11 days old

New pictures of the little ones, pictured below at 11 days old. The smallest (the orange) is on the left and the largest is the fawn on the right. They are so sweet right now, I can't wait to see them next week! Little balls of poofy energy :)

Benn naughty and not posted pictures

So now I'm posting some lol. The kits are currently 10 days old and their eyes and ears are open now. The pictures below are the kits at 1 week old though.

The orange kit is the smallest in the litter and the fawn is by far the largest so far.



Orange and Broken Orange being all cuddley and cute.


All 3 kits, 1 week old and absolutely adorable!

"Orange" litter - 3 Days Old

Here's a few shots of the babies today. 3 days old and still doing really great. Their fur is coming in a wee bit more. I can't be certain but it looks as though Kit #1 will be a broken, Kit #2 I'm unsure about at all...maybe a fawn? And Kit #3 I think is going to be solid orange. guess time will tell but that's my best guess at this point. I'm still on cloud 9 about these little ones! Yay Oranges!!! lol




Kit #1, 3 days old


Kit #1, 3 days old


Kit #2, 3 days old


Kit #2, 3 days old


Kit #3, 3 days old


Kit #3, 3 days old

First "orange" litter

Well I am just about as tickled as can be! Just got my first litter from my Orange doe, Cloverleaf's Fe. I had bred her to my Broken Orange buck, Orange Crush. First timer she may be but she handled it like a seasoned pro! Well, maybe slightly over zealous, after she kindled she continued to pull fur and fill the nest to the brim, so I pulled some out to save for winter litters. She started really focusing on fixing up the nest box in the morning, and I was lucky enough to peek at her at nearly 11 pm and see she was in labor. The first kit was breech which worried me but she got him/her out OK and he/she seems to be doing great. The others followed quickly and she spent her time cleaning each one and then stayed in the box about 10 minutes so they could nurse.

Anyways we have 3 darling little squigley kits, I can't tell exactly what their colors will be yet but I am very excited to see how they mature. and on that note in this post I will probably update and post pictures of their progress so I can have it for my breeding records at a later time too. That way in their future litters I can compare and see how their lines mature and when little ones should "pop" so to speak.

Here's some pictures of the kits, the entire litter just after birth and then each one individually the next day:












And then here's photos of the kits on Day 2:

Stress relief

I need some serious stress relief. Due to the heat I lost Cloverleaf's BJ, Cloverleaf's ChocoDoe (who was pregnant with BJ's offspring) and Sonata, or L1 as she's listed on my website. I came very close to throwing my hands in the air and selling them because the weather (wind and heat) keeps knocking me on my butt. But I decided, with the urging of my wonderful husband, not to give up and to restock my orange program and hopefully make it better.

So as hard of a decision as it was I sold my remaining otters, Jones and Jazzy (or Along came jones and L4) to help with some extra cash to go toward my oranges. Sad as it made me good quality otters are pretty easy to get in my area... oranges,chocolates, shadeds, and chestnuts are NOT. So I currently have Cloverleaf's FE (orange doe), Holden's Comet (Siamese Smoke Pearl doe), JMR's Mami (Chestnut doe), Spring Creek Ninja (Black Buck) and Holden's Chocolate cake (Siamese Sable buck)

As of Sunday I'll be adding RM's Orange Crush (Broken Orange buck), then sometime the next month I should have a fawn doe and an orange doe coming in. Come September I'll be getting PAC's Heath from Christina of Spumanti. I wish I lived closer to her, she almost always has stock I want lol. It was hard letting my otters go but I'll pick them back up once we move and I have a larger space for my rabbits. Right now I think it's better for me to focus on my oranges and just continue dabbling with my shadeds and chestnut.

Excited about some new additions coming soon

I'm bringing in a few new additions over the next couple months, geared totally on my orange program. The first I should be picking up next weekend is a pretty little Broken Orange buck, by the name of RM's Orange Crush. Then I'm bringing in an orange doe and a fawn doe from Mike Landers, their type isn't amazing BUT their color is. And last but certainly not least I'm adding on a chocolate buck by the name of PAC's Heath, who I'm getting from Christina Caporale.

Hopefully they'll be adding alot to my oranges, both bucks have great type, so I'm hoping a few generations down I'll have oranges with amazing type and color. Orange is my favorite variety with the possible exception of champagnes lol. It would excite me so much thinking of making a good contribution to them in my work.

So I've been inactive forever...

But now here I am again! Since my last post there's been wind damage to my bunny barn and I lost 3 of my rabbits, which included Tiny, my little Black Buck who was a chocolate carrier, and my favorite , Matrix, my Siamese Smoke Pearl Buck, and also Mitzy, my Siamese Sable Doe.

Also since my last post, and in the same month I had my surgery (polyps removed from uterus and doing great now, no pain at all!) my beautiful daughter Ally had her second surgery for her omphalocele and has done wonderful. Her stomach is so much flatter now. One more surgery in about 6 months and she should be done, with a flat belly and a belly button.

This past weekend was also my rabbit club's show. CTNRBA hosted it's second annual show in Dickson, TN July 3rd. And while it didn't go as well as we'd have liked it still was pretty good. At our next club meeting we're going to make suggestions on improving the next one so I'm confident that next year's show will go even better! The main issues we had was the AC not cooling enough, and disagreements on opening side doors for access versus using only one door to try to keep it cooler. With any luck we can switch location next year and it won't be a worry.

Now for news from the nestbox we have several does that we hope have buns in the oven so to speak lol. This is the first try breeding my oranges. I'm so hoping to get some pretty little orange babies out of them, and my chocolate doe. So anyways I just wanted to post a short update since I've been out of the loop for awhile. New photos of all the rabbits will be posted on the website soon. Take care y'all! :)