Pictures of the babies

I took pictures of my 3 three week old litters on Sunday. You can see them all at the links below :).

~ Brandy's babies

~ Caramel's babies

~ Rose's babies

Enjoy!

Qadoshyah

Oh yeah!

I did a "sneak-peek" of my almost 3 week old litters to see if I could sex them. I could sex 5 of Brandy's 6 babies . . . she has 3 does & 2 bucks. I think the one baby I didn't sex will be a buck. That will be nice - even again, as with her first litter. I hope her little agouti does turn out nice - it'd be nice to have a solid chocolate chestnut doe!

I like does who are consistent with their litters. I don't like the does who always throw a little full of bucks or almost full of bucks! Val was like that with her litters, I hope Kristen's babies are not like that!!

Caramel's babies are both bucks - oh well, I guess I won't be keeping a replacement from her.

Rose has 3 does and 1 buck - YAY! If the buck is nice enough, he may stay here. We shall see though.

I'll get individual pictures on Sunday or Monday, Lord willing and will post the links to their pages when I get 'em up.

~ Qadoshyah

Babies are getting cuter!

The babies are all getting to that really cute age, after their eyes open. Brandy's babies ears are all lopping and they are oh so cute! I had her babies out on the grooming table earlier today and man, are they wild! A couple of them jumped off the table - thankfully they landed in the hay, so it wasn't much of a fall ;).

Here's some pictures of the babies ~

Kristen's babies - her babies eyes are just beginning to open.


Rose's babies - aren't they cute?!

Caramel's babies with 2 of Brandy's babies that Caramel is raising (the top two are Brandy's)


Brandy's lil munchkins


This chocolate chestnut is soooooo cute! I have a feeling several of Brandy's babies will be bucks, since their heads are SO wide already!


I have to palpate Sugar & Kiss tomorrow to see if they took. I'm really hoping they took! I can't wait for some more Sugar babies - they are ALWAYS the cutest!

Milky & Junior both left with Tammy on Sunday. She'll be transporting them to convention where they will be picked up by a couple other breeders who will take them to their new owners. Milky will be going to Kim & Erika in Michigan (BTW, they have a nice website now - www.lyonshareraisingrabbitry.com). Junior will be going to Vanessa in Oregon (http://velvettouchrabbitry.com/).

Mary Whitney will be bringing Deckles from Karin and dropping him off with Tammy. I'll be able to pick him up a couple weeks after convention, hopefully!

After 3 months of being in Oklahoma, I finally ran out of the feed I had brought from California - Templeton feed (which is a GREAT feed!). Thankfully I had researched the feed mills and different rabbit pellet brands they sell out here a few months ago. I settled on a feed milled by a local mill - Stillwater Milling Co. It's called A&M Feed. The ingredients of the pellets looked the best to me and they are also a reasonable price. The feed is fresh & green as well. So, we made a run up to their mill in Claremore, OK to pick up some of their feed. I had about 1/4 bag of Templeton left to be able to mix in with the A&M. We shall see how the buns do on this!

~ Qadoshyah

New barn pictures

The barn was finished this weekend and I moved the bunnies in. It's very nice to have a nice, clean, well ventilated barn again :). I'll put a page up on my site sometime here with details & more pictures, but for now, this works . . .








~ Qadoshyah

Lots going on . . .

I've got quite a bit to update about ;).

We'll start with Chocolate . . . she was my second doe due on Friday. She didn't kindle until late Sunday night through Monday morning. She kindled to 2 huge DOA's. She pulled a MASSIVE amount of fur (FILLED a gallon ziplock bag!), so I saved all of that. I'll rebreed her sometime when she gets some of her fur grown back and gets some weight back on her ;).

Kristen's babies are all doing great - she has 1 smoke pearl, 2 sables & 2 "pinks" (hoping for a blue pointed white!).

Brandy's, Rose's & Caramel's babies are getting big too.

Brandy has 1 chocolate chestnut, 1 chocolate chinchilla, 1 brkn chocolate chinchilla, 1 charlie chocolate chestnut, 1 broken chocolate, & 1 charlie chocolate. Very nice variety of colors! I'm excited to have the chocolate chestnuts, as they are SUCH a pretty color.

Rose's babies all still just look like lilacs . . . I'm not sure if she will have any steels or not. She's a very lightly ticked steel, so some of her babies may get the ticking in a few days.

Caramel's chocolate baby is actually a silver tip'd chocolate steel. I am a bit disappointed with that, as it means Caramel is a non-extension, hidden steel (most likely AaBbc(chl)cD-E(s)e). I will be selling Caramel when her litter is weaned.

I bred two more does over the past two days. I rebred Kiss to Simin (hopefully she takes this time) and I bred Sugar to Daiquiri. Sugar's litter is a repeat of a breeding I did in California. Her lilac son from that litter, Hoppin's Moses (SD3) is almost granded! I figured it'd be good to repeat that breeding, since I didn't get to keep anything from that litter.

