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ADM's Rabbitry • Elegant Exotics This is the adventure of me breeding and raising rabbits for meat, feeders, and show. Also, breeding and raising designer snakes.
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Mini lop juniors looking for a new place to call homeInfo under each picture. Will hold till convention, doesn’t need to...
21/09/2024

Mini lop juniors looking for a new place to call home
Info under each picture. Will hold till convention, doesn’t need to be entered though (I live about 30 mins from convention and can just bring them the last day)

Rabbits ain’t got nothing on rats when it comes to breeding. 21 day gestation, 21 days of nursing, 3-4 months old for br...
21/09/2024

Rabbits ain’t got nothing on rats when it comes to breeding. 21 day gestation, 21 days of nursing, 3-4 months old for breeding.
Rats are another fun and quick way to have fun with genetics while still serving a purpose in the end (snake food).
Them little apricot looking ones are so cute.
38 pups out of 5 first time females
I’ll keep a male and 10 females out of this batch to grow the colony. End goal is 5 groups of 3 females, this would allow a schedule of babies to be born every week with females getting 2 weeks off in between weaning and birthing. Females will likely have a breeding life of 10-12 months before being cycled out with future generations

Pretty sure this guy is my future herd buck 😍
21/09/2024

Pretty sure this guy is my future herd buck 😍

The marvel of losing a terrible baby coat. I know which lines of mine have awful baby coat and molt into some of my best...
18/09/2024

The marvel of losing a terrible baby coat.
I know which lines of mine have awful baby coat and molt into some of my best fur.
I also know which ones have awful baby fur and will always be awful. Lol.
My point is, it’s good to know your lines.

So I decided to keep the sable buck too. He doesn’t have the muscling the doe does but I really like his topline. Wanted...
18/09/2024

So I decided to keep the sable buck too. He doesn’t have the muscling the doe does but I really like his topline.
Wanted to come up with unique names for my first generation of sables. So I named them Kamala and Walz. lol. No, I’m not trying to be political. It’s just for fun. So relax 🧘

I’ve got this F1 Cal/Rex that can go to a new home if she can help someone. Just asking 5️⃣0️⃣, can hold till convention...
18/09/2024

I’ve got this F1 Cal/Rex that can go to a new home if she can help someone. Just asking 5️⃣0️⃣, can hold till convention if paid for in full

The two grow outs I kept from my accidental litter over the summer. Dad is a broken chestnut mini lop and mom is a regul...
17/09/2024

The two grow outs I kept from my accidental litter over the summer. Dad is a broken chestnut mini lop and mom is a regular furred, carrying Rex, brindled Amber. I thought these two were worth growing out. Especially the chestnut. I feel my mini lop heard needs loin most of all, and most that I see posted online seem to need it to so the chestnut here may do good things for me 🤷🏻‍♀️ I think she is brindled but I can’t tell for sure

I’m a little lost on what to do with these two. They aren’t great, but i dont know enough to say they are awful. I would...
17/09/2024

I’m a little lost on what to do with these two. They aren’t great, but i dont know enough to say they are awful. I would say the younger litter with the same parents look much better but they are 6 weeks younger and I plan to show them, hopefully, into seniorhood. So I figure for now I’ll crave the desire to breed the mini lops by experimenting breeding the doe back to her dad, and the buck back to his mom. See if line breeding and odds fall in my favor.
Doe
Buck
5 months old

🥰I keep going back and forth about letting go of the brindle, but can’t decide if my herd can afford to let him go or no...
17/09/2024

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I keep going back and forth about letting go of the brindle, but can’t decide if my herd can afford to let him go or not.

Even in the 10 week old uglies I still really like them. Both of those steels are 😮‍💨 the brindled castor looks better f...
17/09/2024

Even in the 10 week old uglies I still really like them. Both of those steels are 😮‍💨 the brindled castor looks better free handed. His muscling is excellent.
F1 Cal/Rex _ej litter

I decided sometime in July to raise rats, again. Not my favorite thing to do because they smell and it’s a lot of work t...
16/09/2024

I decided sometime in July to raise rats, again. Not my favorite thing to do because they smell and it’s a lot of work to keep up with them from not smelling. However, my ball python breeding program is growing, so it needs to be done. They are to picky of eaters to feed other prey items and make future buyers have to deal with nightmare eaters.
So the only way I was willing to do it if I was to keep them outside. We are probably going to have some learning curves around winter…but we got through the heat of the summer and now have a baby explosion of 38 rat pinkies. Half of those will be kept for furthering the rat breeding program and the other half will be food.
I could do the typical rat rack setup, as it’s extremly popular for a reason. But I decided to go a different approach. I’m building their enclosures out of clear tubs, with latching lids, and the tubs are 13” tall. Rat racks typically use black concrete tubs. The rats can’t see out. You can’t see in. (Except through the wire mesh on top of the tub) They are like 6” tall so the rats can barely stand. It’s obviously livable and functional as people breed like this all the time. However, I’m a smaller operation and I just wanted them to have better conditions. Which is why I went with clear tubs and taller tubs. Taking the lid off can be annoying but the tubs are escape proof which is WAY better then finding a rat who has chewed through the top of a concrete tub, gotten out, chewed water line, and now you have tubs filled with water and rats that have drowned.
Also going this route will allow me to have a couple tubs of cavies again too. I’ll get some at convention time.

