Good and the Bad

Looking at last blog date, very interesting. The day after that blog was written I lost another great herd animal, this time the best animal so far produced. HD’s Mysterious Ways or Myst I found dead wed morning in her cage, Alana her cage mate in the corner, witnessed it all, poor girl. :( It was also unexpected as this doe was just shy of 6 months old. I did an autopsy and discovered she had an abscess mass on her stomach that had ruptured, causing massive internal bleeding ultimately leading to her death. (Sorry for the lingo, I am an EMP after all) This doe was just coming outta gangles the past month, the picture taken of her was a week before her death, she was going to be a show stomper for sure. She is what I am striving for in my herd, guess I was not ready to have that goal handed to me just yet but I will not give up! Maybe she reincarnated into one of the babies from my current litters, who knows.
Now before I begin updates for the past week, I must first say that these 3 deaths in a 1.5 week time were not related to disease or even bad food. They were just a “series of unfortunate events” that happened to take place at the same time. I figure best I can come up with is the last 2 weeks have been such nice weather might have triggered some of the internal stuff. I have a closed rabbitry and medicate/isolate rabbits when nessessary as well as keep tabs on a strict feeding regime. So please don’t worry when you buy a rabbit from me!
Ok so on to updates! With the 3 major losses comes 3 good things, almost like fate. First I had my first litter with Sobek born on the 18th with Bette. 3 happy fat babies. Two perfects with what looks like some very thick eyebands like dad and a broken sport! I just about died when I saw it, NEVER expected it! Ive wanted a broken for soooo long, not only because they are adorable but also they help darken/thicken the eyebands which I desperately need in 2 of my lines. Ive also seen/heard that brokens are nicer typed then any perfect hotot and can fix type by a mile. So the broken is most likely staying as are the rest, I may grow them all out unless some are ugly in type or all same gender. The same day I had my first homebred hotot flower give birth to 4 babies. She was bred to Laura-anns black polish herd buck Blackie who has at least 3 legs. Super nice buck! Strangely I was expecting broken marked hotots instead I got hotot marked with some black spots on face, ears and back. Just like the common places to find black spots on hotots. I will most likely keep a doe out of this litter to grow out, I really need a compact typed body and the polish bloodline might just fix it. The rest will be available as pets because they are F1 crosses…or crossbreds lol. But both excellent tempered and small size. The icing on the cake was on the 23rd, I come home to find starwalker giving birth in her cage. The night before I noticed she had pulled a tiny bit of hair so I happened to give her a nestbox, being 5 days early I thought whatever. She had the babies in the nestbox, premature but moving. I took some hair from bettes box to cover them because walker was struggling and exhausted from the birthing process. She ended up having the last dead baby 7 hours later, was stuck perty good. She is doing great now, babies are happy and fat. Not bad for a first time mom that’s almost 2 years old! I was VERY surprised, I was about to advertise her as a pet because this was her 6th attempt and this time she only took once with ELO, other times it had been 5-6 times. She will be however available to a pet home after this litter, I don’t want to risk breeding her again knowing this time was very hard to kindle, not to mention she was very early. I will be keeping this whole litter unless all same sex or ugly lol. Eyebands look very nice though! As for the last doe that hasn’t given me a litter, stargazer. I have put her in with ELO for 2 weeks in hopes she gives me something like she did last time. She’s only getting one more chance then she will be going to pet home as well.
So I have 10 new babies in the box, will be breeding both my thriantas and some new hotots after the chestermere show beginning of may and hopefully savannah will have a live litter in a couple weeks so my hotot program can move forward!
Note to all, I do have a pair of hotots im letting go, I wouldn’t call them a breeding pair as they are half siblings but good for a program nonetheless. I am currently out of town working in a camp for a week until the easter weekend so will get in touch with people who have contacted me after this time. I will be bringing just about everyone except pregnant/current moms at the easter displays this weekend…dawson creek co-op mall on Friday and easter extravaganza on sat. Will also have a whole bunch of other breeds to see and some for sale, lots of breeding stock in many breeds and of course information booths! Come check it out! Now to go enjoy this gorgous weather we have outside!

