10 day old picture time!

The 3 litters are all about 10-11 days old now and they are all doing great. Kadence's litter is by far my favorite just because she has two GORGEOUS solid chocolate chestnut babies. I hope they'll be typey little babies (so I can keep one!), as that color is always SO pretty!

Without anything further, here are the pictures....

Kaylee's litter....see the two magpies?

One of the Magpies:

Jana's litter:

Jana's foster baby from Kadence:

Kaylee being a total goofball....I just had to include this picture :)!

Kadence's litter:

Kadence's little bk chestnut .... such a big head on this little guy!

One of her chocolate chestnuts:

The two together:

And the other chocolate chestnuts:

Such an adorable little baby!

Updates

Yesterday I got the website all updated. New pictures of several seniors and juniors. And I realized there are a few seniors who need updated pictures really bad, so I'll work on getting new pictures so that all the pictures will be current.

Krissie got rebred to Cade before he left last week. So, hopefully she took and hoping for lots of chocolates and broken chocolates :). Also bred Brianna to Kyle today, as I'd really like at least one more litter before he leaves. He's such a pretty boy!

The 3 litters born last week are doing great. Jana's 3 are chestnut agoutis. Kadence's babies are 2 chocolate chestnuts, 1 chestnut agoutis, 1 brkn chestnut agouti, 1 seal chinchilla and 1 brkn "something" (thinkin' it's a shaded variety, as it originally looked like a chocolate and now it doesn't). Kaylee has 4 "pinks" and 2 babies that are looking to be an odd variety. I'll give them a few more days until I say for sure what they are, but I will say that I hope my gut feeling is wrong.

Tulsa State Fair rabbit show

Friday-today was the Tulsa State fair rabbit show. I dropped the 6 rabbits I showed off Friday evening, as it was a cooped show. They showed yesterday (Sat.) and today (Sun.). I had someone show them for me yesterday, as I couldn't be there. But, I was able to show them there today.

They did awesome yesterday and I'm so glad the Hubler family was able to get them up to the table for me - thanks again guys :)! There were a lot of mini lops and a lot of rabbits in the whole show - 1,100 entries total (Open & Youth). So, the results are:

Hoppin's Abby (brkn chocolate) took 1st – which should get her her 1st leg!
Hoppin's Landon (brkn chocolate chin – Abby’s brother) took 1st – which should get him his first leg too!
Hoppin's Diamond Fizz (bk chin) took 2nd
Posey's Cameron (chin) took 2nd
Hoppin's Kahlua (chestnut) took 11/17 – not surprised by that, as she’s a very petite 12 wk old doe. She makes weight, but is just a small little thing.
Hoppin's Jordan (pointed white!) took 5th/17 – so excited by that placing, as he’s barely 12 wks old. I really expected him to be almost last in the class!

Today they didn’t do as well. I heard from several breeders that the judge who they were judged by today is like that – not too great on posing rabbits, I guess, oh well. But, anyways, Diamond got 1st today (not sure if she’ll get a leg for that or not, but I don’t think so, as the classes were smaller today). Today the others got: Cameron 3/5, Jordan 3/6, Abby 5/6, Kahlua 10/11, Landon 6/6 (yeah, totally opposite compared to Saturday, oh well!).

Open Mini Lops were done judging by 11am or so, but we couldn't check out until 3pm. So, we had a lot of hanging out to do, which was fine, as I got to talk to a lot of breeders and meet new breeders. I had several people say "Oh, you're Qadoshyah?!" and they were all glad to meet me finally and complimented my mini lops, which was nice. One breeder, I'm not even sure who she was, since I didn't get a chance to ask her her name...but she obviously knew who I was! I met Pennie Grotheer, the Secretary/Treasurer for the MLRCA, so it was nice to finally put a face to her name. Also got to meet a couple other mini lop breeders I hadn't met yet...both in open & youth.

While we didn't get any pictures of the rabbit show....here's a couple pictures of the petting zoo area that was just a few feet from the rabbit area. This was my first time at the TSF...such a HUGE fair, with so much to see. We looked around only a little bit.

9 and counting

Two of the 3 does that were due yesterday have kindled . . . Jana kindled to 3 babies this morning and Kaylee kindled to 6 this afternoon. Just waiting on Kadence to kindle now.

Jana has 3 agoutis and Jana has all "pink" babies. I think there's a smoke pearl or two in there, but it's too hard to tell since they are just hours old.

Cori & Jake left today for their new homes. Jake went to Townsend's Red River Rabbitry in Southern Oklahoma and Cori went to Redneck Rabbits Rabbitry in Oklahoma as well. They are great homes for those two pretty bunnies!! I'll miss them both though :), as they were two of my favorite pointed whites. Just glad to have babies to replace them now.

9 more buns will be leaving tomorrow . . . 5 to NH, 2 to IL and 2 to VT.

Well, more later...

What's Goin' On In The Barn . . .

Okay, well, I've kind of been a slacker with keeping this blog up to date real well. I guess it's probably because there hasn't been too much to update on.

The buns are doing well. The weather is perfect. So, where to start . . .

Brandy, one of my retired does, was acting off last Saturday. Since she's a food & treat freak, it was very odd for her not to touch her pellets all day. So, I picked her up and checked her out. She was grunting at me when I would pet her, knocked her teeth together if I tried to flip her over on her back, and was sitting all hunched up. So unusual for Brandy who is normally friendly & easy going. After looking at her more, I saw some reddish-clear jelly like "stools." Nasty. First thing that came to mind was Mucoid Enteritis. How she would've gotten though I have no idea! Especially since she's an older doe and typically ME happens in babies/weaned litters.

