Purple Mountain Rabbitry Blog 2010

Rabbits Online Forum

Help Support Rabbits Online Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

Purple Mountain Rabbitry

Well-Known Member
Joined
Sep 18, 2010
Messages
595
Reaction score
0
Location
Caldwell, Idaho, USA
So my first blog ever. Well right now I am staying at home cause my mom is getting ready to have my baby sister(October). I am so excited. I am hosting my mom's baby shower October 2. Other than that I really don't have a life outside of my animals. Not till January anyway when spring semester starts for TVCC. i will be going to study music education.

13639_191713_290000001.jpg

Summer is doing good and growing to be the prettiest thing. She thinks shes all that and is truly a little escape artist.

13639_191708_240000003.jpg

Rhett is just as high and mighty as always. He got to breed my Black senior doe pixie the other day. Pixie is mad at me but Rhett is as happy as can be.

13639_191708_240000002.jpg

Peanutt is his usual curious self. He has become everyones baby. He likes to come out of his cage and walk around and help me feed everyone else. he has such a personality.

13639_191708_240000001.jpg

Mocha has become lazier. She just lies around most of the time. I bred her back in august, maybe its because she knows?, But she is calmer which is nice she doesn't try to bite my hands off everytime I feed her I hope she is finally starting to trust me.

13639_191616_170000000.jpg

Ella is my mild baby. she lay around hop around a little bit. she loves being petted. Idk if shes been bred or not but I hope so. she is so sweet and such a character she'll tell me when its feeding time cause she will smack her feeder against the cage so I can hear it inside. she is spoiled, she always gets fed first since her cage is right by the feed, and she knows it. but she is my baby and I love her.

Gizmo is still shy of me I've been trying to get him to trust me but its not working. any ideas? but he is such a big baby once you do pick him up, more to my brother aand dad than me.

Pixie is mad at me for breeding her and will barely let me touch her. The lady was supposed to send me the papers the day after I got her cause she finally found them. I waited three weeks not a word. so I called her yesterday and told her to get me the papers or I would turn her into ARBA. She wasn't happy but hopefully I will have them today Finally.

My Lionhead is driving me crazy. He does that flop thing and scares the crap out of me. I was told he was 3 when I got him but he seems like he may be older. Idk how to tell the age on a rabbits.but He is such a lovey boy. He loves to be petted and scratched and gives kisses. lol

Belle is doing ok. Sister decided to attack her yesterday so we had to separate them. she has some scratches on her body that I am taking care of. She is startin to trust me I think. I think shes starting to become my baby. she knows when I come out there and she will whine and complain till I come over to her. My dad wated to name her shadow but she wouldn't listen I said belle and she pricked her ears up and came over to me.

Angel is my moody baby. She does not want to be touched or petted. but she calms down when I take care of her feet everyday they were rubbed raw by the cround she was on but i've been putting antibiotic an her feet and they are doing much better she seems to calm down after that. do you think she could just be agitated cause of her feet?

Now Cattle
13639_201438_550000000.jpg

Star is as big of baby as ever. We had kids over yesterday. She was so excited she loves kids. My cattle tell me when its feeding time. They will bellow into the window till we go out and feed.

13639_201440_230000000.jpg

June is my baby. she is kind of erie of kids. but she let them pet her yesterday then she backed off.

Heart Braker is my little Heifer. she is the one closest to the camera but facing the camera. Her and her brother the bull pic below hers as well as another heifer and 2 steers will be coming in in october. Yay!!!! so my life will be hectic.

13639_201447_440000000.jpg

13639_201443_140000000.jpg


The horses are both good. Majestic is the fieary gelding He has always been. and Nellie is such a baby she got ridden yesterday such a good girl. I think she was just happy to be out of her pen and excercising.

I have three people who I'm helping with rabbits next year. Taylor who I met at fair. Shelby who is going toget a baby from me and show rabbits next year. and a girl who I was going to get a rabbit from but she showed her goats for the first time this year and really wants to keep her rabbit and show it. I said it was fine and to let me know if she needed any help. so we are all gonna get together practice, study, have fun. lol

well thats it for now

crystal:happybunny:






 
:thanks:Thank you. And yes a zoo hint I have no life. I'm a animal slave. lol. Taylor has shown but she is younger so she still has alot to learn I do as well, but I've had to learn faster since I was in the advanced senior class against kids that have been doing this for years and years. but the other two have never done it so tay will be a great help to me durring study sessions, we are going to teach them all we know then :huhwhat we don't know we will study study study. :caffeinewe are so excited. Not only do we have more people showing but we get to teach them and hang out and have fun. We have all become good friends:lurker through our rabbits. lol. :happyrabbit:
 
So I got my registration papers for pixie today. unfortunately she has no registration number soI will have to get her registered which upsets me because I was told she was registered. She sent me a letter:

Hi,

I am very sorry this took so long I have been very sick and made an honest mistake in deleting your info off my phone. I am also sorry that you chose to be rude on the phone. I was waiting for you to contact, and had been prepared to offer you 2 of my very nice brood does that I no longer need. The one is a registered grandchampion, the other a very nice doe from the maximus herd out of Arizona. I will attempt to find another 4H child to give them to. I do not need or deserve the stress over a $0 rabbit. again I am sorry for the delay.

