Creek & Willow Rabbitry

12/30/2024

Anyone else think this looks like he set up the camera himself to film the act? 🤣🤣🤣

12/18/2024

Burrowing in for warmth. Keeping the Rabbitry door closed today. It’s a bit too chilly and windy with babies out of the nest box ❄️ 💨

12/18/2024

Borrowed this from an account I follow, but it rings true 😂 Currently at 38, including kits. That’s not even my biggest count. And yet it’s not as high as others!

Best estimated guess of your count in your rabbit barns? 🐇 🐇 🐇

11/29/2024

In the past week we’ve had 25 new Silver Fox kits born! Black, blue (dilute of black) chocolate and lilac (dilute of chocolate).
All 4 colors in one nestbox for our first time mama, Bingo!

One of our does had 3 live rabbits and miscarried 4, potentially 5 others within 10-12 hours later.

GRAPHIC WARNING ⚠️ Ive posted the picture of the miscarried kits in the comments if you’d like to see.

11/28/2024

Thankful for Thanksgiving babies! Two of our mama rabbits had babies early this morning. Chilli had a small litter of 3 and her daughter Bingo had her first litter with a whopping 10! Pictures will come later 🐰 🦃

11/17/2024

When the babies are on the move and won’t respect your personal bubble 😂 “Ma, ma, ma, we love you mom!”

06/07/2024

Our last breeding attempt of the season was the beginning of May. We weren’t so sure that any of them took. But nearing the end of May, our doe Rita was looking quite large and her belly quite firm. But her due date came and went so I was starting to get concerned. She surprised us by releasing the hostages sometime early this morning! She’s a first time mom to 10 all black kits!!

05/12/2024

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Happy Mother’s Day to all our mothers!

04/28/2024

It’s been a nerve wracking two days. One of our pregnant does, that is on day 28 of her pregnancy, has had some significant bleeding, and a major decrease in appetite and water intake. Thankfully she is still moving and drinking some. Has eaten some cilantro today too! But she’s not acting like her normal self and all I can do is wait and pray for the best. On a positive note, look at these two cute girls from Chilli’s litter. They are currently 6 weeks old.

03/24/2024

Baby bun update. Chilli’s litter of 8. All still here after the first week! Their fur has come in, and their eyes should open in the next few days.

03/20/2024

Chilli is such a good first time mama. Two of her kits were looking smaller and more wrinkly than the others, so while she allows, at dawn and dusk(when rabbits nurse their kits), I’ll pull her and the two kits out to allow them to nurse separately, hopefully allowing them to grow like their litter mates!

03/16/2024

Our first Silver Fox litter!
Shelton Acres’ SALMON aka CHILLI x Crisher’s TODD aka TELEMACHUS.
8 kits, looks like 6 black and 2 chocolate. Mama did amazing for this being her first litter. All snuggled in the nest box, covered in a ton of fur!

03/16/2024

Attended our second rabbit show in Shipshewana today! Showed a Senior doe and a Junior doe. Got some wonderful compliments, as well as some helpful critiques! Brought all the kids along for this one.
Great day!