Blue Sky Acres Rabbitry's Bunnies

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

Thank you Denise!!

Emily

 

[JadeIcing]

Savvy, making her grumpy face!!

MySavvy!

 

[paul2641]

Your bunnies are so cute, How is your new rabbitry coming along?

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

Eep, Paul, so sorry I didn't see you post sooner! The rabbitry is coming along nicely so far. I just have to switch in the last two of the wire cages and then everybun will be in wire!! Of course, we are going to add about 4 or 6 more cages later this year, but that won't happen until I can get some more money, and it will probably be past the deadline of my Sr. Project, so it won't count.

Anyway, tomorrow Sage & Chancey are due!! They have brand-new nestboxes with holes in the bottom for drainage and Sage has already been practicing her nest-making skills!

We are getting really excited for baby bunnies!! Sage's babies will have a beach-theme for names, and Chancey's will be song-theme. I've already got my list of names picked out.

We aren't going to be able to show these babies at the March show, but we will be able to show any remaning Juniors at our Spring Youth Fair in May. I am hoping to possibly pick up a new doe at the show in March so that we can breed for a litter to show at County Fair.I just have to see how things go on space, etc. because Amanda is still wanting a Mini Lop and I would love to have a Dutch for my next jumping prospect. It's alot easier said than done, though. We need the extra cage space for upcoming litters, so we're kind of in a win-lose situation on both parts. Hopefully we can get everything figured out though.

I will update tomorrow with pictures of the litters!

Emily

 

[Fancy77]

YEAH i cant wait for pics whoo hoo

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

I will have to put up the AFTER pictures tonight!! Everyone in the rabbitry at this moment is in a wire cage! The three REW pre-juniors are seperated and in their own cages - well, Kailua and Winchester (both girls) are in their own cage, and Veradero is in a cage on top of their's. I brought in one of the extra, smaller wire cages for him, since we switched Ray to the bottom hole.

It feels awesome not having to clean solid floors anymore! Of course, we still don't have Lily or Magic's cages on pans and stacked, but once I get enough money to buy the stands and 2 pans, they will definitely be set up, and then I just have to set up the oher 2 24x24's!! I'm going to have to see how much that will cost me to get.

Amanda still wants a Mini Lop or a Holland Lop... and I have found a newbreed I love- Black Otter Rex!! :inlove:They are just so gorgeous. I've been eyeing a breeder's babies down in Oregon...Absolutely stunning. My 4-H leader's son raises them to, and his are soo sweet! I might be suckered into getting one.

I am sorry for not updating lately with pictures of the babies! I will have to get some of those up soon, too! They are 7 weeks old, and we have 2 does (Kailua and Winchester) and one buck (Veradero). Veradera and Winchester are our show qualities, and Kailua is pet quality. They are 8 weeks on Easter, so I'm holding them until 2 weeks after to prevent them from going to Easter homes.

Ahh, what else? Oh! Chancey is due tomorrow!! She is confirmed pregnant, and started making her nest about a week and a half ago. We are gonna have cute Chancey/Tahj babies! I'm hoping they will be very typey - Chancey has nice shoulders, and I love Tahj's topline and HQs!

I will update soon with pictures!!

Emily

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

Here are the long awaited pictures!

One of the baby girls in their new cage!

Win checking things out from inside the new cage!

Win (I think?) sitting in her purple litterbox. They have such good litter habits!

Babies cuddlin' with mom, Sage, before going to their new cages!

Veradero and all of his green stuff!

Dero again.

Kailua hidin' in the back of her cage!

And here are the after pictures of the rabbitry!!

This is where we store our hay now. Before, it was up on top of that large hutch. Now it's much easier to put the hay bale in the shed, and much more accessible. The small black coffee table to the right we use for storage, and if we need to use the plastic pet cages for extra room, then we just have to move the stuff there, and set those up!

Here we have Tahj in the top left hole, Savannah below him; Veradero on the very top right (that is just a temp cage up there; brought it in for Vero), his sisters Kailua and Winchester below him in the middle, and then Ray is in the bottom hole.

The brood doe cages - Sage on top and Chancey on bottom!

And Magic and Lily - their cages are still on top of the wooden hutch, but once I get the cage stands and trays for these wire cages and the other two in storage, than that hutch will go outside for quarantine/extra cages.

I think in total, counting all the extra cages, we have 21-ish holes!!

Emily

 

[mistyjr]

What are those white and blue matt's that you have in the cages that i seen?

 

[Fancy77]

Nice job on the rabbitry

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

Misty - Those white and blue mats are EZ-Matz, it allows the rabbits get off the wire.