Horrible Week

This last week has been one of the worst in my years of breeding and totally unexpected. Losing two great animals within a short period of time was quite discomforting to say the least.
First happened last wed, I noticed zoey was not acting normal at all, she is usually the first rabbit at cage door at feeding time yet this time she did not move from the corner, I figured she was sleeping. I then grabbed her and noticed she was not moving too much, also noticing how she flinched when I touched her. I talked to Helga and figured she had a massive stoke because the color in eyes was gone and she was not even reacting to my voice, poor girl. Thurs morning I put her out of her misery and put her down, she was under 6 years old, being from the first fuzzy lop litter I had and also the last “original” I had left from my old herd. This doe showed no signs of health problems at all and always eating tons! She was a sweetie though and I will miss her a lot. :( RIP Zoey

Second was even more unexpected. On Sunday I happened to have the day off work and had some people coming to get some rabbits, I was showing them the dwarfs and noticed calvin sleeping in corner of cage with his pig buddy. Figured he’s an old man and needs his sleep, also had door open so sun was on him. After they left I went back out and seen he still hadn’t moved, I picked him up and he was limp in my arms. Bringing him in house he wasn’t moving and started to seizure, about half hour later I went outside and put him down, almost beat me to it the little pain. That last half hour I was petting him, he must have known his time was up, loving every pet closing his eyes and enjoying it. I will miss him even though I only had him for a short time, he loved attention and was never mean. The last 6 months he was spoiled silly with treats, runs in the house and a pig buddy. His kids and grandkids I have here will live on. RIP Calvin :(

In more positive news I have 2 does due this week, Bette bred to Sobek (who is doing better finally) and Flower, my home bred who is bred to a GC polish buck from Laura-ann. I may keep a doe from litter we shall see.

In regards to my herd in development, looks I will be getting two unrelated proven brood does at Chestermere. Helps to replace the two does I lost this past month and a new bloodline. So for whats for sale it will be whatever is out of these litters, Dice will be available once I breed him to someone and also ELO this summer once I can finally get a litter outta him and stargazer. I will be using sobek and devil on my does for now as both are different blood and size, etc.
Devil is looking awesome in development, he is still 1 pound 4 oz now, as big as the pig buddy haha. Filling in head and still super sweet personality. Myst on the other hand has surprised the hell outta me this past couple weeks if I haven’t mentioned by now! She is filling out in body and head just beautifully. Take a look on the home page of a pic of her I took with my camera, shes gonna be a beaut! Jewel is also starting to look like her half brother devil with chubby cheeks and nice short body, will be a nice show doe too! Other then that I will update when I get litters in next day or so and find time to get some decent pics!

