Fewer rabbits, well organized barn, rabbit life is good!

I really like having fewer rabbits.

Sure, our show string won't be as big although I still think we will probably have up to 30 animals to show for VIRBA so that is a huge entry!!

It is much more fun having fewer rabbits. I can enjoy them, I can keep up on grooming and my normal cage wire brushing.

Maybe I can even get everything organized in the lower shed this week(nothing down there just storage). Wouldn't that be nice?!

I got a whole bunch of grooming done the other day. All the cage cards were put up on cages and as I said in my blog earlier on the weekend we moved a couple of stackers. Why? Because we finally have room to move a few stackers! I love how the barn is looking. If we could just get those last 4 stackers moved from the back middle it would give us 8-9 feet in the middle of the barn!! right now we have ample room for walking on each side, and enough room to turn a wheel barrow around in each aisle so I can't complain(has been like that for a long time).

We are getting things more organized. It wasn't so much they were unorganized before it was basically that the rabbits come with WAY too much stuff so we had to better situate everything. I think I mentioned in the last blog or maybe Cristina did that we got rid of a whole bunch of small "bins" and got her one of those huge cow/horse bins that fit 5-6 bags of feed. Much better then those other bins that hold 2 bags : ) We will move all the shavings into the lower barn in the next few weeks and keep our 2 feed bins, 2 grain bins(for treat mix) in the main barn. Once we move the freezer into the barn and get it situated in the lower shed we will use that just for feed storage, extra grain storage, and whatever else we might need it for!

Now we just need all the sold rabbits to go so we have more cage space for weaning the litters we have right now in 6-7 weeks. And then the 21 litters we have coming up over the next 4 weeks : )

Again, i love having the fewer rabbits. Life is more enjoyable, and I have more time for other things.

With the mini lops out of stackers it works MUCH better too. They are all in hanging cages now. The Jerseys do well in stackers. It is just the hair that is the biggest problem.

We still have 85 holes in the main barn exactly plus 2 small cages for growing out jersey jrs or mini lop jrs just weaned.

After VIRBA we will do our spring ivermecting and coccidosis treatment. They were all done in October .

So yes, I love having fewer rabbits. It put me back in perspective of what I wanted to do with them.

With 150-160 before it was constantly trying to just keep on top of cleaning 1-2 times a week(always once but likely 2 times quite a bit) and the amount of feed for all those rabbits. We easily went through a bag and a half a day if not more(sometimes 2 or more!) that is over $20 a day to feed them-- $140 a week, $560 a month on FEED alone! that doesn't include the 2 bags of shavings we go through approx per week, plus a bag of floor shavings(the finer stuff) once a month(4 cleanings). Wow..... Also of course doesn't include the grain, hay and flax, sunflower seeds, old fashioned rolled oats, and fastrack for the young babies.

Yes, i love having fewer rabbits! And so does my pocket book!

Various color programs in my Jersey herd:

Blog for Tuesday January 29th NOT what is it showing as I already wrote a blog for todays date the 28th. See below for that one ; )

I've been figuring out my various color programs in the Jersey Herd.

Although I am going to try to keep my colors seperate so I can keep the colors clean I will be doing some crosses that are only okay color crosses. Reason being that the coats from Shultz's Secret Weapon and her daughter Fantasy are gorgeous and need to be put into the rest of the herd- they are full of texture and density and do not mat. They also have great legnth although not above 3inches(if over 3inches they will be DQ'ed). The sable points in my herd lack that nice coat so I am going to cross all of them together to get the better coats.

I'm hoping to bring stock in from Convention next October to help me with that!

Pointed Whites:
B-Mac's Canadian Mist-N-Cream- Bred
MG's Decoy- Bred
M' an M's Sophia
I need a good buck for this program! I am in contact with a breeder now trying to find a good buck : ) A siamese sable would work too but I can't find one. I only have one siamese sable in my entire herd!

Shades(Sable points, Siamese Smoke pearl, Siamese Sable(would work with pointed white), Blue tort, Tort,

Bucks:
Leapin' Butch- Sable point- REG
Leapin' Munchkin-Sable point-REG
Leapin' Rock N Roll- Tort
Leapin' Snookums- Blue tort REG
Leapin' Too Hot 4 U- Sable point
Leapin' Heza Smooth Cowboy- Sable point(blue point?)
Leapin' Ranger- Seal Jr buck- out of martens though.