However, I find several things wrong with this letter.

1. even if she did lose my info off of her phone we have emailed several times and i tried to contact her several time to no avail.

2. I think I had every right to say I would turn her into ARBA if she didn't send me the papers I paid for. and that I waited for for 3 weeks and tried to contact the lady to no avail. am i wrong? I wasn't even rude about it.

3. she says one is a grand champion doe but she has not shown in 20 years so how can that rabbit be a grandchampion.

4. She was not a $0 rabbit. I paid for her and even if she was that shouldn't matter she is a rabbit and she deserve respect.

This lady cares nothing for her rabbits. I feel sorry for the ones she still has ad am glad i got pixie away from her and into my loving home and family.I will never do business with this lady again. she sent her reg. papers in a small involope and now they are all bent up. will this be a problem?

Also here is pixies breeding:

KT'S Berretta

BLACK

KT'S7KTG

BLACK

KT'S Lady in Black

BLACK

Hoffmanns BlackBeard

BLACKCresthill's Howie

BROKEN BLACK

Hoffman's AB2DUA

BLACK

Hoffman's AB2E2

Pixies Dust's Black CoalBLACK

BLACK

Maximum's Bud

OTTER CHOCOLATE

Maximum's Ace

OTTER CHOCOLATE

Cresthill's Sicily

OTTER CHOCOLATE

Bechtol's Lattee-Tigerlily

CHOCOLATE

Hoagland's Black Jack

OTTER BLACK

Hoagland's Dream

OTTER CHOCOLATE

Hoaglands Cool Heaven

CHOCOLATE

I bred this Doe to my broken black and white buck, Rhett
 
So Belle is really starting to trust me. She likes to sit on the arm of the recliner, I have in my garage where I keep my rabbits, while I read. She wil suggle between my side and my arm and just lay a listen. the other rabbits will lay down in their cages, its bedtime when i read to them, and listen. Belle will throw a fit in her cage if i don't get her out when I read but once she is out and on the recliner with me shes fine. After bedtime story I will put Belle away turn on the radio and turn out the light and everyone sleeps soundly.

Angel is starting to trust me too. my brother threw something in the garage last night. and it landed on angels cage. i picked her up and she snuggled up by my cheek. It was so cute.I wish I had gotten pics. oh well.

Mocha is pulling hair so mom and I are going to get a nest box later. This is my first litter but not hers she has had at least one before she has the dewlap. so I will keep everyone updated on that.

crystal
 
Wow, that is quite an awesome life you have. Being an animal slave is nothing to be ashamed of. :biggrin:

I can't wait to hear more about you and your adventures in agriculture!
 
Thanks. I will keep everyone updated on the going ons here and I am quite proud to be an animals slave lol I love my babies. People often say i have a golden heart because I love my animals so much and cry alot when I lose/sale/give away an animal. some still think I'm crazy but oh well. Some people cant even understand why I would rather be at home with my animals or going to a show/rodeo every week/weekend. Oh well thats me.

Oh so we figured Out that star (roan heifer) took so she is pregnant. However my heifer June did not since she ended up with pnuemonia at fair. 106.6 temp. I almost lost her I cried so much. My so called 4h leader tom didn't even care before he knew her temp, she was coughing alot and was really hot and not eating or drinking, hesaid she didn't need a vet. yeah right. I had the vet come. she was really sick. He was just mad about me beating one of his heifers in the 4h show. Oh well. I am getting her rebred when she comes back into heat. so i will let everyone what happens with that.

crystal
 
Oh my. Pneumonia is a very bad thing to get. One of my goats had it just a couple of weeks ago, I think his temp. was about the same. I had to take him to the vet too, luckily we caught it in time and the on-call vet was actually the most experienced vet there.

Best of luck with your heifer, I pray she gets better quickly.
 
