SA Farm's Kindling thread!

[SA Farm]

Awww! I love the little tan one, is it a boy or a girl?

That was the only boy I was tempted to keep him. I've been looking for NZ Reds for a while, but there are none in my area. A few crosses with Flemish, but I'm not interested in those ones right now

 

[SA Farm]

Turns out Tali had 6 boys and 2 girls of her 8 kits. They're just so cute at 2 1/2 weeks old!


We picked up a Mini Rex harlequin buck the other day, so looks like Tootsie Roll will get to be bred this fall. A good trade for our little Dwarf buck, I think. I have a soft spot for rex rabbits since we had standards when I was a kid. We decided to go with a theme for them, so he's Candy Corn.
Here's the pair:

It looks like we're going to be selling some of our NZ mix breeding stock. Slowly fazing them out for purebreds. Right now we have a pure trio of NZs and a pair of Mini Rex. Everyone else is mixed, so we've got our work cut out for us I have a line on a couple of little does, so that should be enough...for now...

 

[SA Farm]

Got the does! 2 Reds and a Steel!
So, I'll introduce our NZ breeding stock:
Meet Brandy and Honey 12 weeks old, Pickpocket 15 weeks, Tali 8 months (old picture), and Jade 1+ year (old picture), all my New Zealand does.
Poor Pickpocket looks so worried with my dog sniffing her backside and me shoving a camera in her face! I'll have to get a better picture of her later on, poor thing!


Meet Wit 4 months and Tank 8 months, my NZ bucks.


I'm so excited It's very difficult to find anything but REWs in my area, so I'm so happy to finally have some fun colors! That's the main reason we had the mixes, since I can't stand having all my rabbits look exactly the same. Then I'm making this face at them when I'm trying to remember who I put where. I keep detailed records, but those records are in the house and they move around a lot in the summer when they go from their hutches to their wire ground cages and take trips around the yard keeping the grass down.
So excited!

 

[SA Farm]

Well, I got a better picture of Pickpocket:

So, with all the different options I have for breeding, I'm hoping to be able to produce some fun colors and get a red line going. I'd also like to get some broken red and black going if I can. Since most of my stock is young, I have plenty of time and energy to devote to experimenting with my lines to get what I want.
I do, however, have a broken blue baby buck that I'm wondering if I should keep? He's got black and steel in his genetics and I'm sorely tempted to work on the blue and broken blue lines of the New Zealand...I'm so fond of blue. That's why I have blue EEs and Ameraucanas. I just love blues
This is him:

I'd like his ears to be a bit more solid, but the blue is a nice even deep color and he's got nice wide circles around his eyes. I think I may replace Bugs with him as long as he proves himself...He'd have to have a 'B' name... Hmmm.
What do you all think?

 

[happy acres]

How bout Bleu? Or Beau?

 

[SA Farm]

Beau is definitely going on the list of potentials

I wasn't going to...lol....but I got Jade bred today. This will be her third litter and she's a year and a half, so I think she's had enough of a break and this summer has been THE coolest summer ever, so I don't feel like the heat is bad enough to give her anymore time off. Especially since I may not breed her again this year as I have 3 young does to try out this fall and I don't want to be too overwhelmed with kits!
I bred her to Tank, so I'm looking forward to seeing what they produce next month!

 

[Farmin' Girl]

Well, I got a better picture of Pickpocket:
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So, with all the different options I have for breeding, I'm hoping to be able to produce some fun colors and get a red line going. I'd also like to get some broken red and black going if I can. Since most of my stock is young, I have plenty of time and energy to devote to experimenting with my lines to get what I want.
I do, however, have a broken blue baby buck that I'm wondering if I should keep? He's got black and steel in his genetics and I'm sorely tempted to work on the blue and broken blue lines of the New Zealand...I'm so fond of blue. That's why I have blue EEs and Ameraucanas. I just love blues
This is him:
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I'd like his ears to be a bit more solid, but the blue is a nice even deep color and he's got nice wide circles around his eyes. I think I may replace Bugs with him as long as he proves himself...He'd have to have a 'B' name... Hmmm.
What do you all think?

I love the Blues too. I have American Blues, as you can see I have a photo of Dixie, my 7 month old girl as my Avatar.

I love your sweet little broken blue buck!!!! He is adorable! I have a few name choices as well.......
Bandit (He looks like he kinda has a mask on)
Blitz
Blaze
Buckley
Bennett
Brewster
Buster.

Good luck with that sweet boy, I think you should keep him

 

[SA Farm]

So, I was reading over this thread and I realized how many things have changed since I started it! I now no longer have ANY mixed breeds with the exception of Midnight who is more of a pet than a breeder anyway.
I have now found homes for ALL of my mixed breed rabbits and have started breeding/collecting purebred stock!
Who knew that when you put your mind to something that you could get it done in no time at all? I'm seriously surprised how quickly it went (thank God!). I was prepared for it to take MONTHS to find homes for and acquire new stock!
But, I sold ALL of my excess stock the other day to a breeder and it's TONIGHT that I may acquire a broken red New Zealand buck I was prepared to spend YEARS breeding generations into a red line and now I may have my reds producing as early as late fall! I'll have work to do with getting the red nice and dark, but it's great not to have to start from scratch!

 

[SA Farm]

Oh, yes, we have decided to keep the broken blue GIRL (got the pics mixed up ) and name her Blitz
Thanks for all the suggestions, you guys

 

[Farmin' Girl]

Haha, funny how easy it is to get mixed up between Bucks and Does. She is so sweet! I'm glad for you deciding to keep her, and she looks like a Blitz to me. Good choice