Web Design

I've been thinking about doing some website designs for a while now. Every once and a while I see a site that I would really like to redo, hahaha. It's a good pass time and since I will have a lot of time on my hands, I thought I would put it out there. For the moment, I won't be charging much so if you want a web design, get while its cheap! I've designed 3-4 websites so far and I've gotten a lot of good responses. I especially like working with FrontPage. Tell your friends/family!

Bunnies For Sale!!

The following are for sale at the Charles Town, WV show on 6/6.

RTR's Ocho
Sr. Buck
Tort
$100

Spring Lake Zsa Zsa
Jr. Doe
Black
$75 (asking what I paid, plus she might be pregnant)

Locket's Broken Blitz
Jr. Doe
Broken Black Otter
$50

Rain Rain Stay Away!!

We started the roof today. Rain is coming and we aren't quite done so we are hoping we can get it finished before the storms start! Here's a look at what's been going on.














This is Sunny our French Lop. Thought I would share his neat little condo.

The roof is several inches higher now and we plan to add skylights so the bunnies can have natural light.

More pictures to come!!

Big News!

A few months ago I joined Rabbit Habbit Forum where I met a lot of nice people. Among those people was Julie Cahill of Oak Ridge Rabbitry. She IM'd me on my yahoo chat and we started talking. We easily became really good friends; we had a lot in common! After a few weeks of hour long conversations over chat, we got the idea that we would want to become a co*op. We talked about how cool it would be to walk into a show and have kick butt Hollands!

After much thought, we decided to buy our first co*owned rabbit from Rev's Rabbitry. She's a really nice doe named THF Saynora's Trixy. She's a blue tort senior doe. After that we figured we might as well go somewhere with it. So instead of a co*op, we settled on a partnership!

For the next few years (until Julie gets out of college) we will do joint breedings, co*ownings, and show together. It's just so we can get used to working with each other and see if a co*op would work for us.

It's VERY exciting knowing that my (and hers) herd will improve MUCH faster!!!

That's all for now!

Warning! Under Construction!

Right now my barn is 12' x 16'. Sounds big right? Not really! I only have space for about 15 cages which isn't nearly enough to keep all the rabbits I want. So we decided that we would do a 4' extension to make is 12' x 20'. It's just enough room to add another hanging unit for my torts. You can imagine it will fill up pretty quickly. I just wish I had more room for my otters. I don't see them going anywhere very soon so I have time to work with my torts and blacks while my otters just sit pretty.

Anyways, we are supposed to start next weekend with the barn. We have to redo the roof too..so many leaks! If it would ever stop raining we could get started! We had the intentions of tearing it down and just using a carport but I didn't feel that that would be any more support for the roof...plus it was only 10 x 20.

Pictures will be up of the construction soon! That's all for now.

Welcome to the barn

Welcome! In my blog, I hope to share my experiences, ideas, frustrations, news, and stories with everyone about Locket Lops Rabbitry.

Locket Lops is located in Virginia Beach, VA. I have been breeding rabbits with the help of my family for almost three years. We started with an orange Lionhead doe from the pet store. She was our first bunny since we lost B.W., a black and white mix, in 1999. We contact a local breeder, Beth Vincelette, who got us started with breeding. We had our first litter in February of 2007.

After a year, we moved away from Lionheads and moved onto Holland Lops. We got a trio from Cecil Waller of Waller's Wabbits and we were off! It only took a few litters before we got serious about this addicting rabbit habit. The summer of 2008, we built a pole barn and Joe Mabe of Lops of Love Rabbitry brought me two hanging units of cages and four Hollands. I was thrilled to have a real rabbitry set up, as I was used to random cages and hutches. We settled on a rabbitry name which at the time was Bunny Yard Gardens.

If you are wondering about the name, my mom wanted to have a gardening business so that is where the 'Garden' portion came from; and the barn was located in what we called the "bunny yard". So it fit. Eventually, the bunny portion of the business blossomed and took over. However, that is not why I decided to change the name.

Now, we have a growing herd of fifteen rabbits. Thanks to the help of Tracy Lukeman, Candace Feathers, Joe Mabe, Cecil Waller, Gary and Susan Smith, Cass Kinnear, Ashlee Richards, Todd Naragon and many more; I could not have done it with out you! I really want to thank Cass for all her help getting me in the right direction in helping me find my herd buck. Your advice was and is much appreciated.