Pictures is of a momma rat who is tired but still doing her job.
So as of now I’m raising rabbits, rats, quail, reticulated pythons, boa contactictors, and ball pythons. And cavies again in the near future. Next spring I will start on the chicken and turkey endevour.

This baby lilac fawn looks really promising 🥰3 weeks old
16/09/2024

This baby lilac fawn looks really promising 🥰
3 weeks old

Bugatti is mom bod-ed up these days but I still love her 🥰
15/09/2024

Bugatti is mom bod-ed up these days but I still love her 🥰

Man…i just love this guy. His loin is growing by the day and filling in more and more. I love his color. His pattern. Hi...
14/09/2024

Man…i just love this guy. His loin is growing by the day and filling in more and more. I love his color. His pattern. His fur, though a little long. I’m just smitten with him. Can’t wait to show him and have my reality checked hahaha
I definitely see places to improve but he feels like a really solid step in making a good tri buck for the herd.

I’m keeping my sable program very small because 1, I only like sable. I don’t care for himi or seal and 2, tri will alwa...
14/09/2024

I’m keeping my sable program very small because 1, I only like sable. I don’t care for himi or seal and 2, tri will always be number one focus and I’m not willing to give up a ton of holes for this project and 3, I think I can still make vast improvement with only one or two animals. Going to be culling crazy hard and the herd will reap the reward.
So I kept this one sable doe out of my F1 Cal/Rex Litter. I will breed her back to her sable Rex father. Hopefully I’ll get one or two, Rex furred, sable or seal that’s worth keeping and then likely my next step would be breeding back to a Cal or NZ.
Felt like this doe was a decent start for my first generation of sables ☺️

I can’t wait for this litter. 10 more days till they are here!
12/09/2024

I can’t wait for this litter. 10 more days till they are here!

12/09/2024

I have 11 tri in the nest box, which 10 of them are showable. How exciting!
3 b/o tri,
3 l/f tri, and
5 b/f tri

✨ssstrike✨a pose
12/09/2024

✨ssstrike✨a pose

This buck looks so much like his momma with a slight bit of improvement. Don’t judge his lack of loin fullness strongly,...
10/09/2024

This buck looks so much like his momma with a slight bit of improvement. Don’t judge his lack of loin fullness strongly, he’s only 13 weeks and growing. That’s Buggatti at 5 months old. Very excited about this buck. Maybe future herd buck material.

This litter makes my heart happy 13 weeks oldI’m gunna get to show mini lops for the first time at the end of the month....
10/09/2024

This litter makes my heart happy
13 weeks old
I’m gunna get to show mini lops for the first time at the end of the month. Excited to learn 🥰

How exciting! Anzu has freshly shed her pre-lay shed and is inverting like crazy already!Cow X 65.63% SD Anery het Purpl...
10/09/2024

How exciting! Anzu has freshly shed her pre-lay shed and is inverting like crazy already!
Cow X 65.63% SD Anery het Purple

This means I actually have two female retics gravid right now. The other one is one I’ve been trying to get happen for 3 years in a row and it would seem she finally took.
2024 has been such a big year for me and the snakes ☺️

I also got to bring Ferrari back home this weekend. He’s been at my friends barn since December, and he’s been well take...
09/09/2024

I also got to bring Ferrari back home this weekend. He’s been at my friends barn since December, and he’s been well taken care of. He assisted me well last year to improve on bone and loin width and peak placement. Wish his loin carriage was a bit more over the hip, but he has plenty of good things about him. I’m excited to get him bred to some of his grand daughters.
Ferrari is a really compact dense muscled buck. He is 25% NZ 12.5% MR and 62.5% Rex. He’s AaBbCCddEej. And he makes pretty decent Rex fur as well ☺️

I got to bring this doe home this weekend! My friend who is a meat breeder and only works with my lines had this girl ju...
08/09/2024

I got to bring this doe home this weekend! My friend who is a meat breeder and only works with my lines had this girl just sitting there doing nothing. He hasn’t been breeding because of life being life, and I was like she is just too good to not be used. Especially since she is brindled. Excited to use her.

05/09/2024

Convention time is around the corner! Know what that means? Shopping time! Its when a bunch of weird things end in my herd because they got parts I want 😆

Pretty satisfied with my brindle and tri grow outs right now. It’s not very many but still. There are some glaring fault...
05/09/2024

Pretty satisfied with my brindle and tri grow outs right now. It’s not very many but still. There are some glaring faults but I’m happy to see improvement in the departments I focused on this year. I’m excited to get them to work come the end of the year.