Updates

So its been a couple weeks since the wetaskiwin show. I did attend with Laura-ann and we had a bit of fun. This show was more of a learning experience for me and my hotots in trying to understand the type and characteristics of them to make better show animals. I ended up bringing my jr buck devil, jr doe myst outta aly, bette, starwalker and flower a just sr doe. I also brought the three babies out of sweet who I just sold to a pet home. Im keeping both her daughters to grow out and see well they do. Funny thing is who to pick! Sweet emotion looks like a carbon copy of her mom but with a much fuller HQ and smaller size, still lacking in head but more defined eyebands, excellent body doe. Jewel on the other hand has a super cute head with correct ear and very very DARK eyebands, just not as clean as id like but definitely a start! Body wise she is short but lacking in shoulders like her half brother devil She is a head and eyeband doe lol. What to pick! We shall see I guess haha.
Getting back to show, my comments with both judges was very harsh but definitely what I needed and was aware of. These guys are a project and will take a while to get very nice in type. I was mainly lacking in correct size eyebands and depth with shoulders. Devil took BOB on 2 tables and very surprising myst took BOS & 1 BOB on other tables, she has great potential and was told she is nicer then walker and bette, both my best does, both judges agreed. I showed my jr thrianta doe Alana, both judges commented she has excellent body type and is a BIS contender when older and molted out of her jr coat. Im sooo excited for chestermere now! Im definitely kicking myself now for not bringing roo my frenchie buck. I tried for a month to get him back to normal weight after his little crisis over a month ago, he went off feed and refused to eat unless I was around, geezz separation anxiety or what. He was in coat for the show just was .4 pounds under the sr buck weight..damn. Maybe Chestermere, id really really like to grand him, he has placed so well in past and I know he has nice type and super cute personality! No I did not come home with anything haha. Just sold bunch of thriantas and the fuzzy and Holland bucks out of my lines. Leslie who bought BJ my blue tort Holland buck showed him over the weekend. He was of course DQ’d for being overweight but I was truly amazed at the comments. Both judges quoted he has excellent shoulders, excellent depth, HQ and bone, just folded ears and needs tiny bit more width between eyes, if he was underweight he would have gotten perty high in class. I was stunned considering how many hollands were there and how tight the competition is! Good luck with him Leslie, he should give some color and fix some bodies. He was also bred to Suzans broken blue doe out of Marg’s stuff, so should be some gorgous typed babies in there if she took, cant wait!
Arriving home from the show I had a sad sight of finding Ballade dead in her cage from what was pregnancy toxaemia. I preformed an autopsy on her and found she had 6 babies inside, 1 day from being due. So sad. :( RIP Ballade
Now this begs a serious question, where are my hotots going, I just lost ballade which was my other 2 lines. I do have her daughter starwalker who is excellent in type but I cannot get her pregnant. I have a feeling she was never bred before and she’s almost 2 years old now. I bred her to ELO once again last week, this is the last attempt for her, if she doesn’t have anything I will pet her out. So now that is 2 full lines ive lost.
I do have sav due today who is bred to sobek for his first litter. Sobek is another one im worried about, he picked up something at some point before getting to my place and hasn’t been better ever since. Currently im unable to give him antibiotics because he has lost so much weight this past week, will try to get his weight back up before dosing him again, poor guy.
Stargazer is also due this week but im not sure if shes pregnant or not. Ive palpated does for years and these hotots I just cant figure out, they are definitely pregnant, u can feel the lumps in lower part but they never have the litter. I’m wondering if its all retained kits or something, who knows. Why I’m trying to get something out of these older does to replace with younger stock I can at least get bred. Will have to wait and see.
Bette is supposedly pregnant too with sobek but who really knows. The only one I can confirm on is flower who is bred to one of laura-anns polish for a test breeding and see if eyebands improve, hopefully! I will be breeding all these young jr does after chestermere show in may so hopefully get some nice stock!
The real question here is where do I go, I currently have 2 real lines with little bits in between. They are BOJ’s Calvin which is in EVERYTHING I have, I don’t think I have a single animal without his name in there pedigree. The other major line is RC’s Colton which goes back to Charisma which is also related to everything I have, my goodness! So the plan for this year is to somehow find a black, blue or chocolate netherland dwarf buck and doe to put into my hotot line to fix the eyebands and type also to get a decent sized head on them. Not really much of a choice because everything I can find out there is still related to my stuff so tightly. The convention this year is in Minnesota which turns out is super close to the Canadian border so I may end up either driving there myself to go shopping or someone bringing back a super nice pair of dwarf hotots to use in my program. Otherwise im screwed for my breeding program. One consideration to put into play is if I do end up losing starwalker and then sobek on top of that I will put a hiatus on my hotots until I can find some decent stock to work with, maybe get a pair of Netherlands in the meantime to play with. Breeding full siblings and half siblings related to uncles and aunts just doesn’t work for me.
So that is the plan for this year in terms of breeding, now easter is coming up in April which I will be going back to the park of course for the easter extravaganza. I would also love to do a display for the gp mall this year if possible, will have to see! That is all for now, I will post again if any babies come along!

New Post Finally

Wow I just noticed I have not written a blog in FOREVER..once again..how many times have I said that now, hmm. Anyways lots has changed since last blog. Of course the biggest is these dwarf hotots, acquiring pieces from several different breeders to create a herd of my own. Honestly they are the most easy going most easy to breed ive had and there small size keeps my feed bills cheap. Warning this blog will be a monster one I swear!