Pedigree of red and white heifer (not roan): JUNE
*x3949252 CF PROSPERITY X
*x4067257 CFS TONI
*x3966246 NB MACARENA
Sire:*x4126218 PHF CRUISER 132T
*x4036158 HR HOT TOPIC
*x4085400 WIEBES HOT MABEL 43
*x4051884 WIEBES SUPER MABEL 32


*x3949252 CF PROSPERITY X
*x4067257 CFS TONI
*x3966246 NB MACARENA
Dam:*x4108535 PHF ROSE 31
*x4036158 HR HOT TOPIC
*x4085401 WIEBES SUPER ENTICER 48
*4051889 WIEBES SUPER FLAG 35

13639_201440_230000000.jpg





Pedigree of roan heifer: STAR

*x3949252 CF PROSPERITY X
*x4067257 CFS TONI
*x3966246 NB MACARENA
Sire:*x4126218 PHF CRUISER 132T
*x4036158 HR HOT TOPIC
*x4085400 WIEBES HOT MABEL 43
*x4051884 WIEBES SUPER MABEL 32

*x4026152 RT GOLD LINK 57K
*x4075229 CCS STAR CHANGER
*x4028187 MELBAR MVF STAR BABY 3637
Dam:*x4126213 PHF STAR 129T
*x4067257 CFS TONI
*x4091361 PHF DUCHESS 22
*x4064440 HW WINNING QUEEN 10

13639_201438_550000000.jpg


 
Today was cleaning day. I went to Steve Reagen and got shavings they are amazing. Thinner bigger softer
13639_241845_480000000.jpg
Everyone was happy. Angel even put her feet down on it all the way.
13639_241846_140000000.jpg
I checked her feet they are much better. I rearranged my area today so all the girls are on one side youngest juniour doe to oldest senior doe. and the boys are on the other side no oder actually. I only have four so its not a big deal. i am just really happy with this new bedding and they like it alot more they dont throw it out of their cages and they actually lay on it. I will deffinately stick with this new bedding.

so my new order front to back:

Wall side: Does:

Summer

Belle

Angel

Ella

Pixie

Mocha

Chair side: Bucks:

Peanutt

Rhett

Einstein

Gizmo

Chair side means the side that has my recliner on it. My dad gave me his old recliner and I sit in it when I read to the rabbits. lol. They also have the radio going 24-7 on 107.9 LIGHT FM. Can we say spoiled? Oh and I have a show table area, well not a show table yet I use the top of one of my dads standing tool boxes perfect size, next to the chair area. there is the tool box and a desk there to put my equiptment at. I plan on getting a carpeted area with NIC panels around it as well as a play pen for the rabbits. There is an old couch in there that will sit beside the carpeted and play pen area for when everyone wants to come out and watch th rabbits. I am taking over my dads garage. well part of it anyway. My dad doesn't care he loves my rabbits. Some day I am gonna have a big shed/barn for all of this.

Crystal


 
I cleaned the garage today so I could get my rabbits play pen in. Their play pen is a big round metal trough. I pu them in it one at a time so they could each experience it. i was so fun to see them hop around and play. They haven't had alot of excercise since we moved cause the garage had alot of stuff from moving in it. so now they can get out and play. which is nice cause they are happier. at the old house they had the whole tack room to themselves. oh well one day I am going to have a big barn just for rabbit stuff.

Well I have a little barn thing made but its on pait and cant seem to get it to go onto here. anyway it has a rabbit room, a play area, A kindling room, an equiptment room, a medical room, a quarantine room (new rabbits, sick rabbits), and an office with a hallway.

Outside play area!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

play area rabbit room

equiptment hallway kindling

medicalhallway kindling

quarantinehallwaymy office

this is the setup I'm thinking of. This is my dream yes my "kids" are spoiled. I can't wait to have a place to make this dream a reality.
 
So i took some pics of two of my does today yay. well My friend taylor wanted pics of summer cause she sold her to me. she looks good. and I met up with pixies original owner by accident when I was emailing about some rabbits well we got to talking so I sent her some pics.

Summer

13639_081940_450000000.jpg


13639_081942_540000000.jpg


13639_081943_460000000.jpg


Pixie

13639_081959_060000000.jpg



13639_081959_220000000.jpg


13639_081959_420000000.jpg


So everything is crazy around here pixie and Ellais due end of next week begining of the following week. And rebecca pixies old owner is helping me find a castor buck for Summer. And my baby sister is due any day now. Yay!!!

Crystal






 
Oh My Darlin Rabbitry wrote:
13639_191708_240000001.jpg

Mocha has become lazier. She just lies around most of the time. I bred her back in august, maybe its because she knows?, But she is calmer which is nice she doesn't try to bite my hands off everytime I feed her I hope she is finally starting to trust me.

She reminds me of my 2yr old mini lop Smudge:)

Smudge is blind and sits on the same spot all day, got her out in the play pens today she sniffs around and then ...just sits there.
 
I do. he has gone to a new home I had some peopl out and one ofthe ladies fell in love with him and wanted him for breeding to her lionhead does but I get pics and can go see him whenever and I may be showing her lionheads this year.

13639_211523_410000000.jpg



We are expecting his first litter soon so when I get pics I will post them.

Crystal
 

Latest posts

Back
Top