Sunday, September 4, 2011

Time Flies

Boy, how time flies... it has been almost a month since my last blog. As you know, A LOT has happened since then, and I have come to the heartbreaking decision to sell all of my precious little bunnies. I have sold several rabbits so far and I'm now down to about 40 bunnies which is nearly half of what I used to have! I have lots of nice brood/show quality still for sale though, so please don't hesitate to email me. I will give discounts on multiple purchases, and transportation can be arranged to the Indy Convention for a $25 per rabbit fee. Thank you all for your support! May God bless you!

Saturday, August 6, 2011

New Website Template

So I thought I'd give the website a new look. It wasn't intentional until I started playing around with Weebly. It took me a little over 3 hours to complete it the way I wanted it lol Enjoy!

In my opinion, Weebly is so much better than Webs. For whatever reason, Webs stopped letting me upload pictures. I tried and tried to fix it, but nothing. So I made the switch to Weebly. When you compare, they're about the same, but because of the Webs incident, I now like Weebly better. :)

Anyways, I just thought I'd post a short blog before August slipped away from me...

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Mixed Emotions

I'm having mixed emotions about selling my rabbits. Over the past few months, moving is a frequent topic for my family. So it's hard to tell if they're "just talking" or not. I think I've mentioned this before, but when we move, I'll have to sell my rabbits... I have no choice. I hate thinking about it, but I know the day will come sooner or later. Which is why I'm trying to downsize to prepare for the worst. If I can keep my numbers down, it will help me if I have to sell them in the end. Selling all of my rabbits seems so unimaginable, but I will have to sell them when we move. With that being said, I won't be buying the awesome buck and doe I talked about a few posts ago. It breaks my heart because I wanted them SO bad! But, like I said, I need to down to keep my numbers down to prepare for the worst, because I'm sure the time will be coming soon...

Until next time, keep cool.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Additions to the For Sale page

I've been blogging a lot to make up for June... haha!

I have added several more rabbits to the For Sale page. Check 'em out! A few orange and sable point does were added as well. You know me - that never happens! I usually keep most of my does and if they are a color that I'm working with, they fall into the "why not keep them" category. :) But not this time. I'm trying to move on and cull some of the juniors and seniors to replace them with their better kits or siblings (if that makes any sense!).

I'm really looking forward to breeding again this fall. I have several does that are at breeding age and I'm really anxious to see what they produce. I'm especially excited to see what Tiki produces for me. When I first got Tiki, I was fortunate enough to breed him (just once) before it got too hot. Hopefully, if I get lucky I can start breeding again at the end of August.... keeping my fingers crossed!

Well, I guess that's everything for now. I just wanted to make a quick update to notify everyone about the new additions to the For Sale page. ;)

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Rambling Thoughts...

What to do, what to do. I have had bad cases of the 'wants' lately and I can't seem to get rid of them. So, I'm going to blog about it since people always say it's best to write down your thoughts.

I really, really want this amazing buck. The seller also has his daughter for sale. So you probably think, "Go for it, what's the problem?" The problem is that they are very expensive, about 6 1/2 hours away, and I'm pushing the limit with cages. That's something to worry about. Both the buck and the doe are varieties that I don't work with, but I could squeeze them in with my brokens which is what I plan to do. I'm thinking very seriously about the both of them and also considering a shaded buck that she has available.

If I wanted to purchase the trio, that obviously means that I would have to make room for them. I counted all of the rabbits that I sold in the past 2-3 weeks, and I sold a total of 16 rabbits. Thank you to everyone who purchased a bunny from me! You have helped me out tremendously! But with all the juniors I have, sadly, the extra cages are already gone... So if you are interested in any of my rabbits (even ones that aren't on the For Sale) please don't hesitate to ask, because I will consider all offers and give discounts on multiple purchases. :)

Speaking of available rabbits, I posted Heartfelt Cameron on the For Sale page yesterday. I don't really want to sell this doe, but I figured I should since I'm trying to focus on solid oranges rather than broken oranges. Cameron is a very nice little doe. She has a good head and tiny ears. Her body has a nice shape to it but she has a low shoulder. Cameron is a proven brood doe and usually has 2-3 kits in each litter. If you are interested in her, please contact me for more information.

Keep cool until the next blog!

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Hot vs. Cold

Wow! Is it ever hot outside! Since it's so hot, I've decided to have a discussion about hot and cold weather.

Hot vs. Cold - What's your pick? Living in the south, I don't have a favorite, because it goes to the extreme. It's typically around 100 degrees daily in the summer and the hot, humid heat usually lasts from May thru September. On really hot summers, we'll start getting heat waves in April.

