I hope your friend working at Subway is able to have proper anti-virus procedures in place! We just had a new case of Covid show up on our island yesterday. It is over in Kailua-Kona, so it could have been brought in by a traveler, but I don't have any details yet. Since we're all staying home, it's much harder to get as much island news as before. Usually the 'coconut wireless' is how we find out about a lot of local news but without everyone chatting with each other, it's kinda hard to find out things.
We are always somewhat isolated from outside supplies, even in times of no pandemic. If we see something at a shop that we want or need, we don't assume it's going to be there if we go back later. Sometimes it will be reorderd, sometimes not, so if we can, we get it then. Thanksgiving (does Canada have a similar fall festival or feast of some sort?) turkeys and Christmas trees (which are both shipped in) are usually either too many or not enough and go in alternate years. If one year there's plenty of them, the next year they will be scarce and sold out quickly.
About half the rabbits we sell get shipped, although that's a shorter inter-island flight and not the hours long flight from the mainland. I've only ever gotten one mainland shipment and that was six adult rabbits shipped from the mainland mid-west area in 2009. That's pretty much been the genetic source we've been working with ever since. I try to get other folks breeding them so we can swap bucks every few generations. That was basically just one person and I was getting ready to borrow a buck from him since the levels of inbreeding here are getting a bit high but he lost all his rabbits last month to a dog attack. ARRGH!
Hmm, apparently to import a rabbit to the United States from Canada, there's no particular requirements. To import a rabbit to Hawaii, it has to have a veterinary certificate and it has to be inspected in Honolulu. Which is on a different island, so I'd have to organize someone to go get the rabbit from the inspection desk and put it on another air flight to this island. Also, multiple rabbits can go in one carrier, so if this were to be done, it would be better to get multiple rabbits shipped in at one time.
It's pretty hard to source good breed stock from far away. There may be a buck from Maui since there's someone over there who has imported some angoras, although she's been getting them from a fiber group on FB, so no telling quality or even if they're purebred. They don't come with pedigrees, usually, when they're from wooler homes. Usually, though, a breeder is much more likely to let a quality buck go than a good doe. A breeder only needs so many bucks who have to be housed separately, while does can be kept in a group. At least, the ones around here can, I don't know how other folks set up their rabbitry.
For shipping, I'll usually let the young ones get a few weeks older than if they were going to a local new home. I usually wait until they're at nine to ten weeks old before any of them go to a new home, but if they're being shipped then ten to twelve weeks is a good time. It also gives me more time to sort out which ones I want to keep, sometimes it's hard to tell how they're gonna be as an adult when they're still so young.
We are always somewhat isolated from outside supplies, even in times of no pandemic. If we see something at a shop that we want or need, we don't assume it's going to be there if we go back later. Sometimes it will be reorderd, sometimes not, so if we can, we get it then. Thanksgiving (does Canada have a similar fall festival or feast of some sort?) turkeys and Christmas trees (which are both shipped in) are usually either too many or not enough and go in alternate years. If one year there's plenty of them, the next year they will be scarce and sold out quickly.
About half the rabbits we sell get shipped, although that's a shorter inter-island flight and not the hours long flight from the mainland. I've only ever gotten one mainland shipment and that was six adult rabbits shipped from the mainland mid-west area in 2009. That's pretty much been the genetic source we've been working with ever since. I try to get other folks breeding them so we can swap bucks every few generations. That was basically just one person and I was getting ready to borrow a buck from him since the levels of inbreeding here are getting a bit high but he lost all his rabbits last month to a dog attack. ARRGH!
Hmm, apparently to import a rabbit to the United States from Canada, there's no particular requirements. To import a rabbit to Hawaii, it has to have a veterinary certificate and it has to be inspected in Honolulu. Which is on a different island, so I'd have to organize someone to go get the rabbit from the inspection desk and put it on another air flight to this island. Also, multiple rabbits can go in one carrier, so if this were to be done, it would be better to get multiple rabbits shipped in at one time.
It's pretty hard to source good breed stock from far away. There may be a buck from Maui since there's someone over there who has imported some angoras, although she's been getting them from a fiber group on FB, so no telling quality or even if they're purebred. They don't come with pedigrees, usually, when they're from wooler homes. Usually, though, a breeder is much more likely to let a quality buck go than a good doe. A breeder only needs so many bucks who have to be housed separately, while does can be kept in a group. At least, the ones around here can, I don't know how other folks set up their rabbitry.
For shipping, I'll usually let the young ones get a few weeks older than if they were going to a local new home. I usually wait until they're at nine to ten weeks old before any of them go to a new home, but if they're being shipped then ten to twelve weeks is a good time. It also gives me more time to sort out which ones I want to keep, sometimes it's hard to tell how they're gonna be as an adult when they're still so young.
