~ Happy New Year ~

The last of the "Christmas" bunnies were picked up on Tuesday. They were the last bunnies we'll have for a few months....

The bucks have been busy around here! : )
Here's a list of who's bred to who:

Oliver-- Isabell

Max -- XC

Max -- Lexus

Oliver -- Darcy

Oliver -- Sophie

Oliver -- Gisele

Max -- Emmie

Zach -- Bonnie

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Between the 8 litters, we have Does due from mid--late Jan. And if the litters are successful, the babies will be ready to leave early--mid. March.

This is the first time we've bred Oliver, so hopefully he's old enough and the Does took!! We bred him to all the bigger Does because he's so small. And we bred Max to the smaller Does.

Because Max/Oliver are the only bucks we have old enough to breed, we had to breed them to broken Does. So we'll most likely have lots of Charlies this go around! : )
If you'd like to be added to the waiting list for these litters, let us know!

We'll try breeding NGF's 266 "Sissy", Millie, and Alyson sometime in Feb.

I updated the website today. We don't have any litters at the moment so all the baby pictures are off. We still have "Bow" available on the for sale page. I re-did her pictures this morning.

I also added Dasher to the "Bucks" page. We had originally called him "Jingle" because he had a sister named "Belle". So it was Jingle & Belle (for our Christmas theme). But since we decided to keep him, we thought "Dasher" sounded better. So Dasher it is! Here's a picture of him:

I think that's all.....I hope you all have a Wonderful and Prosperous New Year in 2012!! : )

~ Back Again ~

Since the last post, Isabell had a litter of 4 babies. Though, none of them lived. I think she had a hard time getting them out... : (

And Lexus never had a litter, so I guess she never took!! So we re-bred her yesterday to Max again. If she still doesn't take this time, we'll probably sell her.

Oliver just turned 5 1/2 months old, so we decided to try him with Isabell, since he's such a small buck. It seemed like it worked, so we'll see what happens! : )

We also bred XC with Max. I would have liked to have bred her with another buck, but the only other buck available was Oliver, and that's her son. So we'll probably get broken blacks again.

We tried breeding Emmie again, but she wouldn't cooperate, so we'll try her again in a few days.

Sophie is now old enough to breed, but when we tried her with Oliver, she didn't want to have anything to do with it. So we'll try her again later.

In other news, we recently got another new bunny! Well, not exactly new...Her name is Darcy. She was born at our Rabbitry last Nov. and was sold to a sweet family for Christmas. Well, the family was no longer able to keep her, so they asked if we would take her back. And, we did. After looking back through my records from last year, I figured out that her parents were Bucky and Kim. And because we don't have either of them anymore, I had to go look through my pedigree records so I could make her a pedigree.
She was pretty scared the first day or two, but now that she has settled in, she's super sweet and loves getting attention! Just like our other bunnies! : ) She's a brood quality kind of girl. But no surprise considering who her parents were. Her owners never got her spayed, so we're going to try to breed her to Oliver (since he's so small) in the next few days. Hopefully she'll take and be a good mom. It's harder to get them to bred when they are older, but it's not impossible! Our one Doe "Millie" was a year old when we got her and, now she has litters with 5-7 babies! So we're excited to see what Darcy will do! : )
Here are some pictures of her:



~ Business ~

Wow!! It has been soooo busy our the Rabbitry lately!!

We had a Show in Columbia, SC on Dec. 3rd. It was a triple show. We brought: Oliver, Drew, Clint, Alyson, Gisele, Emmie, & XC. There were a LOT of entries!! They all got pretty good comments except Gisele. All 3 judges said that she was pretty much just good for a brood Doe. But since that's why we kept her, it's fine. Emmie won BOSV which I'm pretty sure won a leg, because of all the entries! Then Clint went on to win BOSB!! Other then those wins, there were no other legs....Also, we came home with a new little Doe! : ) She is from Narrow Gate Farms in NC. She a super cute tort Jr. Doe. She just turned 5 months old, so as soon as Oliver is old enough to breed, we'll breed them together and see what we get. Here are some pictures of her:

We've had lots of people that were interested in getting a bunny for Christmas lately! The last bunny that we had available was placed on hold today. So we do not have anymore babies that will be able to leave by Christmas! We do however, have two adults available: Zoe (a Lionhead) and Bow (a Holland Lop). Just contact us if you'd be interested in either of them.