Does:

Leapin' Chantilly Lace- Sable point REG- Bred
Leapin' Fantasy- Siamese Smoke pearl
Leapin' Ginger Rogers- Blue tort- Bred
Leapin' Hot Flashez- Blue tort REG- Bred
Leapin' Maggie Mae- Smoke pearl REG- Bred
Leapin' Mara- Smoke pearl REG- Bred
Leapin' Miss Sierra- Sable point
Leapin' Mona Lisa- Blue tort REG- Bred
Leapin' Panache- Smoke pearl- Bred
Schultz's Secret Weapon- Siamese Sable REG


Marten Program:
Bucks:
Leapin' Honky Tonk- Sable Marten
GC RH's Ronka- Smoke pearl Marten

Does:
Jentle's Tikki- Sable Marten- Bred

Self Program:

Bucks:
Jentle's Hero- Blue REG/GC
Leapin' Black Prince- Black- REG
Pharoh's Jet- Black- REG

Does:
Leapin' Foxy Lady- REW- probably for my shaded program though
Leapin' Mikhala- Black
MG's Jetta- Black- REG- Bred
Posey's Willow- Black
Posey's- Heidi- Black

Agouti program:

Bucks:
Just Hoppin's Apollo- Opal REG

Does:
MBR Look at this kid- Chestnut agouti- Bred
MG's Ironwood-Chinchilla- raising 5
If I continue with this program longterm I will need to bring in a couple more animals eventually.


Eventually I will likely eliminate either my self program or my agouti program as with all those programs I will run out of cage space quickly. My favorite colors are shades and pointed whites. Probably next being smoke pearl marten(not sable marten) and then I like blues better then blacks. Although I love Black Mini lops or Hollands, I don't care for them in the Jerseys. They are nice but just not my favorite. Whereas as Black Mini lop to me with that slick black coat is just gorgeous! So that is where my "color" programs are going.. I think the agouti program will go before the self, however I love my chin doe and can't see her leaving so I would put her into my other programs SOMEHOW! Maybe Ashley will have a few Jerseys for sale at VIRBA. Will see how funds and cage space are :- ) Of course, they would have to be somehow related to my lines(which she does have somewhat) and they would have to work color wise. I just got exciting news that there will be rarebreeds at VIRBA!- Beverans and Creme D'Argents and others!! Very exciting! : )

Jersey colors, busy weekend, busy week!

The 5 Jersey babies are doing well. I confirmed colors(I think) One chinchilla and one Frosted Pearl for sure. 2 Blue torts, and one siamese smoke pearl. 4 does, and one buck!

We had a very busy weekend with Tammi and Jody coming by the farm. Tammi got all her Mini lops(elaborated in Cristinas blog) and Jody dropped off a rabbit for Tammi, we saw her beautiful new Silver Marten buck! And we got our new nestboxes! Very nice craftmanship! If anyone wants nestboxes, grooming tables etc built contact Jody! She makes excellent ones!

We got cage cards printed for quite a few of the rabbits in the barn and put those all up. I think almost all the Jerseys are done now. I think we missed one black and that is it! Cristina will have to get her butt in gear and do all the Mini lops : )

Last night Tammi and Saskia and Coleton came to the house for dinner, we had a great dinner and a long good talk. Then the Chimney caught on fire!! We've been burning wet wood and so we had to start running around like chickens with our heads cut off. It was quite an interesting couple of hours. Got that all sorted out, and the smoke smell out of the house. I think the house is about 13 degrees right now only though because we have to wait for Norm to come and look at it and clean it before of course we light the fire. ;)

We had a good time showing Tammi all the animals. The only cat she didn't see was Max. We tried to find him but had no luck, he finally came home at 7:30 this morning. He is very much "his own cat". He does things on MAX'S terms : )

Today we are heading to the ferry to meet Wendy to take lionheads to Kelly in Black Creek. Then we are picking up a friends holland herd who is selling out and they are being shipped to Alberta(except a couple are going to Wally/Andrea). Then from there we are picking up MORE cat food at Petsmart. I swear they are inhaling it in this cold- and they aren't even outside very much!!! I guess with 7 of them it is to be expected. We are going through a bag of Nutro Natural Choice cat food every 2 1/2 weeks(about $38 a bag).

Well I should go find breakfast and get ready to go in a little while.

My Jersey herd

I've been thinking about what I need to work on in the Jerseys this year.

Because Cristina and I have decided not to attend many shows in the US it will give me time this year to focus on my breeding program not worrying that I shouldn't breed this doe or that doe because there is a show I want to go to. I think that is the biggest frustration is when you have does you want to breed but want to show as well, especially if they are proven and in great condition yet if you don't breed something you won't have jrs to show anyway. That can be frustrating!

