Faith, Family, Farm

11/23/2023

Having a little pre-Thanksgiving snuggle time with Reid’s Rabbitry Echo. She hates to be pulled out of the cage but once out, she’s so sweet.

06/26/2023

She’s coming home today!
I’m thankful for ROL 4H barn for housing her until we could build her a suitable pen at home. Daddy and I finished up her pen today with the exception of a few minor details.
Morning and nighttime feedings will be so much easier.

06/24/2023

I still have my English lops but summer is their down time when I do my best to keep them alive and well for the other seasons.
in the meantime, I’m raising a market hog for fair. I will be posting my pictures here so I can keep track of all of our progress until fair.

06/03/2023

Today we jumped back in the saddle with showing my babies. I haven’t had anything that was ready for the show table but today Mozelles babies finally made their debut. They did okay and all judges said they show promise. I guess we will be back next show.
Marble earned Best Opposite and Best of Variety while Marley won Best of Variety.

11/13/2022

In honor of my sweet girl, we named all three of her babies in honor of her and officially planted her with her mulberry tree.
Meet Mocha, Marble, and Marley.

11/12/2022

This post is very hard to create but I want to do it to honor my sweet girl, Mozelle.

Today, I had to lay her to rest. It looks like she broke her back doing what she did best, protecting her babies from some type of threat. I don’t know exactly how it happened but I do know that I will sorely miss her.
She was my favorite gift from Mrs Kelly. We had an amazing connection. She was a hot mess and drove me crazy in her younger days by escaping her cage every day. She did what she wanted to do. That also includes doing what she wanted to do on the show table.
I promise to do my best with her 3 babies she left behind. I’m hopeful one of them has her wild personality so that I never forget the wonderful rabbit she was.
Thank you so much to Kelly and Lonnie for helping me through this. Kelly made her box so beautiful with flowers and Lonnie gave me a tree to plant on top of her. Her legacy will carry on past today, one way or another.
RIP in my little porch rabbit. We will always leave a space on the swing for you.

10/25/2022

Baby bunnies make my heart happy!
Humans on the other hand…

10/13/2022

This morning’s head count is 10 cute little babies.

10/12/2022

In the weeee hours of the morning, my Christmas present, Mozelle, had some baby bunnies. When we left for school, 3 were squirming around and upon arrival from school, Mama pushed out 7 more.

Happy birthday to liter #2 at Faith, Family, Farm.

09/03/2022

What a successful day for Faith, Family, Farm bunnies. Many many thanks to Kellie @ Reid's Rabbitry. She has been an amazing mentor and cheerleader along the way.
Funny story…
Mozelle was supposed to pose today but instead she decided to shmooze the judge. She literally snuggled with the judge and actually beat out a few contenders.
That’s what happens when you treat your bunnies with so much love. They expect it from all people they come across.

08/13/2022

When you’re blessed, bless others!
We started our journey of growing our own food back in 2017. In 2019, we met the owners of The Reid Farm. Kelly Reid and Lonnie have both been instrumental in our abundant growth over the last 3 years. We will forever be thankful for their knowledge and friendship. Through these years, we have met other local people with the same understanding of life; huge win in life.
A HUGE piece of our puzzle was access to mulch to fix our soil. That’s where Magic Tree Company comes in. They deliver mulch regularly to our property where we can utilize the mulch at our discretion.
We have gotten to a point where we can bless others with our over abundance.
Pictured is my daddy using his tractor to load mulch into his friend’s trailer, who wants to grow his own food for his precious family.

07/01/2022

Today is moving day! Mama is kicking the two girls out of “the nest“. Time to soar sweet babies. Make your mama proud.
Will you be a grand champion like her?

06/21/2022

It appears that every rabbitry has that one bunny that doesn’t want to live that cage life.
Mozelle is that bunny. She loves the front porch and clearly she loves the swing on the front porch too.
She looked at us as if she was waiting for her morning coffee.

06/15/2022

This is not bunny related but I get equally excited when other babies are born on the farm.
Yesterday we welcomed a buckling and a doeling from Ashby and Noah.
The heat almost killed them but my parents were able to intervene and they survived their first night.

06/05/2022

Reid’s Rabbitry Mark made his show debut yesterday. It was almost a bust until Sue Rice got her hands on him. She loved him. Then she saw his tattoo name ”Mark”. Apparently that was her ex husband’s name. 😂
She pointed out his great body shape and lovely ears compared to his competition. He is very very young but has shown to be show ready. He won best of junior broken bucks. Then beat out the junior and senior broken bucks. He has already earned a leg at such an early age. This sweet boy is looking promising once he comes out of this molt and puts on a couple more pounds.