And thank you Denise!

ALSO!!
BABY UPDATE!

Chancey kindled 5 beautiful babies this afternoon! Pictures soon!

Emily

 

[Fancy77]

YAY congrats I cant wait for pics

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

:bump

Emily

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

Today it was pretty nice outdoors, and with Spring Youth Fair coming up in 2 1/2 weeks, I decided to get Magic out and see how he did on the hopping course.

He is getting older, and since I haven't been taking him out as much, I wasn't sure how he was going to do, or if he was even still interested in hopping at all anymore. Anyway, instead of setting up a full course, I just set up a single jump and we played Chase Me Charlie which is a rabbit hopping game (also horse jumping game) where the animal has to jump starting from really low, and each time s/he clears, they get the height raised.

Magic was flying through the jumps, which I totally wasn't expecting! He did run out a couple of times once the jump got upwards of 14 inches, but he was doing really great! He even attempted a 20-inch, but he was too close and so he ended up knocking down the whole jump. He finished the game at a grand 17 inches, which usually wouldn't be so much, but since he hasn't been out in a while, I was very surprised. Usually when I take him out, we work on lower jumps, nothing really exceeding 12-ish inches.

Inbetween me fixing the rails to other heights, Magic was running around the yard, with his leash trailing behind him, and my cat, Charlie (haha), was having quite fun running after Magic and playing with the leash. I did have to yell at him a few times when he was getting to harsh with the leash, but he let go quickly and got the message. Magic also had fun chasing Charlie around the yard as well. So I'm glad he had a blast exercising and also jumping!

I'm looking forward to doing some more coursework this week, and we're going to be sticking with jumps under 10 inches, since all the jumps at SYF are like 6 inches. I'm hoping that he will do good this year, and I'm also going to have to bust out the teeter-totter and A-frame as well so he can get some practice on those.

I am in major need of updating my equipment - which is quite costly, but once I have some funds I'm hopin to build some proper PVC jumps, and a new teeter-totter, A-frame and maybe even build a dog walk. I'd also like somehow fix a PVC pole where I can screw it into the ground, and then I will have weave poles that actually stay in one place! Hopefully I can do that soon, because I'm hoping to have a rabbit hopping class at this year's county rabbit clinic before fair.

I have the video clips uploading to One True Media right now so that I can compile them, so once they're finished and I make the movie, then I will upload it.

In other notes, I also took some pictures of the other bunnies (including all the babies!) as well as a video - which I will also upload later! Check them out!

Ray trying to get out of his cage. He was being very impatient (which you'll see in one of thevideos) when I was talking/petting the other bunnies.

Sitting near his food dish. I like this picture - it looks like he's hiding - although, I'm sure isn't. lol.

Peek-a-boo! I see a cute little babyface!

Chancey pretending to be bashful.

Some Savvy for Ali! She was checking something out at the back of her cage.

Just chillin.

Probably looking at the mess of hay on the floor!

Ray taking a drink from his water bottle.

Cute wittle babies! :inlove:

Magic and Me. Obviously he disapproves of getting his picture taken with me!

More little cuties in the nestbox!

Gorgeous Lily!

Hmmm. I'm trying to think if there are any Rabbitry Updates. As of now, there isn't any that I can think of really other than that we're going to be attending quite a few shows coming up soon. We're hopefully going to make it to a 4-H show the 15th of May, after SYF - which reminds me to get the catalog so I can print that out. We are also hoping to attend the Washington State Rabbit Breeders Convention this year in June (or is it July? Can't remember! )! It would be our first time going and we are really hoping that we can make it. Hopefully we will be paid members of WSRBA by the middle of May, as well as some other clubs. It was my goal to have that done by the beginning of this year, but without $$ that's kind of difficult. lol. Especially when we're going to join about 4 or 5 clubs.

Well, that is all until next time!

Hope you enjoyed the videos and pictures!

 

[JadeIcing]

BlueSkyAcresRabbitry wrote:

Some Savvy for Ali! She was checking something out at the back of her cage.

Just chillin.

Probably looking at the mess of hay on the floor!

:biggrin2:My Savvy!

 

[Fancy77]

OMG What lovely buns..of course the babies r to die for they r so cute

 

[Shaded Night Rabbitry]

Convention is on my birthday! XDD June 26-27. Ellensburg, no?

Which reminds me.. I need to book a hotel soon. X3

 

[mistyjr]

Nice Video that I seen on your rabbitry on youtube.com

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

Goodness, I haven't updated in a while!! I figured it was time for an update with so much that's been happening lately.