Anyway, I see that 1/8 of the herd is lacking genetic condition, this is something I immediately want to breed out. The ones that just don't get that genetic condition or you can feel pinbones. I know after 3 months this is not feed it is condition as the others are feeling great and have coats now too! The ones that I am going to work on breeding it out of are:
Foxy Lady and her Dad Butch- obviously a genetic thing
Tonka and his son Honky Tonk as well as Tikki who is Honky Tonk's mom. Those are the ones I can think of that don't keep that genetic condition the other 25 animals do.

Off topic but I do have one great thing to post. Mitchell's Quentin an adorable broken chestnut buck who will be 5 in May(btw a Mini lop) anyway about a month ago we bought a bag of Dairy Text 14% to put into the treat mix. Quentin just hasn't had that top condition we strive for since he moulted in the fall. Well after only a month on 1 tbsp of Dairy he feels great : ) He was getting 1 cup of feed, regular treat mix(flatted barley, old fashioned rolled oats, and ground flax) but it just wasn't adding that "extra". With the dairy text it has really helped-- it has been very cold here too so I think he just needed that extra to get him back up to our standard of condition : )

Okay so back to the Jerseys. My next plan to is to strive for more depth in the jerseys, I am seeing a bit of longer bodies happening and want to keep them shorter. And then my 3rd thing is working on better shape of ears. Those are my 3 main things for this year then I will work on other things but for now that is my goal : )

Also the Jersey babies are as follows:
One Chinchilla buck!
One Frosted pearl ?

3 Sable points- 2 different litters

I bred 5-6 more Jerseys yesterday can't remember exactly lol. And have 5ish bred... So I am looking forward to all those litters
: )

Also pic attached we broke down and bought one more Jersey doe to add to the herd... Might pick up a couple more from Ashley at VIRBa will see how funds and cage space etc are(also I want to add what I'm needing only in my herd and keep within the same line) this doe is M an' M's Sophia- Pic attached courtesy of Ashley Felton- M an' M's Rabbitry
Can't wait to get her! Thanks Ashley! She is out of Leapin' Silverballs and a gorgeous pointed white doe of Ashleys : ) So I'm looking forward to seeing her in person! Again might buy something else at the show, will see!

Spring Cleaning

Although it is not quite that time yet, I have been thinking of all the things I would like to do for spring cleaning.

It is still in the -'s here during the day/night. Right now it is -2 (which with the dampness would feel like about -8 for the prairie places)outside so too cold to pull the power washer out, and take all the rabbits out of the barn but its not far from my thoughts!

Once all the cages from the lower barn go(hopefully next Monday) we can store all the extra shavings, feed, carriers, treat mixes etc in that lower barn(once we move the non-working freezer in there)

In the main barn I want to get all the power washing done of the cages and floor. Once everything from the back is moved to the lower barn I plan to move the stacker's from the back middle to the far back. Which will give us more room as well.

Then of course there is feeder and water bottle cleaning although we try to do that about once every month or 2nd month so that is never too hard, and we wire brush at least a couple times a week so a good spring cleaning is all that is in order!

Definitely the tops of the cages need that power washing from the hair build up though! Especially from the mini lops ;)

I need to do a recycling run and we might just give a couple of bales of hay to the cows. It is coarse orchard grass but we've had it since the fall and it is such huge pieces(each stalk of hay is about 1 foot long and 2 inches wide) they are huge! So each rabbit really doesn't eat a lot! Those bales are lasting us forever. Mind you we have been feeding alfalfa and a couple super green bales of orchard grass too so it has been lasting us all winter for 7 bales.(100lbs each)

I also want to get the front "counter" of the barn cleaned and power washed, and clean out our cabinet and restock it with what we need for spring. I know with spring around the corner and having Jerseys now will need to buy acidophilus to put on litters food(spring a capsule on top of the pellets) since I feed a rich treat mix I have to watch for enteritis with the little guys.

And of course there is the rest of the spring ritual :- )- going over the animals,website updates (although we just did a big one), everyone will in the next few months be swamped with litters I'm sure : ) nail clipping, show preparations, tattooing, deworming, coccidosis treatment(we aren't due until March/April).

Yes, spring is around the corner and despite all the work ahead I am looking forward to it!

5 Jersey babies!

Well out of all the does due to kindle we finally have babies!

Leapin' Foxy Lady X Leapin' Rockin Roll(tort) had 5 babies, with 4 DOA(first litter), however one alive and doing well! Sable point?

