Yreka Double Open August 11th

We made the hour trip down to Yreka, CA for the Siskyou Golden Fair. A Double Open by SRCC was held. I took Stitch, Miami, Kokomo, BBLH3, Habanero and Hannah. I also took along Black Pearl (pre sold) and Buddy.
Show A: Show A started well under Tom Keyes. My Satin doe was in the wrong class. oops. Mini Lops went well. I won BOB with Mr. Miami and BOS with Kokomo. I also won BOSV with Hannah and Swimmer (which I sold to Lacey Jackson) won BOV. Miami was mentioned in show.
Show B: Started around 1 o'clock under Armondo Cabreara. I do not know how my Satin doe did or what was said on her because I was busy showing my Mini Lops. In the end, Miami won BOV solid and Habanero won BOV and BOB :)
We didn't stick around for BIS. In the meantime there was an issue which dragged the show on. I left when the Mini Rex juding started. There were a lot of them, so I knew it was going to be a while and we had to get home.
Overall it was a nice day :)
Today we hang coop cards at fair and prepare for bringing in the rabbits tomorrow evening.

baby love

Just thought I would post two of Gigi's babies. The top is a buck and the bottom is a doe :)

Showmanship doe and litters

I love my showmanship doe. She is a homebred doe, she granded this spring, 3 legs for BOB and 1 BOSV. She is a phenonomal doe. Deep, wiiiide, awesome head/crown/ear and has a cuteeee bkn pattern. She was a natural bred showmanship animal as her mom was my last years showmanship animal. MAD is truly a stunning animal. She is almost done molting, she may be ready for fair ;)

Our litters are coming along fine. Cloey x Stitch, WOW! I am impressed with all of them, not a weak one in the bunch. I have had my eyes on the opal buck and bkn opal doe though. Such wide heads! Kalauh's two does are coming along fine. I am not a fan of blacks, and I have soo many chin babies... so we will have to see which one is better. I can only afford to keep one. BB's litter is looking fine. I am taking the smoke pearl steel doe to Yreka in hopes of selling. The bkn blue looks like she will head to Monterey with BBCR. I am keeping "Fiona, Fifi, Fi" a real classy junior! WOW! Her brother Buster, has won our hearts and he has the type to stay in the barn! Renee's litter have nice type. But they had a chewing war. I had intentions of taking three of them to National Conventoin with me. We'll see. Peppercini's litter, the lil bkn chin has always come to strike me. She's a doe. So if she has the type she will stay. Gigi's litter, I like ALL of the bkn chestnuts... I especially like one of the bucks, but they are all promising! WOWZers! Classy kids I must say.

We will be doing some breedings around August 20th. We will post a list after fair of who will be bred. :)

I give up....

Okay, so Renee & BB's litters would be beefy 4-5 month old juniors for convention. They were looking good. Really, really good. So I thought in my head a possible entry for Michigan and I must have jinxed my bunnies, because not but a couple days later, did both litters decide to chew on each others fur. It's pretty bad and it looks like crap to me. Now what?

Not only that, I entered Honey at Yreka because she was in good condtion. We had a couple colder days and I go out to the barn today and poof.... She is molting. Her coat is now open and ugh... she was so pretty just a couple of days ago!

On a more positive note, I hope to get PJ bred soon. I know she's still a young doe, but she has the size and maturity to carry her through. I think she'd do just fine :)

More cleaning....

Spent the rest of today cleaning. Have a lady coming out tomorrow to purchase most of my equipment. I should only have 2 cages left for sale after that, but whatever I do have left I will take to Yreka with me.

I only have 25 holes left in the barn. It feels pretty empty with out the extra cages but all the cages I have are full. I figure if I have less cages, I will have to keep less rabbits. Prove to be more selective, right?

Anyways, I have plans to cement the floor... so it's level, we'll see about that.

Royalty has been delayed again, but it looks like Oregon will be sending one team of 4.

Crescent City catalog is out. Getting excited... and for this saturday's show... which I need to get my stuff ready for.... Have a 4-H meeting wednesday. Fair starts next monday!!!

Our Barn

I had to upload this pic to blogger because I wanted to show my barn on a rabbit message board. I was seeking advice on automatic watering systems and with stackers that seemed a lil more challenging... so I myswell just keep it up here... why not. Right side: 1st three cages I use them for brood does on litters or non-active rabbits. The next 2 cages are brood cages, the next two are brood or non-active and the 2 in the back are for non-active rabbits. Left side: first 15 cages are for non-active or show rabbits. Next three, the bottom two are for growing out juniors and the one on top is a brood doe cage. The next 4 are for non-active rabbits or for growing out young stock. Door is in front, window in back. Presto :) My barn... ha ha.

