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~
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~
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