Leapin' Pan X Leapin' Butch had 3 babies- 2 alive, one peanut. Not sure the colors

And finally MG's Chin doe X Just Hoppin's Apollo had 2 babies one chin and one ? All are fostered to the chin doe and all doing great! Can't wait to see what colors. I have 4-6 more does due, and 8-10 more does to breed shortly.. I will hopefully get them bred tomorrow!

We are feeling much better around here, we were down with a cold. Back to getting caught up on e-mails, phone calls and blogs!

I should have approx 15 Jerseys to show at VIRBA on the 16/17 of February :- )

How should you cull?

You've read the magazines, you've heard people talking, you've had someone give you that piece of advice "cull hard", "cull tough", "Cull, Cull, Cull"

How the heck do you cull though?

In my personal opinion first you need to know your breed. Read the standard, show your rabbits under various judges.

Know the standard but see what the comments are as well(from judges). Eventually you will know your breed and will be able to see what your rabbits are lacking-- although all of us have some kind of barn blindness to a certain degree.

Because these are the 2 breeds we raise, they are the breeds I am going to talk about, however these points would likely work for almost any breed.

- Learn your line, some lines are fast developing others are slow. For instance, I am seeing the mini lop lines tend to differentiate. One line is very slow you don't even bother look at them until at least 6 weeks and even then it is 9-10 weeks before you even look at type for the first time. Other lines if you don't look at 4-5 weeks you have a long wait ahead of you! I would say we are accurate 95% of the time. As for the Jerseys we haven't had them too long and only one litter so far, but what I am seeing is that they for the most part hit a terrible gangly stage and there is no point looking at them until 4-5 months!

- Realize what parts are easy to fix, and what parts are harder to fix. Keep long shoulders or low shoulders away if at all possible. We've found they are the HARDEST thing to fix. If your having a problem with heads or bone that is much easier! We like to get certain things going in the right direction before we fix the small things- keep proper toplines and headmount with the jerseys, short bodies, full lower HQ's. Right now we are working on Mini lop bone and head, and short midsections. JW's rounder ears and short bodies will be my this year goals.

- We also have our own personal preferences. I can't stand long ears or pinbones- we never have pinbones in the Mini's(touch wood!) however the Jerseys seem to have that problem in the line so I will be weeding that out(just a few so it isn't too bad). I also can't stand weak heads although that is a fairly easy thing to fix!

I still think in any breed you can be looking at the babies between 4-9 weeks and get a good idea of who goes and who stays. I've never had luck with growing all the babies out in a litter and finding "more" keepers. I find if I keep them until 4-5 months the ones that looked good at 4-9 weeks are still the ones that look good, and the ones that looked like pets at that stage still look like pets. The only thing I find that comes in especially with the mini lops is width of loin and width of shoulder those CAN both fill in. So if you have a beautifully deep animal with tremendous HQ's and shoulders but it is a tad weak in the loin don't be so fast selling it. It may fill in :- )

Of course go over the animals for obvious DQ's- split penises, malocclusion, white spots, mismatched toenails. Don't keep animals that are pinched, undercut, severly long in the shoulder(or just long in the shoulder).

That first culling we go over all these DQ's, we don't keep anything with bad shoulders or lower HQ's. In the mini lops it is hard to tell what the senior weight will end up being. They are usually around the same size for all of them, if one is way bigger you can almost bet it will be over that senior weight. But for the most part it isn't a huge thing in our line with the Mini's. The JW's you know which ones are BUD's-- they will have longer ears, longer bodies, and will be 1/4 size more then your "normal" babies.

Ask yourself what is it that I want to improve in my herd? If it is shoulders then dont keep long shoulders if you can fit fingers at that shoulder don't keep it! Midsections-- you shouldn't be able to get any fingers between the hip bone and front leg if you do the finger test. If you get 1 finger you are okay the rabbit will still balance you will want to lose that finger in later breedings but with one finger you are still okay.

You will want to be culling for bone, ear legnth, heads, HQ's, shoulders, midsections, depth/topline, fur and flesh! And know your breed, read the standard!

Cull hard. It may be tough but in the long run you will thank yourself. In one year we've moved on about 3/4's of our original herd of Mini lops we purchased. However, in the last year we've managed to win double Best of Breeds with home bred stock over 70 animals in Monroe WA against some of the top WA breeders, we also managed to win RBIS, honorable mention(so close!) and many 1sts. A couple of the shows we won every class, we granded 2 homebred animals, almost granded 5 more(they all just need 1 more leg), and were very happy where we went! We kept better kids then all the parents, and have grandkids from some of those now.

