Went through some of the barn

Well, we basically went through most of the barn. It doesn't take that long to go through 70 rabbits compared to 150! We are trying to figure out what to keep from Black Beauty X Burke litter. They are SO gangly. They were a really nice litter at 4-5 weeks and we typed them. From our list we liked ALL 9 of them. Some stood out more then others of course, but none had more then 1 1/2 fingers in the midsection, and they were just a very promising litter. Now, fast forward a few months they are 3 1/2 months old.. Should be coming out of ganglies soon... Nope! They are still in hard core ganglies. There bodies are funny looking and akward. They look like skinny kids with big heads (lol) Okay maybe that might be a bit harsh. Well they look like luke our golden retriever in his worst gangly stage. He was skinny and tall, his feet were too big for his body and his head kept getting more and more narrow. Now he will be 2 in November and he is looking beautiful! These guys don't have the skinny part but they have the narrow, great heads, long body look!

We went through a bunch of the other litters as well. We had 7 more does due next Thursday/Friday plus a couple the following week. We have 76 holes and already 80 potential keepers( with only keeping 3 max from Black Beauty) so we are still 4 over. That is even with the new ones we put up for sale.... Oh well, we will figure it all out down the road. We still have 3 empty cages though....

Today is our moms birthday lunch. We just finished her cake, and will be starting to make lunch soon.

We are very excited for our first chocolate litter due Thursday. We decided to sell Yayo and Heath because we are running out of cages quickly. We have Penny- daughter to Heath and sister to Yayo, and have penny bred back to Dad. Even if we just get super massive Chocolates with heads we will be happy as we have a new broken lilac doe coming and Godiva. Plus we have Turtle for August/September. (turtle lives with Tammi and Saskia, same with Q). Turtle is a chocolate buck, and Q is his daughter a broken lilac.

We also have chocolate carrier litters due, and various other colors. Although we aren't working on producing colors we just happen to get them. Lately we've actually been getting pretty typey REW's so that is kind of neat!

Anyway keep an eye on the for sale page because we are already 4 rabbits over the limit of what we can keep, and we have 3 coming from Enumclaw that will be filling up those last 3 empty holes!! So, we will need to make some decisions. We did figure out 3 youngsters to cull, they just aren't looking great and siblings are better. One was pick of his litter, and probably will be a very nice buck but these Jerseys aren't moving so I need to make cage space somewhere.

If the last few Jerseys haven't sold by next week I will probably cull the 2 younger ones, and put Tonka and Mara up as a pair for super cheap... As I keep saying just make me an offer!