I made the mistake of mentioning an upcoming show while in the dutch rabbit pen. One of them decided to sculpt both of his adjoining neighbor’s faces overnight!
Of course I had fully intended to enter those two. Luckily I had nit finished my entry yet! So if you’re going to a show, don’t tell the rabbits!
I’ve seen people on Facebook poat pictures like this and stert frantically asking what disease their rabbit has. If the fur is missing between the eyes and it’s clean with no dandruff or redness, it’s either a cagemate or a neighbor.
I have 2 does right now (and now this buck) that have to be in cages that either have solid dividers or are next to a non show contestant because they like to lick other rabbits. Nothing wrong with their diet, it’s just fun!
Sammy and his group were “helping” me today as I was wiring in the new bird area. By helping I mean making sure all the tender grass in the sod I dumped was devoured, as well as reminding me they were there randomly.
When I sat down for half a second, Sammy came over giving me his opinion of my break time. Sp I scooped him up for some Sammy snuggles and reminded him that they take way more breaks than I do!
After a quick picture, it was back to yanking off all the grass pieces! And back to work for me….
My steel dutch doe Susie had a litter of 6 and did great!
However, my blue satin’s first litter wasn’t so good. She had 1 healthy and 2 peanut kits. The peanut kits were humanely culled and since 1 kit can be harder for a first time mom to raise, I decided to give it to Susie.
I took a black mismark out and added the satin kit in. The mismark went over to a chinchilla dutch doe who had a litter the same day. So far, everyone is doing well!
I’m excited to see how these progress, as I see several steels and that’s a color I want to do more of. Baby power!
After months of only 1 small rex litter…we finally got 2 litters! Both moms delivered 9 babies. One is a first timer and one is a first timer fir me (second for her). So far so good!
Baby rabbits are hard to take pictures of because as soon as you disturb the nest they pop up and start looking for mom…but I promise they are all in the picture.
It will be a few days before I can pull them to check colors..so for now they just get daily welfare checks (while mom is distracted with a tidbit or two).
Three more cute Happy Holiday messages featuring bunnies!
First up is a young grey dutch (didn’t look at the gender yet). I was taking pictures with it and a littermate (below) because by themselves they weren’t very cooperative. Out of all the individual pictures, this is the only nice one…I happened to catch it right when it was checking out the sound of a goose sneaking up behind me so I got a nice side profile. Good bunny!
Next we have the aforementioned littermate with the grey Dutch above. They both decided that the feather boa was a good hiding spot and buried their noses down in it long enough for me to get a picture! This is one of the cute ages for sure.
Last but not least we have a Harlequin Dutch doe that I’m keeping to be one of my harli breeders. She’s very laid back…when I rested the stocking on her for the picture she hunkered down and decided it was a good place for a nap. She (and the other two Dutch above) totally ignored the jingle bells while I was trying to take their picture, which worked out well.
Well, that’s it for the good Christmas/ Holiday rabbit pictures! Maybe soon I’ll do an outtake post :). Hope everyone had a safe and happy holiday, whichever one you celebrate!
The weather was nice and the lighting was good so I decided to set up a little studio outside and try and get one good holiday rabbit picture to send out. I ended up with a couple of cooperative subjects (kinda) so I decided to post the results on the blog!
This is Cyndi Hopper. She’s a young black otter Rex I got from one of my several Rex breeder friends, Georgia’s Farm and Rabbitry is how she’s listed on Facebook. I snapped this picture right before she decided to taste test the feather boa…but not to worry, I was faster than she was. She didn’t care for the bow and would not even let me put it on her for a second!
Next up we have Scarlet. She is one of the Rex babies I had to hand raise and force feed off mom (write up on that coming soon). They’re a sweet bunch, although you wouldn’t know it from the side eye I’m getting in this picture! Scarlet kept grabbing the jingle balls and throwing them around or nosing them off the table…hilarious to watch!
Last up for this post is Anabelle. She’s another of the hand raised Rex babies and the only REW (Red Eyed White) in the litter. In this picture I wanted to put her tail first in the stocking for a cute “rabbit head popping out of stocking” picture, but she was having none of that! Instead we went with “rabbit investigating stocking and then backing out” image. Next time I might toss some treat of some type in the stocking and have more time to get an even cuter picture !
*No rabbits were harmed in the making of these pictures and everyone got one on one cuddles after their photo sessions*
Please note all pictures are copyright Susan L. Marsh and not for distribution. Thank you!
Look at this cute frog! Just chilling on a metal pipe….
But wait ..that’s not a pipe! That’s a cattle panel fence piece! I’m not sure how long this guy (or girl) has been past the tadpole stage but it can’t be far behind….so cute!
BTW, the title is poking fun at all the ads I’ve seen lately…although I was amazed when I saw this little teeny tiny frog.
I have been wanting geese for years. I had fond memories of my little goose, Goosey, who fell victim to a bobcat before he even got all his (or her) feathers. I remembered Goosey as following me around the yard and interacting with me. The little goose attitude was cute too!
I also had some not as fond memories of a Toulouse goose named Mooch. Mooch also had attitude but not quite so cute. It was many battles of will, a few goose bites, and a bunch of squawking (from me) before we reached an agreement about who could be where…as in no, we can’t both occupy the same space. We figured it out though and all was forgiven. I developed eyes in the back of my head pretty quickly though!
Last year I tried to order some Buff geese in March, only to discover that everyone was already sold out. This year, I decided that I was not going to miss out and placed my order in December for summer delivery.
After a very very long wait…they came in! They were ready to get out of the box even when I peeked in at the post office to do a quick head count. They’re so cute! I’m looking forward to raising these guys (and girls). I ordered 2 males and 4 females hoping they are accurately sexed so I can have 2 trios.
