New litter pictures & updated site!

My oldest 3 litters are 6 wks old now, so they have new pictures up. They can be seen at:

Kaylee's litter
Kadence's litter
Jana's litter

I also got updated pictures of several seniors and juniors, which you can view here. There's just a few sr. bucks (just turned sr. bucks) and a couple of the jr. bucks that I need to get new pictures of. But, my camera battery died half way through the barn!

Picture Time!

Thought I'd just put a few pictures up from today.....

Krissie's babies ~

Brianna's babies ~

How many babies can fit around a bowl of oats, LOL! Kaylee's & Kadence's litters eating their morning oats.

The old man in the barn...Striper :). Still going good and so cute!

Shirley ~

A couple of Jana's babies ~

Kayla ~

Courtney being a goofball ~

She looks so similar to Val, my first pointed white in her face :). Body is about 5 steps up though!

And the good ole Kitty Boy who patrols around outside the bunny barn. He was my original barn cat back in California.

Bun Update

Krissie had her litter last Saturday. She was full of babies, like I thought, but she only has 2 living.

Something went wrong with her labor. The first two were born live, but then she stopped having babies. After giving her several things and letting her run around and waiting, 12 hours later she had the rest. She had 7 DOA :(. Why all DOA? I have no idea what went wrong. The babies all looked fine and healthy, so don't know what happened. I'm just glad she has 2 live babies and that she's doing good.

Her two babies are a brkn black and a brkn chocolate:

Brianna is due in two days and she has a decent amount of babies in her too. My guess is 7, as that is what she normally has, but we shall see.

Courtney is bred to Kyle, her dad. Gotta palpate her in 2 days, and I'm so hoping she took. Kyle is at Convention right now waiting to go to his new home in TN.

7 rabbits left for Convention last Tuesday with Billy & Kristi....the rabbits are headed to Washington, Georgia and Tennessee. And, I'm getting one rabbit back from Convention....more to come on her when she arrives :)!

The 5 wk old litters are all doing great and looking so cute. I'll be typing them and taking more pictures of them all in a week, Lord willing.

Mini Lop Posing & Type

I decided to make a page up on my site on posing mini lops & evaluating body type. I've seen this done for other breeds, but there's not one out there for ML's, so it was time to do it.

www.hoppinherdofhares.com/miniloptype.html

Hope it's helpful for at least some! I'm going to work on doing this with ML babies next....hopefully can get some with my current round of babies.

The bunnies are all doing great.

Krissie's due the end of the week, so she'll be getting a box soon. The boxes all got taken out of the 3 1/2 wk old litter cages today. The babies are all so cute & bouncin' around :).

3 wk old pictures!

The 3 litters are all 3 wks old this week, so new pictures of them are up now.

You can view all the pictures at....


Kadence's litter
Jana's litter
Kaylee's litter

Just a short post for today, since I've got company coming over shortly!

More later....

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!