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Raising and showing quality pedigreed Silver Fox and Mini Rex Rabbits. Breeding toward ARBA SOP.

01/05/2024

Day old baby Mini Rex hippos 🦛

01/04/2024

Really poor quality video since it was dark! But one of my white SF babies, I think it is a buck based on both personality and head shape. (Initially it looked like 1 doe and 1 buck of the whites and I have not rechecked since). This baby came up to me and got lots of pets. He is so sweet. He has barely been handled. This has come up a couple of times recently with my sales, and I will admit that I don’t socialize my babies. The reason is simply I don’t have enough time to socialize them all when majority become dog food. A secondary benefit to this though is I can actually evaluate natural temperaments. If all of the babies are well socialized and all nice, then selection for temperament would be less accurate. Temperament is one of the last things I actually breed for, however I will cull nasty animals - today the only 2 aggressive ones in my herd were culled. Both had been bred twice first, this little guy’s mom was among them. Despite her nasty personality and barely being handled, he was a sweet young social baby. I do get others who are just so friendly on their own and I do give them love most days so long as I have the time, because they are asking. For the aggressive animals, I was willing to breed despite not attempting to sell the buck and offering the doe being forthcoming about her temperament. I have had some feisty babies and after basic handling settle down pretty quickly. The buck I culled I actually showed all last year and he was still super wild despite all of the handling. Eventually I would love to breed for better temperaments, but there is so much work to do on the breeds that it is just a last priority for me.

01/03/2024

First time mini rex mom is in labor and so confused! She was due yesterday but just now pulled fur all over her cage. I moved the nest box into the other corner but she is still evading it. So I just added some extra straw as she is last minute frantically making a nest while I can see her body contracting. I will give her about an hour and check back on her, anticipating babies on wire, but thankfully it is not too cold right now.

Update: she had 4 babies! 1 black, 1 broken blue, and 2 broken blacks - all in the nest box and no peanuts. Still waiting on a couple more mini rex does to kindle, otherwise they will get rebred

01/02/2024

New Year’s Day shows were also a success! HMAD2 got her 4th leg today! She needs to gain about 1/2 lb to be registered and granded, but she is only 6.5 months old so we will try to get registered later this month at the next show. Some other legs were won (hard to keep track running 2 breeds simultaneously), but did include one from my baby mini rex litter that all showed for their first time today! The little broken black doe won BOV and went home with a young woman I met at the show, which makes me super happy that she is off to a good start!

Congrats on everyone’s wins! I’m thankful for my rabbit friends helping me load and offload rabbits as well as being in their company for the New Year! Also thanks to Stephanie for my new Mini Rex doe 😄 and thanks to the registrar who got 3 more of my Silver Fox registered today 😃

01/01/2024

Got some legs at the New Year’s Eve show! And one of my intermediate does is eligible for grand champion registration! 🤩

12/30/2023

I also evaluated my chocolate/lilac litter that is now 7.5 weeks old. I didn’t take pics of any except this lilac buck, but he is ok right now, and can potentially go to a new herd if there is interest. But I’ll be darned if I keep him since I absolutely do NOT need another buck 😂 the others in the group were not as bad as I thought they would be; apparently I evaluated them way too early at 5 weeks because most are decent (but not impressive) now. Only one is an automatic cull for me, as she was extremely light - I could just pick her up and tell the difference. Type not impressive either. But I will give her a few weeks to put some meat on for 🥘. For now she is with the boys, I was able to combine 2 small litters and separate by s*x (6 does, 3 bucks - and moving her made it more equitable at 5 and 4 per growout cage). I could only do this because the litters are different colors 😅

12/30/2023

Some SF cross 7 week olds that I’m keeping an eye on… will potentially keep all 3 (2 does and a buck). They have awesome hindquarters already at 7 weeks so I’m excited to see how they turn out. The blue doe is my favorite so far, followed by the black buck. Just separated from mom today.

12/26/2023

My Christmas babies finally came late this evening. Blacks and blues, silver fox. If we have any keepers, they’re going to be named after Santa’s reindeer 😆

12/23/2023

Winter babies! I finally have kits from this doe that I have been highly anticipating! First GC x GC litter for me but more than that, I really think their strengths and weaknesses will complement each other. There are 8 blacks right now (praying they all survive 🙏🏼), but I’m actually surprised they didn’t have any whites since I know for certain they both carry white. But it’s ok because I have enough white in my SF herd already 😅

12/22/2023

I’m buying another mini rex! I was so excited I showed a pic to my teen son who is not remotely into rabbits. He said “why does it look like a hunchback?” 😂😂😂 well that’s the look I’m going for. Hunchbacks 🤣

12/22/2023

Silver Fox bucks available:

12/21/2023

My meat brick Kyle. He is massive, with well developed shoulders, dense bones and super nice hindquarters with great flesh, but he does peak a bit early. Overall he just has great muscle mass to him.

