They lifted!

Finally got around to breeding my two older does, Alice and Polly. Hey, I'm only about a month late! :roll: I intended to do it on St. Valentine's Day, just for a lark, but decided to hold off for another week or two... and then procrastinated some more. This is my biggest downfall as far as making a profit from my rabbits goes.

Lovely sunny day here and quite mild... I went down to the rabbitry just after 10:00 A.M. Everybunny was wide awake and energetic. I popped Alice, our favourite, in with Jasper, the NZR from Moonkitten's rabbitry. Alice is a little hussy... she had her tail up before he could even mount her. He fell off three times in quick succession and then I pulled her out and put Polly in. She cooperated too but with a little less enthusiasm. Jasper seems to be an Energizer bunny... He wasn't taking any breaks and just kept going and going. :lol:

So... calendar is marked and we're hoping for popples in about 31 days. :bouncy:

Still have two first timers to breed, but they are still sharing a cage and I would like to keep them together and try a colony pen. It would have to be rat-proof and cheap... so it will take some ingenuity. If I can't figure something out, I'll just have to separate them so each has her own cage. But they are sisters and littermates and get along great... ideal for a trial colony.

Cool! Looking forward to popples!

I've been meaning to breed mine, too, but things have been coming up, and I also have to keep checking dates to make sure I won't be out of town when they kindle. Today or tomorrow, though, I'm going to make a concerted effort to get them bred.

Wow, that was easy! Hoping Pearl is easier next time since she's a little older and has a litter under her belt.

It's not always quite that easy, unfortunately. Polly has gained a bit of weight over the winter too. Hope she takes in spite of that. If not, she's going to find herself on a diet before the next round.

These will be Jasper's first offspring. The girls are both black but carry a lot of colour. And Jasper, of course, is red. So we're hoping for lots of colour in the nest boxes.

Nice... that combination should make for lots of pretty popples!! :bouncy:

POPPLES!!!! :mbounce:

COOL

dat"s de way to do it