McPeters Family Homestead and Rabbitry

10/07/2022

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.

01/07/2022

Work in progress

17/06/2022

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.

11/06/2022

Ms Cara had 12 babies this morning

09/06/2022

Harley gettin so big.

Born 3/13/22

08/06/2022

06/06/2022

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.

27/05/2022

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.

26/05/2022

The first time momma I shared yesterday had her babies during the night.

9 pedigree NZ babies. Some very light coloring in this litter.

25/05/2022

Opened the box to check on my doe that is 3 days late, looks like we having babies today

20/05/2022

Some of this NZ litter is starting to venture out of the nest. I love this point in the process.

17/05/2022

A day in the life....

17/05/2022

Meet Joker, him and Harley gonna make pretty babies when he grows up.

13/05/2022

This little one knows how to get comfy

07/05/2022

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.

06/05/2022

Since I made a new potato tower today I decided to take step by step pictures.

Description of step is in picture descriptions

03/05/2022

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!

25/04/2022

Bit of a better picture of the litter of 12 tamuk babies born this week.

24/04/2022

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.

21/04/2022

Kinda hard to see all of them in all that fur, but we just had 12 babies born, most are Harliquin

19/04/2022

Had to finish off one corner to get a look at how it's coming together. Going to paint the wood black this weekend.

19/04/2022

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.

17/04/2022

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.

17/04/2022

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.

14/04/2022

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.

07/01/2022

My favorite thing about being outside working

05/01/2022

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

20/12/2021

This little girl is enjoying her new home tonight.