So, anyways, I decided to treat her like she had ME, since I couldn't think of anything else that it would be. I had my cousin pick up some Neomycin Sulfate Oral solution. So, every few hours I give her a little bit of the Neomycin, several cc's of probiotics, several cc's of power punch (a Nutri-Cal like supplement since she isn't  eating much), and Corid. She's got all kinds of food in her cage - carrot, apple slices, oats, oatmeal, pellets, hay, etc. Just the last day or so she's started nibbling on some of the stuff in her cage, but definitely not her pellets yet. I think we're on the path to getting better, so hopefully she'll be her normal self sooner than later.

There are 4 does due in about a week. Today I did some musical cages and moved some of the does around to the bigger cages. Also weaned some of Brianna's litter (they're 7 wks old), that way her smallest baby may be able to take advantage of being the only one with her, so hopefully he'll catch up in size.

My cages are almost all full (only have 1 empty cage) and I have been this full in awhile. But, 19 bunnies (seniors & juniors) will be leaving over the next week to month. 7 will be going to NH next week. A couple will be going to some Oklahoma breeders next week. Another junior pair will be going to Missouri in a week and a half or so. Then, after that, some bunnies will be waiting for their rides to Convention.

There are two babies left available out of Brianna's litter - black chin buck and black chin doe. They are both very cute little babies!

Well, I think that's about it for now!

Baby Pictures

New 6 wk old baby pictures are up ~

Nicole's litter
Sara's litter
Brianna's litter

Sara's babies are all sold. Nicole's babies are all sold too. They're all just waiting to go to their new homes, since obviously they can't quite yet (they're all 6 wks old). There are 4 babies available at the moment in Brianna's litter. They are very nice babies and I'm sure won't last long!

More later . . .

Cherokee County Rabbit Show

Last Friday, Sept. 17th, the Cherokee County Fair had a 4-H/youth rabbit show. They also do have an Open category too, but there weren't too many rabbits in it this year. We'll have to spread the word to get more Open folks involved in it next year. Since it isn't an ARBA sanctioned show, I was the judge for the show.

It was a small show - just 62 rabbits entered, but it was a lot of fun. So, here are a few pictures from the show.

Judging just beginning:

The bigger meat breeds were first - Cals, New Zealands, Satins. All (except for 1) were owned by the same breeder (the girl in the green shirt). She shows in ARBA shows and has won Nationals for certain breeds of hers before. She had VERY nice rabbits. She won both BIS and RIS.

Judging the mini lop class:

I felt so bad for this little mini lop below and her owner. She was about 10 wks old or so and since in 4-H shows srs & jrs are shown together, she stood no chance. Her color was terrible (very sunburned - at just 10 wks) and she was SO small. My 10 wk olds are a good 1 1/2 to 2 lbs bigger than her. She was about the size of my 5 wk olds. She wasn't skinny or anything, she was just so small. And her type . . . well, it wasn't that great either. I gave her owner a lot of tips, told her what her type should look like and all and of course gave her my card. She was a cute little rabbit just as a lop, but definitely lacked in a lot of areas for ML type.

Mini Rex:

This little doe had decent type, but she was molting so funny, it made her look so sloped off in the HQ's.

Explaining long & low shoulders to the Mini Rex owners :):

Choosing the best buck:

Some of the kids listening to the explanation of what they need to do for showmanship:

Chrysta with her Jr. Showmanship trophy! I got this girl started in ML's a year or so ago. She now has a nice little herd.

Mahala (the gal who runs the show) & I at the end of the show.

It was a good show and I had a great time!

Cutie-Pies . . . well and random Updates

First off, there are new pictures of my 3 three week old litters on the litters page now.

Brianna's litter - click here
Nicole's litter - click here
& Sara's litter - click here

Also updated the whole website with minor updates that needed to be done.

I'm considering selling Hoppin's Kyle, my sable buck. It's a tough decision, as he is a GORGEOUS buck and throws beautiful babies. But, I'm afraid I've got too many babies out of him that I'm keeping who are all equally nice. Kyle is such a sweet little guy too.

Bred 3 does today as well:

Hoppin's Krissi X 3R's Cade - expecting chocolates in this litter!
Hoppin's Kadence X Hoppin's Scotch - again expecting chocolates in this litter!
Silent Spring's Jana X Posey's Cameron - should be a beautiful, typey litter!

I may breed one more doe, but we'll see.

And, for a few random updates . . .

My sister found this snake eating a frog yesterday morning as she almost stepped on it. Thankfully it wasn't a poisonous snake, but it sure was interesting to see him try to eat a frog that was GIANT compared to him. The frog did get away, but not sure that it lived.

And the other day I saw this dragonfly sitting ever so carefully on the edge of a piece of wood that is on the rope to open my shutters. So, I had fund taking close pictures of it!

Babies!!

Alright, well it's about time I put some pictures up of my now-almost-3-week old babies. They are so cute and so fat :).

Sara's babies:

One of Nicole's babies:

One of Brianna's babies:

One of Brianna's normal sized babies and the runt of the litter. It's so tiny, but is starting to catch up to it's littermates!

And the temperature outside this morning around 11am . . . finally cool weather!! We got a few inches of rain last night with wonderful Thunderstorms, which was much needed. Things already look greener than they did yesterday . . . it's been such a dry summer for Oklahoma. Hopefully we've seen the last of the hot weather this year . . . this summer was SO long and hot!