Chocolate Babies

Cami delivered right on schedule.  Tuesday morning she had 6 chocolate babies.  As of today, May 26, they are 6 days old and all healthy.  Here is a picture from a few days ago.

Cami

We are hoping Cami has babies today or tomorrow. She looks like she is ready to pop.  Wondering how
may she will have. Bell did not look this big and she had 4 healthy size kits.

Babies

We had babies born Sunday morning around 8:00.  Bell had 4 healthy kits. 2 solids and 2 brokens.  More pictures to come.  Right now it looks like they are all blues and broken blues.

All the rabbits are doing well we have a nice litter of two (black and broken black) that are about 7 weeks old.  We are hoping they turn out nice. 

I am thinking that Bell and Cami are both pregnant.  They are both eating everything in site and act like I never feed them. I noticed yesterday when I was giving the rabbits new water that Cami had a definite bulge on her side.  I am hoping that it a little baby. Will know around May 20.  Bell's nest box will go in the middle of next week and Cami's at the end. 

I was also excited to find out that we have more people wanting our rabbits.  I had a lady come up to me yesterday and want one from the litters that we don't even have born yet!  Hopefully we will have a lot to pick from this summer. 

It has been a long time since our last post.  We will try to be better.

We have had many exciting things happen with our rabbits.  Our black buck from our September litter, Midnight, and our heavy patterned doe from the same litter, Zebra, did awesome in our Nueces County Live Stock Show.  The buck took Grand Junior Fancy buck and our doe took Reserve Junior Fancy doe.  Our Broken Blue Doe Bell took Reserve Senior Fancy Breeder.  Our other rabbits did well earning blue ribbons.  We were very pleased with the results. 

We have some 6 week old kits right now from, Zebra. She is our doe that won reserve as a junior.  We have a nice solid and a blanket patterned broken black. Will post pictures soon of them.  They are very cute. 

We have bred Bell with an awesome blue buck, Storm, and are awaiting babies around May 18th.  We also picked up a chocolate doe, Cami, and have bred her to Elf, our chocolate buck.  She is due around May 20. 

We are also extremely excited that we were able to pick up a broken chocolate buck, Nutter Butter.  We can not wait until he it old enough to breed.  We will be breeding him with Cami in July for some more live stock show babies.

New babies

We just had our second litter today. We have 5 little babies. We were quite shocked that we have all solids, especially when the buck was a broken.

What's in here? Something is wiggling!

Lookie! Here they are! Five babies! Three big and two little ones. The smallest is the lightest; a lilac per chance??? Or blue??? We don't know yet.

Second littler to this rabbitry. Steel is one on the date mark mommy :-)

Close up of one of the dark solids:

Happy Thanksgiving!

Whoops!

The babies are doing great!  We are very anxious to know the sex of the babies. I checked them tonight to see if I could tell yet.  I "think" we have 1 doe and 3 bucks.  I am pretty sure our heavily patterned broken black is a doe and the rest are bucks.  After checking the babies, I went to check the trio to make sure what I am calling does/bucks are that.  I pulled Levi out and I could definitely tell he was a buck and the little bucks looked like that.  I then pulled Zoe out to check to make sure what a doe looks like.  Zoe's "parts" looked just like Levi's.  I was shocked.  I then pulled Bell out and checked her.  She is definitely a doe. I then pulled Zoe back out and checked again and she is definitely a HE!  Needless to say we do not need two bucks and a single doe.  Especially since we are adding a chocolate buck to the mix the first weekend of November.  I talked to the breeder that we got our rabbits from and she says that this sometimes happens because they are so small.  She is going to let us trade "her" out for Macy, a true doe.  The jokes are really flying around here now! 

Beautiful Babies!

Here are our beautiful babies.  We have 2 broken blacks, a broken blue, and a black.  Just love them all!

Good morning, sweet world!

This morning one little kit took it's first wee little look at the world! Their eyes are finally opening!

They are growing so quickly! We've sold two kits so far. And, have interests in the other two. We are just indecisive about selling them or keeping them for show. Decisions, decisions. Bluebell will be going back up to Victoria after we show her in this year's Nueces County Junior Livestock show to be breed with an excellent buck. We also plan to breed Zoe to Levi soon. So more kits to come!!! So far this new adventure has been a wonderful one.

Hulk: The Daddy

In an earlier post we introduced you to Steel, the doe who had our first litter of kits. She's also listed under the tab to the left, Our Blood Lines.

Below is Hulk. He's gorgeous. He is the buck breed with Steel to produce the gorgeous kits we've posted in prior posts. Three broken and one solid.

HULK

Isn't he cute! I love the way he's looking at the camera!

HULK

And, his pattern is fantastic!

Just wanted to share. Don't have information to post under his bloodlines since another breeder we know breed Steel to Hulk and Hulk is from out of state. Will post more about that later.

8 days old

The babies are now 8 days old.  They are doing great and getting so big! It is amazing to me how much they have changed and grown in just a 8 days.  I can not believe the change.  Their fur has come in nicely and I can not decide which one I like the best. 

Babies

When I walked in to feed Steel this morning there was fur all over the place.  I was surprised that she still had any on her body! Her nest box was stuffed full of fur and hay.  I could hear little squeaking coming from the box.  Deep at the bottom buried under all the fur and hay were tiny babies.  Steel had a litter of 4 early this morning. She had 3 broken and one solid.  As of right now we think that we have 2 broken blues, a broken black, and a solid black. All are very tiny and active!

A few photos of the little ones! We are proud grandparents!

Nest Box

Nest box is in and we are waiting for babies.  We were told to expect them Friday or Saturday morning.  Steel rotates between messing around in her next box, laying down, and eating/drinking.  She is resting up for her big day.  We can't wait! Hopefully the babies will arrive early Friday morning.  Very anxious to see what colors we get.

Steel

We are expecting our first litter September 6th or 7th. We had our blue brood doe, Steel (above), bred to a broken black. Steel's last litter with this same buck produced 4 kits. The kits were black, broken black, blue, and a broken blue. We are hoping for similar results next week.

We have 3 other polish. We have a black buck named Levi. We also have a broken blue doe named Blue Bell and a broken black named Zoe. After our live stock show in January, we plan to breed Zoe & Levi. At that time, we are going to send Bell off to the breeder we bought her from. She is going to breed her with an awesome buck she is getting. We are very excited about this because we  will get half of the babies since we are letting her use our doe.