The Three B's

Went to Roger's and picked out my new Satins yesterday. Much to my amazement, he has more of a buck problem I do, having three bucks for every one doe. So.. there were not a lot of does to choose from.

I came across two broken black bucks I liked. The better broken buck was full sibling to the broken blue doe available so I had to resort to another buck. No worries though, there was a beautiful black buck, typey lil guy. I also chose his half sister, also a black. The black buck is named Boog, the black doe Bounce and the broken blue doe's name is Brook. Don't look at me, I didn't name them!



Kaluah and Peppercini are being good mothers. Waiting for Gigi to kindle. Went through B.B.'s litter and decided which juniors I want for sure from Cloey and Jenie's March litters. I held half of the litters back and I am pretty sure I made some wise decisions for my rabbitry.

Peppercini is a mom!

LHHR's Peppercini

Peppercini kindled 6 of 6 healthy kits this afternoon :) 2 broken, 4 solid. A couple of them look like dilutes! She nested and kindled well; she is being a great first time mom! Sire is her father, Velotta's Boomer.

Bad Storm, Does Nesting

Had a really bad storm last night upon arriving in town for a 4-H meeting. Over 3500 lightning strikes hit GP, hit a church steeple twice and hit the moutain ridge across from us creating a small fire. Helicopters from ODF snuffed the fire out this morning.

Kaluah and Peppercini are nesting well. Gigi will get her box tomorrow. All three does were bred to Velotta's Boomer incase we do sell him for Convention.

Speaking of Convention, we are still making plans. We have deposits on 4 rabbits and a few others pending. We will take 6 - 8 rabbits for ourselves to show.

With all this wacky weather, the bunnies are about to molt. Gosh!

Our next show is August 11th in Yreka, CA. It is a double open just over an hour away from us. Not that bad of drive. The following Monday, the rabbits head to fair. We have pre-fair on the 28th. Just two weeks away.

Saturday we should be getting our satins. We will bring home 2 or 3 does :) YAY!

Well.... today was 113*F. It was nuts; there was no air movement and we struggled to keep the bunnies as comfortable as possible. We didn't feed until 9:45, it's still 95* out. In addition, we now have dry lightning thunderstorms.... just what we need right?

Renee's litter is looking *awesome* Thanks Nicole for the breeding to Waltor. In Waltor x Renee the 1st litter, the solid opal buck picked up his 1st two legs at WSC!!!! We hope this litter is just as successful.

Have a rabbit 4-H meeting tomorrow and we're hopin to pick up the Satins sometime this week. Will have updates when we do.

Renee's cuteness :)

These are the two black steel does from Renee. They are too cute! Renee's litter will be nice and we will be holding onto them for a while.

July = No shows

Our next show is not until mid-august. We're going to go down to Yreka, CA again for the Golden County Fair, Siskyou County, California. It's a double open and hey, it's not that far to travel!
From there is our county fair, Josephine County Fair in Grants Pass. It is a cooped show, we coop from Monday evening until Saturday midnight. I always enter rabbits in youth, and enter in Open as well. I will be doing showmanship, judging and a few other events in my other club. Fair is a great time, it's an "all day, every day" event and I always sleep in the following sunday. It really requires a lot of time and dedication. I usually get home around 1 in the morning. We must report at 7:00 for morning barn duty and then there is a 2 hr indv. barn duty for every one in the barn throughout the day. The rabbits are *never* unattended and recieve constant care.
After county fair, we have a few days to prepare for Oregon State Fair in Salem. I am not sure if I am going yet this year, probably not.... Because they are a cooped show as well, and I cannot afford to stay up there a week (although we may take the chance if we can camp with other bunny/4-H friends).
Then, Labor Day weekend has to be THE BEST! RCRC holds a double open/double youth on Saturday and CRCS holds a triple open/triple youth on Sunday in Crescent City, California! Last year I had a *spectacular* time and now with the ML increase I can suspect this year's will go far better! I have been asked to register rabbits on Saturday, although I am unsure of who CRCS plans to hire/have hired.

So from mid-August on, it's all rabbit shows! (We also have 2 other weekends planned in Sept of shows and then it's MI National Convention!)
We'll sit here at home at let the rabbits start molting so they are ready for fair... ha ha.

New website, coming soon!

Our AOL site is down, and it doesn't look like it will be able to be fixed. We had meant to switch over to geocities soon, because I will be moving and won't be able to update my AOL one away from home anyways.... so it was all meant to happen. Anyways, it's not complete yet, but I will post as soon as it's near done :)

Best In Show!

LHHR's Down in Kokomo wins BEST IN SHOW A June 30th in CA. She was also given an honorable mention in show B! Way to go for this junior girl!

LHHR's Lil' Gigi (RGC 5 legs) x Velotta's ReCurring Vision (RGC 7 legs)

Just one of those things

Cull : To remove undesirable rabbits from your herd.

Some breeders sell them as pets, some send them to the meat truck and some kill their undersirable rabbits for their own eating purposes. I had the chance to butcher some rabbits with my 4-H leader this morning. Not only is it extremely educational, but it was just one of those things that had to get done. My educational display and presentation will be on rabbit butchering. Above is Connie, one of my 4-H leaders English Lop bucks. No, he is not a cull. We were simply doing Florida Whites today. I just thought this photo was cute so I posted it.

Random thinkings

Ilana's two kids are doing well. Pretty dormant for satin babies, but they look so cute. Too bad we are getting rid of the coppers and reds, eh?

Blue Bijou's kids look *nice*. I really like the blue doe, but there is inquired interest in her so I have resorted to the Smoke Pearl doe. Maybe we will go down the road with shadeds after all? I also *really* like the bkn blue buck that is lightly marked. He has two spots around his nose, eye circles, colored ears and a little bit of color on his body. But I am really fond of him. I also like the bkn black buck from Black Pearl. {why am I liking all these bucks?} This will be her only litter with us as she's going to convetion.

We cannot update our website with AOL. We do not know when this problem will be resolved or *if* it will be resolved, so we went ahead and made a new one in the meantime. It has updated pictures, most updated for sale page and updated litters. http://lhhrabbitry.freeservers.com

We have many litters coming up! Renee is doing an *EXCELLENT* job with her litter of 5. Only 5, but it'll do. There are 2 solid steels, 1 solid chestnut and 2 broken chestnuts. So cute! We doubt we will have any these at convention, but maybe.... we'll see.

Peppercini, Kaluah and Gigi are all due to Boomer in July. We're hoping Boomer goes pre-sold to convention. Actually I will rephrase that, I LOVE Boomer, but I have his daughter Habanero and 3 litters from him coming. Peppercini and Kaluah will be having their litters here, but will be going to convention soon after. I have also bred Cloey to Stitch, this will be her last litter with us before she travels to convention.

Sent in for the GC's on Hab, Mad and Renee. Also sent our for our Grand Rapids catalog!

Oregon Royalty teams will be picked by July 31st!!!

Have 4-H on Wednesday (rabbit) and on Friday. Suppose I better go plan a meeting for rabbits......