We have been super busy! The kids only have 1 1/2 days left of school. I can't wait!
On the bunny side of things: breeding is in full swing. I hope! For Cals, we have Twila, Alfie, and Ruby bred. Twila and Alfie I don't know about, but Ruby is definitely going to have babies. She started building her nest the second I put the box in. She has quite a bit of fur pulled already. I just hope the other 2 caught.
Adeline, bred to Sonny, is due tomorrow, too. I'm a bit worried about this litter. Only because Adeline isn't strong in the shoulder department...and I don't think that it's Sonny's strong point, either. This will be Adeline's last litter for the year.
My goal is to only have a litter or 2 from each doe. That way we can hang on to the babies longer, without buying 1000 new cages and having way more rabbits than we can handle.
We want to breed Twila again towards the end of the year. Kitty can't show her, because she appears to be developing a small spot of smut on her belly.
Ruby can't be shown, because she has a broken tail (came like that). Her tail looks straight, but you can definitely feel where it was broken. Whether we keep her or not will depend on what her babies look like. If they're really, really nice, then she can stay as a brood doe. If not, she'll be sold in August.
Alfie has done extremely well on the tables this year. But she'll be in the same boat as Ruby. If she has really nice babies, she might stay. But odds are good that she'll be sold in August, too.
No babies out of Rosa or Cher. Cher I'll try a few more times before writing her off and re-selling her as a pet. Rosa will be sold shortly. If she has a litter, it won't be until they're weaned. If she didn't catch this time, then she'll go after her kindle date is past.
Then there's Max and Trisha. They'll both need to be bred after the big fair in August. Which stinks, because Kitty and I both wanted to show them all year. But, thankfully, by then she'll have her 3 current Cal babies and the Flop she got from me. And I'll have my 2 Flops, so won't be completely bunny-less.
I really, really, really have to figure out what I'm doing with Spaz.
I would have liked to get just one litter out of him and Cher. But neither one of them are following my goals for the year, darn them. LOL All joking aside, if he doesn't breed a doe for me, he's gone. Adeline is a super easy breeder, and he wouldn't even breed her. You still can't pick him up, or even touch him. To try to get him to breed, I just put the x-pen around his cage, waited until he came out, then shut the x-pen around him. That's the only way to get him to and from his cage...period.
I kept Dopie Opie, to see if he'll be a good candidate for breeding/showing. And still have Heifer (who is now named Hillary). If I don't sell her at the big show on the 3rd, I'll drop her price down to a pet price and just sell her with a birth certificate instead of a pedigree. Out of the 7 babies from that litter, she's my least favorite one...in personality and quality.
