mygoldendoe - deer, rabbits, &more(?)

[Bruce]

Nice bunnies

 

[CntryBoy777]

Glad to hear most of ya are feeling better, there. It sure must be miserable for the little fellow for sure, hope he get better and the next ones come in a bit more reasonable for him to handle...I have 4 daughters and grandkids, so I have personally experienced the "Pleasure" of teething....

 

[mygoldendoe]

Well she got 'predictable schedule' down for her first time kindling. But she keeps taking her hay out of nestbox. This morning she had pulled fur before we could switch it back like usual. She's acting super aggressive right now so we just gave her hand full of weeds -some wild violet, clover, and chickweed. Her side walls are halfxhalf so I doubt a baby would get stuck.
Unfortunately "tawny" hasn't gotten pregnant after three tries when the others had. I hate to say she's going to be replaced tomorrow if the outdoor market has any nice looking rabbits. I'm really excited to go out tomorrow bc we won't have the kids with us and be able to take truck so we can pick up material to repair the rabbit roof. Then I won't have to deal with cumbersome tarps. And i know they'll appreciate having their better ventilation again

 

[CntryBoy777]

Just be sure to "Control" yourself at the mkt......no need to bring a bunch of things home and have to "List" them all in your journal here....and take Pics, too....

 

[mygoldendoe]

I LOVED this outdoor market. It was about an hour away from our lil 20min away market. WAY more selection! Got into contact with some ppl for sheep if we wanna buy to eat or for when we're moved to the land and ready to try raising some. (Distant future).
We didn't intend to buy a male but a woman who breeds strictly rex rabbits offered to sell a pregnant doe and buck for 30$ overall. Just look them patterns! So pretty!! The blue colored one is female, the brown one is the male. He's actually a trip color tho it's hard to tell, he's got some blue spots in his brown. Not enough noticable for show or papers. Her true tricolor one was SOOOOO gorgeous tho but she wanted 35 just for it and Geoffrey said no lol. He said we're buying for meat not looks >< so pretty tho! She said that the couple we bought are no way related at all. She said their lines haven't crossed any yet so we can do any mixing we wanted with the offspring. So that'll be a lil interesting when that time eventually comes.
And then we got 4 meat mutt females. We may eat 2 and keep 2 when they get a lil bigger or may keep all 4 for breeding since we have 6 different ppl asking for rabbit meat, who want to be long term buyers. So who knows what we'll do when they get bigger.

All are under a year. I believe she said the 4 mutts were 3 months old. And the rex breeder said the rex pair are 6 or 7 months old.
The mutts seem to have a different face shape than my full NZ pair (and babies) she never did say what they were since more customers were gathering around..They have some pretty long hair, longer than my other mutts. Their face (if looking directly at nose) is narrower than my NZ and not as boxy shaped, more pointed or sharp look to it

 

[mygoldendoe]

Lol those ears tho!! They look so big compared to their tiny heads.

 

[Bruce]

Lol those ears tho!! They look so big compared to their tiny heads.

I was thinking the same thing! But I know nothing about rabbits other than the wild Eastern Cottentails we have up here have shorter ears that a lot of "pet" rabbits.

He said we're buying for meat not looks >< so pretty tho!

My grandfather's saying was related to how food looked, not what it cost but I think it still applies:
"Lo estómago no tiene ojos"
No reason to pay a big price for a dinner table rabbit.

 

[mygoldendoe]

Well my sable had her babies. She had em hid in that nest good. Way in back under even more fur. It felt like she had a lot (like the NZ one did). They got so wiggly and popping around it was hard to count. And I didn't wanna pull em out so hopefully they'll calm down tomorrow or so. 3 look like they might be dad's colors and 2 may be like her colors, and 2 whites. But some where under others so I'm gonna guess 9 maybe 10.
I'm proud of her first go. Even more so since she let me check em without distracting or fuss. She went to check em when I was done tho. So I picked her some treats.

My black ones babies keep fighting her over food. Sunday they'll be 5 weeks old and I'm seriously considering to pull them as well as they are eating and drinking

 

[mygoldendoe]

Finally getting to post today. I had counted the babies. She had 13! One is super tiny tho so I'm not sure how it'll fair. But it is the first time one peed on me lol.
3 black
3white
3 lilac
3 blue
One of the blacks will have a white foot. I will of the whites will have fawn colored spots I think

Also built some raised flower beds from pallet. We dug up the dead bushed Infront of the house and I planted lavender there. The dead bushes from the side of the house now house bee balm. I hope they grow good, they are so small you can't really see them from the road lol. We are making a flower beds around back door patio for the extra spearmint too. We didn't get everything cut when family from Florida came up to visit. So that's gonna have to wait a week til G's vacation starts.

 

[mygoldendoe]

This is just one of the black NZ babies. They getting soo big. They were 6 weeks old today and since they eating/drinking to point the moma is skinny we went ahead and moved them into their own (hopefully sexed properly) gender cages. Momma seemed happy, went straight to the feeder. They are housed beside her, hopefully it doesn't cause issues..

Sables babies colorings are looking good. Such interesting colors! I love the 2 light ones. I have someone interested in 2 of them, dunno which she'll pick tho. And one looks like it may have some simular markings to the mom depending on if molting changes the shade any.