Why I got the Dwarf Hotot? How did this start?
When I lived back on the island I had gone to a show with Andrea of Electric bunny and that was the first time I saw them up close, they were super sweet and crawling out of the carriers for attention. There cute nature and small size caught my eye but at the time I was showing well with my Holland lops and American fuzzy lops so never took much notice. After the loss of my fuzzy herd couple years ago because nobody would breed I did not want to breed again, it was a MAJOR turn off, 2 years of either no babies or nothing, even if my fuzzies were winning on the table that did not matter if I could not get babies out of them. After that time I thought well lets try this one more time with another breed, then I thought of the dwarf hotots. Andrea had already sold out by then which I found out and was devastated. I then began researched every piece of information on the breed and any breeders that were left in Canada. I also started to track down where Andrea’s hotots went to. I found a lady in Edmonton with a son of Electric’s Glass Tiger and went and got some, they were not the best quality but definitely a start. I knew if I could not find the certain lines I would be starting from scratch. I emailed a breeder in Saskatchewan with no reply, then a month later got an email saying he was selling out of his rabbits and was willing to sell his herd of dwarf hotots. It was take all or none though, so I made some decisions, bought some dwarf cages and made some room in my new shed. I brought home 7 rabbits with 3 different lines consisting of pieces of Andrea’s old herd. This included her original herd buck Calvin, he Is now retired living with a tsw American boar, love each other to bits. I would like to one day put Calvin and Boo my Holland together to live out the rest of there days with company, who knows. The lines I acquired were BOJ’s Calvin, Mingus Omega, Mingus Charisma and my fav Electric’s Nightwish. I then emailed another breeder in Victoria who was coming up for a show and then got a buck that is grandson to another Andrea herd member Mingus Primus and also an unrelated breeding doe with thicker eyebands. This completed my pieces from Andreas old herd. I chose to go after her animals because of the quality, the breeding because of Mingus background and the selective culling that was done to produce nice animals. The potential was there to get some nice animals!

First Generation
The first generation of dwarf hotots is already here and almost ready to breed already so little too late on explaining! My first litter was with Savannah and Colton, producing Flower Child, she is a larger doe but with the correct mass in body and wide shoulders and HQ makes a nice broodie. The only problem ive seen and I know I will need to fix are the eyebands, Colton may have been a super nice buck and TINY but he was severely lacking in eyebands, so thin almost to the point of a break. He has thrown this in more then 50% of his litters too, which is why he was culled. My next litter was with Aly and Light Orchestra, a Calvin son, this was his first litter. Produced some decent hotots, but they are still so gangling I will not be able to see how they turn out, looked good as babies. I did get some nice eyebands though, little feathered on top and smaller size with ok type, can fix that in future. Bettes litter was the best so far, created 2 copies of show mingus quality animals. Angel who is now sold and Devil. He looks NOTHING like any hotot I have, im assuming these guys are throwbacks because of quality and size. Devil will be my herd buck used this summer on all my does, super friendly too. He is the focus of a true hotot head and ears with the small size. I will be line breeding him to enhance this type. Of course Devil got his dads shoulders, almost pinched but I have some broodies who can fix that. My last litter out of Sweet was not too bad either, being full sibling to Devil and Angel I expect no less, 2 super nice does and finally a hotot with thick defined eyebands with no feathering. As for the rest of my hotots, when I received them they had not been bred if ever so this was a challenge. It took 3 times for both Bette and Sweet to have litters. I finally got something out of Gazer this last month so she is proven now and Ballade has been living with ELO for 2 weeks now so I should get something this time, she Is proven. Walker has been very stubborn, she is my best doe in type and eyebands with an honour mention at the Manitoba show last year as a sr. I will try her with any of my bucks to get something!
What to Work on With Dwarf Hotots
So this next generation I have another new buck added because my lines are already so tight, he is slightly related to Andrea’s first animals and with a buck out of the states. He is small, nice substance to ears and head but why he’s here is because of those super super thick dark eyebands. I have the body type in my does, I just need head, ears and eyebands. He will be bred to all my does this Feb/March after Wetaskiwin. I will then breed his babies to Devil and linebreed the two together. I also have pieces here and there, Devil is lacking in shoulder yet Flower and Myst could use a better HQ so works both ways.
New Project
Because I am losing my eyebands from breeding and am unable to find a single sport marked around, I have decided to bring in another breed and might as well bring in some color as well. Now this is up in the air still as to what color. I would LOVE to find a blue but I know it is almost impossible to find one. The breed choices I have are the polish because similar posing style and type or the netherland which could also fix my head and ear. If I am unable to find a blue I will settle with a nicely typed chocolate polish. The point is to fix my eyebands and bring in some color! It will be very exciting. I plan on using flower for this program and will breed her after Wetaskiwin.
Thriantas
Ok so some are wondering what are you doing with these thriantas then?! Well I admit I love the breed to bits, they are super sweet different personalities and gorgeous type and lines I have. I will be bringing them to the show and seeing if a new breeder is interested in them. It’s impossible to do two different breeds at once with only 18 holes to use. Alana, an only daughter out of Jillian and Forrest is turning into a beautiful doe, weighs 4 pounds at 4 months old, already over sr weight. Very nice body and color is coming in nicely. I expect her to show VERY well in the future. Worst case scenario if I am unable to find these guys a home is to sell Carmen and her leftover babies, keep Jillian because she is sterile and my pet as well as keep Alana and borrow a buck and sell Forrest to a pet home or cull, he is 4 years old currently, just a big old man. Otherwise that is all I’m doing with my thriantas. I refuse to let these guys go to waste, Jillian is full sibling to the 2006 BOB convention thrianta and forrest is uncle to the 2008? Or 09? BOB convention thrianta so ya excellent lines there.