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Anzu
Anzu

Doing some cleaning today and Anzu was looking great

Actually feeling pretty excited about this mini lop litter 9 weeks old

Just showing off some of my PBMR grow outs. Video allows a little more detail 🥰 Charlie tri Broken fox Heavily Brindled castor Broken brindled castor Shagouti All are 4 months old

Pretty excited about these. I worked with a couple designers to come up with a cool t shirt design that was in my “style” for the snake side of things.

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Hobbies=Joy
Hobbies=Joy

Just a reminder to you all to dive deep into your hobbies. Pursuing your passions is what life is all about. There is more to life than work or having a family. Those things are important but not the only things.

She’s due in a week with a mini lop litter and I can’t wait. She’s a brindled chestnut so that means I will be working tri into my mini lops, especially now that I’ve added to non extension girls into the herd 😈 Juliet’s next litter will be a PBMR litter, and I’ll likely breed her ML dad to a PBMR doe here soon(to get his awesome bone in the project)

F series NZ/Rex project
F series NZ/Rex project

I was asked the other day to show pictures of F1 and F2 NZ/Rex project. Here is a compilation of mostly F1 and F2s, along with a few F3s and F4s. Some are repeats as they grew. However, they are in an order from oldest to newest. See how my rabbits have improved overall since I started this project in 2020. I’ve been very excited about starting over with F1s again. This time at a whole new level. Last three pictures are my current F1s that I’m so excited about.

Decided my rabbits need to start paying for their own grocery bill a little more. So offering these two junior does, sisters. The tri is the only showable tri I’ve made this year so far. The strong suit of these does is they have a lot of loin, they just carry it really weird making their toplined wonky. If you have bucks that can help with loin carriage but need more loin- then these are your girls. Also, these two are out of my line that produce really great Rufus blue fawn tris that I feel my lines have become know for the past couple years. Also good spot definition and distribution. So if you need help with color then these does would also be great for you. They are either ejej or eje and are otter or self based. Asking 1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ for the Harli and 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ for the tri. Willing to work with transport if they come to Louisville, KY and is within the month of June.

My little PBMR doe has gained a lot of loin depth the past couple weeks. She gets bred in a week 🥰

Got to play with rabbits today. I’ve been really enjoying the lower numbers. I easily remember my grow outs more, everyone gets individual holes quicker, and I go through way less feed. Went from 1.5-2 bags a day to a single bag every 2-3 days. I was always struggling to have space. Now I have 36 open holes with another 10 brood animals destined to be culled this month. Right now I have 42 kits in the nest box. 16 are for the Rex herd, which only 9 are Rex furred. 4 of the remaining kits are mini lops. And the remaining 22 are for the PBMR herd. A fun progress with this generation of the PBMR herd is the increased in Rex fur. Only 7 of them are regular furred. And the ones with Rex fur seem like great improvements just in one generation. Nice texture and good density but the fur needs more resilience and it’s a little long. These are also only like 3 week old babies. So I’m excited to see what junior prime looks like. Also type wise I have some that really standing out to me 🙂 The Mini Rex here is officially gone. The Rex here was decreased heavily. So now my focus is kinda split between the Rex and the PBMR. since right now I’m mostly making F1s in Rex and have very little showable rabbits, naturally, right now I’m focusing a lot on the PBMR. Welp that’s my update 🙂 Here a couple PBMR kits that really stood out to me.

Going through some photos I took recently to pass the time. Here is a brindled buck I’m really quite excited about.

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Why Rex?

I started breeding rabbits early 2017 for the sake of producing clean and healthy feeders for my reticulated pythons. I quickly found that I was in love with the hobby. The rabbits were so fun to care for, and watch life happen on a constant basis. I found my rabbits to be a huge stress relief for myself. Around mid 2017 I decided I really wanted to get into showing rabbits, and I had already knew that I loved Rex rabbits. I had one as a pet for 6 years when i was a teenager. Their personality was personable and docile, and they had amazing unique features. Like their velvet like fur, and many many color options.

From here I had to choose what color variety I wanted to pursue. My favorite was castor, tri, and red. So over the course of the rest of 2017 i purchased the best Rex i could get my hands on from other show breeders. I now specifically work on Castor and Tri, and there are a lot of colors that pop up from time to time such as reds, amber, opals, torts, etc. My first official Rex litters, for potential show rabbits, was February 2018.

I have invested a lot of time in researching everything for this. From basic rabbit care, complex rabbit care for when they get hurt or ill, color genetics, what show rabbits should be, philosophy on line breeding, etc. To say that i love this hobby would be an understatement. There’s really not much about the hobby that I don’t enjoy, besides maybe the many people you run into that try and sale you something as one thing, however, they have no idea what they are actually talking about. That’s with any animals though!