Bravo Rabbitry

01/01/2025

Bravo Rabbitry has a few goals for 2025!
⭐Have one of our homegrown rabbits become a grand champion
⭐Have at least 70% of our rabbits tattooed before leaving
⭐Attend a show in a state we haven't shown in before

Our 2024 goals:
⭐Attend more rabbit shows
✅We attended more shows this year than we ever have before!
⭐Have a litter of red New Zealand's born
✅Right away in 2024 our old doe Tw***ie gave us a litter of mostly reds (a few non showable colors like torts popped out too), and then our other old doe Twizzler also gave us a true red litter in 2024. They were so cute! However, we shifted our New Zealand's more towards homestead and meat production. Still excited we got to experience the reds :)

We are excited to hear everyone else's New Years goals!

30/12/2024

We got our new grooming table set up outside in the shed and I love it! We pinned up a blanket that we think will be a nice background for most colors of rabbits. Now we just need to get some lights set up so Uri doesn't have to hold several flashlights while I take the photos 😂 All these rabbits are looking for new places to hop, and I will add a bit of info in the photo descriptions or find them on our website too! https://ranchodebravo.wixsite.com/rancho-de-bravo/rabbits-for-sale

29/12/2024

We spent Saturday showing in Scandia this weekend, and while we didn’t have any big wins, we did have a small win that we are very proud of. Bravo’s Dany placed 2nd in our first show of the day and then 1st in another show earning her first show leg! She had some really great notes and we are happy that she not only has a pretty color (either blue or lilac frosty, we still aren’t quite sure which) but a nice body composition as well! If she stays, we plan to breed her for sure to Ghost (our chocolate frosty) to hopefully get more frostys, as well as a buck with shorter shoulders than her to hopefully make some even nicer babies 🙂

Congrats to Jessica and Keith with OMC Rabbitry on their huge wins, as well as a congrats to Ashley Snediker with Snediker Farms on their win!

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas from Bravo Rabbitry! We got some things for the rabbits today that I am super excited for!! Uri got me a new grooming table and scale from All Things Bunnies. I am very excited to ditch our digital scale and have more storage in our grooming table. My mom also got us a double seat folding chair that is super comfy along with a small camping table which are both for us to get comfy during long show days. Thanks Uri and Mom!

23/12/2024

Thank you Windy Willow LLC for hosting our bunnies at your Goats and Grinch event this weekend! We plan to have some more bunnies up there again next weekend, and our black doe Wicked is still looking for her forever home. The other two have found new homes since this weekend and we are so happy these sweeties are finally pending!

17/12/2024

❄ Another litter born this morning :) Bon Bon, just like Blossom, is a doe that has been challenging to get bred, and we are happy to see she has finally settled! It was a chilly morning, and this is her first litter with us, so we decided not to mess with them too much, but it looks like we might have 4 so far. ❄

16/12/2024

❄️ Blossom had a nice-looking litter this morning! Last time she was bred she had a false pregnancy, so it was nice to see an actual litter this time. We are also thankful that the weather was good last night as we had trouble getting our heaters to run. We checked the weather app and saw it wasn't supposed to go below freezing last night, so decided to fix the heaters this morning instead. Thank goodness it stayed warm for these guys!

She was bred to Jellybean, a buck much smaller than her to hopefully keep these babies within show weight. This litter also now makes Jellybean a proven buck for us ❄️

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!