As for winter, we rednecks are used to the warm temperatures, so when the cold comes around, we're about to freeze to death! It's obviously not as cold in the south as compared to up north (I'm SO glad) but it still gets pretty chilly down here - believe it or not. This past winter, we had temperatures that never reached 32 degrees in the afternoon. (I remember this because we had frozen water bottles 24/7) Burrr!

To sum up today's topic, my favorite seasons are spring and fall - not too hot, not too cold. Here in South Carolina, our spring and falls are in the 60's and 70's (sometimes 80's) which is beautiful weather! :)

Anyway, stay cool until next time....

Sunday, July 17, 2011

New Looks

I'm sure you have already noticed the blog if you are reading this. I hope you like it! I think it's pretty neat for a change. I was getting bored with the old design.... maybe this will motivate me to blog more often! lol

I've added a few senior brood does to the For Sale page, so check em' out! I also have several juniors still available waiting to go to good homes. ;)

Other than that, nothing much is going on right now. It's feels awesome outside though! It felt like fall! It's hard to believe that it is July and is was 69 degrees yesterday! We finally got a break out of all this hot, humid air. The past few days were so cool that I didn't even have to turn on the fans in the barn! It's amazing! Unfortunately, it's supposed to warm back up to the high nineties as the week goes on. At least we got to enjoy it while it last...

That's everything for now. Hope you had a nice, cool weekend!

Monday, July 4, 2011

Back in the Saddle Again

I figured the song 'Back in the Saddle Again' by Aerosmith was a good title for this blog since I haven't blogged in almost a whole month! I hope everyone is doing well and having a great 4th of July with their family. We're probably going to have our family over this afternoon for a cookout then watch some fireworks.

Anyway, nothing new is going on with the bunnies. I've been selling quite a few which is a good thing. Let me tell you why.... when I decided to have a herd reduction, I counted all of my rabbits (bucks, does, juniors, kits - you name it) and I came to a conclusion with a grand total of NINETY-FIVE (yes, 95) rabbits! Okay, it's time for a little downsize, don't you think? So I came to yet another conclusion to have a herd reduction.

Thank you to everyone who has purchased a precious bunny from me; you don't know how much it has helped me! May God bless you!

That's everything for now. Hopefully I'll have a few more blogs before August! Haha!
Happy 4th of July!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

For Sale Updates

I've added some updates to the For Sale page. I figured I should since a list just didn't cut it for me. So, now there's a totally new layout than before.

What's new in the nestbox? A lot! For starters, all of Spike's babies are does. The kits out of Broken Dreams and Silver Sand are all does. I'm going to sell them all, though, since I just don't have room to keep them.

Caramel has a broken black buck, a blue doe, and a blue otter doe. Horray! I'm completely thrilled! I'm going to keep Chanelle (blue doe) and Jenelle (blue otter doe) since that's all I can keep. The broken black buck (un-named) will be available since I still have his sire, Tiki, and don't need him, too. This buck should turn out to be just like Tiki as he is very nice so far.

Anyway, check out the For Sale page and make offers. :)

Saturday, May 28, 2011

SUMMER HERD REDUCTION

I've decided (well, my rabbits actually decided for me that they need their own cages) to have a "Summer Herd Reduction". I always say I need cage space and I'm getting tired of saying it. It sounds so nice to have the extra room if and when you need it. With that begin said, I have listed about 18 juniors and seniors on my For Sale page. Feel free to take a look! I only made a list, because it would have been a lot of work to include pictures and information on each rabbit. However, don't hesitate to ask for more detailed information about a specific rabbit (pictures, pedigree, reproductive ability, etc.) I have a lot available that I need to sell, so I'll consider all offers and give package deals on purchases of 2 or more rabbits. Thanks!

Friday, May 27, 2011

I Made It

I just realized this... titles should always be capitalized, right? Well, why not capitalize titles to blogs? They're still titles, right? I usually don't bother capitalizing them, but I'm going to start.

Now you're probably wondering about the title. I chose this title because today was the last day of school. I made it through another year!

Anyway, I have lots of litters so let's move on. These litters can also be seen on the Nestbox page.

Mikey x Dancer ~ 4 kits (5/7/11) - 2 REWs, 2 seals
Spike x Silver Sand ~ 4 kits (5/8/11) - 1 broken chestnut, 1 broken chinchilla, 1 opal, and 1 chestnut
Spike x Broken Dreams ~ 2 kits (5/13/11) - 1 broken chinchilla, 1 broken blue(?)
Tiki x Caramel ~ 3 kits (5/20/11) - 1 broken black, 2 blue otters
Tango x Mango ~ 5 kits (5/21/1) - 5 oranges
Tango x Cameron ~ 3 kits (5/21/11) - 3 oranges
Bondo (Black Tort) x Melody ~ 1 kit (5/25/11) - 1 tort(?)
Fireball x Sunsation ~ 5 kits (5/25/11) - 5 oranges

There's a mistake on my Nestbox page... In Broken Dream's litter, she has a broken chinchilla and the other may be a broken blue. However, on my website, it says a broken chestnut.

