Lockheart Rabbitry

01/27/2025

Glaze, chinchilla Rex buck. 9 months old. He has a lilac sister and his sire was a white (agouti castor under white and has b,d,e, & w). (Mom was self lilac who had a chinchilla grandsire or greatgrandsire).

01/22/2025

Sandy Anne says, “What’s this stuff?”

01/22/2025

Everybunny got snowballs this morning. First time in TX they got any snow LOL! They enjoyed nibbling on them.

12/19/2024

With Hoppy Days Rabbitry – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! It’s true! I ❤️ them, and have learned so much from Brooke. She is amazing for all her informative posts and knowledge she shares with us.🎉

12/19/2024

This guy is called Aqua out of my doe Wahoo and my Decker Buck who I lost last summer (his name was Chewbacca).

10/24/2024

Bunny Rabbit was my first experience with rabbits LOL.

09/20/2024

I have two dogs that act exactly like these LOL.

08/30/2024

I remember this, I had an Appaloosa gelding at the time. It was big news and awesome! LOL. Got to see lots of photos of him in the breed magazines. He was gorgeous.

Thought you might enjoy:
The Story of ‘First Secretary’
No one knew for sure if Secretariat would produce offspring. Lab results found the Triple Crown winner and Throughbred legend had "immature s***m in differing amounts." So the Claiborne Farm staff decided to test breed the stallion. By chance, they chose a nurse mare named Leola, an Appaloosa. Secretariat was fertile, and the breeding took.

Several Appaloosa enthusiasts contacted Claiborne Farm to buy the mare and her unborn foal. John and Lynn Nankivil of Winona, Minnesota, prevailed with an undisclosed amount of money and purchased Leola and the chance that she carried a colored c**t. Even before the foal's birth, several breeders had purchased breeding rights to Secretariat's first foal, without knowing if Leola would produce a c**t.

On the cold Minnesota night of November 15, 1974, Leola produced Secretariat's first foal, a blanketed Appaloosa clone of the great Thoroughbred. First Secretary grew to a full 17 hands, an inch taller than his sire. And like his sire, First Secretary owned a rich red coat, three white socks and a blaze.

The foaling made national news, and even forced President Gerald Ford to apologize for a remark he'd recently made at a Republican fundraising event. He'd said that his critics, like Secretariat, were "fast on their feet but not producing much."

Secretariat had produced something for the Appaloosa world. First Secretary's November birthday made him ineligible to race, so instead his owners used him as a stud. He sired 247 foals including 39 race starters and 33 point earners. First Secretary lived into old age and died in 1993 after suffering from colic.

p.s. - Initially Claiborne refused to acknowledge the paternal parentage of the foal, offering to allow the person who bought it to register the foal with the Appaloosa Horse Club as sired by an "unknown Thoroughbred." The buyer of the c**t countered that they would only do that if they were allowed to register the c**t as sired by an "unknown Thoroughbred Triple Crown winner." (Secretariat was at that time the only American Triple Crown winner alive.) Claiborne finally relented and First Secretary was allowed to be registered as a son of Secretariat.

08/04/2024

Wow

07/04/2024

Happy 4th of July!

05/31/2024

This is Sandra Anne.

05/31/2024

These kits are out of my castor doe Gingerbread. The one blue is so dark. There is an Amber, several whites, a lilac, and some castors too. They are so cute at this age, just around 3wks.

05/31/2024

Here’s another angry rabbit, Ms. Rosie. I petted her also. Noon isn’t the time for ear rubs apparently. At least not in TX. 🤣

05/31/2024

This is AquaMan. He was mad I petted him. LOL. It was too hot for PDAs 😆

05/31/2024

This chin kit is a cute little chunker.

05/31/2024

It was pretty hot out when I was out taking snapshots of some rabbits. Too hot to annoy them too much, so nothing posed. These kits are out of a lilac doe that I discovered carries chin.