So culling may be tough, but when you cull, cull, cull your herd moves faster!

My pets

Here's some new pics of my crazy animals : - )



I've been trying to get the dogs into agility(at least training here and then put Luke and maybe River into it). Star is great at the jumps but she is a little too old to be doing too much jumping now(she is a bit on the lazy side although not nearly like Ben!) Anyway here's Luke yesterday at Fuller Lakes outdoor horse arena jumping over the jumps! He is doing great!

So as everyone knows I love dogs and cats, honestly I probably prefer dogs/cats over rabbits however I love my rabbits too of course.

Pickles was one of the barn cats, now a house cat as he got too friendly with cars and we didn't want that to happen. So he is now a house cat. I caught him lounging with Cristina's 4 year old cat "Pie".







And Tigerlily, a kitten who had a bad upper respiratory infection after antibiotics and lots of care, eye cleaning etc she is doing fantastic and will make a full recovery. That kitten sleeps so close to you at night that she generates as much body heat as one of the dogs :- )

My hilarious dog

On Sunday, Norm, our dad took River(our Shih Zhu) up to Ucuelet to live with him while he is working up there. I guess it was a bit of a rough start as she was pretty nervous about going up there and didn't know what was happening. All went well though and they went to bed early. She wouldn't eat much dinner but did go outside to the bathroom etc. So they went to bed, went to sleep and when they woke up this morning our dad noticed River ate all her food in the night! He praised her(she is not a good eater to begin with) and fed her some more(only the good quality food of course for my dogs ;)
Anyway, so after his coffee and breakfast he got his work boots on.. Or tried.. They were full of dog food! In the night she carried every kernel from her dish and put them in his boots!!!!

I thought that was just hilarous and had to share! Pics attached of River last Summer. : )

Re-evaluating the Jersey Herd(and potential VIRBA show hopefuls)

I'm doing this to fill my blog space, as I don't really know what to write about. And also, so I can see what I might have to show for VIRBA(first show since October Mid February) Rabbits * are potential show ones for VIRBA

Senior bucks:

*-GC Jentle's Hero- Blue
-GC RH's Tonka - Smoke Pearl Marten
*-Pharoah's Jet- Black 1 leg, hoping to grand him this year
-Just Hoppin's Apollo- opal - once I get a replacement agouti buck, he will be up for sale, nice buck just needs a little more head and ear, I think.
-Leapin' Butch- Sable point
-Leapin' Munchkin- Sable point
*Leapin' Snookums
Leapin' Black Prince- Black

Junior Bucks:
*Leapin' Rock N Roll- Tort
*Leapin' Heza SMooth Cowboy-Sable point(maybe blue point?)
*Leapin' Honky Tonk- Sable Marten- For sale
*Leapin' Too Hot 4 U- Sable point

Senior does:
B-Mac's Canadian Mist-N-Cream- Pointed White
MG's Decoy- Pointed White- if she didn't take possibly show?
MG's Anky- Chin
MG's Jetta- Black
*Schultz's Secret Weapon- Siamese Sable
Leapin' Mona Lisa- Blue tort
Leapin' Maggie Mae- Smoke pearl
Jentle's Tikki- Sable Marten
Leapin' Hot Flashez- Blue tort
Leapin' Mara- Smoke pearl
Leapin' Chantilly Lace- Sable point
Leapin' Foxy Lady- REW
Leapin' Ginger Rogers- Blue Tort
Leapin' Panache- Smoke pearl
MBR Allison- Chestnut agouti


Jr does:
*Leapin Mikhala- black
*Leapin' Fantasy- Smoke pearl
*Posey's Willow- Black
Posey's Heidi- Black
*Leapin' Miss Sierra- Sable point

So around a dozen, I'm counting 12 but a couple of senior does are nice and would like to show them but would rather get babies so will see as the show approaches. Total animals = 32 :- )

When life is out of balance

So, recently, we've been finding our life is way off balance. For some people it might work, but everyone is different so for us it was just too off balance. We were finding ourselves being pulled into the rabbit aspect of our life so much so that everything else was failing. By the time we fed, watered, cared for 150 rabbits plus organized shows, clubs, answered questions, website upkeep, blog entries, shipments, sales we were spending 75% of our time doing this. (75% being not overally generous somedays it was almost 100%).

