Dinner rabbits, Journal

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What’s your breeding schedule

Trying for 4wks after kindling. Wean at 7wks.

 

[Finnie]

She used to not like me, now the broken blue is always at the door, even licks me. Looks like she's the biggest of the bunch, besides the castor that was fostered.

Likes you now and biggest of bunch- a good one for keeping!

 

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Mutty sold.


Keeping the biggest from her litter, Mutty2.0. She's either the left one or right one, lol. Too cold to bother checking.

 

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Mutty 2.0



Litter of 5 SF-

 

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Lynx's 2nd litter. Castor and broken harli castor for the dark one? Blues, blacks & opal?

 

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Another SF litter-



Grumpy's 2nd litter. The tort feels the smallest. Ugh. Choc is big, though.

 

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Picked up 6 free rabbits, have them settled in. All headed to freezer camp.
Thinking of culling whitefoot buck as well. Really don't want to keep around a bunch of mutts, but I'll pose him again and if I still like his shape, I'll keep him around to sire a couple of litters to see how they do.
Have someone coming tomorrow for sheep, so will probably weigh my growouts and mark the ones ready to go while I wait around for them. And then cull the next day.
I'll probably cull the following & lighter a few under 5# just to get them off the feed bill; the SF buck from litter of two, the two smallest Lynx kits, two of Mutty's larger kits, Grumpy's tort kit, NZ/Rex brood buck and the 6 free rabbits. Up to 14, that's a busy day! Dogs will be fat from all of the leftovers & holiday leftovers!
Going through 18-20 quarts of feed a day now, gotta cut that down!
The tort is a buck. =/

 

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Got Grumpy's weight & 11's. Totally forgot to get posed pics, though.

And the youngest litters got weighed. Grumpy's 2nd litter, blacks got color marked.



Choco girl, silvering up! Went down to 2nd place in weight, but only by 2oz and its a buck, so doesn't matter.

 

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Rest of the charts.
Tort has jumped up in weight, but still behind the black...ugh, I kinda wanna keep her a bit longer...

I don't even know wtf that buck is doing! Such a weird swoop, he would of beat the doe if he had kept up the progress. Ah well, he's 100% going to FC! Doe needs a name.



Broken blue still 4-5oz more than the rest! Definitely keeping her. 11 weeks old, 4+#. I think I'll hold out another week on them to get to 5#.


Blue and yellow, give them another week to get to 5# or cull? Other 3 look to need 2 more weeks. Hmm.


Buck Orange surpassed my Choco by 2oz, but she will stay for sure, unknown if I'll keep a buck or not.
They need another 2 weeks or so.


Need to redo Lefty's weight.



I'll weight the 6 free buns later today, just to have a base # for processing.

 

[Larsen Poultry Ranch]

Your tracking of the info is inspiring, I hope I can keep myself on track to do something similar with my new bunnies.