Groundwell Fluffery

06/01/2024

Making hot (and I mean HOT) Italian sausage today with a half rabbit half venison mix. Ven/rab makes the best burgers and sausage!

05/28/2024

Have you ever considered that for less than the price of a single family meal at a restaurant (possibly even at McDonald's) you can have a breeding set of rabbits tha will provide you with hundreds of dollars worth of meat each year?

05/12/2024

This is why we fence our rabbitry! Occasionally a cage doesn't get properly re-latched and an escape occurs. If there wasn't a fence we might lose a breeder from time to time. And with all of the investments in each breeder that would be a sad loss!

03/05/2024

This guy is right on point, and if you're in Macon county TN, I'm your source!

02/27/2024

A few of our up and coming kits! Aren't they just lovely!

12/07/2023

Finally got business cards!

11/03/2023

10/03/2023

And Sweet Peggy Sue delivered right on time! A beautiful litter of eight healthy wigglers!

09/30/2023

Alpine Avalanche managing to look both imperious and very pregnant! Hoping for a typical litter of 12 to 14!

09/30/2023

The Fluffery has been kinda quiet for a while. Breeding stopped before summer started, and we processed our last set of kits last week.

But today, we boxed our first set of bred does for the season! They are working away on their nests in their own personal fashions.

Alpine the legendary experienced doe is working methodically, arranging the hay in her box carefully, hopefully indicating that she's ready to put out another of her characteristically large litters.

Due, who had her first litter of 6 last season, pulled half the hay out of her box and strewed it all over the place!

And sweet Peggy Sue, the first timer, is walking around with her hay mustache trying to decide whether to tuck it in the corner, lay it on top of the nesting box, attach it to the ceiling, or maybe, just maybe, add it to the rest of the hay in the box!

09/30/2023

"Potato salad and barbecue goes together like potato salad and barbecue." Anon

09/15/2023

Here in Lafayette TN we have four beautiful, purebred New Zealand Whites, ready to breed in December! Two does, two bucks. Litter mates.
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09/02/2023

Young love!

We are excited about the beginning of this breeding season! For the first time we have a breeding pair of broken coats!

Meet Rikki (on the left) our young buck out of Bernadine and Gavin. We never expected to get a broken out of that pairing, because neither parent is broken.

Peggy Sue is the daughter of a rabbit we received from a friend. She is full broken from both parents!

We can't wait to see what comes from this love affair!

07/22/2023

My husband asked me, last night, "How long does it take before a bunny in the feeder stops being hopelessly adorable?"

I said "Is that even a thing?"

07/19/2023

I get lots of rabbit questions. LOTS…
But mostly when I share their cage system. It’s great for rabbits and their safety, but without proper rabbit anatomy education, people always comment,
“Why are they in wire cages?”
“Oh their poor feet!”
“Why aren’t they outside on the ground?”
“Such small cages, sad.”

Here’s an amazing rabbit fact for you, rabbits are a mammal that do not have toe or foot pads. They are naturally adapted for durability. Their feet consist on long hard bones, covered in two different types of dense fur! Using appropriate wire flooring should have little to no affect on their feet, also providing resting mats or bedding with hay. Sore hocks is a possibility in some breeds, but most of the time sore hocks is genetic, it’s a hard cull in our herd. Rabbits housed on solid floors have a higher chance of sore hocks, due to moisture and bacteria constantly in contact with their feet. Another bonus to wire is p**p and urine fall freely away from the rabbit, reducing their risk of urine scald and coccidiosis.
Rabbits on the ground can be attempted, but comes with great risk. Predators, fatal disease from wildlife and parasites will quickly kill rabbits in tractor type ground pens. It’s not a risk I’m willing to take.
A rabbits natural habitat is a burrow under ground, so naturally, they feel most protected in small spaces. My ARBA standard cages provide just that.
I am always striving to provide above and beyond husbandry for my herd, while sharing rabbit knowledge with others.
As always, if you have questions, ask💛

07/02/2023

What does food security look like to you? To me it looks like beautiful breeders! We have a wide variety of gorgeous breeding stock all ready to breed in mid to late fall! Pure whites, gray tipped whites, grays of all shades, blacks, and chestnut agoutis. Get 'em while the gettin's good!
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07/01/2023

Here's a wonderful new trick I've learned! If your kits are coming out of the nest boxes earlier than you'd like them to, turn the box on its side! This allows them the continued protection of the box when they want it and the freedom to come and go without the barrier of the front lip of the box!