Well that is it for now, I will post results after Wetaskiwin, this is just a fun show to learn more about my hotots and see how everyone else does! Such fun!

Hotot Takeover

I had forgotten to say the memorial mention of Blue. As most were aware he had a large tumor on his back left leg. Nothing could be done and it was my wish to keep him as comfortable as possible until his time comes. The last few weeks he was always outside in the grass running around enjoying life with the odd playtime with Boo. I decided to bring him to dawson fair because he loved car rides and wanted to be center of attention. When we got to the fair I took him out of the carrier to put him into his cage and he sliced open his tumor, realizing there was a vet next door I took him over to have him put down. And im gonna say this...unfortuntately the vets didnt have a clue about rabbits and it took them 35 min to finally put him down. VERY sickening. He had a nice life, he was the last original rabbit left from when I started breeding all those years ago, he will be missed dearly!! RIP Blue :(
In memorial I aquired a couple of his grandkids, knowing Blues bloodline, he has a tentency of throwing his head to his grandkids, so who knows!! His grandson BJ looks like a carbon copy of Milkshake, Blues son outta Clover and I found out after Milkshake ended up getting a monster head so im curious. He will stick around until I see what he looks like as an adult. Hoping!

Ok back to hotots...as many know I aquired some hotots as my new breeding program a few months ago. They were all related but when there are none around to find, best do with what you can do! When I had found out Kathy was coming up then I got another pair with similar bloodlines. And a new secret, I will be getting some more hotots soon outta Electrics stuff directly. Have to wait and see! But in the meantime im clearing out some other rabbits, such as Emma. That doe just doesnt have the thick eyebands I need and she is pinched so will be going to a pet friendly breeding home eventually. Keira is in the same boat but I would like to get a litter outta her first because she has a different line then all. So both my sr does are both bred to my jr bucks who happen to have the same birthdate..darn creepy haha. But both are nice and both sr does are proven so should get some babies. Im hoping Savannah will throw a sport or two because I also need to thicken up my eyebands.

To clarify with the thriantas, Jillian did have another litter of 3 outta Forrest but she doesnt have the mother instinct to look after them so I will only breed her again if I can foster the babies. Carmen had a litter a couple weeks ago and some are wondering why there all of a sudden dying. I think whats going on, and this is common..is carmen's immune system cant fight anything when shes in motherly mode so shes caught a cold (not snuffles!!) and its gone right to the babies. I have her on double antibiotics so shes ok but the babies are not doing as well. Ive lost a baby every 6 days now with another about to die. It totally sucks! But ya with Carmen it must be a genetic thing cause shes always been healthy otherwise. So she will be for sale to a pet home along with any babies that are left at 8 weeks old. Because I only have a pair of thriantas left I might sell Forrest to an approved home, he is 3 years old but gorgous type and very friendly personality. Jillian will stay here forever. :P

So ya I will have plenty for sale in a few months but if anyone is interested in hotots, they better email me asap because my waiting list is filling up VERY fast. There is already a backlog of about 3 litters already! Unreal little guys! They are so friendly though haha. So let me know!
I will try to blog again when I get some hotot litters or anything interesting happens! Cyah!

~Bri~

Valleyview & Dawson Results

Ok So I havent posted in a while..once again...sorry!!!

