Bravo Rabbitry

01/03/2025

Visit Windy Willow LLC this weekend! Open 10-4 for their Spring Babies event! Visit the baby bunnies 🐇, baby goats 🐐, baby lambs 🐑, and baby chicks 🐥!!!

$7 per person. Dixie and Jacks litter will be up there for people to visit and they are officially 8 weeks old and can find new homes. 🧡 $40 each, four does and two bucks available. Usually would hold onto our babies a bit longer to choose our own to keep back, but needing to re-coop some money after buying cage supplies 😂

26/02/2025

Just placed an order through Klubertanz for more wire along with a Greenhouse Megastore order for more drop pans... Our wallets are definitely feeling much thinner, but our bunnies deserve the cage upgrade! We are only two months into the year and our current 2025 rabbit costs are just under $1,000. New cages sure do take up a good chunk of that cost, but feed and other materials add up as well. All this to say: Please be nice to breeders when they set their prices! We are just trying to break even!! 😂

25/02/2025

Those who raise animals know that the winter months are the absolute hardest. You are breaking out water pans, or paying a crazy electric bill to keep the shed above freezing temps. You are extra stressed when babies are born, have to keep up with cleaning even though you need 3+ layers on just to tolerate the weather, and have to make trips to get feed when roads are bad. Even without animals, winter can be a hard time to stay positive!

The warmer weather, several successful litters, and a freshly cleaned barn have definitely lifted a bit of my winter glum mood. However, I definitely need some time to find my spark again. My goals for the rabbitry are endless, yet time and money seem scarce. Uri and I have decided that this year will be a slower growth year for the rabbitry. We will likely attend fewer shows, keep back less grow outs, and reinvest our rabbit money into making updates to our current set-up. We truly love our bunnies, and they deserve updated cages which is our next big project! We will also be getting married this year, so the bunnies are going to take a backburner while we focus on that. We are excited to make some changes and find our spark with the rabbits again! -Ashley

24/02/2025

My attempt at getting some photos of each baby! Upon taking individual photos we found out that Bones has 7, not 6 like we originally thought. First 7 are Pipers babies and the last 7 are Bones’ babies.

Piper had two white/pearl ones that we are super excited about! Also for sure one, maybe two of her dark ones seem like they might be seal or chocolate! 🤎🤍

Bones gave us a ton of broken orange and creams! Her one solid is a shade of orange we have never had so we are thrilled to see what color it becomes! For sure one dark Charlie but that’s pretty good out of all 7 🧡💛

22/02/2025

Since we have the chance of producing a charlie with one of our recent litters, we figured now is a good time to share some information about coat markings! These three informational pictures show the kit marking possibilities when breeding different pattern types together. Bones and JellyBean are both En/en. This means there is a 25% chance a kit becomes En/En making it a charlie rabbit. Solid colored rabbits only carry en, so two solids bred together will always product 100% solid babies.

*Keep in mind that the probability is for each kit. For two brokens bred together, each kit has a 25% chance of being solid, 50% chance of broken, and 25% chance of charlie. It doesn't necessarily mean you will get 25% charlies, 50% broken, and 25% solid in the whole litter*

Also, there is a difference between a true genetic charlie and a regular broken rabbit with a poor amount of color. True genetic charlies carry En/en, so the only way to know for sure if you have a true charlie is to breed it to a few solid-colored rabbits. If each litter produces 100% broken, you have a charlie. Most breeders suggest three litters of all broken babies when bred to a solid is proof of a true charlie.

21/02/2025

It is crazy how fast bunnies start to get their fur/color! These litters were born on 2.17.25 and the photos were taken on 2.19.25 - in just two days we are already able to get an idea of what colors we might have.

Piper has four dark ones in her litter, but you can start to see the brown shine now. We believe these could be gold-tipped steels or chestnut. There is one orange (smutty), and then two light ones. We are definitely keeping an eye on the light ones to see if they become a sort of cream, or if they will stay light. Perhaps a frosty or something like that!

Bones has four that are showing orange coloring coming in. Two appear to be a gray color, you can kinda see one gray one if you zoom into the top corner of the photo under the orange babies face. We are definitely excited to see what the gray ones become. All her babies are looking broken to us. This pairing had two broken parents which means each baby had a 50% chance of being broken, 25% chance of being solid, and 25% chance of being a charlie (less than 10% color which would make it unshowable). Fingers crossed they all have enough coloring!

20/02/2025

Finally got around to taking out Dixie/Jacks litter to see what genders we have. Looks like 4 girls and 2 boys. This litter seemed a little trickier to s*x for some reason, so we will definitely be double checking them all again at 8-9 weeks. One doe will for sure be a pet only or cull doe as she had nestbox eye... looks like it almost has cleared up now but her eye is still a little foggy. All sweet bunnies though!