12/21/2023

RW - the only SF I purchased from 2023 convention. He peaks early, is more refined in bone, and lacking fullness in the loin. He is a buck I will probably use once or twice and move along pending how his kits turn out. I do like his silvering though.

12/21/2023

HMLD5 - my chocolate carrying buck. He peaks early and could use more width but he has decent depth.

12/21/2023

HMTD2 - young black senior SF buck in a molt. He peaks early but I appreciate the fullness of his loin. He also has lighter silvering which I intentionally keep, as my primary herd buck throws heavy silvering and I get so many kits with more silvering than I prefer. 1 GC leg. 9 lb 3 oz

80

12/21/2023

But then I have this young buck - HMTH3 - who is the same age as HMGD3. I was going to pick between them as hard as it is but looks like he would be my pick between the 2. His daddy was also the SWEETEST bun which I had to cull due to no takers and I still have WAY TOO MANY BUCKS. These bucks are just 6.5 months old.

12/21/2023

HMGD3. Intermediate black buck, carries dilute for sure, possible chocolate carrier. Heavy silvering, peaks a bit early, nice depth and width, but could use a fuller loin. Has 1 GC leg. He is almost 6.5 months, so I expect him to continue growing.

80

12/17/2023

Black senior mini rex buck. 1 GC leg. Carries chocolate and dilute.

75 (60 for youth)

12/17/2023

Some fat little mini rex babies 🥰 everyone is getting their nest boxes taken away this week!

12/16/2023

I removed these babies’ nest box today and one of the little chocolate stinkers escaped when I pulled them out in the nest box! What a day!! At the end of the day as it was already pretty dark, I finally caught the stinker in my rat trap (maze) with my son’s help. This was really not much fun but I’m happy we caught it, especially because it looks like a girl! Most likely she will be a keeper for us from this litter. My older chocolate litter is all culls I think 🫠 At 5 weeks old they all looked like little pancakes lol, but I will give them one more chance and look again in a couple more weeks.

12/15/2023

I weighed my 9 week old white babies and my keeper (so far) was 5 lb 11 oz! The one I will be moving along wasn’t far behind her. Chunky girls!

12/15/2023

The last 3 Grand Champion certificates I’ve been waiting for have arrived 😃 both of my primary herd sires (for mini rex and Silver Fox respectively) are officially grand champions. This year I was also able to grand 3 of my own homebred does, to total 5 grand champion rabbits active in my rabbitry so far. It makes “master breeder” status seem totally achievable, especially for my Silver Fox.

12/14/2023

I moved my lilac girl into the shed where I generally keep all of my mini rex and most of my show animals so that I could move out one of my does who GC’d this year into a breeding cage 🤩 what’s nice is it’s a lot easier to handle the rabbits in the shed simply because they are in smaller cages, thus easier to catch (24x24 for SF, and 24x18 for mini rex). All of my outside cages are 36x30 except “buck alley” who are in 24x30s 😂. So I weighed this girl today who is barely over 5 months old and already over 10.5 lbs! 😮 which is fantastic and the fastest growth I’ve had, despite being the same weight when she was around 3 months old as her full grown mom - 8 lb 3 oz 🥴 I figured she would slow down but apparently not.

12/13/2023

I took out most of my mini rex today and even s*xed the 4 week olds. It looked like 5 bucks and 2 does 😆. I’m still working on my posing skills, but I liked this 12 week young girl’s type better than her sister’s, although her sister has nicer fur! I think I will keep them both and I already have plans who I will breed her to first 🤭

12/13/2023

My homegrown GC chocolate SF doe. I’m hoping she is bred and has some babies before Christmas! 🤞🏼 I used a new buck that I’m not super excited about, that I do not know if he carries anything but black. So will just have to wait and see. I think I already have a plan who to breed her to next and honestly I hadn’t put too much thought in who to breed her to this time, except that I’m thinking I need to move this buck along asap. Will evaluate him in the next couple of weeks and decide.

12/13/2023

My 5 month old lilac SF doe. I was supposed to work today but they didn’t need me so I took some time to evaluate a lot of my rabbits. I’ll have to look at the rest here shortly to see what cuts can be made 😊

12/08/2023

I picked up the newest addition to my mini rex herd late this evening! He is just a sweet old man! Lol. Thanks to Earn Respect Rabbitry for transporting him safely across the country for me, and thanks again to Max Runge for letting me have him!

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Of only 3 SF babies I have had this whole season so far (still praying for more 🙏🏼), I have my first 2 white SF babies and their fur is to die for 😍😍 extremely dense and look how long it is for 3.5 week olds 😍😍 my friend came over and looked at them with me the other day and we are both thinking all 3 are does! So I’m hoping to have a couple keepers from this mom, who should also be rebred which would give me more options to choose from. But these guys were my birthday present (born on my bday) so I am kind of partial to them 🥰