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~
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~
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