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Hey guys! We haven't updated in a while so I figured I would! :)

The past week in a half (or so) has been pretty nasty here, so the bunnies haven't been getting much play time. Yesterday when we cleaned cages, we put Sage, Cadbury, Cassidy, Chancey and Louiee out in the pens so they got some run time.

Lily got to come out and run around the rabbitry while we were cleaning cages. It's so funny because you'll open her door, turn around and the next minute she's gone! Haha. Her cage is low to the ground, so it's easy for her to jump in/out. Yesterday we did switch her to the larger hutch as the babies are going to be coming out of the nestbox soon; so now if she wants out we have to lift her down/up.

We have three hutches that have some small holes in them!!! The wooden floors are just rotting away from pee/water and so we are working to get some new cages very soon, but the thing is we also need to downsize on rabbits. We have7 that are looking for new homes: Sippi, Minnie (after state fair), Cadbury, Chancey (after state fair), Louiee, Bruce, and Willow. I keep getting e-mails about them, but then the people don't e-mail me back after I send pictures. It would be nice if they could just e-mail to say they weren't interested anymore, but I'm getting upset that they're wasting my time and effort. So now on the Ad I have put "Serious Inquiries only" etc. etc.

In other news, Lily's babies are 2 weeks old tomorrow!! Crazy! Two of them are Blue Viennas, and the other two are solid Blues. They are really quite cute. :)

Sage's babies are 14 weeks old today. :) Cadbury and Louiee had to be seperated because after fair they were letting their "manlyness" show...:rollseyesSo they're no longer together. As soon as one bunny leaves, then we'll seperate the girls as well, just so they can have some more room.

We updated our website with some new info and new pictures of the bunnies! Going to take new pictures of the rabbitry today since it's clean! haha. So go check it out: http://www.blueskyacresrabbitry.net76.net You should sign the guestbook, too! (Find it on the Home Page) since we have no signatures in it yet!! :(

We've been having to dust the bunnies with DE (not sure what it's called. Hard to pronounce but my 4-H leader uses it for her bunnies and she gave us a bag of it; she actually found the fur mites when she was tattooing! Lucky she came!)because they had fur mites three days before fair! Luckily the fur mites got killed before fair and no one got sent home at vet check. You have to keep them on a 5-week cycle though, so 2 more weeks to dust. That way all eggs are killed. ;)

Hmm...I'm not sure if there's anything else...haha. We're going to take the bunnies outside for exercise today (and Magic will get trained!) since it's nice; So you can expect some pictures either tomorrow or Tuesday! But here are the most recent pictures! :)

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Bruce. He didn't want his picture taken! Haha. (Oh, I took most of these pictures; using my sister's fancy camera! Which I love! And must get one! :p)

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Lily running out in the rabbitry.

I am going to love it the day Lily finally becomes a house bunny. (When I move out. Haha, she's going with me!) She was before we got her, and you can totally tell that's where she belongs again (unfortunately my mom won't allow her to be....just yet! We're working on convincing her though! Maybe after Lils is spayed?!) She will come over to you when she's out and stand up on you, talk to you. It's so cute. She also likes saying Hi to all the other bunnies.

Ready for Cuteness Overload?

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They have their eyes open!!!


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Aww!! So cute!

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Snuggling in the nestbox!

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Close-up!

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This is the baby I'm naming. The one with the most white markings. Also the runt.

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Their so adorable!

The other night I had them in the house and they were running all over the blanket on the ground. I would make kissy noises and they would ziiiippp right on over to me. They would snuggle as close as they could to me too. It was too adorable!! :) I even got some baby bunny kisses. These little guys like to bite more than Sage's babies did. I've been nipped tons of times already! haha.

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Magic. Whenever you open his door, he always looks out like this. It makes it difficult to get a good picture of him! haha.

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So handsome! :inlove:

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My youngest nephew, Jack, and Magic. Magic is his favourite bunny....which makes sense, because I'm his favourite aunt. :p

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Mr. Handsome again. :biggrin2:

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Minnie does the same thing Magic does when you open her cage: Lean out!! haha. When I took this picture I told her to just stay back in her cage. I really like this pic of her! One of my favourite ones while she's in her cage.

