Family Rabbitry focused on our own meat production, while providing meat rabbits, show rabbits, dog treats, and rabbit by products.
Greg, the kids, and I spent the weekend making this bunny and his bunny momma a little happier.
First pic is before and the rest are after.
His momma seemed really really happy to see him in his new home.
We used a lot of the material she already had to keep the cost of rebuilding down for her.
Work in progress
I made this video for a lady picking up bunnies Sunday, but wanted to show you guys how amazing Tamuks are with heat.
I have fans near my NZ rabbits, but these Tamuks are not close enough to the fan and are not fazed at all with this 110 heat index.
Ms Cara had 12 babies this morning
Harley gettin so big.
Born 3/13/22
Took in a rescue rabbit recently. It's nest was over run with fire ants and all it's siblings were dead. The people that found it tried to bottle feed it, but it wasn't going well for them.
Below is an update pic from when it got here yesterday and then this morning, already great progress.
This little one will be going back to the family that found it after it's ready.
Pedigree NZ litter born this morning. I'm excited about these babies.
This doe is the mother of the doe that had her first litter yesterday. I really want to switch out black for blue in my Rabbitry, and both litters are the first two sired by my new broken blue buck.
I'll be keeping babies and retiring mom to move us in that direction. This will be her last litter with us.
The first time momma I shared yesterday had her babies during the night.
9 pedigree NZ babies. Some very light coloring in this litter.
Opened the box to check on my doe that is 3 days late, looks like we having babies today
Some of this NZ litter is starting to venture out of the nest. I love this point in the process.
A day in the life....
Meet Joker, him and Harley gonna make pretty babies when he grows up.
This little one knows how to get comfy
Tamuks 8 weeks old, currently in Conway.
No pedigree, Tamuks are great meat rabbits with their heat tolerance, increased litter and milk supply, and early breeding at 4 months, but they are not show rabbits.
One orange one is a doe, other is buck.
Black one is a buck.
They come from a Tamuk Harliquin line and carry genes for beautiful color variety. This litter had orange/black harli, orange/lilac harli, and blue besides these guys.
Another litter will be 8 weeks next week in case these guys need an unrelated friend.
Since I made a new potato tower today I decided to take step by step pictures.
Description of step is in picture descriptions
Ms. Unicorn had 10 babies 3 days ago. These are partial pedigree NZ.
She has been in our rabbitry the longest as the first baby born when we started two years ago. Always an awesome momma, look at all that fur!
Bit of a better picture of the litter of 12 tamuk babies born this week.
We brought in a new broken blue buck yesterday for our pedigree NZ line, meet Swavey.
He is a chunky ladies man. He already has a litter on the way.
Kinda hard to see all of them in all that fur, but we just had 12 babies born, most are Harliquin
Had to finish off one corner to get a look at how it's coming together. Going to paint the wood black this weekend.
Last month I gave my mom a breeding age doe (bred to my buck) and a baby doe so she could get started producing her own food, today her first litter was born and I'd say she looks very excited.
Processing day
Today our 10 week olds are going to freezer camp.
It can be a difficult day as nobody enjoys taking life, but there is honor in serving purpose and today these rabbits will be serving their purpose as prey animals by providing nutrients to our family.
We love our rabbits, and appreciate the sacrifice they make to feed our family.
We had a pedigree litter born this morning! Pete Jr. And Ms. Rose.
This is Pete Jr.'s first litter.
RIP Pete, your legacy lives on.
Love getting messages from people who have felt inspired to start their own journey of creating food security by producing for themselves.
This lady lives in a different state even.
My favorite thing about being outside working
We haven't posted on this page in a while, but things are changing.
Words from my post on my personal page.
"It's hard to put words together about this moment. CoHO has been my life for so long.
For a while now I've had this push inside to produce, and I've listened. I had things going well with my animals and garden, but events over the past couple years (plus my health issues) have taken a toll on me and by continuing to do both (my project and CoHO) I was not going to be able to do both justice.
And they are right, it's not the end. Once I finish rebuilding myself and my rabbitry/garden past the point I had it in May when I started going down hill, I will be bringing meat and veggies for the CoHO Market regularly. I also want to help kids in low income communities have the opportunity be a part of 4H and have access to rabbits that can help them do well in competition. I can best do all of this by putting my full focus into it.
I will still play a part at CoHO, just in a different capacity. I'm energized and motivated to reach that day I pull my wagon up to the HIB full of healthy foods for the market. And the day I'm ready to start providing showable rabbits to kids in the community.
Eventually I want to be able to add Ministry Center, Bethlehem House, Soul Food, CAPCA, and the other great organizations I've worked with over the years to that drop off list as well.
It's not a goodbye, just a change in relationship.
I'm also excited to know that the things I was working on building within admin and HR for CoHO are being left in capable hands. Tara King you are awesome and I know you will do great finishing my work."
Ambra
This little girl is enjoying her new home tonight.
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I made this video for a lady picking up bunnies Sunday, but wanted to show you guys how amazing Tamuks are with heat. I have fans near my NZ rabbits, but these Tamuks are not close enough to the fan and are not fazed at all with this 110 heat index.
My favorite thing about being outside working
Tamuk babies ready next week. Msg to reserve.
He loves to run circles around my feet and nibble on my dress lol
Cara is a great momma, always enjoy her litters
Exciting getting the chance to show you guys a fresh litter. *She either had one more on the wire or knocked one out of the box while I was out there giving food and water. Going to recount in a bit* It was a new baby, she had 8
One of my newest additions to the herd is about to have her first litter. Woke up and was about to go out and feed them, but noticed this through the window and had to stop and record her. Rabbits pull fur to put in their nest box since their babies are born without fur. If they didn't do this, their babies wouldn't survive. Fun fact...if you have a first time mom that is having trouble or forgot to pull fur, you can pull for them. They are designed to do this and it doesn't hurt them. We have had to do it, the moms don't flinch or even budge. The next time around the momma knew what to do and pulled for her self. Looks like Delta has it figured out and won't need any help preparing for her babies. They should be here today or tonight.
Every time she has a litter I'm reminded of how thankful I am that I took the time to carry her in my shirt as a newborn and save her. 11 babies again, all are full bellied and healthy. Such a good momma. For those that don't know, rabbits have 8 teats. For some rabbits with a litter this size that means a few will not get to eat and won't make it. Unicorn takes the time to make sure all her babies get food before leaving the nestbox. So proud of my baby.
NZ White doe from my very first litter. Getting ready to have another batch of babies. Last litter was 11! She is so cute when we breed her. She is the only doe I have that will do flirty hops over the male before turning around to let him breed. She loves being a momma and even keeps all her babies in her large litters alive and healthy. This time she was bred to my pedigree NZ Pete, so these babies will be partial pedigree.
Had to take a break from making hutch improvements to hang out with my big baby Amos for a bit.
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