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With winter and freezing temps, raising baby bunnies can be somewhat difficult.  I'm in the middle of a bad streak, I've lost quite a few babies recently due to them getting chilled.

LOV Bug had a litter of 4 babies sired by Mac Miller....2 of her babies wandered out of the nest at 2 weeks old and froze.  The remaining 2 are doing okay so far.

Kelly had a litter of 2 that got chilled, they werent covered with enough fur when she made the nest.

One of Brendan's Nethies, E4 had 2 kits.  One baby wandered out of the nest at around 2 weeks old and froze.

Another Nethie doe, Ferrari finally had a live litter.  She had been bred several times and most of the time she didnt take.  We were so excited to finally get babies out of her, but I went out this morning to find both babies had gotten chilled and died.

I am trying my best to keep the odds in my favor, by insulating nestboxes with cardboard, plucking extra fur from Does and covering the babies, turning on a heater but its still a little chilly in the barn :/

 Winter has barely begun but I am so ready for it to be over!  I will be glad when Spring rolls around! lol

Skippy John's photo shoot

Well, I picked Skippy John up from Lory-Ann's house Friday, he is adjusting well and doing great.  I absolutely LOVE this little buck ♥
Thank you Debra Sandoval from Brocks Fallen Ear's Rabbitry in CA for such a gorgeous buck & thank you Lory-Ann for transporting him back to NC for me  :)

Today we did a photo shoot, man does this buck love to pose! ♥
Here are some of the pics, enjoy!  :)

baby Hollands ♥

I'd like to introduce Hamilton's Tunechi....a little buck out of Spring Lake Kelly & LOV's Maestro.  I hate to admit it but I was a little late putting in a nestbox for Kelly and found him born on the wire, I warmed him up and made a nest and plucked extra fur from Kelly....he's been doing great, fat and sassy ever since.  He just turned 4 weeks old and is the cutest & sweetest little thing in the rabbitry ♥

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In other baby news, I bred Kelly's daughter~Nicki Minaj to Dexter....she had 2 torts & 2 blue torts.  The blue torts are pictured on the bottom.  They just turned 2 weeks old.

-Malena

...Coming Soon!

I am so excited to announce, I will be adding a new herd buck to the rabbitry soon!  :)
He is coming all the way from California, from Brocks Fallen Ear's Rabbitry
His name is GC Brocks Fallen Ears Skippy John, a tort buck.  As soon as I get permission, I will post his picture.....he is absolutely GORGEOUS! ♥

I wanna say:  Thank you Lory-Ann, from Ruby's Rabbits for providing transportation home from the ARBA Convention. 

I cant wait to see my new boy soon!  :)

Goodbye sweet boy :(

Its a sad day in the rabbitry today, I had to put Lars down  :(
Lars was an older boy, 6 years old....he was the sweetest bunny I have ever owned.  He loved to give kisses & get his head rubbed. ♥
Somehow he managed to hurt his back, and started dragging his backend.  After a few days of seeing him not get better, only getting worse...I knew I didnt want to see him suffer any longer so I decided putting him down would be the best thing to do.  This was the hardest one I've ever had to do, I'm usually pretty strong when it comes to stuff like this but Lars made my eyes well up with tears....I held him for a little bit, gave him some love & whispered in his ear how sorry I was & that I loved him.  I really loved that bunny, he is going to be greatly missed.
RIP Lars

Mountain State Fair

This past Saturday, we attended the bunny show at the Mountain State Fair.  It's been a while since we've been to a show so it was great getting back into the swing of things again....even though I felt a little out of the loop  :P

First, I want to say HUGE congrats to Christopher Lile~from Lile's Lops in Canton NC....he won BOB with Hamilton's Ziggy aka Humprey and BOS with Hamilton's Minnie in the Youth show.  He also did really well his Broken Senior Buck, Smith's Willie & 2 of his homebred junior does, Lile's Isabella & Lile's Candace....that is so awesome Christopher....CONGRATS!!!  :)

Our show results, Brendan won BOB with Yogi and BOS with Audi.  Aubrey showed Sunshine, her little REW doe at the fair.  This was Aubrey's first bunny show, I think she had fun even though Sunshine was the only REW! lol  Anyhow, she came home with two 1st place ribbons which made her smile  :) 

Here are some pics from the show....enjoy  :)

Aubrey & Sunshine ♥

This is a pic of the showroom & youth table in the background

 

  

Above are 2 pics of Aubrey at the show table...

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And here are some random animal pics from the Fair