Cleaning.... and a stupid rabbit

This morning while it was relatively cold out (like 80 degrees) I decided to do some barn cleaning and bunny managment before fair, which starts next saturday.... Gave all the bunnies hay, seems like 3/4ths of my rabbits are molting, so I want to make sure if they groom themselves, the hair can pass through safely. Groomed a few rabbits. Even Stitch is molting... *sighs* I sure hope the heck he is done molting by CC triple! And Kokomo, she's about ready to blow. Honey and Hab are holding out okay *knocks on wood*

I bought some feeders from Grange in March, they were having a clearance, Bass and Little Giant feeders, for like $1 - 1.50 each. That's a steal when they are usually $5-7!! They have been on the floor in my room since then.. yep.

I wanted to attach them to the outside of my cages, the ones that don't have them (about 1/2 my cages) It will make it easier for my parents when they are feeding my rabbits when I am off at school and unbearably busy.

So I was cutting the hole in Jenie's cage, I had good luck so far on all the others. But of course, she has to be Jenie, not one of my favorite tempermented rabbits... She jumps out of her cage and onto the ground, and continues to reek havock running through the barn lightning fast behind and under all the cages.YIKES! She finally settles in the back of the barn. UNDER Black Pearls cage, in her drop pan. Not exactly sure how the hell she got in there, since there is only an inch clearance between the cage and tray. So she is stuck and cannot get out. I have to take apart my stacking cages and move them to get her out. What a chore. I put her back in her cage and she seems fine, although pissed that she got caught! I then had to reassemble the cages.

That's where I stopped cleaning. Got feeders one cages I needed to. Have about 3 more holes to cut. But I need a couple more feeders... Maybe. Or maybe I just need to sell some rabbits!

Anyways, I came up with a huge list of equipment I'd like to sell, frankly I just do not need it, even though most of it's in great condition. I have a 4 hole stacking system w/legs and trays, carriers, show table, scales, crocks and dishes just to say the least. E-mail me for a complete list if interested. I will be brining everything but the large cages to Yreka with me next Saturday!

More!

"Buster Blue" - Bkn Blue Junior Buck

"Fiona, Fifi, Fi" Bkn Blue Junior Doe

Both these are from Blue Bijou and GC Lil' Hollister. Too cute!

Piccy's!!!!!

Wow, I realized I had not put up picture posts in a while, so here's some of our babies!!!!

Velotta's Stitch (RGC Chestnut 7 legs) x Milkhouse's Cloey (Reg. Bkn Opal)

This litter should be really nice! Pictured are an opal and bkn opal, the "colored" guys of the bunch. The rest are chinchilla and chestnut babies.

Velotta's Boomer (RGC Bkn Chestnut) x LHHR's Kaluah (Reg. Chinchilla)
Black doe pictured, there is also a chinchilla doe. We will most likely keep the better of the two, and put the other one up for sale.

Velotta's Boomer (RGC Bkn Chestnut) x LHHR's Peppercini (Reg. Chestnut)

The only broken in the litter, so I have my eye on her. There is also a chestnut buck and three Chinchillas!

Velotta's Boomer (RGC Bkn Chestnut) x LHHR's Lil Gigi (RGC Bkn Chestnut)

Been callin this guy "Halfpipe", don't know why.... and maybe it's a doe... I really forget. I do know there are 2 bucks and 2 does in the litter, ha ha!

Another Bkn Chestnut from Boomer and Gigi. Tooooo cute!

Summer Time

Had to take the nestboxes out today, the lil ones weren't even really using them to be honest. Kaluahs two are both does, Gigi has 2 bucks and 2 does, Peppercini has a buck and doe, and I didn't check the other three. Whops. Should be able to tell on Cloey's soon.

Will be breeding many does after fair. The weather will cool down a bit and we have 2 bucks we'd like to use excessively. Mr. Miami who will be going across the country in October and Quintessence. QT is a nice buck, but I don't think I'll hold out to keep him. I'd sure like some litters from him though.

Got my Convention catalog. It's real weird to plan all these details. Still got people interested in rabbits, but have to have everything wrapped up by the Redmond show, which I do hope to attend :)

Just a lil over a week until Yreka, sure getting excited :)