Troubles and Xmas Gifts

Well yesterday was quite fun, got some new stuff all for moi..haha. I got a very very nice Ipod..video one.. and also accessories for it like hooks up to the tv, car and a pouch for it. :P I also got a few ps2 games, chocolate, clothes and of course money and gift cards! My mom also has put money down for when I buy a car...hehe.
Bun related news, on xmas eve Marsh got very sick and currently is very sick. For the past 3 days I have been syringing water and liquid food to her and also trying everything I can think of and other people who have helped..thanks..to help my poor doe. She just went off her food, dropped weight like a rock and doesnt move at all. Believe me she ALWAYS comes to see me when I open her cage and now doesnt do anything. I believe its dehydration of some sort. I got a couple more ideas so will try them tomorrow. Hope it works or I will have to take her to the vet...just hoping she makes it! She is my only pointed doe and one of my fav buns.
Breeding related, its obvious Ari took, she is always digging..haha. Nova on the other hand, I cant tell if that doe is gonna have them this week or in a couple of weeks. She just hids them very very well but her belly is hard so I will be safe then sorry either way.
I am currently off of school for 2 weeks now, come back in middle of jan for a week then exams and I am off again for another 2 weeks. :P I still got alot of homework though so its no easy walk in the park..lol. Oh and I forgot to mention if I havent said this before, I am turning 18 next week...hehehhe...thats adult in alberta...so excited..how the time has flown by.. :P

I will keep updated on Marsh's condition.
~Bri~

Near Christmas..No Babies

Well sorry I havent posted in a while but things have been a but busy around here with xmas coming and all. Last nite I cleaned cages/moved buns AND did xmas shopping AND wrapped presents..all this after school..haha. Exams I gotta study for and other stuff during the break. The last day is tomorrow and we get back sometime in Jan..no I dont know when..lol. On another note, my 18th b-day is on the first...yes u heard me, im a new years baby :P..and in Alberta that is concidered to be an adult! Woot!
Bun related news... Ari had her litter on Dec 15, 1 peanut, 1 DOA and she stepped on the last one..stupid first timer.. They were all sable points and quite small for her which is a good sign. Nova I thought was bred but I put her in and she bred again so now I dunno which date she is due so I will wait to see if she gets fat soon..lol. I still do not know if I am going to the wetaskiwin show or not, especially if both does have litters. I would show Snow and Nova for sure if I went since there my nicest fuzzy stock. We shall see! I shall write another blog later.

