ForestLine Rabbitry

07/01/2024

ForestLine’s D’artagnon (Dart). This 10 week old little guy is molting his baby coat but I love his short round little body, deep chest, and short limb. He might not look like much now but I can definitely see he has potential! I think he’s going to do his parents proud!
GC ForestLine’s Vecna x GC ForestLine’s Eleventh Hour

07/01/2024

Lockhart Lops Pixie just turned senior and finally decided to stop chewing her fur! She looks so nice! 😍

30/12/2023

The QCRS New Years show never disappoints! We always have such a good time hanging with friends and celebrating the end of another busy year! I wasn’t very good at taking notes but here’s what I do remember:

ForestLine’s Noire - BOB under judge Bryan Shirk 🎉

ForestLine’s Vecna - BOS under judge Louis Potter 🎉

Our 3 month old doe ForestLine’s Vega got top 3 junior doe in every show. Can’t wait to see how she does as an older junior!

Congrats to Cane Creek Valley Bunnies on their multiple breed wins with some super cute junior torts out of ForestLine’s Bristol! Love seeing our bunnies helping out other youth!

Congrats also to Ivy Ridge Homestead for their BOB win with a very nice otter doe!

It was a great show with some very fierce competition! It’s been a while since we’ve had such a good turnout in youth. I loved that each show ended up a little bit different. It definitely kept us on our toes! Lol. Thanks to QCRS for a wonderful show as always, and to the judges and volunteers who had us finishing a triple by 1pm! WOW! Amazing!! 🙌🏻

Looking forward to 2024 and another great show year!

29/12/2023

GC eligible ForestLine’s Noire. Love that shiny black coat! 😍

29/12/2023

ForestLine’s Vega (jr doe) and ForestLine’s Perseus (jr buck) are making their show debut tonight in Hickory! Excited to see how they do! They are currently 14 weeks old.

09/12/2023

ForestLine’s Perseus is a beefy buck out of our two Lund Lops rabbits. He’s only 11 weeks old so I’m sure he will change a lot in the coming months. Definitely has the best bone of anything we’ve ever produced! He will be making his show debut at the NYE show in Hickory!

05/12/2023

Still hanging onto a top 10 spot for quality points! We’re only a couple points behind the 6th and 7th spots! In other sweeps news we still have two rabbits in the top lop list, and we are up to 6 BIS/RIS wins this year! 🎉

05/12/2023

Sure wish we could show this junior doe from Lockhart Lops, but she has other plans. Someone please tell her bald is NOT beautiful lol. 😆

03/12/2023

This boy needs a name. Since both his parents have Stranger Things names (Vecna and Eleven) I feel like he needs to continue that tradition. Tell me which one of these you like best or if you have any other suggestions!

1. D’artagnan (aka Dart)
2. Eddie Bunson
3. Jim Hopper
4. Hellfire
5. Dusty Bun

02/12/2023

Spent the day in Smithfield at the ECRBA Merry Grinchmas Show! Once again, our black Hollands showed up and stole the show!

In show A judged by Kyle Yacobucci our black senior doe, ForestLine’s Noire took BOB, and our black senior buck GC ForestLine’s Vecna took BOSB. We were super shocked and excited when Noire went on to win BIS! 🎉

In show B judged by Amy Zittel, the two swapped places with Vecna winning BOB and Noire winning BOSB. With these legs Noire is now GC eligible! 🎉 Hopefully we will have some babies out of this awesome pair soon! 🤞🏻

We also brought along our friend, Annie! This was her first time ever at a rabbit show! She tabled all the rabbits for us and did a great job! We showed her all the different rabbit breeds and she even got to hold a Flemish giant that was almost as big as her! 😂 She said she had such a fun time, so hopefully we can get her into the hobby with us!! We love getting new youth into showing! 🥰

Thanks to all the judges and to ECRBA for a wonderful day! Can’t wait to see everyone at the New Years show later this month!

26/11/2023

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING scares the bejesus out of you like coming out to the barn and seeing something not quite right. A dog had tunneled under the wall and got into our rabbit barn. Luckily it was apparently looking for something other than rabbit meat, because all the cages and rabbits were fine, but there was feed and supplies EVERYWHERE. It even left us some nice pawprints on our door sign. SO thankful the rabbits are okay, but trying to figure out how to keep this from happening again. What do you all do for barn security?

19/11/2023

These two cuties are 3 weeks old! I love this age! 😍

13/11/2023

Took ForestLine’s Cobra out today and he’s starting to fill out again after having lost some weight from going off feed. Glad he seems to be feeling better! Hope we can get him on some show tables before the end of the year.

