Bravo Rabbitry

11/12/2024

Blossom isn’t very happy with me. She thinks she can make a nest in the corner where there isn’t a nesting box. I think she better have her babies in a box with this cold weather, even if they are inside a slightly heated shed. I added a small box to force her to have them in (hopefully) the bigger of the two boxes. You can clearly see she’s going back and forth between her options and not thrilled with either 😂

Don’t worry, Blossom will be put into a bigger cage IF she has babies. We have larger pens for litters, and will transfer her to another cage once her babies (if she has any) are big enough to leave the box. Last time she made a nest but didn’t have babies, so we suspect it was a false pregnancy and pray that isn’t the case again. She isn’t technically due until the 16th at the earliest, so we will see!

10/12/2024

We have now officially launched our website! 🥳

We have found that it works best to use the desktop version versus a mobile phone. There are just a few website pages that aren't matching what I see on the editor versus what my phone picks up, but there is still some good information there even if it looks a little wonky!

I have put a lot of time into the rabbitry section, but the rest are still under construction until we officially buy some land and begin our homesteading journey. Feel free to reach out with any questions or with any suggestions/comments about the website!

Rancho De Bravo is located in Minnesota. Follow our journey and take a look at our Rabbitry!

10/12/2024

Posting our two girls again plus a buck we added to our list that is 👀4️⃣🆕🏡

All three are nice rabbits without DQ's. We are keeping littermates of all instead and just want to make some room for does who will hopefully have babies soon.

Deals for 4-Hers or youth who show. Currently hopping in Northfield MN, but we will be headed to Scandia on the 28th and they could catch a ride up.

06/12/2024

Look at this! We learned that a cold kit doesn't always equal a lost kit, and this post helps provide some neat tricks to bring a baby back!

Educational Post:

Figured we might as well share some education about warming rabbit kits. A lot of people don’t realize that kits can be warmed. Below is some information on how to warm a kit and what to look for before discarding the body. Some other signs that you may see if a kit has fully passed is purple / bluish skin especially in the feet.

Nursing Stages:

1. Birth- 7 Days- kits are blind, exempt of fur, and fully dependent on mom’s milk.

2. 7-14 Days- Eyes are open, fur is present, and kits are crawling.

3. 14-21 Days- Kits start to explore, but still need mom for milk so return to the box.

4. 21-28 Days- Kits are eating solid food/ nursing.

I hope this helps some of you guys out. You can always share tips in my comments. We’re all learning together 🖤

02/12/2024

We had a fun time down in Mason City Iowa showing this weekend! Friday night we participated in the Mini Lop Specialty Show hosted by the Mini Lop Club of the Northern Great Plains. On Saturday we had two shows hosted by NCIRFA (North Central Iowa Rabbit Fanciers Association).

Placings:
⭐ OMC's Back In Black (SSD) won BOB in the Friday night specialty show. She then went on to win BOSV in show two on Saturday.
⭐ Feia Farms' Hazel (BSD) won BOSV in the specialty show earning her first leg.
⭐ None of our homegrown juniors had any class wins, but we are still very happy with how most of them did. It helped us decide who will stay longer to grow out. We are especially proud of our just turned 3-month-olds, as they held their own in classes with much older juniors! Very excited to get them to some more shows when they mature a bit more.

Thank you to OMC Rabbitry (Jessica Marie and Keith Goetze) and Feia Farms' Rabbitry for the great bunnies that are showing so well for us! Fingers crossed they are good moms too!

28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving from Bravo Rabbitry! We are thankful for good health to pursue our hobby, wonderful bunnies in our growing rabbitry, and of course all of our rabbit friends who make the shows so fun! Sending thanks to everyone 🦃🍂

26/11/2024

Interested in getting a bunny from our Rabbitry? If so, fill out our inquiry form to be added to our waitlist! When rabbits come available, those on the waitlist receive first dibs :)

https://forms.gle/NJTkFgC3c55stWKi6

*The inquiry is non-binding. You may choose not to purchase available animals and/or get off the waitlist at any time*

23/11/2024

After our upcoming show in Mason City, we might have a few more rabbits coming available. In preparation for that, we have updated our purchase agreement! All the terms of the agreement are the same, just all on one page and with our new contact email :) Bravo Rabbitry will fall under the umbrella of Rancho De Bravo, which is what our farm name will be. We are excited to use Rancho De Bravo a bit more, but likely will not have an active Rancho De Bravo page until later in our journey. We are currently making some last-minute touches to a very rough draft of a website. Keep an eye out for that! All animals sold will be sold under these conditions. Most seem self-explanatory when it comes to the purchasing of a live animal, but figured we would put it out there in writing :)

20/11/2024

Over the weekend we finally got mineral and salt spools added to all the pens! We bought our salt and mineral from Klubertanz when we did our wire order and got the 3-inch binder clips from Amazon. The clips worked out great and the bunnies love them already. A few already licking them and a lot just playing with them which is fun for them too!

