Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Fall breedings started

With our last big cut back, we needed to start some Fall breedings for show juniors at VIRBA. We started last month with the first batch, 3 Mini Lops and 3 Dwarfs are due (plus 2 Dwarfs who came bred, although I'm not convinced they took, but we'll see).

So those 6 does we bred are due on the 6th and 7th of this month. That is: Rosalind, Milky Way, Sara for the mini lops, and Olivia, Mae & White Gold for the dwarfs.

Yesterday I bred a few more Mini Lops, for a few more VIRBA juniors. We need to be really careful not to breed too many, so we don't get overwhelmed again. However, most of these girls have sat idle since earlier this spring, with the exception of GB1 who weaned her litter earlier in August.

So I bred: All Summer Long X Damian, Jessica X Kayden, Bridget X Hunter and Cali X Zander.

Still have 2 more does to breed this round, then holding off on the other does for the most part. Some will need to be bred before long, but need a bit of a break inbetween!

Today I'm going to try and breed: Gillian X either Dominic or Evan; and GB1 X Ethan (although she wasn't interested yesterday, but we'll see today!).

Also have to breed Cricket, before she leaves to Amanda's. We'll be getting POL back, as we had planned to keep her for 1 more litter, but Amanda has transport this coming weekend for her, and not sure when she will again, at least not for a few months. So I think Cricket X Braxtin.

So that's the plan! Our website upcoming litters page is updated with all of the above, for the breedings already done... Will post the other 2 tonight if it works!

1 comments:

Tru-Luv Rabbitry said...

It is so hard to estimate how many to breed especially when the does miss sometimes. It is better to breed all and worry only when the kits flood the cages. LOL!

Hope you have lots of nice kits in the nest boxes soon!