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She spends a LOT of time laying down nowadays.

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Sippers! This was actually taken last week sometime.

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Sage-y girl. :)

She's still the shy little thing she always has been, but we're hoping to work with her more and get her more used to people. She just needs more attention and all. I remember that Magic was like that when we first got him, but after quite a while he started warming up too us. Mandi likes taking Sage out on the harness, so I'm hoping that maybe, just maybe, they might be able to do some rabbit hopping after they form a better bond, and then that might make Sage open up some more. :)

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Louiee! :)

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Chancey and Cassidy exercising a couple days ago.

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Mr. Cadbury!

The babies remind me so much of their parents! Cass and Chancey are just like Sage, while Cad and Lou are just like Ray! Not just their appearence (haha) but the way they act, too. It's really crazy. I find myself calling Cadbury, 'Ray', all the time. haha.

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And here's the gorgeous diva, Savannah, for Ali! :)

So that's all! No new Willow or Ray pictures...but they'll be some soon! :)

Emily

ETA: Grammar

 
My Savy!
 
Hey all! I thought I would update the blog with some more pics!!!

UPDATES: The babies will be four weeks old tomorow!! Allbabies have names but may stillbe changed after gender check.They are Tinder,Max, DakotaandZip.Uhm... I think thats it!

First here are some pics of our garden!! Its doing pretty good! The parsley is growing excellently!

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A sign my friend got me for my birthday! My sister has one that say welcome but she hasn't put it in the garden yet.

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The parsley is on the far right.

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Its a ok garden for our first year! Next year we might just grow parsley!

Ok now onto the buns.

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Autumn eating dinner.

Here are Bruce, Magic and Savvy's photo shoot pics! These were takenthe dayafterthe babies were.I just loooovedoing photoshootswith thebunns! Itsso cute! The babies are having anothershoot sometime this week!EXTREME CUTENESS BELOW!!

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Hiding

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He wasn't really in the mood for pics.

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This was gonna be Savannah's entry for the contest but I forgot to enter it.

Now on to the babies! These pics were taken a couple days ago.

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Tinder or Dakota.

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Zip, if you look close you can see he has a white strip just like daddy Magic.

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Zip.

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Tinder like soccer! Lol

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I think this is Max. lol.

Thats all for now! Enjoy!

Amanda


 
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MY SAVY!
 
Hey all! I have some upates to share! Firstly we will have more bunner pics up soon!

Ok so we are selling most of our rabbits. We're selling all of Lily's babies, they're for reserve right now, Bruce, Cadbury, Louiee, Willow, Chancey, Sippi and Minnie.

So on Labor Day a couple with three girls who are getting into showing rabbits and such, came by and they bought Cadbury! They have two other Mini Rexes.

Minnie has a wonderful home lined up for her, her new owner has previously owned a black English Lop before so Minnie will be going to her new home by October 1st. After state fair...which is next weekend!

On Thursday a friend of FallingStar's (Karlee) came by and she bought Bruce. And her brother bought Louiee....which Karlee named Louiee so that was pretty cool that Karlee will be able to check up on Lou and Bruce.Their new owners have had a rabbit before as well.

I miss Bruce so much! Its very weird going into the rabbitry and not seeing him bounce up and down for food. The rabbitry just feels so quiet and lonely without Bruce and its so weird. I also didn't thinkI would miss him so much. I have cried myself to sleep the past two nights because I miss him so much! :(

We are hopefully going to refer Bruce and Louiee's new ownes to RO so they can learn more and also keep us updated on the boys.

I think thats pretty much it. We will try to have pics up before the weekend is over!

Amanda
 
Hi Emily! I loved all the pictures, I always enjoy your pictures of your buns. How are you? I haven't been on the forum a terrible lot and I'm so behind on all the goings on.

How come you are selling the rabbits you are? Downsizing? Maybe you've already said in your blog and I didn't see it. I hope all is well with you and with all your rabbits :)
 
trailsend wrote:
Hi Emily! I loved all the pictures, I always enjoy your pictures of your buns. How are you? I haven't been on the forum a terrible lot and I'm so behind on all the goings on.