Our goal for this year is to get our life much more in balance. For us, that many rabbits was becoming more of a job that we weren't/aren't being paid for, and was becoming more and more demanding and "why are we doing this?"

I don't know about you, but I want to go into the barn and be able to spend time with my rabbits not just clean, feed, clean some more. I know my Uncle says we have the cleanest barn he's seen(he worked for another rabbit breeder who also shows) and said we were being too picky. Well lately we couldn't even keep on top of everything. Grooming all those Jerseys(mainly babies/jrs) the seniors don't need to be groomed, keeping on top of nails, cage tags, health checks, breedings, weaning litters, culling and figuring out who to keep and sell and butcher, regular cleaning(pans, floors, wire scrubbing, hair deplucking off wire. Then we got the 2nd barn and for the first month it was going okay and then it was like AHH!!!! This is too much! So our life is going to be much more in balance now. I have 31 woolies I am keeping, and Cristina has 45 Mini lops(was 39 plus 17 babies to go through) we went through all the babies and picked our keepers and now it is 45 total plus one litter of 3 less then 2 weeks old. Much easier!

Now that our life is going to be more in balance we are hoping to do some extra activities. We've started painting and rug hooking(not free painting for me, paint by number is just fine lol!!)(I'm NOT an artist) in fact I'm terrible, but I can admit it AND enjoy it : )
I'd like to start swimming again and we both have plans for better eating and dieting. We'd also at least I would like to find my own place by the summer(it is so hard with dogs/cats) that is my biggest obstacle. And get set up with work. So many things but so much better balance!

2 silkie guinea pigs

Here's the 2 silkies, and Jester the Harlequin Mini rex looking for a great pet home.

Hollands for sale

Blue Otter brood doe. Has some shoulder faults, and color is a bit washed out but nice and smooth with a good head and ear/crown. $30.00





Blue Otter showier doe- super short and tiny! Tight crown(right now ears are either straight up or out to the side/airplane). Would be a good start to Otters, though. $35.00




Creator's Jericho- Blue Senior buck- super sweet buck with a great head and smooth body! Ears are folded for my liking but nice buck otherwise! $50.00




Fuzzy Peach's Kikiee Black Senior doe out of GC Sunny's Ted(Pitney lines) and Rudolph's Miranda
Pic coming this week, mom to Blue otter babies above though. Throws nice babies! Can be bred to a Tri color buck, or Jericho free of charge if I knew before tomorrow(as the tri buck leaves tomorrow).

Huge long blog- major herd reduction!

We are so busy these days with non-rabbit activities that we've decided to majorly cut back on the number of rabbits we have at least for right now. We've gone from around 150 rabbits early December to 100 now, and would like to get down to 75ish......50 would be great but that isn't likely to happen! Mainly herd cut backs on our smaller breeds, or just cutting back on lines/colors or too many bucks/does. I have too many JW bucks and Cristina has too many ML does :- )

Here's the list...

Hollands- we were going to work on Otter Hollands but find we do not have time for this right now(we're working with friends on this project). They have first dibs on who they want but I know they are also tight for cage space. With us it isn't even cage space as the lower barn is 90% empty(about 20 empty holes if not more!) but time is just not in our favour : )

Fuzzy Peach's Kikiee Black Senior doe - $20, proven excellent mom out of GC Sunny's Ted X Rudolph's Miranda
Creator's Jericho- Blue Senior buck- $50- out of Miss Mustache mom to Cobalt a really nice blue doe we had.
Following out of Kikiee above and Creator's Magnum
Blue Otter Jr doe- Show $35
Blue Otter Jr doe- Breeding- $35
Back Otter Jr buck- Breeding/Show $35
Black Otter Jr doe- Breeding $35
Also have a Tri buck and Black doe who are pending ? $25 each if not already sold.
Mini rex:
Fuzzy Peach's Jester- Harlequin Senior doe- pet home, awesome personality!
KT's Cezanne- Broken black senior doe out of KT's rabbitry in Oregon, fantastic lines. Big girl though! Prefer a pet home/retirement home but would consider the right breeding home. Super personality, has had 3 litters- 2 of 8, and one of 5.
Red Jr buck- out of GC Hangtown's Fireball X Hangtown's RH26- pending?
Mini lops:

Velotta's Keaton - Opal Sr buck. Out of GC Velotta's Waltor X GC Velotta's
Renee. Breeding/Show. All Velotta lines. 2 GC legs. $50

