Baby Bunnies

We have many baby bunnies in the barn right now. It is spring time and it is the best time to have rabbits, as we have blazing summers that are hard on the rabbits.
Cloey has 2 chestnut, 1 black/seal, 1 chin, 1 bkn chin, 1 bkn black/seal and 3 bkn blues.
Jenie has 1 bkn black/seal, 1 bkn chestnut, 1 seal, 1 chinchilla, 1 opal and 2 bkn blue chinchillas.
We will have pictures soon.
**UPDATE*** The colors are changing (darned shadeds!) Looks like we have some bkn smoke pearls, and a siamese sable!!! (from Jenie). Of Cloey's babies, we think she might have have some sable chinchillas.

LHHR's new Grand Champions

This is Velotta's ReCurring Vision "Stitch". He is a chestnut buck, 7 months old who is now granded. He has won 3 Best of Breed, 1 Best Opposite of Breed & 1 Best Opposite of Variety. He is a proven stud. His first babies were just born with GC LHHR's Lil' Gigi!
This is LHHR's Lil' Hollister. He was born last January from one of our homebred does and a Milkhouse buck. He is a gold tipped blue steel. He has won a first of class and 2 Best Opposite of Breeds! He is a proven stud. His first babies were just born with GC C.C. Jenie!

This is Velotta's Boomer. We recieved Boomer last June from Nicole Velotta. He had been a "problem child" because he has a bob-tail. Sometimes it goes unnoticed and he places well and sometimes he gets DQ'ed for it. But last weekend he won a first of class to grand! He is a proven stud. His first litter out with Velotta's Milly, his daughter, Habanero, at 4 months has been burning up the show tables. She won BOSB last weekend at Emerald Empire and won BOB at Pear Blossom!

This Weekend's Results

On Friday evening the Rabbit Rally went well. We had over 55 youth from Central CA to Central OR come and compete.

Saturday went just as well. I clerked many breeds I did not know much about, I sold a few animals and got great placements.

Ilana - 1st x2
Sanetti - 1st x 2
Honey - DQ (overweight) & 2nd
Hollister - 3rd & BOSB!
Boomer -1st & DQ (bobtail)
MAD - 1st & BOB
Stitch - BOSB & 1st
Bridget - ? & BOV
Habanero - BOB & 1st
Peppercini - ???

WTG on Hab's BOB win, she is a 4 month old junior doe who has hit the show table with a bang! She will be a senior by Canby . . .

Babies, Babies, Babies!

Cloey kindled to 9 kits yesterday. 4 solids, 5 brokens. Plenty of color and dilutes. Cloey is a bkn opal doe, who BOB her first show out, but never gained the massiveness to compete well after that. She was bred to Hollywood Dun It, our chestnut Registered Grand Champion buck with 4 legs on him.
Jenie kindled to 8 kits today. There are plenty of color and dilutes. Jenie is a Registered Grand Champion doe, a BLACK with 7 legs! (most all for BOB/BOS). We decided to retire her this year and get some litters out of her. She was bred to Lil' Hollister, our bkn blue g. tp'd steel buck; he has 2 legs on him.
Northern Lights was also bred to Lil' Hollister, she is nesting. We expect her to have babies this evening.
Kaluah's two babies, the chestnut is a doe and the black is a buck. Gigi, Jessica & Brittney's litters are doing well.

Wonderful Weekend!

Emerald Empire was a great show! Thanks to EERBA for making it all possible!!!
My results:
Youth: Judge: Tom Keyes
Porky (Satin, BSB) Best of Breed
Dreamin (ML, SSD) DQ (broken tooth) :(
B.B. (ML, BSD) Best of Breed; Honorable Mention in Show!
Open: Judges: Cliff Dick (A) & Randy Shumaker (B)
Ilana (Satin, Red SD) Best of Variety x 2
Sanetti (Satin, Copper SD) 1st x 2
Honey (ML, SSD) DQ x 2 (overweight)
Hollister (ML, BSB) ??
Boomer (ML, BSB) 1st & 3rd
MAD (ML, BSD) BOSV & DQ (overweight)
Stitch (ML, SSB) ?? & Best of Breed!!!
Bridget (ML, SSD) ?? & ??
Habanero (ML, BJD) 2nd & Best Opposite of Breed!!!
Peppercini (ML, SJD) DQ (overweight)

We are ready for the Rabbit Rally & Pear Blossom this weekend! Check back for results!

Just one week left!

Seems like when you are waiting for a show to come, the days go by slower and slower. Emerald Empire is creaping near though, and we are getting ever excited! We entered Ilana Sanetti, our satin does in the open show. We entered our buck Porky in the youth show. We entered ten mini lops. Eight in the open show. (Honey, Hollister, Boomer, MAD, Stitch, Bridget, Habanero and Peppercini). We entered Dream and B.B. in the youth show.

Our litters are growing! The Eight satins are together now due to some mothering issues. Gigi's litter, looks like two chestnut bucks, one blue chin buck and one doe. The doe being the bkn chestnut we hoped was a buck! And she has had a mild eye infection due to the weird weather. We are hoping it will have no permanent affects, as she looks very nice!!!

Kaluah has had some issues with her litter. In the process we lost two kits, leaving a chesntut and a black. They are nine days old now, so we are hoping the remaning two will be okay.

The rabbit rally plans are well underway. We have gotten quite a bit of interest in it and we should have the help to keep things running smooth.

The photo pictured is the bkn black satin buck we have decided to keep. We have named him "Midnight Madness".

Snowy Days

This is my extremely huggable buck Magee's Porky! I bought Porky in August 2006 and I just love the guy to death! I want to thank Melissa for letting me purchase him! He does well on the show table (7 BOSV, 2 BOB) and is a proven sire. He also carries dilute! Here he is today enjoying the snow that is on the ground :)

Starting out new

For a while now I have been posting news on my website and often I find it takes up a lot of writing space, and sometimes I just have too much to say! So I decided to start a blog for my website, about my rabbits, shows and life in general.

Whats up? That is a good question. The weather here in Grants Pass is pretty nasty. We have well over a foot of snow. I am studying like crazy for my registars test. If all goes well I should be taking it the end of March. I am extremly nervous!

The rabbits have been doing well. I finally got some litters on the ground. Jessica kindled to 5 on Feb 14th. There is 1 black, 2 copper, 1 bkn copper and 1 bkn blue. Brittney kindled to 3 on Feb 14th. There are 2 bkn copper and 1 bkn black. Both litters are sired by Porky. It was a surprise to see Porky caries dilute! It is way back there hiding in a white :) The babies have now opened their eyes and have started to explore! Gigi, our homebred RGC kindled to 4 kits on Feb 19th. They are sired by our best buck ReCurring Vision. There is 1 bkn chestnut, 2 chesnut and 1 blue chinchilla. Gigi is a wonderful first time mom!
Kaluah is due to Hollywood, our homebred RGC buck tomorrow. She is fat and full of babies! Cloey is due March 18th to Hollywood. Jenie (RGC black, 7 legs) and Northern Lights are due to Lil' Hollister on March 19th.

Honey's litter is getting big. We especially like the buck, another chestnut :) Milly's two gals are still hot as ever. Look for "Habanero" and "Peppercini" on the showtables!

Speaking of shows.... Our first show is March 17th in Corvallis. Emerald Empire RBA. Double Open/Youth + specs. We will be entering some good rabbits. There are good judges hired and we are just so excited to get the 2007 show season started!