How come you are selling the rabbits you are? Downsizing? Maybe you've already said in your blog and I didn't see it. I hope all is well with you and with all your rabbits :)

Hey Donna! :) I'm doing good...really stressed out with school and stuff..and on getting enough money to complete my senior project which is remodeling the rabbitry! lol.

We are just downsizing, yup Sticking to one breed only. ;) Haven't had much luck finding homes for the remaining 6 :( Might have to take the 4 mixes down to the local feed store and hope they can get sold that way - as much as I hate to do it that way, but we badly need the empty cage space so I can switch rabbits around for the remodel. ;)

Other than that everything else is going good. :) No more litters until December...actually, we're planning a Christmas litter! We're looking for a REW buck and that reminds me I need to e-mail someone in my 4-H club and ask her if I can come by this weekend to look at one of her REW's. :D

Emily
 
I figured I'd give an update, because it's much needed, lol. :D

I'll start with posting the link to our rabbitry website, because I just recently updated it and fixed some things up. I added an actual guestbook page, because our guestbook link wasn't visible and no one was signing it! Hopefully visitors will now take the advantage of the guestbook page! lol. Even though the entries go strait to my e-mail, but that will still be cool to read them :D

So anyway, here is the link: http://www.blueskyacresrabbitry.net76.net I put a neat feature on there which is rabbitry news. You can find the link to it under the picture on the home page :D

As most of you know, we lost our gorgeous girl, Autumn a few weeks ago. She passed from unknown causes and we are very saddened bythe loss. It's very different without her in the rabbitry because she's been there from the start. She was Amanda's first rabbit, as Magic was mine.

R.I.P. Autumn. We love and miss you so much. :rose:

This past weekend we had a rabbit show. (It was Saturday, November 14th). Mandi didn't go because she was sick, so it left me and my mom to haul the rabbits and do all that good stuff. It was FREEZING where we were and I was set up with my 4-H leader and her two (out of three sons...haha the other was at home sleeping! psh.) and luckily she had brought a tiny propane heater....much good did that do. Haha. It was sooo little and only lasted for a couple hours - leaving us to freeze the rest of the day. I groomed the rabbits when we had gotten set up, clipped their nails, etc. And then basically just waited for them to go up on the show table. All in all we got 2 firsts, 1 first in fur, 2 BOV's and 1 second. :D I don't know what Sage got in Open because I was selling our nest box and left my mom and my leader's son in charge of putting her on the table, so I got all confused when I came back because she was up there, but there weren't any other REW's. Guess she'd already been judged but the judge failed to tell me that she could go back, and when I asked her, she replied really snottily. :/ Really irked me.

Anyways, for the rest of the show I mainly hung out with one of the boys. We kept complaining to eachother how cold it was! lol.

At about 3 in the afternoon, some more club members got there, the one's who bred our new buck, and so I looked him over (and I really had no choice but to get him seeing as how he was the only REW buck there; and I had searched all the rabbits - only saw REW does!) and typed him out and my leader had previously said he was a nice looking rabbit. So we got him... It took us a while to pick out his name, but we are calling him Taj Mahal; Taj for short. :D You can see pictures in my thread in the General rabbit forum and I'll get more tonight when we go to clean cages :D.

He's a really nice looking buck and I can't wait to see what he produces, as well as get him out on the show tables!

We are breeding both Chancey & Sage on November 24th. They'll be due on December 25th - Christmas litters! :D The babies will be ready for us to take to a March show in 2010 and sell them there, maybe put a few up on the table if they meet their junior weights, although I don't know if they will or not...they'll only be 9/10 weeks old. However, we did show Chancey @ 10 weeks (as well as the rest of her litter; in a Fair, not ARBA show) and they all met junior weight, so we'll just have to see how they are doing by that time. :D If they don't all sell at that show, we are also having a 4-H show that month, and then our Spring Fair is in May - which would be a great opportunity for the remaining juniors we have to be shown, since they'll be about 4 months old.

As far as my senior project goes, I'm working on the smaller things right now (such as redoing our rabbitry sign, painting our grooming table, feed management, record keeping, waste management, etc.) so that I will still have some more time to get $$ for cages. I currently have about $147, I think? My mom owes me $60, so whenever I get that, that'll bump it up to $207 which will be only enough for 4 cages, and we need at least 6 new cages! I'm going to ask some local farm stores/pet stores for $50 donations (basically "buy a cage!") and I'm hoping that will go well - I've typed up a letter based off my 4-H donation letter, to present to the businesses...I just need to find the motivation to go out and get it done! It must be done soon...I only have until April to complete my project. But I know the cage thing will be the thing that gets me the most hours.