05/22/2022

We are officially 1 month old!
God made us so cute and it’s going to be hard to let us go to new families by the end of July but only 1 of us is looking to be on track to be show quality.

05/20/2022

Hi!
My name is Pumpkin! I consider myself Mykaelah’s favorite little cutie. I love to lick nonstop and I don’t mind my daily trips into the house to snuggle.
I’m going to make a great pet for someone by the end of the summer.

05/11/2022

05/06/2022

It’s so hard to resist these cute little faces. My mom says I will be too attached to them when it’s time for them to move on. I think she’s right.
At least there are only 3 left so that’s not too many bunnies, is it?!

05/02/2022

Having rabbits isn’t all about the cute and cuddly. Sometimes it’s about getting in the dirt so you can make raising rabbits sustainable. This area is going to grow Seminole pumpkins for the rabbits and the humans.

05/01/2022

Happy 1 week babies!
I am happy you survived your first week of life. I spent every morning and evening checking to see if your mama was feeding you and God didn’t take you home.
It looks like you want to open your eyes and I’m excited to see you looking back at me.

04/24/2022

Introducing the first litter ever born at Farm, Family, Farm. We pray they all survive and they grow up to live long, happy lives. Sadly one little baby did not survive this birth but had a proper burial.

03/01/2022

Bunnies make recovery so much easier!
Yesterday we welcomed Reid’s Rabbitry Happy Guy to our Rabbitry. Albinos weird me out, even though Goldberry is bred to one, but this black buck has always been one of my favorites.
So thankful Kellie trusts me enough to take good care of her babies. He is already spoiled by getting some inside time.

02/09/2022

The moment she has been waiting for all year long!!!
Fingers crossed Goldberry is bred and MyKaelah will have her first babies in March.
Step 1: introduce her to a few suitors
Step 2: twerk session
Step 3: Mrs Kellie holds the new mama upside down for a moment
Step 4: 31 days of lots of spoiling

02/05/2022

Another weekend, another show!
Reid’s Rabbitry’s Goldberry and Mozelle had some stiff competition this weekend.
Started Friday night off competing in youth but they were the only ones for youth. Kaelah didn’t see the fun in that so she moved her girls to the open division.
Saturday, they both competed in open for all 3 shows.
Show A under judge Sue Rice, Goldberry was the best solid doe. She spoke highly of Mozelle if she would just do what she was supposed to do. A couple more months for her and she will kill it on the table.
Show B under Josh Humphries did not pan out so well. Goldberry got 4/5 and Mozelle got sent off the table because she wasn’t taking her show seriously. 😂
Show C under Rusty Westhoff was a little better. She earned 2/5 for solid does. Mozelle beat out the broken junior so we will take it. 🤣
The big event for the girls is that Goldberry is officially registered. This will allow her to be GRAND CHAMPIONED with 4 legs.

Oh yeah...and another addition to the funny farm. 🐰

01/29/2022

01/29/2022

Today was a big day for Goldberry!
Mykaelah was pushing for Grand Champion status for Reid's Rabbitry Goldberry.
Well, they did it! Sweet girl earned Best of opposite in youth, best of opposite in youth and best of breed in OPEN!!!
To non-rabbit people, she was the best solid colored Elop twice and the best Elop out of the 9 Elops competing.
Reid’s Rabbitry Mozelle made her appearance today and made...well...an impression. As one judge commented “she has an outgoing attitude”. She’s a young one with a know-it-all teenager attitude. They love her overall but she needs to calm down a bit and pull it together.
Mykaelah is such a happy girl today!

01/13/2022

12/24/2021

Christmas 2021 has got to be the best ever for this girl!

Mrs Kellie gifted Kaelah her favorite rabbit. This sweet bunny girl got an eye injury early in life but Kaelah just felt a connection with her. On every visit to Reid's Rabbitry, Kaelah would visit this sweet girl.
Today, Kaelah thought she was going to help deworm the babies until Kellie surprised her. This girl hasn’t stopped smiling!

Her Christmas isn’t over yet...
Check out her gift sitting right behind her in the truck! Lonny Reid didn’t think we could pull off getting this all the way home without her noticing.
Still waiting for daddy to get home so he can show her the new cage he worked so hard on with Lonny.

These kids are so unbelievably blessed!

12/15/2021

2nd rabbit show was a success!
Goldberry and her beautiful self earned 2 legs towards her Grand Champion Title. Needless to say, Mykaelah was beyond herself and almost couldn't contain her joy.