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We are a farm based in Arkansas that focuses on rabbits but also has a variety of other species.
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04/11/2024

We started our goat kidding season really early 😅.
We won't be introducing our herd until our website is up in a couple of weeks. And trust me, we've been doing a bunch of changes and switching to mostly non-registered Nigerian Dwarf, registered Nigerian Dwarf, non-registered Nubian, and we still have a saanen.
These little ones are both girls. Both are non registered Nigerian Dwarfs.
The oldest is SpitFire. She is a gold girl who was born on October 29th.
The youngest is Ember. She is a Chamoise and was born today, November 3rd, quite unexpectedly.

At this time, we have no intentions of letting either girl go.

30/09/2024

Hey everyone! Just letting you guys know, we are still around. Just haven't had anything to share in a while.
Enjoy a video of SOME of our waterfowl!

We walked through the barn yesterday and counted 92 rabbits, not including our 2 JWs in the nest box. Or our 2 house bunnies. These were a variety of breeds including Silvers, English Angoras, Jersey Woolies, Belgain Hares, and American Fuzzy Lops.
We have started breeding again for the fall. So far we have 25 rabbits due between the 16th and the 21st of October. While I anticipate only having a 50% or less conception rate since it is so early in the season, we are excited for babies.

Next year, we hope to begin offering Muscovy Ducks (color specific pens), Runner Ducks, Black Silkies, Polish, Red-Shouldered Pheonix Bantams, & Chinese Gray geese. Though I will likely be listing some of my grandmother's young through this page as well. Those could include toulouse geese, Sebastopol cross geese, white African geese, and Ducks.

20/06/2024

Why have we been so quiet lately?
Well, honestly we've had a lot going on. One of our biggest achievements that we just got finished is our new goat pasture. Though we still need to get all the houses, feeders, and minerals rearranged.
The young kids we were making fun of in this video are our future breeding boys. The 2 reds are out of registered stock but not registered. The darker one is a moonspot Chamoise that is a registered Nigerian Dwarf: Heaven's Bounty's Elijah.

31/03/2024

Well, today was the day to flip the pens 🙈.
Now all that is left to do for the birds is to separate the chicken sets out. May put some silkies in with my gray muscovy 🤔.

Farm life sure stays busy. But I haven't gotten to go egg hunting yet 😓. My ducks are holding out on me.

30/03/2024

Well, tis the time to pen up the ducks (and geese 🙈).
We've made 3 pens.
1 for our layer ducks which we hope to sell from this year.
1 for our gray muscovy and African gray geese. Though there is a chocolate and a black in there at the moment to even out the pens. Maybe in a day or 2, I will flip the muscovy pens so I can have my colors just how I want.
And the last is for our black/chocolate/blue based birds. Which is where our whites belong since they are likely black underlay.
We have one more African Gray female but she is already setting 🤦‍♀️ so we couldn't pull her.
We've still got to add hay to the houses.
Unfortunately, we lost quite a few males over the winter, which I don't understand where they went, so we are making due with the 3 we have left. 1 black, 1 gray, 1 blue. We never had plans to use this gray but don't have another one at the moment 😕.

03/03/2024

Not all was bad though.
We send blood off on 30 goats and we're very pleased with the results.
We also got the first round of CDT shots given to all our adults. And everyone was wormed so we should see good weight gain.
We are getting ready for spring.
Here are some photos of some of our goats enjoying their front pasture pen. This is not all of our breeding stock.
We primarily focus on milk but also like to have goats for brush control.

We also got to learn that Goliath, our fancy buck like silver doe isn't sterile. Unfortunately, the single baby did pass. But that saves us ultrasound money to see if she was a Hermaphrodite and never able to produce 🙈

07/02/2024

Yesterday afternoon we welcomed our first official group of kids! And we've got 2 more does extremely close.
While we had to pull triplets from another doe back in late January, we don't own the doe (just manage her) and all the kids ended up passing away.
Meet Artemis and Apollo! Arty is a black female with a bunch of white. Polo is a small black boy with a white poll.
Unfortunately, we did end up losing one boy from this batch.
Currently Polo is having to take turns between being bottle fed and being on momma due to being so small.
These 2 are out of Phrase, one of our black cross bred does, and Fudge, one of our black Nigerian Bucks.

