Rabbits in general

Our blogs have been few and far between, at least compared to a year ago when we used to write one daily. I'm not sure what happened, but I just haven't been inspired to write much lately. Life is hectic, for one thing, but I just haven't come up with anything intelligent to write about. Maybe one day...

For now, here is an update. This is the best I can do for now! lol.

We have several youngsters popping out of the boxes. Some really cute ones too. 2nd Time Around X Montana have 2 ADORABLE babies. Seriously, these 2 have Holland heads and those short round ears. Now mini lop babies are usually cute, but these are extra cute (so maybe I'm a little bias, but even one of the guys who hangs around the farm agreed with me that they are adorable, and he doesn't usually think the rabbits are cute!) They are also both does, I believe, if my memory serves me correctly.

Hope has her 10 red satins, they are super cute too. Looking forward to typing them in another few weeks for first cut.

Rosalind has her 3, typed them for the first time yesterday, and am impressed thus far, but we'll give it a few more weeks and decide who we will hold back.

Sara has 3 still too, looking cute also; and All Summer Long has a very cute litter of 6. All Gold Tipped Steels too - awesome color. I know, I'm boring, but love the Steel color!!! Hoping for some nice typey babies out of that cross (All Summer Long X Ethan). ASL is a full sister to a nice G'Tp doe (Jersey Girl) who is in WA, and has done well in the shows. Ethan is a Sara son X Zeke. Zeke has produced some of our best stock, including the 2009 BOV winner Youth at Nationals... So here's hoping! Although 5 of the 6 are bucks, oh well.. You can show them longer!

For the dwarfs, we have 12 cute babies. Some we like more than others, but so far looks like we have some promising ones. Will know more in a few weeks. We are growing Emma X Keno son out. Nice cheeks on that buck (he's 8 weeks this weekend), and short body type. He can be a pain to pose though, so working on that. Also would like to see a rounder ear, but giving him the benefit of the doubt as he is right smack in that ugly stage, and will be for probably another few months. I remember what the dwarfs were like!

So those are our VIRBA show junior hopefuls.

Our next batch of litters are due this weekend. Bridget X Hunter; Cali X Zander (not sure if she lost her litter though, she decided to go off feed last week, so have been dealing with her being stubborn. She's back eating pretty good now, but not sure if she lost the litter. At least she is doing OK); Jessica X Kayden; and GB1 X Ethan...

Those will also be VIRBA juniors, a month younger than the above, but will see what comes out of those breedings.

Have 1 more dwarf due, Deja beginning of next week. Milky Way is due next Friday too..

We have added some new pictures to the website, but they didn't come out as clear as I would have liked. The CF card we were using was corrupted, so we lost half our pictures from the last picture day. That was a pain! So all those pictures were corrupted, and couldn't be opened / altered. Also, we should have move more out of the sun, so some have a glare in the pics...

Will need to retake some pictures one day, annoying, we actually had some really good ones of Naomi's kids!

Finally bred a few French Lops, Emerald was bred to Rugby a few weeks ago; Squirrely to the Rainstar buck (can't remember his name right now). Need to breed Punch still. I think those are all our senior does? Five Alive is a 6/8 now, I believe.. I think she is just 6 months or around there. Had her out today, wow, she is going to be huge like her mom Squirrely! Had a friend at the barn looking at the rabbits, and she is probably 10lbs. So good size for her age...

Oh, had a Satin litter born last Sunday. She had 2 (Tana)... Believe they are both does too!

We shipped 7 rabbits out today to Ontario. Glad to have those cages! Now end of the month have some more going, but some coming in too. Lol...

A couple non-rabbit updates. We now have 2 horses. Our own personal horse (our first!) is a 14.2 paint mare- will get pics this weekend! We just got her last night. She is 8 and a super sweet girl! Her name is Susie(we think she looks more like an April though). And the other horse at the farm is our uncles friend and his name is Avatar. He is a 3/4 Arab, and 1/4 Standard bred. We also got 111 layer chickens(well our uncle did).

Anyway, that's the update for tonight. Need to figure out Convention entries next week!!