Galewind Rabbitry

07/20/2024

Very excited for Shania Fagan as Sage gets ready to kindle 🤞🏻 for a healthy litter!

07/17/2024

Don’t know if 50 is a good number 🫣 I’m good with a handful of trouble makers!

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07/16/2024

When it rains it pours- Quarantine was one of my absolute favorite rabbits. Much like Blue she was set to live out her days as a beloved pet retired from her show career. It was a conscious decision to let her go as her quality of life was going and it was not fair to let her suffer. I’ll miss her antics dearly - she loved to dance on her back feet and scare me when she took naps. I knew she was something special when she was just a little tater tot, she had a few big wins and really motivated me to continue with the color specialization for her breed.

07/05/2024

This little man from Lemon looks more and more like a keeper every time I post him up! Hard to believe that he is only 7.5 weeks old! 🍋🐇

05/12/2024

Lemon gave me the best Mother’s Day gift! 💝 Extremely excited for this litter to grow and develop!

03/06/2024

And just like that a big chapter comes to a close… at one point our herd was just under 50 and now we are at 7 total rabbits!

We are thankful for the friends we made along the way and the adventures we had!

Maybe not goodbye for forever but definitely a goodbye for now.

Picture 1: 10/2018
Picture 2: 07/2019
Picture 3: 04/2023
Picture4: today

10/15/2023

She’s back home and all settled in! Firecracker Rabbitry did a fantastic job caring for her!

Lemon placed second place in her age division! I am extremely proud of this doe and cannot wait to get her bred for Nationals!

10/09/2023

Swipe right to see the transformation from a herd of 46 to a max of 22! I currently only house rabbits in 14 of the 22 spaces I have as well! Chores definitely go faster right now in the bunny barn. I’m hoping for a big baby boom this winter to help restock some of the cages come spring!

05/07/2023

Up and coming:
Galewind’s Witch Hunt

This doe may join the ranks of the colored rabbits permitted to stay in the herd.

05/05/2023

Up and coming:
Galewind’s Lemon 🍋
(Galewind’s Quarantine x Firecracker’s Skyler)

Lemon is the only doe of her litter and being held back along with one of her brothers. I’m definitely impressed with how this litter is developing this far!

05/01/2023

He’s back!!! Galewind’s Secret Admirer (ADM) has made a full recovery from Mother Nature and feed issues over winter.

If you’ve been following along a little bit at the shows - this is the buck who I nearly lost and moved into the house over winter. He’s also the buck that I said if I couldn’t save I’d have sold out completely of Polish.

But he’s back and as gorgeous as ever- just needs a tiny bit more conditioning and a molt out before he’s ready for any show tables.

04/17/2023

Thank you to everyone who purchased animals during my herd reduction, I greatly appreciate all the support and interest in my animals! I am extremely proud to say that 90% of them went to youth breeders!

I am not entirely leaving the Polish breed, just narrowing down my focus and now have to recover from an unusually rough winter.

I probably won’t be attending many shows this year to allow my animals to recondition themselves and the fact that I don’t have much for showing right now.

Upon my return from a very educational Polish / Dwarf Hotot Nationals I discovered that I had lost two very promising jrs. I normally try not to get overly attached as anything can happen and luck / fate / nature have not been on my side lately - but I was extremely attached to my BEW jr doe. Her name was Ascend, as I had high hopes in her potential to re-launch my show career. She would hang out in my hoodies as I fed everyone else. She was also the sole surviving kit of her litter and out of my all time favorite buck Secret Admirer (ADM) whom I almost lost over winter due to feed issues and mother nature. As many Wisconsin breeders learned his health has been a HUGE pivoting point for me, if I were to lose him I had decided I’d sell the rest of my herd.

Long story short: I have a TON of rebuilding to do and will most likely fall off the grid for awhile in order to give my herd its best chance for survival and protect the progress I have made over the last 5 years. I’m humbled by everyone’s concern regarding my reduction and very privileged to have helped many youth animals with the dispersal.