31/01/2024

Take a look at this gorgeous litter we had in our nest boxes this morning!!
We haven't been having very good luck with litters lately so when she started showing off her hay mouth last night, we were giddy! If I had my phone, I would have taken a picture. She was so happy to show it off.
These 6 healthy babies are out of BBB's HeartBreak and BBB's Little Miracle.
To see that there are no REWs in this litter was a nice suprise. There appear to be a few black based bunnies and either a couple blue or lilac based bunnies though I didn't look really close since I was in a hurry.

This litter will likely get to see the show tables if they develop like their mom and dad did. I personally love to show black EAs. Black and Chinchilla are 2 of my favorite colors in EAs.

04/01/2024

Today we had a suprise awaiting us in one of our nest boxes.
All 3 colors of silvers in the same box 😳. Fawn, Brown, and Black. We are crossing our fingers 🤞 that there are no torts but we won't know for a few days.
We expected the chance in the momma, BBH9 out of RRR's Stuart (Brown carrying black) and RRR's Hannah (Brown carrying black and fawn) but had not realized the chance in our buck, BBS4 out of BBB2 (Brown carrying black) and BBB's Baby Girl (Fawn).

Pictured is actually a different litter who needed a bit of warming because the mom failed to have them in her box.
2 big brown babies. Going to watch the line in the middle of the one to make sure it doesn't develop light.
These 2 are from BBL1, who is out of BBB's Little Lady (Brown) and SquareBody Bun's Larry (Brown carrying Black) and BBG8 who is out of BBB's Golden Glory (Fawn) and SquareBody Bun's Larry (Brown carrying Black)

02/01/2024

This year, we have specific goals we want to meet.
* We really want to put our first homegrown Belgain Hares on the table this year. Unfortunately, this is not off to a good start as our orginal doe had a litter of 6 DOAs today 😓.
* We want to continue to see improvement in our Silvers. This year we will still be focusing on body type primarily. We are starting this off strong with 14 does due in 2 days and another 6 due later this month.
* We plan to reestablish the breeding of our English Angora speficially towards show use. This will begin by breeding for better body type. In the last year or 2, we have shown very few EAs and had honestly become disinterested in showing them so we worked on our colors and wool. Well, we finally have our chinchillas. Now it is time to bring them (the chinchillas) up to show standards since they are currently only brood quality. We will also be attempting to show some offspring out of our fancier does.
* By the end of the year, we have plans to have replaced our current baby cages with a new style. This is partially because our main set is wearing out, but also since we have learned so much since we built them and we now need to build them to be able to house the Belgains. . We also have plans to change how we handle growouts and have more individual growout pens for easier growth and less coat damage.
* The last main thing we want to get done is get our website updated and republished.

Enjoy a photo of one our fancy crossbreed roosters. He is a cochin Bantam/Pheonix Bantam Cross.
We don't speak much about our other species on this page, but we have goats, chickens, muscovy ducks, ducks, geese, and donkeys.

01/01/2024

Well, I hope everyone has been having good holidays!
To finish off 2023, we have an announcement post!
First off I want to apologize for any missed messages or any messages that have taken me a while to respond to. I have difficulty around the holidays. Then on the 28th, I sprained my back, somehow, so I've been having some difficulties with getting everything done.
But, certain plans were made before my injury that still needed to be upheld!
I introduce to you our new herd of Belgain Hares 🥳🥳🥳🥳.
We have added 5 does and another buck to bring our total up to 6 does and 2 bucks. All are Rufus except one black tan doe.
I want to give a big thanks to Gene Gillipse who is working with me to make this possible and to my good friend Sherilu Singer who helped me with this unexpected opportunity.
When we were told at the Lonoke show that he was getting out of some of his breeds and his Belgain Hares were one of them, we knew we needed to get them but it took us a while to figure out funds and plans. I can't wait to finally have some Belgains carrying my barn name to put on the show tables. I truly love this Jack Rabbit breed and hope to start showing them alongside my Silvers.
Oh, and in other news, enjoy a photo of Beauty nesting a day on Friday 🤞.
I'll be hoping to find one more buck in 2024 but it will need to wait awhile 😅. The 10 hours worth of driving to get these has me tuckered out 🙈.
Pictures aren't the best since we've been giving the Belgains time to recover from their long trip and life change before we truly mess with them.