Isabell is due anytime right now.....we're hoping for some really nice babies from her!!

Lexus is also due next week. We bred her with Max this time. Since he carries shaded, we should get some sable points or siamese sables in solids and brokens. So we'll see what happens!

I think that's about it for now....until next time! : )

~ Changes ~

Well......there have been some "changes" here are the Rabbitry!!

The first one happened right before the show Nov. 12th....When we were brushing out Diddy, we felt something on his belly (we thought it was poo or something that got stuck in his fur) But on further evaluation, we realised that Diddy was not a "He" but rather, a "She"!!!!! : o  So....when we got to the show the next day we had to change the entry to a doe instead of a buck. And as a Doe, she went on to win BOSB and BOB!! : ) It kind of messed up our plans though, because now we didn't have a buck!!

Then, a day or two ago, I was brushing out Mocha, and for whatever reason, I decided to check the sex again....and.....instead of being a doe like I thought, it was a Buck!! : / It was good and bad...bad because we were planning on it being a doe, but at least now we had a buck to go with Bonnie/Gracie/Diddy!

I just hope that this doesn't happen again!!
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I hope everyone has a great rest of the week!
Happy Thanksgiving!! : )

~ Show News ~

 I finally got my show reports for the Oct. 1st and Nov. 12th shows.....they had good and bad news.

For the Oct. 1st show:

Show A:

Isabell got Best Opposite Sex of Variety
(a leg)

Show B:

Sophie got Best of Variety & Best of Breed!!
(a leg)

The others got good comments, but no legs.... : (

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For the show on Nov. 12th:

Show A:

Hollands:

Lexus got Best Opposite Sex of Variety & Best Opposite Sex of Breed
Alyson got Best Opposite Sex of Variety
-----------------------------Lionheads:

Diddy got Best Opposite Sex of Variety and Best Opposite Sex of Breed
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Show B:

Hollands:

Lexus got Best Opposite Sex of Variety & Best Opposite Sex of Breed
Alyson got Best Opposite Sex of Variety
----------------------Lionheads:

Diddy got Best of Variety and Best of Breed!!
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There weren't enough people/rabbits at the Taylorsville show to get any legs.....But we still came home with 4 trophies! : )
You can see some pictures from the show below.

All the other bunnies are doing very well and getting cuter by the day! We are heading into a busy season of Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years...so I'll try to keep this blog updated as much as I can.

Until next time....Happy Thanksgiving!! : )

~ Getting Ready ~

 Our next show of the year will be in Taylorsville, NC this Saturday! : )

We haven't been to this club's show, so it will be good to see how they do their show. And it's always good to see our "Rabbit" friends! : )

We are taking:

Oliver
Clint
Drew
Lexus
Alyson
Diddy
Gracie

They are all Jr.'s except for Lexus. We weren't really planning to show Lexus, but since her last litter was a "false" pregnancy, we decided not to breed her right away and wait to take her to the show. She hasn't ever been shown, so it will be interesting to see how she does. I'm hoping she isn't DQ'ed for being overweight....since she's had her litters, she's gained weight...so hopefully not too much weight! lol

Oliver is developing very nice and is "chunking" out....he still has a way to go, but I think he has a good chance against other Jr. bucks.



Clint....we weren't even planning to keep this buck, let alone show him! lol : ) But we realised that Bentley just developed into too large of a buck then we're looking for....and Clint has developed SOOO nicely that we decided to keep Clint and sell Bentley...I'm sad to sell Bentley, as he is one of my favorites, but if we want to continue to produce better and better babies, it's best if we keep Clint. Also, another reason I'm sad to see Bentley go is that he is a Sable Point (the color that we're working on to have in all our Hollands) and Clint is a tort. So it will take a little longer to get some more Sable Points, but Clint does carry the "Sable Point" gene.
Here are some pictures of Clint:

Drew's color has developed very nicely. It's super clean! He doesn't have the best body type though and his ears are a little long....but you never know, a judge might still like him!!