Velotta's Posey - Silver Tipped Steel Sr doe. Out of GC Velotta's Waltor X
GC Kitsemble's Ella. Proven breeding doe, excellent mom! 2 GC legs,
Registered Red/White. Kitsemble/Velotta lines. $50

Posey's Armoni - Broken Chestnut Sr doe. Out of GC Velotta's Adson X GC
Velotta's Olivia. Breeding/Show doe. All Velotta lines. $40

Posey's Abby - Broken Steel Sr doe. Out of Velotta's Sam X GC Kitsemble's
Ella. Show/Breeding doe. $65

GC Velotta's Olivia - Broken Chestnut Sr doe. Out of GC Velotta's Dodger X
GC Velotta's Francie. 5 GC legs, proven doe excellent mom. 2 yrs old. $150

GC Velotta's Cattabrie - Chestnut Sr doe. Out of GC C.C's Jack X GC
Velotta's Francie. 10 GC legs/BIS win. Proven doe, excellent mom. 3 yrs old,
still producing great! $100

Velotta's Chloe - Chinchilla Sr doe. Out of GC Velotta's Dodger X GC
Velotta's Cattabrie. Registered Red/White/Blue with Gold Star. Excellent
mom! $50

Black, Opal and Chestnut Jrs (2 does, 1 buck) out of GC Sunny's Audrey X GC
Hutholm's Broken Opal buck. Some very nice Juniors! 1 on hold for now. $40
ea.

Milkhouse's Summer - Chestnut Sr doe. Out of Milkhouse's Desi X GC Desurra's
Sietta. All Desurra lines, with a bit of Velotta's. Excellent mom! $60

Mitchell's Quentin- Broken Chestnut senior buck 2 GC legs, produced 2 super daughters for us and we are getting fantastic grandkids. Super sweet personality, still breeding. Will be 5 in May. Otherwise he will live out his days here if we can't find him the perfect retirement/pet occasional breeding home. Still breeding just fine! Doesn't seem arthritic this winter, has an ez mat regardless but he likes to throw his toy around and he LOVES food ;) Free to the right home... references may be required!

Fuzzy lops: Selling last 5- It does look like most are spoken for now. I will repost as I know. The only one I can't remember on is Violet. Will update as I know

Leapin B52 Tort Senior buck 1 GC leg for BOS first time shown, 2nd in his class other show. Very nice buck with a fantastic body and head! $125
Amelia's Kyoko- Tort Senior doe- ELS RIKU X Mason's Louie- Hollands in the background. $30
Wilder's Violet- Siamese Sable jr doe, tight crown, good type, cute doe! $30

Jersey woolies:
Leapin' AOV buck- All that Jazz- out of Leapin' Black Prince X B-Mac's Canadian Mist-N-Cream PW. I got this buck in Laura's herd sell out, and his mom was rebred to the same buck for the 2nd time. I've kept back 4 of the 5 from that litter(all black) and will be selling something from there as well. This guy is going to wind up on the larger size, and be more breeding quality overall. He has a very nice head, super massive body. I just would like to see him shorter/showier. Nice pieces buck. Goes back to GC Jentle's Hero, PP's and Brian's lines, and B-Mac's and Ft's. $40

Leapin Honky tonk- Sable Marten Jr buck out of GC RH's Tonka X Jentle's Tikki- Cute buck with a super head, short ears and small cobby body will be tiny! $75
Leapin Siamese Sable Jr buck out of same cross as above. This guy is going to be teeny! He got chewed by mom before he was weaned(and could be weaned) so currently is more Netherland Dwarf looking(because of short hair) tiny cobby body with super tiny ears and a big fat head. Little dark in color. $50
Posey's Black Jr buck- out of Leapin Black Prince X B-Mac's Canadian Mist-N-Cream PW- cute buck with a very nice body, good head and ear as well. $50
I will be selling one of my 4 sable point bucks towards the summer, if interested in getting on the wait list for either : Leapin Butch, Leapin Munchkin, Leapin Sable point jr buck out of Mona Lisa X Snookums, or Leapin Too Hot 4 U please contact me.