Ok so the Valleyview and Dawson Creek fall fairs have already past..results!
I was in charge of the Dawson Creek fall fair and we had quite the turnout in rabbits! We had so many rabbits we ended up moving to the petting zoo barn and taking that over haha. We had over 55 rabbits attending and during the fun judging, there was 28 rabbits entered. Man it took awhile to judge! What a great fun time! I also "liquidated" some of the rabbits that I had been trying to sell for a few months now, they all went to loving homes. Winter who was outta my original fuzzy line had 4 chances at babies and kept having dead kits, witnessing her kindle the last time I noticed her pelvic bone wasnt wide enough for babies to pass so she went to a pet home in Valleyview! Kyoko, Jasper (rescue I recieved) and Daisy (French lop didnt make weight and didnt have body type I wanted) all went to pet homes the first day of the Dawson Creek Fair. I was AMAZED at how many people waited the whole year to purchase a rabbit at the fair..just wow! Anyways it was a great time, lots of breeders to talk to and just hang out and enjoy!
On Valleyview show, Forrest blew his coat 3 days before the show and was pulled out and another new breeder with thriantas didnt show so I just had Jillian to show, the judges loved her type and color, great animal all commented. I showed 3 of my new breed..hotots!...Teagan, Kiera & Maddy. It was more of a learning experience and realized all 4 of my jrs were seriously lacking in eyebands and 3/4 were looking a bit pinched in the HQ. Something I needed to work on majorly. Kathy M had brought a few hotots with her and took breed which was fine, what a gorgous jr doe! I ended up taking home the BOS jr buck she had brought, Colton! His father happens to be Ready Teddy, gorgous buck! Quite a few wins on him. She had also brought me a registered broodie, Aly to get some nice babies with cleaner eyebands and nicer eyes. In trade I gave her Maddy who she needed to get thicker eyebands. I also showed my little holland Blue grandson BJ and he placed 2/6! Not too bad! As said only reason for going to the show was the experience and supporting the club! Congrats to all winners!

Stuck Between Breeds

As title goes, im stuck!! I have aquired some new cages thus I want to get another trio of something...

Backtracking first though, out of all the animals that were bred after Chestermere, only ONE kindled a live litter, that was Jillian and she didnt even make a nest, it just happened to be alive like the last baby. It was a vienna marked black outta a lionhead laura-ann has. Now we know for sure the lionhead carries bew haha. Other then that, I swear on everything I palpulated pregnant does. This time around im not gonna lay a finger on em!!! Bit mad because I wanted Blue fuzzies and got nothing. :/
Honestly I think Winter and Jillian just have issues kindling as I noticed palpating em after, there bellies are very stretched and kindling 1-2 babies per litter. This time around I bred Jillian to Forrest, Winter to Joel (last chance) and will be rebreeding Kyoko to Joel next week, her belly was very hard so i left her for a week. Carmen (the new thrianta doe) was bred to Forrest last week and will be checking and rebreeding if I have to.
For my pet updates, Blue hasnt been doing well lately, just old age. He has his good and bad days, sleeping the days away, poor old man. Its also hard to deal with him as when you take him out, he constantly wants to hump ur hand lol. I think hes going through menopause LOL. Boo is doing well as well as Zoey. Joel is same way, has his good and bad days, will be shaved in the next day or so to relieve some stress because of the heat and his long coat.
As for the frenchies, Roo is doing well and filling out some more and being his usual self. Unfortunately Wish is still in quarantine under a close eye. She barely survived the coccx treatment, lost a whole bunch of weight but noticed shes eating about a flake of hay a day and drinking well so should make it though. Because of this im not going to breed her and just find her a pet home. Its too hard on her body and by the time its ok to breed her again she will be too old and also winter time. Daisy the other frenchie is gaining weight like crazy, typical frenchie doe behaviour. I will be breeding her mid july for an august litter. Other then that not too much going on.