Cost Breakdown (not including shipping):
Box of salt - $7.60 / 24 = $0.32 each
Box of mineral - $7.60 / 24 = $0.32 each
Pack of binder rings - $16.00 / 30 = $0.54 each
Cost per pen = $1.18

19/11/2024

Got our first set of posed photos for Piper and Jack's litter. These guys will all be coming with to Mason City for the Saturday shows. They will be just barely over 3 months by the show date, but we wanted to get them all some experience on the table and get a judge's opinion on them. Our current favorites are Voodoo, Salem, and Omen. They feel the fullest when you run a hand along them and sit a bit nicer, but they all still have some growing to do. We will likely have some available after the Mason City show so keep an eye out for them!

19/11/2024

The Mason City Iowa show seems so close yet so far away! We are definitely very excited as this will be the first show we participate in out of state, the first show that we stay overnight for, and the first show we will have a rabbit in every class! A lot of firsts for us!

We will be bringing 19 rabbits total for the following breakdown:
⭐Solid Senior Buck - 1
⭐Solid Senior Doe - 1
⭐Solid Junior Buck - 5
⭐Solid Junior Doe - 7
⭐Broken Senior Buck - 1
⭐Broken Senior Doe - 2
⭐Broken Junior Buck - 1
⭐Broken Junior Doe - 1

We will also be participating in the Mini Lop Specialty show on Friday night but will be showing just 13 of our 19 in that show.

There is still time to get your entries in for these shows! Take a look at the flyers to see when and how to get your entries in!

15/11/2024

I wanted to put out an appreciation post for these two frosty's in our barn! We are very excited to get them on some show tables soon. We have a third frosty that is a littermate to Dany, but he wasn't staying still long enough for photos, especially considering I needed to manage a light and my phone to take these photos!

We have been striving to raise a herd buck that is of our own breeding that we feel is good enough to keep a permanent spot in our barn, and we hope that Ghost might be that buck... fingers crossed 🤞🏼 Hopefully the judges like him as much as us

14/11/2024

We are so excited to let this girl hit some shows and then come spring become a momma! This is Hazel from Feia Farms'. We are pretty solid heavy in our barn, so were excited to come home from the fall state show with this broken doe who also has a lot of depth and width to her which we will be needing for making great babies. There was a little debate at the Feia Farm household about whether or not this doe should be available, but we are really happy to have her!

Sorry for the weird angle and lighting... early sunsets have been making picture taking hard after work 😂

14/11/2024

Look at these chubby little cuties! They are just three weeks old, but with only two in the litter, they sure do grow quick. We tried sexing them since they are bigger, and we believe the black one is a doe, and the orange is a buck. If we are correct, we will have Bravo's Black Betty and Bravo's Ram Jam "RJ".

The mom of this litter, AK, started off her litter with 3 kits and we are now down to 2. She has been a tough one to breed, so we are just thankful to have gotten anything. Her very first litter with us was 7 kits, but it was during a bad storm and she lost them all, we believe from stress. We plan to breed her again soon after this litter to get her back into mommy mode, so hopefully the next litter is a little bigger 🤞🏼

11/11/2024

EDIT: She is SOLD and delivered to her new home!

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Bravo Rabbitry has a doe that is 👀4️⃣🆕🏡

This doe is one we would definitely let continue to grow out if she was a showable color. Her DOB is 8/10/24. She is a black magpie color so not showable, but would be a good brood doe or possible starter rabbit for a cloverbud in counties where color doesn’t matter for that age class.

Her dam is Rabbitmafiaq’s Bones (broken black magpie) and her sire is Bravo’s Iron Giant (smoked chin frosty). Her mom is a non-showable color brood does of ours that we absolutely love, but just don’t have space for this girl with all our other grow outs.

Currently hopping in Northfield MN. Will be at Mason City Iowa at the end of the month. Message for any additional information or videos

06/11/2024

As the weather starts to cool down, Earl has made his way back from Windy Willow. He is quite a spoiled bunny with a whole outdoor dog kennel plus an exercise pen up at the farm, and the kids absolutely love to go in with him. Be careful though, Earl loves to nibble on shoes!

The cages we have didn't seem sufficient enough considering the space he was used to, so we had to fix up an old hutch to give him lots of room to move, which will also act as a nice wind/snow block for this winter.

Glad to have you back Earl! (As you can see, Gravy the cat is happy he is back as well). Does Earl need a girlfriend???

04/11/2024

Took advantage of the manageable weather to take out our grow outs and get some updated photos. It is fun to watch them develop and change for both the better and worse. Some of our favorites have been passed by ones we thought we would part with, but they still have some growing to do. We planned on making some cuts here soon but might have to wait until after the Mason City Iowa show to make any decisions. I have added some commentary on each photo description for notes on their development.