Cavies:

Posey's a Little RNR- Golden agouti/Red/White Silkie boar- fantastic density, not fully pedigreed. $20
Posey's Mosaic- Mosaic Jr sow! Out of RNR above and a TSW sow who was out of dilutes. Is Black, Red, White and Lilac. $20 Have pics of both taken today.
Cages:

Leanne- you are first on the list since I wasn't able to organize a day to be available- December was nuts here. We moved rooms around and lost internet in the process when we unhooked the wrong thing and lost wireless and regular highspeed(not sure how!) got that sorted out, then the neighbours phone line something happened to there line which did something to our internet so it went down. So needless to say it was a crazy month with Christmas parties, Christmas, family, friends etc! I can make time next week for pick up of cages/rabbits though for anyone interested. Next week is pretty open- : )

4 hole 30 by 18 each hole $30
2 hole 24 by 15 each hole $15
2 hole 24 by 15 each hole $15
8 24 by 30 holes(singles) $10 per hole
2 hole- 18 by 24 - $10
5- 30 by 30 holes $15 each hole
2 hole 36 by 18- $15
White indoor pet cage- Free- stained bottom, and top is a little bent but would work for someone needing an emergency cage or a cavy cage etc. We've had it for years.

Black Indoor cage on wheels, ramp to top level. Had our pet New Zealand in here is about 3 1/2 feet long by 2 or 2 1/2 feet wide, and 4 feet high. Paid $65 for it. $35

2 hole French lop size carrier- would work for senior Mini lops or senior large breeds at shows. $30 Great condition

Metal feeders- Brianna you get these at VIRBA as I go through them again, please let me know again how many? :- ) Oh, we also have some nestboxes French lop size or meat rabbit size but would work for Mini lops as well if anyone wants some..... Have one that we paid $20 for in the US, would like $10 for it. Some free, and some $5 each.... First come first serve, the faster you can get them the more you can take for a good price :- )

I may also have one stacker for sale- I need to make a decision next week on it.... 4 holes- either way would be 24 by 24 whichever way I decided to go(if I sold it)


Stock can be held until the VIRBA show mid February but there is a fee of $5.00 a rabbit to cover the cost of feed/treats/hay until then. Discounts on multiple purchases...

k_c_lops@telus.net
Website is NOT updated, and won't be until later in the week most likely so if interested in new pics please e-mail us personally for more information and pictures. The website hasn't been updated for at least a few weeks, however, the pics of the rabbits on the website are recent within the last 3 months for almost all.

tini67p@telus.net

Sometimes some peoples e-mails bounce to the k_c_lops one not sure why, e-mail the other address if any problems. If you don't get a reply within 24 hours please e-mail us again!

Kim & Cristina
Happy New Year! Sorry this was so long... I warned at the beginning!!!

To sum up our trip to Calgary just after Christmas, was, it was great : )

Last Thursday we left Vancouver Island and took the 6:30 ferry to Vancouver. We caught the 620 bus to Airport Stn(which we thought would take us to the airport) but we had to catch another bus to the airport, then a shuttle from our hotel picked us up and took us back(by this time it was 1am and we had to be up by 7am to take our plane to Calgary). In the meantime another shuttle service dragged an empty airport cart beside it and caused lots of commotion! The hotel didn't have the credit card information for our step mom who paid for everything so we had to deal with that at 1:00 in the morning-- it was an eventful night! ;)

We got up last Friday morning, and got our flight to Calgary. We went shopping in Calgary, Banff and Canmore. We stayed at the 3 sisters resort village where our step mom lives. Because Selina, Cristina and I are sisters we had our pictures taken under the "3 sisters" sign : - ) We went up the Gondola in Banff, and checked out Lake Louise Chateau and Banff Springs Hotel(where they sell $50,000 coats!)

Selina was the major shopper going home with little money. I bought a couple of sweatshirts from American Eagle, a pair of pants from Old Navy and some souvenirs from the shops in Banff. Oh and a T-shirt from the Garage. We went to the Old spaghetti factory and had one heck of an awesome waiter! The streets in Banff were so packed New Years eve that it was $100 cover charge in the pubs!

We were going to go and do some outdoor activities(we saw the ice castle at Lake Louise) but everything was so expensive and us 3 girls prefer shopping anyway ;)

3 sisters village has a sauna, pool, hottub, the pool game and each house is over 2 million dollars a piece so we had a great time : ) We had our own suite too!

We went up to Chinamens peak and of course saw the gorgeous rocky mountains and a frozen over water fall.

It took almost 12 hours to get home yesterday because of high winds, turbulence in the air, and delays with flights and ferries but we made it! I won't be getting caught up on e-mails until next week.

Kim & Cristina

We will get back into blogging at some point, although I do know this year is going to met with many personal changes for me so I may not blog all that much. Not that I was very good at it before ;) Rabbit wise all is well. All those does that were due one had 2 DOA, one had a peanut, and the others did not take. Very unfair as those mini lops have no problems this time of year, lol!! Our barn is FULL of Mini's :- )

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