27/12/2023

We recieved our official rabbitry registration in the mail today 🥳.
Not quite sure why I waited this long but it's here now. I went ahead and applied for it with my membership refill.

17/12/2023

Yesterday we showed at the Lonoke, AR show.
I wanted to share a short video of one of our rabbits.
Tony Bell judging BBA2 aka BBB's Goliath. SR. Doe

Goliath is a very dark doe and we wanted to hear from a judge what they thought about her color. The lighting in the building really helps to see her color, especially when placed next to a more normal Fawn.

BBB's Goliath (BBB's Gingersnap x BBB's Ear's Boy) is currently bred to BBB's Proven Legacy (BBB's Golden Glory x BBB's Goldfish) and is due on January 3rd, 2024

04/12/2023

And in other news, we have begun breeding after our long summer break and clean out!
First litters of 2024 are due just a few days after the new year.
So far we have bred 14 sets of silvers in all 3 colors (only one cross color set) and we have bred our Belgain Hare pair! Fingers crossed on them 🤞.
This is why I keep more bucks than the average breeder. I want to be able to breed a large amount of bunnies at one time and not stagger them. In our silvers, we used all of our bucks except one that didn't pass inspection and our 3 retiree bucks that we built our herd with.

Here is a couple photos of our favorite pairing that we are very, very excited for.
BBB's Goliath (out of BBB's Gingersnap and BBB's BBL4) and BBB's Proven Legacy (BBB's Golden Glory x BBB's Goldfish).
I can never seem to take pictures that do them justice but I love both of these animals.
We are also doing another BBB's Golden Glory x BBB's Goldfish pairing. This is a brother/sister pairing.

04/12/2023

Here is a short video of Hot Chocolate for those who might want to see one.
We sure had plenty of bells!
Facebook doesn't allow me to post photos and videos in the same post.

04/12/2023

We were in the local parade last night and for his first parade, Hot Chocolate did great!! I'm very proud of my 3 yr old, 34.5 inch Jack.
Didn't attempt to race after other horses. Was very polite.
We did have a couple spooks and a few hesitations but great recovery! He isn't used to all the shadows involved with evening and night time driving. He had never heard police sirens so close either.
Then we took him to the park where there was a Christmas event so kids could pet on him and take pictures with him

28/11/2023

Enjoy a short video of Hot Chocolate, our miniature donkey jack.
We plan to be in the Dover Christmas Parade this weekend if you want to come out and watch!
Yes, the harness isn't fitting quite right. It's been several months since we've worked him in it and it has been adjusted for a larger donkey so we are having to readjust it. It will be correct for the parade. We just needed to test if he was ready for an event.

12/11/2023

Do we have any youth in Arkansas looking to breed and show silvers?
We've got 3 trios, a brown doe, and a black buck. These are from our brood stock so some coats are currently damaged.
These are no charge for youth. If an adult would like them, we are discounting them from our normal rate!
None of these animals are going to place top on the table, several of them due to their age, but would be good to start a breeding program.
The pictures aren't the best. There was some noise and they didn't want to pose today. Come put hands on them!

The fawns have been picked up.
One Brown Trio has been picked up.

Remaining Bunnies:

Trio: BBJ7, BBU3, BBD8

Extra Brown Doe: BBJ2

Black Buck - pending: BBH12 - He shows potentional but I just don't have a need for him.

