Busy weekend

We had a very busy weekend. I think Cristina wrote a blog about some of this already. On Saturday we had Patti and family come from 150 mile house to get their 6 Jerseys, and then we had Danielle come to look at the pet babies. She picked out a baby buck from Steel my heart's litter.

Then Sunday we took 3 presold rabbits to Errington, a dwarf hotot for Kathy, and 3 dwarf hotots to Wally. Then we had lunch and b-day cake with Wally and a great visit. Then we headed straight to the barn and did chores. The cats were very happy to see us-- they are pretty spoiled and even though they roam all over the property they would much rather have one on one attention!

So we cuddled all of them and gave them all the treats we bought them.. not spoiled barn cats or nothing! And then after feeding rabbits we headed home. We got home about 7pm so we had dinner and then I decided to start tidying up the back yard. We should be having a TON of company in August so we want to get tons done now. I got the back yard all cleaned except I have to move a whole ton of tomato plants(well not a ton but a bunch) and then a pile of scrap firewood needs to be moved as well. Then that yard is done. The 2nd yard needs some tidying and we need to put new plastic on one of the greenhouses.

Mom and Norm got the decks cleaned off and powerwashed for re-painting so that was a good job to get done!

Anyway onto the rabbits. Out of our 30 babies that we had 6.5 weeks ago we are keeping 14 to grow out. Out of those 14... Most are bucks!! We just had our next round of breedings born. We try to have 2-3 litters a month sometimes it works out every 6 weeks though. We want to go to Convention in 2009! Anyway we had 30 new babies born with one more doe due. We will do some more breeding in August for September and October litters.
I think the next does to breed will be mainly rebreeds- Butterball, Penny and then Audrey and Ocean Pearl still needs to be bred for her first litter. She is almost 10 months old... oops!

Today we are off to Victoria as soon as we hear that Jan is back to get our 3 new mini lops from Enumclaw, then we will be heading to Wendys to take her a stacker, and a few other stops. Then we have to go for a dress fitting for the wedding.. Busy day!!