04/13/2023

Pickles went home today to a young 4Her! That smile is why I love embarking on the journey with a new family and assisting in picking out the perfect bunny for their family!

I cannot wait to see how he does!

02/15/2023

Pop goes the lilac! One of many Alicia has at the moment (there’s a total of 7 baby lilacs this age in the herd right now!)

02/04/2023

So excited for this little doe to make her way to WASHINGTON STATE! She’ll be my first one there!

01/22/2023

Check photos for descriptions - expiration dates for this lot is the Badger show in Jefferson (3/12)

01/20/2023

Well cages are filling up here pretty fast! Alicia is running a tight breeding program this year with does due just about every two weeks at the moment - meaning we are something through litters fast and moving a bunch of stock!

Pictures of everything going to Tomah, Wi this weekend will be posted tomorrow! Anything not sold there will be along to Richfield, Wi.

We have every variety in the boxes right now - so if there’s something you want that you don’t see posted let us know, we’ve probably got it but it might be too young to post yet!

01/16/2023

12/30/2022

We’ve got snuggly babies!

These are the bathroom babes - born during frigid temperatures so I brought 1 doe in after her babies were born and set her up in the bathtub and brought another in before she kindled and set her up in my shower!

Together each is fostering 2 babies from additional litters born outside! Total kit number is 8! 3 Dwarf Hotot and 5 Polish (2 BEW, 1 REW, 1 chocolate and 1 lilac)

12/23/2022

Well 2 litters have been born already and 4 more does getting ready to drop their litters before Christmas!

11/20/2022

We love hearing about the success you have with the rabbits you’ve acquired from us!

AN, now owned by Megan Achin wind BOSB yesterday!

Thank you for keeping us updated!

11/19/2022

Whelp this NORMALLY would’ve been done at the beginning of November and cleaned and prepped for… well not this year!

With the weather turning wicked so fast Alicia pulled the plug on cleaning and dropped the plastic - especially with some of the nuggets we have in boxes!

11/13/2022

So this happened… BOS AND BOB!!!

Haven’t been to our normal shows this year with weirdly timed breedings and lack of show animals but today we had a ton of success!!! Posed pictures aren’t the best, I was in shock and they were ready to go home 🤣

BLACK
SS - 1st place junior buck
AF - 2nd place junior buck
CC- 7th place junior doe

BLUE
PS - 2nd place junior buck

CHOCOLATE
PE - 1st place junior doe, BOV, BOB
LL - 3rd

LILAC
DTM - 1st place, BOSV

BEW
ADM - 1st place junior buck, BOV, BOS
SC - 2nd place junior buck

REW
SF - 1st place junior doe, BOSV

Only 70 more days until the next show (but who’s really counting!)

11/05/2022

Huge thanks to our amazing rabbit baby watcher! We had 3 litters born while we were at ARBA Convention in Reno, NV - 3 more does due any day now!! And many pairings to do once we do get home!

10/21/2022

Only slightly upset I didn’t enter this guy for convention 🥴

10/20/2022

OH MY GOODNESS - this head on this rabbit is PHENOMENAL, what’s even better is that it’s a DOE - and the cherry on top is she’s out of my FAVORITE BEW doe Quarantine! Needless to say BINX won’t be going anywhere anytime soon at all, for 4 months and a monstrous head with decent type, I’m not complaining at all! 🖤🖤🖤

09/17/2022

Amherst Swap today and Fox Valley show next weekend- plenty of pick up opportunities to add new blood to your herd 😉

09/16/2022

TAL and GL1L SOLD

The latest sale flyer!! Down to 10 animals, if something catches your eye don't wait!

08/14/2022

The sale flyer is finally complete! Trying something new this year :)

08/07/2022

State Fair has been our first show attended since March! The rabbits we took did alright, nothing super impressive- but the best animals ended up not being entered by the time everyone had matured out a little more!

We’ve only got a couple more shows on our radar for the year:

Summer Polish Picnic - August 27th
State Convention- September 10th
ARBA Convention (Reno, NV) - October