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Black Beauty's Burrow We are a farm based in Russellville, AR area. Our main focus is rabbits: Silvers & English Angoras. Our main duck breed is Muscovy.

We also focus on goats: Nigerian Dwarf and a variety of other diary breeds. We have a variety of other species as well.

We are counting the days!! 93 days and still appears bred! We will have someone back out this month to ultrasound more g...
02/12/2025

We are counting the days!!
93 days and still appears bred! We will have someone back out this month to ultrasound more girls and double check this girl's status.
But 🤞 that we are still looking good!

All of our houses also got rebedded last night since it is getting cold right now.

I just paired 21 silver does with bucks. Please let me regret it in 30 days 🤞. Please. I saw multiple fall offs so if th...
16/11/2025

I just paired 21 silver does with bucks.
Please let me regret it in 30 days 🤞. Please.

I saw multiple fall offs so if those boys and girls are fertile, I should have babies.

I plan on pairing the EAs tomorrow after I shear them since the weather seems like it will be decent for the next 10 days.

I also placed all the saanens with their buck for extended exposure so I won't know exact due dates for them but I'm hoping he can get his job done 🤞.

Enjoy a picture of the madness that goes into breeding so many at one time 🤣.

All but 2 of our registered ND does are now confirmed bred!! We will announce who once we have ultrasounds. Only one of ...
11/11/2025

All but 2 of our registered ND does are now confirmed bred!! We will announce who once we have ultrasounds.
Only one of these results is not what I had hoped for (my grandmother's herd had a couple of doelings fit through a fence and we were concerned). But that doe was expected because she just had a raging heat a few days ago 🙈. She better hurry up and take because I'm not kidding in July again 🤣.
Speaking of, I will be separating out my saanens soon and leaving them with their male for a while. I'm not seeing heat cycles like I want to on them so I'm going to have to trust my boy to know what to do (though he hasn't had a confirmed bred yet). And I've got to make the decision on whether to skip my nubians this year or buy another buck because my spring boy isn't up to the job yet.

Here's our official expectancy numbers as of this test. This includes both mine and my grandmother's herd.
Registered ND: 7
Unregistered ND: 4
ND Cross: 1

Which leaves these open/unconfirmed (as of now):
Saanen: 5
Nubian: 4
Registered ND: 2
Unregistered ND: 1

My 1st to kid will be due on January 15th-20th. And so far, I'm already stretching into April 😕.

07/11/2025

We've had a busy couple of weeks! I had to take a trip out of state for a few days and then came down with some type of sickness. It's not been fun.

But we are eagerly counting the days to this girl's little ones!

Redbud R/Y Jillion
Ultrasounded to be carrying 2.
By Stratton Creek G Silverton Mtn
82 days left guys. 82 days.

I didn't send her blood off with our batch earlier this week since I just had her ultrasounded a couple weeks ago. But she will be sent off again in a couple weeks for another pregnancy confirmation. Unless I have her ultrasounded again 🤪.

And as soon as my quarintine/separation pens are empty, this girl will likely be put up for the winter. We will be doing everything we can to help this girl have a successful pregnancy, even if it means having a goat in the rabbit barn all winter 🙈.

This little doe will be a first freshener in the spring. But her mother's udder was decent, though I didn't get any good...
28/10/2025

This little doe will be a first freshener in the spring. But her mother's udder was decent, though I didn't get any good photos of it due to some family issues at birth. And no clean clipped ones 😩. We will be freshening her again this next spring and plan to grab some proper ones then!

Due: 2-14-2025

The Alexnders Moonlit Sky (black w/moonspots)
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Stratton Creek SS Smoke Signal (chamoisee with moonspots & blue eyes)

Ultrasounded to be carrying 4. We will not be keeping more than 2 doelings depending on Moon's udder. So buck/doe reservations open.

Possible fun: moonspots, blue eyes

Our 3rd expected kidding of 2026 will go back to our registered does. Busy Bee Acres Sugar Mama (chocolate Chamoisee)xSt...
27/10/2025

Our 3rd expected kidding of 2026 will go back to our registered does.

Busy Bee Acres Sugar Mama (chocolate Chamoisee)
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Stratton Creek G Silverton Mtn (Silver Swiss)

Due: February 11th, 2026

Ultrasounded to be carrying 2.
We plan to possibly keep 1 doeling.
But we do have a reservation spot open for a buck and a doe kid.

Possible Fun: Silver, Blue eyes (both parents), chocolate, Chamoisee, swiss

I should be pretty happy with Sugar's udder and I'm excited to see it! The little bit I got to see as she was drying up was decent!

With the introduction of the 2 girls due before the new year, we decided it was time to get our butts moving and get rea...
26/10/2025

With the introduction of the 2 girls due before the new year, we decided it was time to get our butts moving and get ready for kidding season since it would be coming early.
The first step of that was moving the milk stand so I can hopefully milk test. I can't have strangers in the rabbit barn because the Silvers start freaking out.
Plus we added a 2nd one. So now I can feed/milk 2-3 goats at a time depending on pairing (some of them are ok with sharing a stand and will stand for me to milk them even with their heads free).
So, our new setup moved a few foot over and on the opposite side of the wall.
I got to use it for the first time tonight and it's quite nice!
Plus this building still has room for all my feed and some of my storage. So overall it's been a good day.

