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This morning one of my holland lop does gave birth to 5 kits. Unfortunately, 3 of them were stillborn. I immediately removed them as well as some soiled bedding. For some reason, the doe has been going in and out of the nest box every half hour to hour. I'm not sure if she's checking on the...

I have been breeding holland lops with (mostly) known gene sets for the A, D, and E genes which makes it fairly easy to manipulate. However, as all of my breeding stock has at least 1 dominant gene for both the B and C gene, when do you assume that they are homozygous dominant? Through all...

Another exciting day is upon us as our blue tort holland lop Emma, just gave birth to 4 healthy little popples. She was bred to a broken chestnut buck so the color possibilities seem nearly endless. We are used to dealing with self color genes to the agouti gene really opens up a whole new...

Emma's Kits are getting alot bigger each day and that blue one is certainly a piggie, he is getting huge. I am also very happy to report that Buttercup's kit that was struggling yesterday is doing much better. It looks as if he can move just as well as the other one and got a full meal last...

Here are the other pics I got of the little ones yesterday if that helps. <br /><br />__________ Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:45 pm __________<br /><br />All of Emma's bunnies seem to be doing fine after their first day. It is amazing how fast their color starts to come in at this point. I'm now...

Last night around 8pm Emma, our blue tort holland lop, gave birth to 3 healthy kits. This was her first birth while in our care, though she was a proven breeder for the rabbitry from which we obtained her. She built her nest the second I put the nestbox in but waited until the last minute to...