~Bri~

First Litters

Well..to continue on with the stories...my first litters. Oh and i have been sick yesterday..that will teach me for not making food right..haha.
Well my very very first litter was with Nicki. She was bred to a smoke pearl marten buck when I got her. She had already had a litter of 7 and she raised them all. The day after her due date I came home, there was 6 little things all over her cage, not in her box. I was really freaking out and had no clue what to do. 4 of them had already passed and two little fighters were left. Since it was my first litter, for some reason I brought the two upstairs to warm them up, held them in my arms and 2 hours later they did pass on. I believe to this day that the litter was either smoke pearls or sable points. After that mishap, I bred Nicki to my new buck Blue and got a litter of 6 with 2 DOA. They were all broken blue torts, 1 buck and 3 does. Since it was my first actual litter and not knowing what to keep, I decided to sell them all as pets, the day the buck was going home he peed all over me..lol. The last two females had someone wanting to look at them at VIEX so I took them with me. I showed the one and she got 2nd..Sugar... so I sold her sister instead of both since her sis had severe ear control. Now that I look at the pics from that litter, I should have kept that whole litter...the buck was VERY nicely boned and he did indeed of very few Blue babies had his beautiful head.
My Second litter was unfortunate. I bred my doe Rockette to Blue, she was 4 days overdue so I took out her box and put her in a normal cage. Typical enough she had the litter on the wire and they froze.. 3 sable points and 2 torts. I rebred her and she had a nice litter of 2 sable point does and a tort buck. She is a very weird doe because she REFUSED to use her box and honestly..she raised them in a clump of shavings and other stuff..lol. Like last nite, I should have kept that whole litter but sold the tort buck at 8 weeks (he woulda been very nice) and one sable point doe at Cowichan after I showed both of them. The downside was the one and nicest I kept had Roc TERRIBLE temperment. I personally believe NEVER to breed a bunny if there temperment is just so bad..constantly biting, etc. I will never be breeding Roc again because of this. This sable point doe, Jasmine was one of them and she was more of handful then her mom. She did have the nicest type ever though. I eventually sold her to Ontario. Some people have seen Rockette and she doesnt look like she bites or anything. I spent over 2 years with that doe to get her temperment under control and constant training so she will not attack anyone..at least not while someone is holding her. She is the calmest bun the barn for that reason of training her over her life.
The third litter I got was Clover to Blue. Clover had 8 babies, 1 DOA. This was very very strange because almost every single baby was a different color and very very different in genetics. The downside was there was this one br blue buck who was deformed in its spine because she was carrying so many babies and not enough room for them all. He lived till 8 weeks old. This was my largest loss so far in my history of breeding. The colors included in the litter were blue, black, opal, chestnut, cream (false lynx). Clovers next litter was a breed back to Blue and I actually kept two babies out of the four..the colors were tort, chestnut and 2 opals. I kept the tort doe and chestnut buck. The opals were sold to breeding and pet homes but one opal came back 4 months later. I knew he would have Blues head and he indeed was growing into himself quite nicely but like as a baby, was long like his dad. The tort doe I sold later and as far as I know, she was the nicest holland I have ever produced. HUGE head and VERY full wide body. Unfortunately she died with her new owner. The chestnut buck I kept but sold him after because I didnt have enough room for another holland buck. He was smaller in size and nice head and ears but lacked in width. Clovers babies just take longer to grow.
Ever since then, I had more holland litters and a bunch of fuzzy litters till I moved and downsized majorly.

~Bri~

What Have I Won?

Well to continue on with my boredom and my buns, Ill tell ya about what I have won and my first wins. :D
My first win was at VIEX 2004, I had my first litter of buns from Nicki..x Blue.. and I didnt know about type then so was going to pet them out. I had 2 of them on hold and were about to be picked up when I decided to show the one for fun. She turned out to get second out of ten. I was stunned! I kept her..Sugar... and sold her sister. That whole litter was actually quite nice from the pics and Im mad at myself for not keeping them all..lol Sugar went on to win a leg and a few seconds against some tough northwest competition. My other wins included a leg for blue at Luxton 2004 and a few others. Chester was my main buck for winning, he had about 5 first wins but there was never enough breeders for fuzzies. My largest win was in Cowichan 05? Belle won her first leg and BOV, Chester won BOB and Tessa, my french lop won BOB..there was also barely any bunnies there..haha. I got a whole bunch of large ribbons though! Currently this year has been no wins but I am trying and with the new breed into advancement, that is bound to change next year. :)

I have a comment for the show peeps out here though.. I had no idea that they did not have comment cards for these shows in AB, etc and I suggest to have that sort of thing in the future because more people will show buns JUST for comments like I did but I didnt even get a result. I got over 100 cards at home I will just have to bring my own comment cards in the future.