19/02/2025

Bones and JellyBeans litter. DOB: 2.17.25

Always a good sign when they are this wiggly! Warm weekend please come sooner 👏🏼

19/02/2025

Piper and Slashers litter. DOB: 2.17.25

Always a good sign when they are this wiggly! Warm weekend please come sooner 👏🏼

19/02/2025

A doe of ours was lucky enough to find her new home during the Bunny Bonanza! She has been named Sweet Tart and seems just as chill as a previous bunny they got from us named Leo :) So happy that Sweet Tart got to go to a great family close by as we are excited to watch her grow and thrive for her new family 🧡 Sweet Tart on the left and Leo on the right

19/02/2025

Windy Willow LLC will be hosting their yearly Spring Baby Weekends which will feature some of our rabbits, all of which will be looking for new homes! Find the schedule and more information on their website. Cost is $7 per person, but you get to visit much more than just the rabbits! Enjoy playing with baby goats, lambs, bunnies, as well as spending some time doing crafts and games :) This is an indoor event, https://www.windywillowfarmadventure.com/calendar

You can also message us directly if you are interested in a rabbit. Stay warm everyone! ❄️

17/02/2025

Feeling very thankful I had the day off today! Both Bones and Piper decided the coldest day ever was a good time to pop some babies out 🤦🏻‍♀️

Bones (broken black magpie) was bred to JellyBean (broken cream). Looks like maybe 6 babies.

Piper (seal) was bred to her dad Slasher (black). Looks like 7 babies. This is our first time line breeding so we are excited to see what they end up looking like.

Fingers crossed these babies make it through the cold week! The heater is barely keeping up so we put some towels around their cages to trap some heat in. Still feeling a little anxious with how cold it is though!

14/02/2025

Sneak peek of some of the bunnies you can come and see this weekend! The Bunny Bonanza will be located at Windy Willow LLC in Northfield. 10am-4pm both Saturday and Sunday. $6 per person (cap of $20 for immediate family).

07/02/2025

It has been a fairly quiet few weeks for the bunnies. They are managing the always changing weather, still testing our patience with breeding, and we are getting our current litters ready for the upcoming Bunny Bonanza! If you can't have your own rabbit, love them but don't want to own your own, or have your own but just love them all, come and visit our little lops on Valentines weekend!

30/01/2025

In 2024 we ended up finding out our favorite "doe" of a litter was actually a buck with split ge****ls. It took about 4 different judges before a judge even noticed! Interesting to know it is possibly related to the dam and dam's mother. We absolutely love the doe that produced the surprise buck as well as the granddam, so while we won't cull them just yet, we will definitely keep an eye on future litters from them! (Of course some of the best producers in the barn would have that pop up 🤦‍♀️)

This is probably going to be controversial. But lately I’ve been doing my own research about how hypospadias (split p***s) is transmitted since they are no real answers on how this disease works among rabbits . This is was I’ve come up with .

29/01/2025

Jumping on board and tagging the pages that pop up when we @! We didn't quite make it to 10 but we suggest you go and check out all these pages as they are run by wonderful people with great animals!

1. Windy Willow LLC
2. Snediker Farms
3. Woehl's RabbitTree
4. GSR rabbitry
5. Avon Hills Rabbitry
6. Rabbitmafiaq Rabbitry
7. Feia Farms'
8. Rocket's Rabbits
9. Rock Wall Rabbitry

22/01/2025

We have got the numbers in for 2024! This is mostly just fun for us, and we wanted to document how our litters this year went 😊

Total rabbits born: 117
Mini Lops - 76 | New Zealand's - 41
Average litter sizes:
Mini Lops - 5.07 | New Zealand's - 8.20

Mini Lop genders:
Females - 45 (59.21%)
Males - 31 (40.79%)
🩷 Looks like it was a lady year for us

Mini Lop colors:
Black - 23 (30.26%)
Orange - 22 (28.95%)
Chestnut - 9 (11.84%)
Frosty - 7 (9.21%)
Tri/Harl/Mag - 5 (6.58%)
Choc/Seal - 2 (2.63%)
Chinchilla - 2 (2.63%)
Blue - 2 (2.63%)
Opal - 2 (2.63%)
Tort - 1 (1.32%)
🖤 Lots of black babies this year. Judges seem to like them, but they aren't the easiest to sell. 🧡 Orange was a very close second, and we had a lot of Frosty's pop up which was very exciting!

We keep track of our Mini Lops a bit more thoroughly as they are our main breed. This year we plan to be a bit stricter on what producers get to stay. A doe with beautiful confirmation does us no good if she doesn't produce well. We tend to hold on to does who look nice, even when it takes a long time to get them bred or when they continue to produce tiny/subpar litters. This year we are hoping to crack down on who we hold onto given our limited cage space. Excited to see what stats we get next year!