craziness...

Our main computer stopped working properly a couple days ago, not sure whats wrong with it....but I'm totally freaking out with out my Evans software, and being able to print up pedigrees or update my website and post pictures!  :/ 
I'm having to use a lap top, that my brother gave us when we went down to GA to visit earlier this year.....thank goodness he was so nice to give us a laptop because atleast we still have some sort of way to get online to check emails and such.  If I'm a little slow responding to emails, please forgive me...I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Since I can not update my for sales page, I will just post updates here.....so check back soon  :)

Other news, Brendan's Netherland Dwarf doe, Audi had a litter of babies last night....she had 4 total, one was a max factor and looks like one *might* be a peanut and two healthy ones.  This is her first litter and so far, Audi's being a great mom.  Brendan has lots of Nethies that will be available in a couple months....he hasnt had this many baby Nethies in a long time.  I'm hoping to pick up another stacker soon, that should help with cage space and our baby boom! lol

Oh yeah, almost forgot our little miracle baby Nethie is doing great.....wish I could post pictures of him  :(
He's adorble <3
-Malena

more baby Nethies....

Well, Lexus had her babies today.  She had 2 max factors-1 of which was dead, and 3 healthy babies.  I went ahead and removed the 2 max factors, they are born with their eyes open and they end up being blind.  They also have clubbed back feet, so it would be harder to maneuver around and in my opinion (and I know some people might disagree) but I feel they wont really live a quality, happy life.  Upon closer examination, I noticed that the max factor had an extra digit on the back feet-a little further down and off to the side, almost like having an extra thumb.....very strange, I've never noticed that before.  : /

-Malena

late night babies

Brendan has a couple Netherland Dwarfs due, Lexus & Mercedes both got nestboxes a couple days ago....Lexus built a nest and started plucking fur right away, but so far hasn't had any babies.  Mercedes, didn't do much when I first gave her the nestbox, but then I saw her arranging the nest and plucking fur yesterday.  I waited and waited, and no babies.  Then, I saw her plucking more fur again tonight.....so I went down and checked on her several times.  This last trip downstairs, I saw movement in the nestbox!!!  :)   Mercedes had 4 babies...one was a DOA peanut, the other 3 are nice and healthy.  I did have to remove the placenta from one baby, since it was still attached.  But other than that, she did a great job.  
Now, we're just waiting to see if Lexus has babies too~keep your fingers crossed!  lol
Brendan's herd buck, Yogi makes gorgeous babies so Brendan & I are both really excited about the newest batch of babies.  In a few more days, Audi is due to have a litter.  Its kind of early but I saw her plucking a small bit of fur this morning so I went ahead and gave her a nestbox just in case.

-Malena

our little miracle baby ♥

Here's a picture of our little miracle baby...

Its doing great so far, and is very active.  I thought it might be a blue otter, but in this picture you don't see pink in the insides of the ears, so now I'm not sure....I'll have to check again next time I get him out.  I thought it had a pink belly??  ...now I'm not sure! lol  Who knows, maybe its a blue?? 

-Malena

Spazz

Brendan has a REW Netherland Dwarf Doe named Spazz, that I got for him last year at the OH mini convention.  We named her Spazz because everytime you open the door to her cage and reach in, she runs really fast round & round in circles...she's really hard to catch! lol  She recently just turned 1yr & 3 months old....when she turned senior, we tried and tried to get her bred but she just wasn't interested~until last month!  We finally got her to breed, and Brendan & I were both so excited and couldn't wait to see some babies.  She was bred to Yogi, Brendan's herd buck....they both have LOTS of Coin/Nelson in their background so that made the breeding even more exciting.  Well, this morning I went downstairs to wake up the girls for school and feed the basement bunnies, when I noticed Spazz pulling fur!  Since I didn't really know what to expect because this was her first time having babies, I sat nearby and waited.  After she jumped out of the nestbox, I found one lifeless baby.  It was freshly born, still warm and wet but not breathing....I held it and started massaging it, to see if maybe I could get it to start breathing.  I also started swinging it in a downward motion between my legs and to my surprise the little booger started gasping for air.  I kept working with him, and he seemed to be coming around.....I took him upstairs and wrapped him up in a towel and warmed him up with the blow dryer on low heat to keep him warm.  After he started breathing better, I took him back downstairs and put him in with a litter of Hollands that was also born this morning.  I made sure to breed one of my Hollands the same day as Spazz just in case we needed to foster....I pretty much planned on fostering them anyway just because of how spazzy she is, we were kind of afraid she might hurt the babies running in circles like that.  After I put the baby in with the litter of Hollands, I checked on Spazz again and found another baby on the wire, but this one was too far gone....I wasn't able to revive it  :( 

If this one continues to live and thrive....it will be our little miracle baby  :)
I'll keep you posted on the little guy.