Now back to original post!! As I said, I have does that dont wanna breed or dont produce so my problem is, what do i do! Here are my options, first is get outta breeding and just stick to my pets. Second option I sell kay and winter to pet homes and focus on something else. Other options are what breed(s) do I go for. Only thing I know for sure is frenchies are out. I will have a trio MAX, most likely just a pair though, Roo and the Bubbles baby im getting soon. Now what breed do I breed. Options are shipping up a trio of thrianta from Washington (knowing I have a buck here thats 3.5 years old, a doe that will not breed and a doe without a pedigree lol), go and get a trio of hollands and hope they produce because thats why I sold out to begin with, or do I go with a totally different breed. What I was looking at was Dwarf Hotots but noticing there IMPOSSIBLE to find, I had thought Netherlands but from reading, there temperments seem to be perty bad.
Theres my situation, as far as im concerned one of the main points here is it MUST produce live babies. Im sick of seeing dead babies or constant non kindle does, been over 2 years now and about 20 litters. Im giving this one last shot, if the new stock I just brought up doesnt produce, im selling most and keeping my few pets. Hopefully saying this will do something lol.

And for people who check my site regularly, I will be moving to my own house next weekend, located in Clairmont (im not saying where though). The bunnies will be moved in about 2-3 weeks depending on how much work I will have. They will be housed in a shed of course! It already has siding and shingles, just needs to be insulated and custom built shelves for my cages and some light and good to go!! They may even get an air conditioner...LOL. Im very excited, I miss my buns very much and cant wait to bring them home!! :P My place will be open to people who would like to visit then, but phone or email me first please!

Thats about it for now, I will keep updating on what will happen next

~Bri~

New Beginning

Ok So last post said I was selling outta fuzzies, they are now sold and have gone to Washington to a friend of mine who has some of my other old fuzzy lop stock. Good luck! As for the selling out part, im still breeding fuzzies, just the odd litter though. Kyoko is confirmed bred to Matthew, ive been trying to do this breeding for almost a year now because im guaranteed to get a blue and/or blue tortoise, yay! I will be keeping a couple outta this litter of course. :P
As for what I will be breeding, I have already picked up my new stock from BC and in the process of breeding them already....ready....
I picked up a trio of thriantas on southern island.
For some reason one of the does is pregnant and I do not know when shes due or what shes bred to. Otherwise shes a young gal with super dark coloring on body and belly, just needs better head, ear and body type. She has no name so i need to think of one. :P
The buck I got is originally from Bramblehedge rabbitry. Hes an older guy but wow he has bone, head and ear no problem and a longer type of coat. He is lacking in color and some nail issues so breeding him to that doe and Jillian should fix it, if not ill find another buck.
I also picked up a super old thrianta doe who had just come off a litter at over 5 years old, poor thing. Shes in terrible condition and in quarantine for a while while she recovers from various stuff. Once she gets better she will be available to a pet home, the most mellow rabbit ive ever seen, she sleeps in your lap all the time haha.
Then....I picked up.....
Two frenchie does lol. Thanks Sarah Mccrea!
I got Sapphire, an older br blue frenchie who is retired from breeding, will be staying at Laura-anns house as a house pet along with her English Lop buck.
Also Wish, an older proven female, shes now bred to Roo for a litter, she has thrown ALOT of rews when she was bred to Roos granddad so im expecting a bunch more haha. Not a bad typed gal.
I will also be getting the pol female outta bubbles, I was playing with the babies and wow they are gorgous! Its either going to be a broken opal or a broken blue steel. Either way gorgous babies!!
That is it so far...Jillian is confirmed bred to a lionhead haha. Red lionheads!! And Winter took to Ice Cube, yay!! Thats it for litters, not much breeding going on, just kinda cutting back and hanging out. :P

Got a few daycamps and daycares attending this summer as well as canada day. Oh and for breeders who look on here...

ON AUGUST 8-9 IN VALLEYVIEW THERE WILL BE THE FIRST EVER NORTHERN ALBERTA IN A LONG TIME....RABBIT SHOW!!! LOTS OF JUDGES AND HUNDREDS OF RABBITS WILL BE THERE. Anyone whos looking into getting into breeding, this show is for you! Lots of different and rare breeds to see and ways of showing unlike dogs and cats. :P

Its 50/50 if I will be attending this show or not, me and laura-ann have to fight about whos going to stay haha. Also the fact that I have taken charge of the rabbit display at the Dawson Fall Fair this year which happens to be the same weekend and also judging the mini show they have. So I must stay at the fairgrounds, but I might go to the show for a few hours anyways haha.

So that is all for now, I will be redoing my whole site eventually and switching website hosts, so look forward to it!

~Bri~