Where to start, anyways? lol.

We have changed our rabbitry name from Blue Sky Acres Rabbitry to Blue Camas Rabbitry. We decided to switch because Blue Sky Acres Rabbitry is a mouthful, plus trying to fit 3 letters in the ear of an MR, plus the extra digits for that specific bunny, is very hard to do, lol. We also just wanted a change, too. We chose Blue Camas, because it is a flower that grows abundantly around Western Washington, it's very beautiful, and it played a very important part in the culture/history of Washington.

I have also made a new website: http://www.bluecamasrabbitry.weebly.com and I absolutely love weebly!! It's amazing, and I can't believe I didn't use it sooner!

Hmm... We are going to be attending the WSRB Convention at the end of June! We'll just be sending one bunny, BSA's Kailua, and we'll be sending her with Shaded Night Rabbitry, and then me and my sister will head over on Sunday to watch her in the Youth show, and also pick up two new breeding bucks! We are very excited...

We haven't done much updating with pictures of the babies...they are 8 weeks (almost nine!) old now, and just complete handfuls! They love to get into trouble.They all also have names, now, as well. We have BC's Hey Jude, BC's American Honey, BC's Gloria, and BC's Ridin' Solo. All are named after songs.

We will be keeping these four until early August, and showing them at our County Fair, and then whomever we don't take with us to State in September, we will find new homes for, but hopefully we can get some reservations on each of them before fair rolls around.

We are still reducing some of the bunnies we have right now, trying to make room for better quality stock. It's going slow, and I've been having some bad experiences with past prospective buyers, but hopefully everything will smooth out soon enough and we can find them wonderful loving homes.

I will update with pictures possibly later today. Me and my sister graduate this Sunday, so I'll probably be busy tomorrow afternoon, and then of course all day Sunday.

Stay tuned for pictures!

Emily

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

Oh my gosh...! I can't believe that the last time I updated was when the babies were in the nestbox!! Ahh! Haha. That's crazy.

I guess I should give some updates first?

Hmm..where to begin... We are moving to the Eastern side of WA state this fall, so we are in the process of selling most of our herd, and we will be keeping just 4 rabbits - Magic, Kailua, Chancey, & our new buck, whom I will introduce in a few. Those will be our pemanent rabbits, and then we will probaby have a few litters, and depending on our schedules, possibly sell out, or keep the seniors longer. There are a lot of decisions to be made, but right now we just know that we need to drastically downsize our herd, which was our plan anyways, but is required right now in order to move across the mountains.

In other news, BC's Gloria, had a gender change @ 15 weeks, and is now dubbed BC's Twist & Shout, aka Twister. He is also the POL, and remind you, these babies are the ones pictured above in the nestbox!! They are now 4 months old! Can ya believe it?! lol. Jude, Twister's brother, is also being trained in rabbit hopping, and so far he is doing really well! His training will only be as long as we have him, and maybe his future owners will get into it as well. He would make a great hopper, although he doesn't really like the feeling of the harness. But he'll get used to that.

Our county fair is August 4th thru the 8th, and we will be showing 9 rabbits. We are excited to see how all of our juniors do and are hoping for some good results! After that will be State fair, unless we make it up to Monroe for a triple MR specialty, which would be nice, but we'll have to see.

Our next litters won't be until the fall, and I will either be breeding Kailua in August or September, depending on our moving schedule. I want to breed Chancey too, but Kai is already almost 6 months old, so she is the main priority. If I breed Kailua after the move, then I will most likely breed Chancey too, otherwise I will wait and see how things pan out. Here's hoping I could breed them both before we move.

Now, onto some pictures!! (Pictures below description are that bunny. haha)

Firstly, this is our new buck, Twin Barn's Sawyer, aka "Rowdy". He is a gorgeous little buck, and will be bred to Kailua & Chancey. We are expecting some very nice babies from these pairs and can't wait to breed! He is a very handsome boy.

Here is Ray!

Here is one of the juniors, mentioned above, Twister. He is the POL out of the current litter of 4 - 2 bucks, 2 does. He has very nice texure, promising density, and has very nice type. I'm very pleased with him. His father is Taj, and mother is Chancey. He is going to be my fitt & show bunny at fair this year, and I'm happy to use a boy this time; the last two times I have used a girl, they usually pee on me by the time we get off the table. :rollseyesHopefully this won't happen this time! Haha. He's a really sweet boy.

Hope you enjoyed! I'll update in about 5-ish minutes with some pictures of Magic jumping.

Emily

 

[irishbunny]

Nice update