Other than that, nothing more has been going on. Until next time, God bless.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Columbia show

To be completely honest, I haven't thought about blogging lately. Things have been really busy around here and the week goes by too fast.

So how'd I do at Columbia? I think I might have gotten a leg in Show A with Tiki. He could have gotten Show B, but the judge noticed the little nip on his ear. :( I was pretty bummed because it had just happened. Overall, I didn't expect to win anything... I just wanted to get an opinion on my junior torts. I got a "looks promising" in Show A on Drake. The pictures on my website make them look better than what they look like now. Ha! It's okay though - they're at the ugly awkward stage so what can you do?

As far as recent litters, I'm waaaaay behind! I'm not going to take the time to write a paragraph about each litter; I'll just cut to the chase. ;)

Mikey x Dancer ~ 4 kits - Two are REW and 2 are either sable point martens or smoke pearl martens. The REWs will definitely be for sale. However, the other 2 kits will need to be evaluated.

Spike x Silver Sand ~ 4 kits - Wow. Just wow. Silver Sand actually had 6 kits in her first litter, but sadly 2 didn't make it. SS has 1 broken chesnut, 1 broken chinchilla, 1 chestnut, and 1 opal. I think I'm going to sell the whole litter though.

Spike x Broken Dreams ~ 2 kits - For some reason, I can't remember what BD has! I checked all of the babies last night and it was a looong day at the show. I can't believe I don't remember! One I think is a broken... well heck, both might be broken! I really don't know. It's bugging me now; I have to go check.

Tiki x Caramel ~ 3 kits - I'm pretty nervous... I just sold Caramel today and fostered her babies out. I should have made a better plan, because the litter I fostered to is Broken Dreams and her babies are about a week old. All I can do now is hope & pray. They should be a lovely bunch. Two of the kits look like blue otters (!) and the other one looks like a broken chestnut (maybe).

Mango also had a litter, but I feel awful that I didn't have time to check them because of the busy day at the show! Until then, God bless.

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Possible Reduction

Sorry I haven't gotten around to posting in awhile. New month, new happenings.

Well the most recent news happend today. I got a new litter!

Mikey x Dancer - 4 kits ~ I'm really pleased with Dancer. She actually had 5 kits but one didn't make it at birth. But that beats her past record of 3 kits! I'm pretty excited, because if the kits turn out anything like Poker Face, they'll be really good keepers.

I'm having mixed emotions about what to do with my rabbits. The summer months are simply too hot and we'll be traveling in June which makes it harder. I don't want heat strokes like last summer... I'm seriously considering cutting back on my herd to keep my rabbits manageable. It's tough having 48 rabbits (not including the babies). I obviously don't breed in the summer because of the heat. I'm thinking hard and if I decide to reduce my herd, it will be a color group. I don't want to say much about it yet, because nothing is confirmed, but I'm leaning towards parting with my oranges... I don't like the thought of it but including babies, I have exactly 19 orange and broken oranges. If I could reduce that number at least by 10 or so that would be great. I'm still not sure yet. Then again, this is just talk. I use the blog to gather my thoughts. :)

That's all on my plate right now. Happy Mother's Day!

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Happy Easter :)

First, I'll start off saying Happy Easter! Over 2,000 years ago, Jesus died and paid the price for our lives so that we may live forever if we believe in Him as our Lord and Saviour. :)

The bunnies are doing great. It was such a perfect day! We've gotten so many thunderstorms and rain lately that it just makes me all the more exctied for when the sun comes back out. I have lots of juniors that I hope to keep, but I seriously doubt I'll have enough room for all of them, so I'll hopefully be able to start evaluating them soon. It's very difficult to predict how well rabbits develop when they are so young...

Also, I was able to take a few pictures of my newest additions. :) Tiki, Ironman, and Madden are all posted on the Bucks page.

Well, that's everything for now. Have a wonderful Easter and remember Jesus! Ask yourself... if you died today, would you go to Heaven or Hell???