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Monday	15:00 - 22:00
Tuesday	08:00 - 22:00
Wednesday	14:30 - 22:00
Thursday	08:00 - 22:00
Friday	12:00 - 22:00
Saturday	08:00 - 22:00
Sunday	08:00 - 22:00

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Hey everyone! Just letting you guys know, we are still around. Just haven't had anything to share in a while. Enjoy a video of SOME of our waterfowl! We walked through the barn yesterday and counted 92 rabbits, not including our 2 JWs in the nest box. Or our 2 house bunnies. These were a variety of breeds including Silvers, English Angoras, Jersey Woolies, Belgain Hares, and American Fuzzy Lops. We have started breeding again for the fall. So far we have 25 rabbits due between the 16th and the 21st of October. While I anticipate only having a 50% or less conception rate since it is so early in the season, we are excited for babies. Next year, we hope to begin offering Muscovy Ducks (color specific pens), Runner Ducks, Black Silkies, Polish, Red-Shouldered Pheonix Bantams, & Chinese Gray geese. Though I will likely be listing some of my grandmother's young through this page as well. Those could include toulouse geese, Sebastopol cross geese, white African geese, and Ducks.

Why have we been so quiet lately? Well, honestly we've had a lot going on. One of our biggest achievements that we just got finished is our new goat pasture. Though we still need to get all the houses, feeders, and minerals rearranged. The young kids we were making fun of in this video are our future breeding boys. The 2 reds are out of registered stock but not registered. The darker one is a moonspot Chamoise that is a registered Nigerian Dwarf: Heaven's Bounty's Elijah.

Yesterday we showed at the Lonoke, AR show. I wanted to share a short video of one of our rabbits. Tony Bell judging BBA2 aka BBB's Goliath. SR. Doe Goliath is a very dark doe and we wanted to hear from a judge what they thought about her color. The lighting in the building really helps to see her color, especially when placed next to a more normal Fawn. BBB's Goliath (BBB's Gingersnap x BBB's Ear's Boy) is currently bred to BBB's Proven Legacy (BBB's Golden Glory x BBB's Goldfish) and is due on January 3rd, 2024

Here is a short video of Hot Chocolate for those who might want to see one. We sure had plenty of bells! Facebook doesn't allow me to post photos and videos in the same post.

Enjoy a short video of Hot Chocolate, our miniature donkey jack. We plan to be in the Dover Christmas Parade this weekend if you want to come out and watch! Yes, the harness isn't fitting quite right. It's been several months since we've worked him in it and it has been adjusted for a larger donkey so we are having to readjust it. It will be correct for the parade. We just needed to test if he was ready for an event.

Just a video I took of some of my own goats today. I've had these 3, and 2 others since Sunday. I was attempting to get a video of them drinking but I think Momma knew and walked off before the video started 😅. Cindy doesn't produce much milk anyway due to the age of her babies. Meet Cindy Lou (momma) and her daughters Peppermint (dark pink collar) & Candy Cane (light pink) In the background you can see Soot & Hot Chocolate.

The last few days, we have been herding our ducks out of our duck pen and into our 'chicken' pen (mostly predator safe area) so they can enjoy some green grass. Jeremiah, the big white muscovy drake, had been locked up in our barn for a few days as he was a bit under the weather and we were worried about him. Everyone was sure happy to see him! Especially his white girls! You can also see some of our yokohama chickens, who we are not currently locking up. You can also see Sebastion, our blue with white head specks drake. Hersey, our solid chocolate hen in front of Sebastion and Jeremiah. Alexander, our older silver male. And Maggie, our black hen with a very clean white bib.

Well, when separating out our breeding pairs of silvers, we ended up with a nice surprise! We exposed her to him on 10-23 and pulled him from her cage tonight. This doe flips a switch when she is developing and caring for babies. If she fails, she won't grunt and she is friendly. While she is basically unable to be handled, she is one of the best mothers in our barn. This doe will foster anything, no questions asked! Which is insane when you consider her mother only ever had 3 babies and Ears is the only one to survive! No ears, no tail, and a scar, still beautiful. I thought I was going to move the buck on but not many can figure out how to breed Ears since she has no tail so looks like he will be staying. Her babies will be 16 weeks in mid March and we are looking forward to nationals with the other 9 silvers I have bred 😆 some of which are being pulled off the show team early to try to get one more generation before nationals. Black Beauty's Burrow's Earless Hamster x Black Beauty's Burrow's BBD6 (BBB's Snickerdoodle x SBB's Larry) *P.S. don't mind the feed bowl. I feed at night and they dirtied it up from last night.

Black Beauty's Burrow's Summer Fun - Hormones during Shearing - June 2021

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