Anyways, we are going out to clean cages right now so I will get some new pictures of everybun for you all... And I'm sure I'll have another quickie update with those, as well! :D

Emily


 
Hello everyone!! Happy Holidays from us here at Blue Sky Acres Rabbitry! :)

Here are some Rabbitry updates!!

  • Sage is due with her 2nd litter on Christmas! Daddy is Ray!
  • Sage's daughter, Chancey, is due on Dec. 26th with her first litter! Daddy is Taj!
  • We have our new cages! Brood cages are being installed on Monday for the girls!!
  • Magic has come down with conjunctivitis and will be being treated for it with Terramycin.
  • We are still looking for a home for Willow! The babies will most likely be going to my 4-H leader (and I won't say what for. ;)) unless I can find them pet homes.
So that's about it, as far as the "big" stuff goes. ;)

We have recent pictures of the bunnies, but the pictures are on my sisters computer (and at the moment, we only have one source of internet for our laptops, so can't be on at the same time, unless one of us is also out in the den hooked up...but it's difficult that way). So here are the most recent pictures of the babies:

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The girls... from left to right is Max, Zip and Tinder.

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And then of course we have Dakota, the little boy. :)

We'll be cleaning cages tomorrow, so we'll get some more pictures and I promise we will get them up right away! I don't like taking pics of the bunnies on my camera, because it's crappy, so we always take pictures on Amanda's camera. :p

Anyway, we will definitely have pictures of the litters when they arrive! :) We are currently thinking of name ideas for them and have several themes to choose from! We are thinking about a Christmas theme for Sage's babies, and most likely a Beach theme for Chancey's babies, or a song theme. ;)

I will also get pictures of our new cages since I need them for my Senior Project anyway, and haven't taken any yet! I will be getting the brood cages in on Monday so that I can move Chancey and Sage in there; and will also be getting two nest boxes as the one we have right now won't fit, and we would need another anyway, so we have to get two now. ;)

The other cages will be moved into the shed sometime after christmas. I am figuring out how to stack the wire cages at this moment, because I have seem to run into that problem. So hopefully everything will work out in that aspect; as well as what I use to stack them with. :)

Well I think that's all for now! Enjoy the pics of the baby bunnies and I promise there will be more pictures tomorrow! :)

Emily
 
Emily! I'm seriously in love with those blue babies! I had a blue netherland dwarf before, I just love the colour. Those babies also have the most adorable ears ever! :shock:
 
Thanks Grace! If only you were closer I would send ya one!! :p They are quite adorable and so loveable. Max and Zip are like the little tomboys of the group - so crazy!! Tinder is so shy, just like Lily. She has to deal with her sisters crazy binkies and toy-flinging! Dakota is about inbetween - shy and crazy. lol.

We went out this morning and cleaned cages after we fed the bunnies! It didn't take us long to clean all the cages which was great, besides having it done early. Usually we clean at night time, and it's dark. :p

So here are some pictures of the bunners from this morning!!! :p

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Magic hanging out of his cage! You can see the eye that is normal. His left eye is the one infected with conjunctivitis.

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Baby girls diggin' into their hay!! :)

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Max checking out the shavings bucket.

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Tinder and Zip checking out the new shavings. They like to help push the shavings around. :p

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Max, making herself look threatening!! :p

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Savvy, making her grumpy face!!

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She's not a morning bunny. :p

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Handsome Taj Mahal!! :)

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Look at that adorable face!!

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Taj is such a character. :) He loves to be pet, but only if you have food in your hands are about to give it too him. :p

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Seeing if he's got any more food left.

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And last but not least, Momma Sage hiding in her litter box. :p

Hope you enjoy the pictures!! :)

Emily
 
Lovely pictures! The blue babies look like they have a really fun personality. Whoever gets them will be lucky
 
Lovely pictures! The blue babies look like they have a really fun personality. Whoever gets them will be lucky
 
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