Alyson is starting to look like a Blue point, instead of a sable point.....I'm not sure if that is a showable color, but I want to take her anyway, so that I can ask the other breeders up there what color they think she is.

Diddy was a super smutty sable point baby! But now, he is a Very clean sable point! : ) I have big hopes for him! He's got a really nice mane, very good color, and short little ears!

Gracie is just like her mom "Bonnie". She looks and acts just like her!! : ) (Which is a good thing!) Her ears are a little long, but her color, wool, and body are really nice! So I think she'll do well too.

We're also taking several to sell at the show too:

Lionheads:
Cotton
Cool Whip
Coconut

Hollands:

Bentley
Tony
Stewart
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They are all very nice quality, and we are selling them for very reasonable prices, because we need the cage space...so if you're interested, let me know and I might make you a deal! : )

After this show, we have one more for the year--Columbia, SC--on Dec. 3rd. We've always done well at this show, so we're excited!

All the babies are doing very well and most of them are sold, though we still have 2 available! (Mittens and Leland)
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That's all for now!

~ Wow! ~

Wow!! Millie has surprised us again--with *7* babies in her litter last night!! : o

Millie is definitely a "BUD" kind of Doe, but all of her babies are always the sweetest things!! : ) She gets the award for having the friendliest babies we've ever had! And for having the most babies. She had 5 babies in her first litter, then 4, then 7, then 4, and now 7 again!
Her babies haven't been our best "quality", but because they have always been so sweet, we've kept her around. After this litter we're going to give her a little brake of having babies for a month or more. She deserves it! : )
So far, it looks like there are 3 black torts, 2 blue torts, and 2 sable points. We'll see for sure in the next few days.

In other news, Emmie's, Gisele's, and XC's litters are looking so cute right now!! : ) We decided to keep one of Emmie's babies. The broken Siamese Sable. We named her "Emma".....we've kind of had a theme going since Emmie's mom. Her name was "MZ" and we called her "Emmzie", so when we kept a daughter from her we called her "Emmie", and now that we're going to be keeping one of Emmie's, we kept the "E" theme and went with Emma! : ) Two of Emmie's babies are going to breeders and I hope that they produce some nice babies for them!! And the other will be going to a pet home....where I know it will be loved dearly! : )

Gisele's little buck "Mittens" is still available!! I'm not sure how he ended up with white paws, but in any case, he's super cute!! He'll make a get pet! So if you or someone you know would be interested, e-mail me!! He's super sweet and loving! : )

In XC's litter, we have 2 bucks and 1 female available! 1 of the bucks and the female are "Charlies" (they have less then 10% color and when bred can only produce broken patterned babies), and the other buck is a regular broken black. I personally think that "Charlies" are super cute! I love that they're mostly white like a REW, but with brown eyes and a little bit of color. : ) Our beloved "Bucky" that died earlier this year in Aug. was a "charlie".

Also, Zoe had a litter of two babies last Friday. I checked them this morning and they are both Sable Points....Yay!!!! : ) I'm so glad they aren't REW's or Pointed whites! Hopefully one of them is a buck, because we need one to replace Liam.

Bonnie is due today....She looks very fat, and has pulled some fur (as of this morning).....so we'll wait and see!

Isabell is also due later this week.....I'm very excited to see what she produces!! : )

We still have several rabbits available on our For sale Page and Nursery....please go check it out and see if we have your forever furry friend!! : )

The next show we'll be going to is Taylorsville, NC on Nov. 12th. So if there is a bunny that you're interested in that we have, we can deliver it to the show!! This is the first time we've been to this show.

I think that's all that's been going on here at the Rabbitry! : )
Until later.....