#rabbitry2023

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What's in the fur?

Babies!

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And that's all of the yarn stash airing! I still need to do the other fiber that waits to be spun, and the fabric, but one step at a time.

Please enjoy this cute young buck, as a palate cleanser.

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Thinking on names for this girl. She's called Teen Mom right now, but if she raises this second (intentional) litter as well as she did the first, she'll be staying a while, and should get a more respectful name.

All my does have flower names, one way or another, but naming rabbits is low stakes so it's not too strict.

J suggested Wildflower, and idk that I like that as a name, but perhaps a wild flower? Something that plants itself? Thought about the song Wildwood Flower; that name is too long, but it contains Myrtle, Rose, and sometimes Hyssop and Amanita (not a flower, but a fun possibility).

Dandelion? Violet? It fits, but I've got a niece named Violet, so if I go that way I'll have to name an animal after all the younglings. Anemone? Deadnettle & Henbit sound mean. Honeysuckle/Honey? I like that one, with her color. I haven't done a Clover, or a Buttercup.

The second picture amuses me, and reminds me of that Mitch Hedberg joke about Bigfoot actually being blurry. So I could call her Bigfoot or Sasquatch & break my naming convention.

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When you go outside every day to feed and water and collect eggs, and move the grazing tractor full of rabbits, and you think "I should really get this litter out of here, they're getting too old to all be together." And every day you think, "Maybe I'll do that tomorrow."

Then one day you move it in a pine-needle-y area, and one rabbit immediately starts gathering all the pine needles up, just shoving them in her mouth 😳

I scooped her right up and got her a proper cage immediately, with a nicely stuffed nest box and some extra hay to build with. She grumbled about the change of scene but soon returned to busily haystaching.

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Recordkeeping brain dump w/young posed pics: Who are these rabbits I'm breeding anyway

Steely Dan. Born around late Feb 2022. 50% AmChin, 25% SF, 25% NZ. Carries blue.

Bluebell, pure SF. Heavy silver. 2021. Poppy & Digit

Iris. Chester/Blossom 50/50 NZ & SF. 2021

Jessamine. Poppy/Thistle, so 50/50 SF & AmChin

Also still have Blossom (retired) & Poppy, pure SF does. Related to each other, but if I know how it's in notes I don't have rn. Chester, steel NZ buck. Thistle, AmChin buck. And (for now), Teen Mom, a chestnut doe ~8 months old who is from Jessamine bred back to her sire Thistle. Eval pictures on her eventually (currently raising a litter she got pregnant with in the growout tractor oops).