It has been a cold week here and sadly we lost two litters. We did save three litters and they are snuggly warm in my office. We have two more does due by Monday and then the rounds of re-breeding start.
With the 3-day weekend, Emily will be home and of course orchastrate the whole thing. :-) Our goal is to have some quality juniors for both Oregon State and Washington State convention. What takes now will be the last of the juniors to be ready -- just about 4 months old.
Four months is a little young for the tight competition in Mini Lops, but that age can do well with Mini Rex. Annoyingly, I can't get my tort Mini Rex doe to breed. We have tried with 2 different bucks and 2 with the same buck and nothing. I fear this weekend will be her last chance to produce or she will be relocated.
We will be attending OR state as a "girls weekend" and I will be missing WA state to take some time off to visit my family in Wisconsin. One of my goals this year is to establish BALANCE.
Friday, January 18, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Homeward Bound
Well, getting ready to head back to Washington after a long weekend in Canada. I am anxious to see what surprises await in the nestboxes! We had several does still due when I left and 2 who had just delivered. We are also excited to get back to the show season. We are not going to either the Idaho or the Oregon show. I will be teaching at the Pierce County Super Saturday event on the 26th.
Our first show will be the Mini Rex specialty in Portland, OR and then March will be another busy month followed by great shows in April. See you all soon!
Friday, January 4, 2008
New bunnies!
Well...even though we are culling, we are still adding new bunnies. We added 3 Mini Rex and another English Angora.
We have completely cut the Polish and have no more. :-)
We added a very sweet English Angora -- lilic Tort -- a sibling to the first one. We have found them both to be very sweet and enjoyable.
In order to build our Mini Rex herd back up, we added an opal buck, broken tort buck and a tort doe from Tons of Buns Rabbitry. We are looking forward to a great show season.
We have completely cut the Polish and have no more. :-)
We added a very sweet English Angora -- lilic Tort -- a sibling to the first one. We have found them both to be very sweet and enjoyable.
In order to build our Mini Rex herd back up, we added an opal buck, broken tort buck and a tort doe from Tons of Buns Rabbitry. We are looking forward to a great show season.
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