Royal Aspen Rabbitry

08/20/2024

This doe is currently looking for a new barn.
14 weeks, Black New Zealand cross. Royal Aspen’s Sadie

She’s had a slower grow out, which I usually don’t see in my lines, due to her being weaned early. Really nice depth and width though. She’s from a litter of 11, her mom has never given me a litter smaller than ten. Mom is 9 pounds, Dad was 13.
Her mother is an absolutely amazing rabbit, really dense fur, can gain weight on just about anything, bred for temperature durability. Her father had amazing type and size.

She is the last that I have out of her father’s lines, so I’d love to see her be able to produce for someone else. She’s really sweet, and well handled. Would make a great addition to a meat program ❤️

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08/15/2024

This little guy finally let me pose him. Really happy with how he’s looking
Wildrose Dimitri ❤️

08/10/2024

Posing practice with Dusk, I’ve had this breed over a year and still haven’t completely gotten the hang of posing upright breeds. But we’re working on it

Royal Aspen’s Suspended in Dusk 💙

08/10/2024

Emma decided she didn’t not want to be photogenic, but she’s still really cute.

Royal Aspen’s Spitfire 🧡

08/08/2024

08/04/2024

Finally got around to making a pedigree template and drawing up pedigrees for my homegrown woolies the other day. Just waiting on Void to have babies now, but I think the heat has been getting to my bucks. Hopefully will have litters by the end of August 🤞.

08/01/2024

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07/28/2024

Got one final breeding out of my large rabbits for the year. This will be Fae’s second litter of the year, and Alexei’s first litter ever. Really hoping she takes 🤞

Wildrose Alexei x CT Faeryn

07/22/2024

Trying to get poses pictures of my rabbits while they’re molting is rough 😭, especially when you don’t get the right angles. Absolutely failed attempt, he’s a very pretty buck in person though

Wildrose Alexei ❤️

07/19/2024

Brought in Dusk for some cuddles. He’s one of the two I kept from my first Wooly litter last year

Royal Aspen’s Suspended in Dusk ❤️

07/17/2024

A big thank you to PhantomArts AJ, for creating our new logo. Absolutely obsessed 😍

07/16/2024

Ricky got some extra love today

Royal Aspen’s Ricky Olsen - Available

07/14/2024

I love these two bucks so much

Royal Aspen’s Ryan & Ricky ❤️
Both available

07/12/2024

I know it’s been a while since I posted, so I figured I’d give an update on everything.

In September, we welcomed a new New Zealand buck into a program, Wildrose Alexei a REW. I have yet to breed him, but am planning to in the next couple of months.

CT Yuki and Ophelia have gone back to their original breeder as we downsized. Currently CT Faeryn as our only large-breed breeding doe. She has had two litters with Wildrose Hunter since November. I will be posting four from her last litter in the next couple of days, who I sadly don’t have the room to grow out.

Unfortunately Wisteria is no longer with us, though I have three of her daughters with great potential which will hopefully be our breeders in the future. Royal Aspen’s Comfort of the Void is due in August, though I’m unsure if she took because of the heat. I’ll be posting the other two as they grow up.

Royal Aspen’s Suspended in Dusk has replaced his father as one of our two herd bucks for the Jersey Woolies, and I’m looking forward to seeing what he produces in 2024.

We also brought in a REW Rex buck, Wildrose Dimitri to test out the breed. He’s the sweetest thing, and I absolutely adore him and look forward to see where I go with this breed.

A big thank you to Heather at Beladarus Rabbitry and her mother at Wildrose Rabbitry for all they’ve done for me in this hobby. They are both amazing to work with and I highly recommend them.

09/23/2023

Wisteria and her babies got to go outside today for the first time. They were a little unsure at first but they’re pretty content now.

Featuring their father in the background too.

09/19/2023

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09/16/2023

Gotta start them young, Love how cooperative this little otter is

Royal Aspen’s Comfort of the Void
Wisteria x Aether, 3 weeks.

09/08/2023

Wisteria’s babies are now two weeks old. Their eyes are all open and they’re starting to cause trouble.

I tried sexing them yesterday and it looks like 2 (Black otter) is a buck, and 4 (Squirrel) is a doe, the others are too small to tell. I’ll recheck in a few days.

Overall it looks like I won’t be keeping the 1 (broken) due to being under marked and without a nose marking. But it’s a waiting game with the others to see how they grow up.

09/01/2023

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09/01/2023

The chins on these two 😂

08/29/2023

Piglet just hit 4Ibs at 7 weeks, meaning she has nearly doubled in size since I weighed her on the 16th. The harlequin baby she’s in with, that’s either her age or older, looks tiny compared to her. I’m patiently waiting for when I can do my first evaluation on her, which will be sometime in the next week or two.

Royal Aspen’s Piglet
CT Ophelia x Wildrose Hunter

08/25/2023

The babies. My guesses are Broken Opal, Black otter, and two squirrels; but we’ll see when they get their hair.

Wisteria x Aether

08/24/2023

Wisteria finally had her babies. We’ve got four, 3 dark ones I’m unsure on, and 1 broken opal. I’ll try to get some pictures of them this evening.

08/22/2023

It’s Day 5 of baby watch for Wisteria.

She’s huge and miserable, much different to her last pregnancy where I was certain she didn’t catch. Her last possible due date is the 31st but I’m hoping she’ll have them much sooner. She’s been moved into a hutch to kindle, and hopefully we’ll have no issues this time🤞

08/19/2023

Welcomed this beautiful boy into the rabbitry yesterday. He’s got some bald spots right now, but I’ll get some posed up pictures of him when they come in. Really impressed with him overall though

08/18/2023

Molting season and Miso seems to be getting the worst end of the stick. She also decided to not be photogenic, and look crazy instead.

Mountain Pine’s Miso ❤️

08/17/2023

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08/15/2023

Got to some breedings today, so I figured I’d share some of our upcoming litters.

Meat rabbits:

CT Yuki (Tricolor) x Wildrose Hunter (Broken Steel NZ) Due Oct. 14th

Mountain Pine’s Miso (Black Magpie Harlequin-breed) x Wildrose Hunter Due Oct. 14th

CT Ophelia (Broken Black) x Wildrose Hunter Due Oct. 14th.

These will be some of the last litters of the year, still debating if and who I’ll breed this winter.

Current litters:

Jersey Wooly:
Wisteria (Squirrel) x Aether (Broken Opal) Born Aug. 26th

Meat rabbits:

CT Faeryn (Blue Harlequin) x Wildrose Hunter (Broken Steel NZ) Born Oct. 15th

08/13/2023

Nothing I love more than to see hungry rabbits waiting for their dinner, evening feedings are my favourite ❤️