As soon as I have another open Holland doe to breed, I will go ahead and rebreed Spazz.  Maybe things will go better next time.

-Malena

Some new stuff....

Before I left for Ohio this past weekend, I got something new in the mail:

Darlene Head, who makes custom signs made me this lovely new rabbitry sign.  I absolutely love her work and have wanted to get a sign for a while now, but never knew what to put on it until one day it dawned on me to use the picture that Kristen Drum gave me as a gift.  She had Lauren Nicholas from Lil Bun Designs draw me a bunny family portrait, which I loved so much~it was the inspiration for my website design and business cards and now my new rabbitry sign.  Please visit Custom Sign by Darlene if you are interested in seeing her work or would like to get a sign.

Something else new...

While I was up in OH, at the mini convention, I picked up a bunny buggy.....I've wanted one of these for a really long time but never thought I would actually get one! lol  Theres no need to unstack carriers and spread them out on the showroom floor, it can stay stacked and rolled around because it has side opening doors...which is a great feature, I think.  It has 18 holes total, which is plenty enough for us.

More new stuff....I picked up a couple new bunnies at the OH mini convention.
LOV's Wrigley~a tort senior doe:

 
LOV's Maestro~tort senior buck:

Spring Lake Kelly~black senior doe:

I also picked up 2 juniors from Sydney Butler.....I will post pics of them soon.  Thunder is molting his head, and Baby has been given a haircut by one of her siblings.  So, as soon as they are looking pretty I'll take some pics  ;)

-Malena

OH Mini Convention

This past weekend was the big Ohio Mini Convention up in Columbus, OH.  We had so much fun and I have a LOT of exciting news to share!!!  My good friend Keniethea Roy won BOB at the Lionhead Nationals with her Pointed White Jr Buck named Roy's Dyson!  I am so happy for her, she really deserves it, she's got some of the prettiest Lionheads I've ever seen.  Here is a pic of her and her BOB bunny, Roy's Dyson:

Way to go Nita!!!!  :)

Another good friend, Brenda Foriska had a really cute tort Lionhead doe that placed 2nd....named Busy B' Dumpling.  Congrats Brenda.....she's beautiful  :)

I ended up only taking one Holland to show, but did very well considering.....Amor placed 3rd out of 44 SJB's in the OHLRF Specialty show judged by Robert Frizzell.  And then Amor placed 5th out of 43 SJB's in the HLHH Specialty show judged by Jay Jriez.  I'm pretty happy with that.   :)

A few of our bunnies went to new homes this past weekend.  Camelot's Dokie, Camelot's Sweet Pea, Hamilton's Lainey & Hamilton's Gidget all went to WI to live with Jared Smith.  And Hamilton's Zayna went to WV to live with Ronda Bragg.  I wish them both the best, and hope they get nice some babies  :)  Hamilton's Yona went to MO to live with a 4-H'er.....I'm gonna miss that cute lil' guy.  I'm keeping one of his daughters so that makes things easier.

I brought back a few new Hollands to add to the herd, I will be posting pics as soon as I can.  I got LOV's Wrigley from Ashlee Richards, Spring Lake Kelly-a LOV's Wrigley daughter from Krys Kolivras, LOV's Maestro from Jared Smith, BBC's Thunder & BBC's Baby from Sydney Butler.

I bought a really nice "bunny buggy"-as Nita calls hers.  I'll have to take a pic of it.  It has 3 levels, with side opening doors, 18 holes in all-6 holes each level.  Its really nice.  Since we now have the bunny buggy, we will be selling some of our carriers that we used to use.  I'll post them on my for sale page soon.

I know I was only gone a few days but Holly's sable point babies are looking sooooooooo cute!  Their eyes are now open....that was great surprise to come back to.  Charlotte's babies are all still looking really cute too ♥

-Malena