I will type more on stuff..later. :P

~Bri~

How I got Started in Buns

Well I have got this question quite a bit and I like the idea of other people explaining there stuff in there blogs..im also bored..haha.
So to begin.. In the spring of 2003 we got the chance to move into a farm in Yellowpoint, BC (South of Nanaimo). We were able to bring my horse home and all the other stuff. This was 5 acres with a very large barn and very large house. So we went to the VIEX that summer to look for another horse to join mine and learn about the Canadian horse (which we eventually bought a few. :P) Anyways we were walking around the tents..I had my dog with me... and I spotted the bun barn and went in without knowing about the dog rule..haha. Walking around and I seen some very cute hollands for sale. My sis had always wanted a bunny since I had my horses so I decided to phone my mom on her cell and see if she wanted one. She came over and we looked at a few buns. My sis wanted to get into 4H so we wanted a "show quality" bun and I wanted a pet. The rabbitry was Sunny Skies Rabbitry owned by Cera Young at the time and she has quite a few litters for sale. That day we came home with a buck for my sis..with his pedigree for show and I got a pet doe. Both were hollands.
That day we went and built a hutch for the two to live in the barn. A I started to do some reseach after about hollands and came across Sunny Brook Rabbitry and other rabbitries. I bought a large cage and brought the two buns inside. I also bought a couple "cages" that turned out to be carriers. We also bought a holland lop doe..Nikki..who was bred but had a bad litter. After talkin to some breeders online, I heard about a show..VIRBA in feb. So off we went as a family to the show with the two buns, we were going to show the one and brought the other for fun. We get the show buck tattooed and put on the table, he placed 12/19. Not bad compared to tough northwest competition. Before I had emailed a washington breeder about getting some hollands (M&S Rabbitry) and she had quite a few available. I got Blue and Rose (Now sold). She wanted to look at my buns so I brought them both over, she said they were both quite nice and surprisingly, the buck was actually a doe! That doe is rockette..haha. She acts like a buck ALOT. The other bun of course is Clover. We were about to leave and Sue came over and asked if we wanted these buns. There was I believe 6 baby sable point fuzzy lops in a carrier. She had them for sale for a friend but nobody would buy them. We tried to take 2 of them home but only came back with one..sitting on my sisters seat all the way back home..haha. That Fuzzy was of course Mocha. :P Mocha turned out to be my sis's 4H bunny.
My sister got tired of the bunnies and I took over them and began to raise bunnies. After a few litters, I aquired two more fuzzy lops..Chester and Shizam 6 months later. After moving again, I got into the lionheads with 2 F1's from Wendy. I bred them and they had a litter then I sold the Buck. I also had gotten a DM PB lionhead doe named Hailey..she was a cutie! Also very nice type! I also had gotten a pet french lop Tessa from Rainstar Rabbitry. At VIEX in 2005, I got another M&S doe..Belle but unfortunately couldnt have a litter and was petted out. Who am i missing..oh Kyle..I got from Kims rabbitry in early 2005 but only got one litter from him. I am missing my pet cavy Abby..pyruvian boar..who was from Sherris.
The rest I say is history..I had been forced to move and only kept my most special buns..Roc, Clover, Blue, Mocha and a couple others of my own lines. Nicki I had wanted to send her to a pet home but she went to a home in Kamloops on the move up. The rest of my buns and my pet pig were sent with another breeder who I am not naming for what she did to my bunnies..there deceased now. I had to sell a couple of the ones I brought because they couldnt have any litters. Now as seen, I am doing fuzzy lops because it is something different. :P

~Bri~

New everything!

Well FINALLY i got this new layout up..thanks sarah for the banner. :) I also bred another doe last nite, Nova..to mocha. This combo is actually quite good because nova is very short and small and mocha has nice bum which Nova lacks. Ari is also due in a couple of weeks, she is positive on being preggy..ive felt about 4-5 so far. Man she is FAT! haha
Anyways new pics and new layout..hope everyone likes it XD Oh and that pic of Ari on the front page, thats the best pic of a fuzzy ive ever taken..im quite happy with myself..lol. Ill keep updating and changing, cant wait for some babies! My waiting list is getting quite long now so I highly suggest emailing me if u want to wait for a baby or two. These babies will be ready near the end of Jan and beginning of Feb. If I do get to go to Wetaskiwin, I will be bringing those babies left to sell and maybe even show them! Of course going to show the other fuzzies and register my whole fuzzy herd. :) If I dont go..ill have to wait and it will suck! Anyways cyah

~Bri~