Our 2nd to kid in 2026 goes to this unregistered doe! Savanah- 2020 chocolate chamoisee doeShe is due February 10th, 202...
24/10/2025

Our 2nd to kid in 2026 goes to this unregistered doe!
Savanah- 2020 chocolate chamoisee doe
She is due February 10th, 2026
She is bred to Stratton Creek SS JuliusCeasar!!!
She has been ultrasounded to be carrying 3 but has also been previously known to carry quads/quints.

Possible Fun: Moonspots, blue eyes, chamoisee, chocolate

We will NOT be keeping any kids out of this doe since we are unable to get ahold of her papers. So if anyone is interested in a buck/doe, send us a message to get on our list!

Believe me when I say this does kids will be some to watch for those with unregistered herds!

Let's meet 2 of my new girls!! A mother and daughter pair. Lowery BCT Acres Oreo Blossom - February 2019 doe - Light Cho...
24/10/2025

Let's meet 2 of my new girls!!
A mother and daughter pair.

Lowery BCT Acres Oreo Blossom - February 2019 doe - Light Chocolate with moonspots.

The Baby Ruth- February 2021 doe - Chocolate Bezoar with moonspots!

Ruth is our 3rd bezoar!

These girls were both ultrasounded today. Blossom is due within the next month to 1.5 months. Ruth is a bit behind that.
Both were ultrasounded to be carrying 2/at least 2. It's kinda hard to get a 100% number this late into gestation.
They were bred to Cadron Hill Gone Country.

I don't know how many I will be keeping. Possibly 1-2 doelings out of each doe. And maybe 1 buck between them.
They've been shown in fairs for a few years and the little bit of udder they have already pleases me so I'm excited!

Possible Fun: Moonspots, Bezoar, Roan/Light, Swiss

But these girls mean I won't get a break from the kids or milking. I'll need to get the barn ready for the next round of kids quicker than I expected!

I'm ready to announce the girl who will have me on my toes and panicking her entire pregnancy!! She is not the first we ...
23/10/2025

I'm ready to announce the girl who will have me on my toes and panicking her entire pregnancy!!
She is not the first we will have kid this coming season but she will be the first registered of 2026!

Redbud R/Y Jillion
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Stratton Creek G Silverton Mtn

Due: January 28th, 2026

Her ultrasound showed 2 kids.

This is a September 2017 doe. My oldest ND doe by 1.5 ish yrs though she isn't my oldest doe. She was also my 1st registered female. I purchased her back in February 2024.
This doe has had issues getting pregnant and staying pregnant in the past so I'll still be sending off blood on her through the entire pregnancy but we are hopeful 🤞.
This will be her last chance/season. She had polio earlier in the year and does have some permanent mental damage from it. And we weren't even sure if we were going to breed her this fall or if we would need to put her down due to not keeping condition. She spent the end of summer really improving from what she was in the spring/early summer and so we decided to give her one more try. And since breeding, she has improved more.

I highly anticipate she will be finishing her pregnancy in my rabbit barn but we want to give her as much time in the pasture as we can.
We will play it by ear with this girl. She may not even be put on our milk string. It all depends on her. And after this coming year, she will get to spend the rest of her days roaming the pasture and eating cookies. Until the day comes that she either passes on her own or I have to make the decision to ease her passing.

She's the girl who started it all and she will always be my baby.

Possible: Blue eyes, Silver, swiss, buckskin

All doelings will be kept. 1 buckling will be kept. If there is another buckling, it will be available.

We will be working on rabbit breedings as soon as we get this goat mess sorted out 🤣.Tomorrow we will have our first ult...
23/10/2025

We will be working on rabbit breedings as soon as we get this goat mess sorted out 🤣.
Tomorrow we will have our first ultrasounds done on the goats and I'm excited about those!

But stay tuned for rabbit pairings! We need to do a barn reorganize and cleanup/cull first but I'm hoping to have babies on the ground by January 🤞.
We only have English Angoras and Silvers now. In the last 2 yrs, I've lost or moved on everything else except a couple pet JWs and a couple pet Belgain Hares.
Our Angora herd has severely dwindled from its prime. And while it is more manageable now, looking at pedigrees and seeing animals I've lost, animals that were in their prime in 2023, breaks my heart. I will not sell my adult EAs. They will finish their days here. But if I can't get breedings next year, it may be our last year even trying to breed them. I can't keep looking at pedigrees and seeing just how many rabbits I was excited about that died due to that feed and with it, my genetic diversity i worked so hard on. I struggle to even see how I will recover my numbers without bringing in more of them. Which isn't as easy as it was in 2019-2022.

And I keep using more space in the barn for goats. I'm now looking at using half of the barn for goats this winter. The same barn that in 2023 was about plum full of rabbits. I had around 200 at one point! I couldn't have fit one goat in there! Much less a milk stand!

I have no plans to quit trying on my silvers. I still have the genetic diversity I built. They make up over 75% of my remaining herd. But I will need to start making hard culls to make room for fertile females. Some girls will never leave (orginals & special/favorite buns). But I've got to start making the hard decisions on who stays.

Pictured is Running Wild Charlie. One of my first angoras and my first quality buck that I had transported back in 2019. He's long gone now, as are all of his offspring and many of his grandkids. But I did see him on a pedigree today. I want to get my herd back to this!

Sneak peak of 3 of our new registered Nigerian Dwarf girls! All 3 are possibly bred! 2 due before the new year. The othe...
22/10/2025

Sneak peak of 3 of our new registered Nigerian Dwarf girls! All 3 are possibly bred! 2 due before the new year. The other has a few months 🤣.
Introductions to come.

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