Boxes in & more

Brandy, Rose & Caramel got their nestboxes this morning. They are due in two days . . . while I normally give the does their boxes 4 days prior to their due date, these girls got their boxes late. I had some trouble getting good, small wood shavings to use in the box, so it was delayed a bit. They started nesting right away though! Yay, I'm looking forward to babies!

I took Amber & Lilac Perfection to the vet yesterday for their health certificates. They will be flying to Finland on the 26th. I'll be meeting their new owner (a ML breeder in Finland) early next week and then she will fly back with the girls. We have to wait until Monday or Tuesday to get the health certificate back, because when flying international, the state vet has to sign the papers. So, here we are waiting!

The barn is almost completely done!! Hopefully I can move the bunnies in next week sometime :).

~ Qadoshyah

Hurricane Ike

We got A LOT of rain & some wind from Hurricane Ike yesterday (Saturday). It poured for hours and it was pretty windy too. It had to have rained a good 6 inches at least! All the creeks in our area are FULL or overflowing. It's supposed to be clear for at least the next 10 days according to the forecast right now . . . .

This is certainly a huge change from California :)! Everything is fine though.

The bunnies are fairing well though . . . they are in their stall in the barn still, so they were completely fine. The barn is VERY close to being done . . .maybe this week, we'll see.

~ Qadoshyah

Coming Along . . .

The barn is coming along really well. There's not too much left to do, just another week or less worth of work to do, if it doesn't rain all week (like the forecast says!)!

Here's a few pictures from a couple days ago. The roof now has all the metal roofing on it . . .



~ Qadoshyah

Yay . . . Chocolate & Kristen!

I palpated Chocolate & Kristen yesterday and they both palpate positive! Yay! Out of the 6 does I bred, 5 of them took :)!!!!

Kiss is the only doe who did not take, so I'll re-breed her sometime soon. I tried re-breeding her the other day and she did not want anything to do with it - oh well.

The bunny barn is coming a long pretty well. All the rafters are in. There's just a little bit more work that has to be done on it until the buns can move-in :).

More later . . .

~ Qadoshyah

Rain!

Well, Hurricane Gustav is reaching us up here in Oklahoma. It's been windy and raining since yesterday around noon and it's supposed to continue until Friday. They're expecting 2-20 inches of rain - wow! This is so different compared to California. But, I like it a lot! It's not too cold, but it is cool (in the 60's) and it's so neat.

The bunnies are all doing great though. . . nice and cozy in their stall. We can't work on the bunny barn right now because of all the rain. But, we've got all the lumber, so when it stops raining, we can put the roof up.

~ Qadoshyah

Heat Sterility in Bucks . . . true or false?

I palpated my does I bred on 8/21. 3 of the 4 palpate positive! The 4th doe, Kiss, I will have to re-palpate in a few days. She's a first-timer, so we'll see if she took.

These does were bred to my bucks who were in 90-95 degree heat for about 3 weeks! These breedings are the first breedings I've done since then. This has proven to me that heat sterility in bucks, like they claim, is totally a myth.

But, everyone claims that bucks go sterile (and will remain sterile for 3 months!) if they are in 85 degrees or above for more than 3 days.

This has never set well with me. It's never made logical sense. I've never had a problem getting does bred weeks or months after my bucks have been in hot weather.

Think about it . . . a buck's body produces a massive (several million) amount of new sperm per day. The old sperm dies off and is reabsorbed into the buck's body if he is not bred. So, how could a buck's sperm from when the weather was 95 degrees stay in his body and keep him sterile for 3 months?!! I don't believe it does.

The only truth I'll let in is that a buck may go temporarily "sterile" the day of the extreme heat. But, he will produce new sperm each day, so the "sterile sperm" cannot stay in his body for very long amount of times.

Just my opinion and thought I'd throw it out there :).

~ Qadoshyah

New pictures!

I got new pictures of all the juniors and some of my seniors. They're all up on the site, so check 'em out - Bucks, Does & Juniors.

~ Qadoshyah

Updated Finally!

I finally got around to updating the site. There is still some stuff I need to update on it, but for the most part it's done. I put new pictures up of the new bunnies, Jenny, Kaden & Laci. I also moved my just-turned-seniors from the juniors page to their right senior buck & doe pages.

Yesterday I took new pictures of all my young seniors & juniors who's pictures are way outdated. I will work on getting them up on the site in the next few days.

I bred 4 does on the 21st, Rose Dust, Brandy, Caramel Kiss & Caramel. They are up on the breedings page with the info of the buck they are bred to.

I also bred 2 more does last night. I was going to wait a couple more weeks, but I had a couple does who *really* wanted to be bred, so I gave in ;)! I bred Chocolate Rum to Brantini and Kristen to Simin. I'm excited to see what my litters will have. I'm really curious for Chocolate's litter, since it's a linebreeding (bred back to her son).

I plan on breeding Heather Rum, Gin Fizz & Totsie in September. In October I plan to breed Jenny & Laci.

~ Qadoshyah

New bunnies & News

Sorry, I know the site is way outdated and I have not been blogging much. We've been in the process of moving from California to Oklahoma for the past few weeks and it's been a crazy time!

The bunnies are finally settled into their new place here in Oklahoma. It was rough on some of them and it took them a couple weeks to really settle in, but they are all doing great now. I lost one of my older girls, Swissy, a week or so after we moved here. The trip was just too much for her and too stressful :(.

In the meantime, I have gotten two new bunnies. I got my doe, Milkhouse's Jenny, from Lisa that I have been waiting to get for MONTHS, about two weeks ago. Jenny's a super cute and nice doe!

I also got a little jr. buck, Silent Spring's Kaden, from Michael on my trip out to California last week. Kaden is a very nice little buck and I think he'll be great for the chocolates! Thanks Michael! Kaden made the trip out to Oklahoma great and he handled it really well.

My juniors from my last litters and my litters earlier in the year are all looking great. I am very pleased with how some of them are looking . . . others are in the ganglies pretty bad still, but they should come around :). I really like how Josh is looking. I think he may be able to replace his sire, Junior!

I will try to post pictures and update the site soon, Lord willing!

We have an award!

I would like to thank Lana from Lana's Hip Hoppin' Rabbitry for giving us the Brillante Weblog Award! Lana raises Mini Lops in Oregon and she has a nice blog ;).

As part of getting this award, I would like to nominate the following blogs for the award:

1) Silent Springs Rabbitry

2) ShowBunny Blog

3) StarLite Rabbitry Blog

4) Suburban Bunnies Blog