12/11/2023

No shows for us this weekend, but we had our monthly Bunny Buddies 4-H club meeting! We did breed reports for this meeting, so of course Grant and Caroline decided to do theirs on Holland Lops! I helped them find and print the info online, and the kids helped add some flair. Caroline drew the Holland flag and a Holland Lop, and Grant made a little 3D clay Holland Lop. We love sharing our love for this awesome breed with others! 🥰

10/11/2023

Tied for 6th in quality points in the October sweeps update. Last year we were 20th in quality so we are super happy with the improvement we’ve made! Our herd is pretty small at only 14 Hollands so to be this high up on the list makes us very proud!

10/11/2023

This little doe is looking pretty cute at 7 weeks! We’ve decided to name her ForestLine’s Vega!

Lund Lops Leonidas x Lund Lops Bellatrix

09/11/2023

She loves the little ones 🥰

09/11/2023

05/11/2023

🤔 One of these things is not like the other! What I thought was two chestnuts turns out to be a chestnut and a CHINCHILLA! I never expected this since the only chinchilla in these babies’ pedigrees is their great-great-grandsire, NGF Kingsword! Super excited to have our very first chin, and out of our two very best rabbits! 🥰

29/10/2023

Two little chestnut babies out of our two homegrown GCs (both of them are on the top lop list!)
GC ForestLine’s Eleventh Hour x GC ForestLine’s Vecna

18/10/2023

The little Lund babies are 4 weeks old today! Time to start posing practice!

14/10/2023

I feel like every rabbit breeder worth their salt has some kind of driving to a rabbit show horror story, so now we do too! Thirty minutes into our 2.5 hour drive to Richmond at 6am we ran over some debris in the road and it tore loose our v***r canister under the car (yea, had to Google that myself) to where it was dragging on the ground. Had to pull over and try to reattach it, but all I had in my car to tie it up was a phone charging cord. 😂 It did the job though and we made it to the show only 10 mins behind schedule (thanks Terri Wilson for getting us checked in)! We even made it for the costume contest! So funny seeing all the bunnies dressed up!

Here’s how we did!

Show A- Judge Dana Bramble
ForestLine’s Vecna - BOB 🎉
ForestLine’s Noire - BOS 🎉
(Black is the new tort!!) 🖤

Show B - Judge Whitney Post
ForestLine’s Vecna - BOS
ForestLine’s Noire - 2nd SSD
(Beaten out by her arch rival who went on to win BOB, Luna of Ivy Ridge Homestead! congrats guys!)

Caroline got SO dirty but went home happy that we made it to the show even with a broken car! Thanks to Richmond Rabbit Breeders Association and all our judges and volunteers who helped the show run smoothly! Even the rain couldn’t put a damper on a great show day!

13/10/2023

I’m kind of obsessed with this chunky little tort doe. I need to think of a good name for her!

Lund Lops Leonidas x Lund Lops Bellatrix

11/10/2023

Update on our new hanging cage setup! I LOVE it! It makes cleaning SO much easier! What used to take me over an hour emptying and spraying out trays now takes minutes, just have to scrape the di*********es and loose fur on to the floor. We’ve added some worms to the p**p pit so hopefully they’ll start making some nice compost! We will be adding a second row of cages below this one with angled slides for the upper level p**p/pee to drop down to the floor. I’ve already started building the new cages! Stay turned for updates!

09/10/2023

Loving the big noggin on this baby! Almost 3 weeks old!

07/10/2023

Good luck to all our friends at the ARBA convention right now!! Wish we could be there with you! ❤️

29/09/2023

Grant has the most homegrown youth BIS/RIS from Jan-June! Super proud of this sibling duo out of one of our homegrown GC chestnut does!

GC ForestLine’s Eleventh Hour (FL11)
GC ForestLine’s Vecna (VECNA)

26/09/2023

Cute little junior doe from Lockhart Lops! We are still trying to think of the perfect name for her! ❤️ thanks to Megan Williams for this pretty girl!

26/09/2023

I sure have missed having some rollie pollie babies around here! Our first litter out of Lund Lops Leonidas and Lund Lops Bellatrix! Two does and a buck! ❤️

23/09/2023

Fun day at The Gathering 2023 by CHRBA! ForestLine’s Vecna was the big winner with one BOB and a BOSB! ForestLine’s Akuma also picked up a BOV which was the third leg he needed to be GC eligible! ForestLine’s Noire got a lot of second places but just couldn’t beat Ivy Ridge Homestead’s beautiful tort doe today. Congrats to them on their BOBs and BIS! 🎉 Thanks to judges Fayth, Piper, and Donyelle and to CHRBA for a fun show!