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I'll be getting a pair of American Sables from a breeder who's going overseas soon and is dispersing her herd in preparation. I brought then back for her from Portland last year. While I know a bit about sable genetics I haven't got any hands on experience yet since my sable Rex are either too...

...travelling that is. :fireworks1: I have finally found a place I can have all my projects in one spot. No more moving the herd every spring/fall. I can start working seriously on improvements and colours. The herd has an actual lockable building so I can worry less about predators (two and...

I'm fostering a returned dog for my breeder for a couple of weeks. Originally, my friend was just going to find her a new home but she's decided that if this girl passes her health testing, Miss Lola isn't going anywhere. I told my friend that I'd be happy to add her to my crew, she fits in...

I know I've mentioned before that I have had no luck breeding in cold weather. I'm now wondering if that's going to possibly change. I had two does ready to breed Dec 27, one indoors and one outside so I crossed every crossable appendage and bred these two. So far the outside girl is acting...

As of today there are 4 weeks left before the largest party in the rabbit world gets underway and I cannot wait! :fireworks1: I'm almost as excited about this as I was about meeting MSD and her 'pack'. I've been saving my tips for months for this trip. While I'm not taking anybunny down with...

Whipple and I were clipping nails on her buck Cash tonight when he started flailing around (I clipped the last nail a little short). She was holding him trying to settle him when he dislocated his hip. :cry: While he didn't appear to be in pain, that's not an injury that will heal on its own...

I had a little extra time last night so I sorted through my youngsters deciding on the freezer campers and the keeper/sale bunns. I could wish a couple more colours were accepted since the very nicest buck in my tri/red litter is a broken black tort. At 11 weeks he's * * that close to six...

I sorted through my 7 week litters today and had a few very pleasant surprises...short shoulders! :cheer2: :cheer1: in both my tri litter and the otter litter, bucks and does both! Long shoulders have been the bane of my existence since I started this herd and these are the first litters where...

I was putting a nestbox in for my tri doe tonight when I noticed she wasn't acting right, I pulled her out of her cage and discovered she has mastitis in one nipple, hard, swollen, and abscessed; while I was examining her it burst :sick: If I spray the wound with BluKote before she kindles...

I have discovered yet another facet of Raging Rabbitosis...however I'm not quite certain of the correct name for this aspect of our shared affliction so I'm calling on our nomenclature experts for an accurate diagnosis. I been talking to my local dealership about trading in my Ford Escape and...

And it seems to be a good one! I was asked tonight whether I was going to a popular sale as this person wanted to know how many carriers to bring. I said I wasn't because I had to work. She sounded disappointed I wasn't going to be there. Then a friend who is going offered to take bunns for...

If so I'm very happy with it :) I weighed my experimental litter yesterday and got a pleasant surprise, my doe kits weighed more than the bucklings. It was only by an ounce but I think its the first time since I started breeding. I was curious so I weighed my tri kits too and found the same...

Last year I posted about the doe that kindled a litter of 16. I think I had something like 42 kits in separate 3 litters that round. This time in 3 litters I have 33, a litter of 6, one of 12, and last night a litter of 15(!) :shock: All decent sized too, I'm going to see how she does with them...

Between getting bronchitis twice so far this year and a slow start to spring, I've finally gotten my breeding season underway. I've got 7 litters on the ground, two more in nestboxes, with another doe due Monday and 2 more does due mid June. The 3 oldest litters have been sorted, 3 of 10 will...

I went to check on my mixed litter in the basement tonight and when I picked up my singleton black otter kit, it leaped out of my hands, flew four feet through the air and landed on its face on the cement floor :x I scrambled to pick it up and its mouth was bleeding and after I picked it up it...

Well, the calendar lies...I woke up to 4 inches of snow this morning. When I went to bed the grass (brown) was completely visible, now it's covered in snow the consistency of wet potato flakes :sleighride: I'm very glad it wasn't quite warm enough to have the sunroof open yesterday since I often...

I was greeted by a package when I got home tonight. It contained a couple of books, my ARBA membership, and my rabbitry registration. So I am now an official rabbitry and an ARBA member!

Our first show of the year is this weekend and we're through the first day. It was a busy, eventful, day. I met SchipperkeSue today and had a lovely chat with her. I got a lot of comments on my herd (I took almost everybunny in the herd) and I got my first BoB today! It was a doe I was given by...

But I finally got my backside in gear and did my ARBA membership tonight, along with mt rabbitry registration

...my new job pays fairly well :shock: :shock: The club is going to make a killing off me this time around. I just finished my entries for the show this weekend and, well, 11 rabbits in four shows plus fur classes, 4 more entered for Sunday only plus fur classes. Then six of these entered in...