I did not plan on buying anymore new bunnies this year through convention. But, a deal came up that I couldn't resist, so I will be getting (Lord willing) a beautiful blue RGC buck who is the exact addition the pointed whites need - Vail's Mr. Deckles :).

The does that I sent to Finland made it there safe & sound with no problems. Here's a picture of Amber from Maija. . . Amber is totally spoiled rotten!


I'll put up another post with pictures of the barn that is now completed!!

~ Qadoshyah

Baby pics

Here we go . . . here are a few pictures of my 3 litters born on Sunday & Monday.

Rose's babies ~
Caramel's babies ~

Brandy's babies ~

*the two in this first pic are the two being raised by Caramel. She only had 2 babies, so I fostered Brandy's two smallest babies onto Caramel. Everyone is fine & dandy now ;).


~ Qadoshyah

Kristen has babies!

Kristen kindled tonight around 10pm or so to 5 little babies. As I had figured, she had them all over the cage, on the wire . . . only one was on her hay nest she had made in the corner. I'm so glad she had them now instead of in the middle of the night. I was expecting her to have them today and all over the cage - JUST like her mom, Val, did on her first litter (except, all 4 of Val's babies died).

Kristen is doing great, ate some oats & raspberry leaves out of my hand. She's not eating pellets yet (hasn't for a few days), but I think she'll be fine.

I made a nest for the babies in Kristen's box and I think they'll all be fine. I'll check them one more time before I head to bed in a bit.

It looks like she has 3 "pinks" and 2 sables/smoke pearls . . . hard to tell since they were born half an hour or less when I found them. A couple of them have pretty bruised faces, but they should be okay.

~ Qadoshyah

Going International!

I dropped off 2 jr (5mth old) does in Tulsa with Maija from Finland. This is something that Maija & I have been working out for a few months (since Feb. or March!) and they are finally going to Finland! Maija will be flying out of Tulsa, OK tomorrow morning with the does. The does sound like they will be spoiled rotten :).

It was quite the fiasco getting the international health certificate for these does. The vet we used here in Keys, OK was nice and easy. BUT, because it is an international health certificate, it has to have a seal on it from the state vet of Oklahoma. The vet mailed the certificates to the state vet last Thursday after we had the health check done. It was supposed to be in Monday or Tuesday. It was still in Oklahoma City as of Tuesday afternoon.

We talked to the vet and told them they MUST have it shipped overnight to arrive on Wednesday, so we could take the rabbits to Maija on Thursday.

Come Wednesday, the vet still does not have the health certificate - this time it's FedEx's problem. The vet paid for overnight shipping. FedEx said it would be in around 10am on Wednesday, but then called and gave excuses and said it would be in before 10am on Thursday.

We called the vet around 9:45am this morning (Thurs) and the health certificate was not there yet. We had the vet call FedEx & they said the driver was in the town and he would call when he was heading their way. Well, he called, but the vet had to go meet him in town and get the health certificate from them. How lame is that?!

At least we were able to get the health certificate and Maija has her does and is very happy with them. We certainly learned to have this shipped overnight with UPS (NOT FedEx) way earlier in the week if we do international shipping again!

This vet (who happens to not be that far from us) has great prices on health certificates for the states (the international health cert was a pretty good price too) and they are very easy to work with when it comes to the office visit. The regular health certificate is just $15 - that's it. No office visit fee, etc. SOOOOOO much cheaper than the vets in California!

~ Qadoshyah

Brandy & Rose

Brandy kindled yesterday evening. She had 6 beautiful babies!! All are chocolates . . . most of them are chocolate chinchillas, in fact there is only one self chocolate (a solid). She has 2 charlies (both agoutis), 2 solids (1 agouti, 1 self), and 2 brokens (both agoutis).

Rose kindled this afternoon. She has 4 beautiful babies! All are lilacs :)! She has 3 brokens and 1 solid. Her brokens have *VERY* heavy patterns . . . my favorite! One of them looks like it has hardly any color on it's face - so cute. I haven't checked yet to see if any are milk-dipped ears yet.

Caramel is doing good now and both of her babies are doing fantastic.

~ Qadoshyah

First litter . . . from Caramel

Brandy, Caramel & Rose were all due today.

Caramel had her litter this morning. I figured she'd have them because she had pulled a bunch of fur in her box last night. She's had a total of 6 babies, but only 2 are alive. I am pretty sure I can still feel one baby in her, so I'm hoping she'll have that baby soon. 4 of the other 5 were born dead (not sure why) and the other died shortly after it was born. At least there are two babies! Hopefully Rose & Brandy don't have any problems with their litters. Caramel's 2 babies are a black & chocolate.

~ Qadoshyah