered across unrelated downloads.

Educational resources support informed care; they do not replace a qualified veterinarian.