Monday, April 18, 2011

New additions

I picked up my newest additions late last night. I gave them a day to settle in and 2 of the bucks are already bred. Ironman is bred to Harp (finally got her a man!) and Tiki is bred to Caramel. Caramel doesn't have many babies but I'm excited to see what she has. Tiki is really nice and Caramel throws really nice heads, so we'll see what happens. This should be my last round of litters before it gets too hot since I don't breed in the summer. It's a bummer because all my sable points from Absolute will be ready to breed in a few months. I don't have pictures of my new additions yet, unfortunately but I hope to snap some tomorrow. I also picked up a tort buck. :) Bondo will hopefully be useful with my sable points and torts until my juniors are ready to breed. He's on loan so he'll only be here for a limited time. I also had a litter born from Spike and CE3! It's hard to believe that she delievered all 4 babies with no issues or peanuts. It looks like CE3 has 2 blue otters and a chocolate otter. I'm not really sure what the other kit is though. It's solid white. I'm just hoping it's not a REW. I'm not working with 'em, I don't plan to, and I don't want to. Anyway, be on the look out for pictures. :) That's everything for now.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Blue Moon's kits


Wow, just look at this baby girl! She's adorable! Chole and her full brother, Drake are absolutely amazing so far. I'm SO excited to get them out onto the show tables! I'm not bad-talking Aerosmith or anything (their sable point littermate) but it's just sable points don't show well in this area. I have more competition with torts. Aerosmith and Drake might be my next herd bucks for awhile. I usually don't keep two brothers from the same litter, but in this case, Aero and Drake look too good to sell right now. I *might* decide to part with one of them if I'm not happy with how they turn out.


I also have some bad news... my cute little Blue Otter VM ("DOE") passed away. :'( She was loosing weight quickly and it was evident that she was a fader. I was SOOO upset! I finally get such an adorable little VM doe out of Tempest and she was a fader! Oh well, I guess nature takes its course...


We're supposed to have yet another storm tonight. I think this is the third major thunderstorm we've had in like 2 weeks.


That's all for now. Have a good weekend!

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Pictures

Yay, I'm glad I finally got finished posting pictures to the website. Although, Weebly doesn't take as long as Webs to load, it's still a relief. The Juniors page has lots of new babies added, and so far, I'm going to keep all of them. As for the For Sale page, there are a few new pictures there as well, so feel free to take a look. Counting down the days to Nationals! I'm so excited to see my new bucks! I'm kinda bummed that I wasn't able to find a good tort buck that I like, but that's okay. I'm slowly getting more torts in the nestbox. Shortly after Nationals, a friend might let me borrow a tort buck to use for a few weeks. Keeping my fingers crossed!

Friday, April 8, 2011

Weather & For Sale Bunnies

I saved a draft a few days ago, but I forgot to publish which put me behind on blogging. Oh well, I guess. I have lots of juniors that are for sale. I know everyone wants to see pictures, so I'm trying to make it my goal for the weekend. Speaking of weekends - boy, is it ever nice outside! It's going to be in the high 80's this weekend! 85 degrees on Saturday and 87 on Sunday. The rest of the week should be in the 70's which is still beautiful weather. Moving on, I was looking at the blue otter VM kit this afternoon. Last time I looked, I couldn't tell if it was a buck or doe. This time, I *think* it's a doe. It's still hard to tell, but I will DEFINITELY be keeping it if it's a doe! I'm so excited! This means I need to be on the lookout for a BEW buck though. I've made myself a goal (well, it's not really a goal, it's a must) to clean the barn out tomorrow morning. It will be a nice day plus I have visitors coming later that afternoon. That's all for now.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Juniors

I can't stop thinking about my juniors! I'm not trying to be boastful, but gosh, I remember I set my goals when I started raising rabbits. They were:

1. Focus on quality.

2. Win a leg.

3. Win a leg with a home-bred rabbit.

Numbers 2 and 3 I did with the same rabbit! I still can't believe it because my goals are already accomplished. But I obviously still have lots of room for improvement as far as quality which is why I'm so excited for these juniors. They should be really good which is why I'm scared to sell them. I have a hard time evaluating youngsters and I like to wait until they are at least 3 months so you can really tell what they are going to look like. It's hard. So I guess we'll see what happens. :)

"For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith." 1 John 5:4

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Litters & Website

I was so annoyed with my website because, for some reason, I could no longer upload pictures so it was basically useless. So I went for it. You guessed it, I made a new website. Now I'm using Weebly as a host instead of Webs and so far it's working out better. I hope you enjoy the website. ;) A few things have changed (Contact Us and Links page) but for the most part nothing is really new. I had several babies born since the last blog though, so take a look at the Nestbox page for new litters. That's everything for now. Feel free to shoot me an email and let me know what you think about the new website. :) I have a few more litters on the way, so I'll keep you informed.