Billy Joe's Stunning Iris
DOB: 2/7/2013
Gender: Female
Coat Color: Broken Silver-Tipped
Pedigreed: Yes
Description: This bunny is very friendly and definitely has her own little personality.  She could go as a pet, show rabbit, or breeder. Very cute and should make a good show rabbit and/or breeder.

35.00 Please Contact Us if interested!

This morning was quite brutal.

I walked into the barn to check on my baby rabbits born yesterday.  I looked in the hutch and everything seemed fine.  So, I opened up the burrow and looked at the kits.  One by one I took them out, everything looked good.  Then I noticed I only had 6 now.  Ohhhh no.  I searched and searched for Little Runt and he was nowhere to be found.  The whole time I searched, my heart was beating profusely just at the thought of what could have happened.  It always does.  Raising rabbits can be QUITE brutal.  

I looked around the hutch just waiting to find a dead baby somewhere.  Nothing!  Then I looked in the corner in the straw and saw blood.  So, no little dead body.  Just blood.  That's when I realized that only one thing could've happened.  Holly had EATEN her kit!  That's just terrible!  I had high hopes for this little guy but was doubting he would make it.  I didn't think the answer would come to me so fast.  So, now I have 6 baby rabbits in the nest box.

So, I grieved about that for awhile in the barn, and then I finally came out to help with the animals.  Everyone out there was crowded around the duck hutch thingy, with the lid/door open.  My first thought was that the male duck in there was dead.  Sure enough, my Dad pulled out a half-eaten duck.  

So, I should take this day to remember those who died last night in my very own yard.  It is terrible to think about, but they are both in Heaven now.

RIP Little Duck and Runty

I watched for about 3 minutes, and didn't know what else to think besides "Um, this rabbit is giving birth.". So I watched some more.  I finally yelled over to my Mom, "I think Holly might be having babies... yep, I think so.".  Sure enough, here comes one of those squirmy pink things, resembling the facial details of an alien.  She kept pushing, and making noises.  By the time Holly was done, it all happened so fast I didn't even have an idea how many she had.  I thought 4, maybe 5.  Holly finished cleaning the last one and hopped out of her nestbox as fast as she could to her oats I had put out a few minutes before the event.  She obviously had a feeling her oats were stalking her the whole time she was kindling.  The poor girl, she had to have her oats!


  When she left, there were what looked like thousands of babies in one big pile left in the fur she had pulled before.  They were still wet and gross so I left them to their own devices for a while.  They dug themselves way under the fur (quite fascinating how the ugliest, tiniest little things have instincts like that...) and before I knew it, they were way under there out of my sight.


  With a brown dam and a spotted sire, it was shocking to see what she had.  There are three plain WHITE ones!  I wonder if they will turn into REWs when older... who knows!  We counted seven the first time, and when I did my "sure search" a while later, I found exactly seven healthy kits who looked to have already been fed.  There are three white ones, 3 broken ones (looks like one may be a chinchilla, but I won't get my hopes up for that!), and one Chestnut Agouti like Holly.  


  So, it was a nice morning!  The fact that we got to witness the birth was AMAZING, because rabbits actually have the ability to wait until your gone, and usually they do!  I am thinking about making a new page called "Raising Rabbit From Birth to Weanlings".  Sounds interesting, eh?  Ha Ha.


  Well, now that I can write again, I will write more!  I am so sorry I have not written much!  I have A LOT to make up for, don't I???


Does anyone want a breeding pair?  Reserve a baby or babies today if you would like.  They will be weaned in about 2 months, and if all goes according to plan (which it never does..) they will all be sold.  Just contact us or comment here and I can probably set you up a breeding pair or a pet bunny!!!

Then, this morning, my dad woke up to the same exact thing!  He went down to the barn, and Rosie had lambed a little ramlamb.  He was only about 30 minutes old, maybe less when my dad found the lamb.  He texted my mom, and she woke us up saying, "Rosie had a baby, it's a girl!". So I ran out there all excited that it was a girl, and of course, it was a boy.  My dad had missed his "boy parts" because it was so dark
in the barn.  *sigh* 

Rosie was not letting him nurse, for some odd reason, so that means we have to bottle
feed the lamb, although we keep trying to force Rosie to accept him, halter tying her and letting the lamb nurse.  He will be sold once he is 2 months old, but for right now he is in the house. 

That also means we have a sheep that needs to be milked, and she does NOT like anyone touching her udder, so this will be super fun. :)

We just have one more ewe due this month and we will be done!  Hopefully she has a girl.  Keep your fingers crossed!!!

I hope you all had a spectacular weekend!!! :)