CONKbunny Comic

I know I haven't posted in a while, but I just wanted to share this website with everyone. Two friends of mine do a comic every week about their bunnies and it's quite hilarious. Check it out at: http://conkersbunny.blogspot.com/

Adding to the Barn

Okay. Maybe I should start out by letting you all know how I started this whole rabbit hobby. It didn't just start with a little lionhead doe, but it started out with a local breeder that very quickly became my best friend. I swear I would never been where I am now without her. She taught me everything. She taught me ALL about genetics in the easiest way possible, she taught me about how to breed and choosing breeding pairs, she taught me about treating sicknesses, and the list goes on. I would go over to her barn (10 minutes away) pretty much ever other week and just help her clean. It wasn't long before I knew everyone of her rabbits by name and face. Before I knew it, I was house-sitting for her while she went on vacation. I became very close to her and her Nethies. I loved them dearly. Then one day, while we were out at the stable watching a horse show, I asked her how the bunnies were doing. Her response was just heart-breaking. "I only have about 7 left (she used to have about 30). I sold them all to my friend, I just can't do it anymore". She hadn't told me or even mentioned the idea that she was going to get out. I was just heart-broken. You wouldn't think someone else's rabbits being sold would affect you very much...but these just weren't her rabbits...I considered them my own too. I had bred her rabbits, I had fed them, I had watched them win their first legs. I just had absolutely no words. "You can get some from her if you want, I told her to save you some" I kept that in thought and continued on with my day. I haven't talked to her much. She took some Hollands to breed for fun and I haven't talked to her since. It's a shame since she only lives 10 minutes down the road. I still can't believe that we won't be going to any more rabbit shows together. I sure did love our road-trips with her daughter. We would have so much fun together and we would laugh at the stupidest things. Like the time we went right after school got out for the year to Tennessee for the ND meeting. I don't breed them, but I'm glad I went because I met some wonderful people and learned tons. But our 4 short years of bunny talk slowly came to an end and I am grateful for the time we had together.

So, long story short, I am taking her up on her offer she made to me on March 23 (also the day I lost Mishodoe). I am going to put my otters in the back seat and only keep my pair, Spunky and Johnny's Girl, and I am going to use the rest of the space (mainly the 6 stacker) to start breeding Netherlands. She had a very established line of Shadeds and Himis so I plan to start with those. I figured I might need a new breed anyways. I hope to get some does going back to Mark Twain and Mexi, her two best bucks. Her friend said that she would probably sell me the stuff that she bred instead of what Beth bred but I guess I'm okay with that. So my next plan is to make the phone call today to see when I can get them up here. It was a hard but extremely easy decision to make. Maybe I'm doing it because I want back what I lost, maybe because I just love her animals. I really do. So I will keep everyone posted on the future arrivals.

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.