Something for the weekend sir?

I don't think we will have blog posts every day, so news will probably be limited to weekends as that's when the shed is at its most active :) door step visits for rabbits or guinea pigs (or eggs and feed lol) its also our cleaning out days, when we assess our stock, look at matings or of course go to shows. This weekend was no different except we were both a bit poorly but we cleaned out both sheds and the chickens even got a spring clean lol. Our outside area is where we quarantine, keep some of the for sale stock and where our F1's are housed.

 

Mr G our Perlfee has the run of the floor at the moment to help his weight

 

When we clean outside we always end up with an audience lol, the chickens are always watching whats going on but also to see if anything gets brushed off the table in the run as well :)

 

 

What is nice is that sometimes stock outside blooms because you don't think it will become part of the stock in the shed....one of our agouti does we had was up for sale but the person who was going to have her changed their mind (thank you for the donation lol) but when i cleaned her out Kim's had a change of mind as she is quite nice lol. The trouble is that we have 2 other does (a mantle and agouti with harli markings) as well but we can only keep 2 so we will assess them again in a couple of weeks to see whose staying (anyone need a very friendly doe nearly 4 months old let us know :) )

 

Anyway here she is...what do you guys think?

 

 

In the shed we had a round of matings to sort out, our chocolate lines had all missed (see previous post and pictures) so all 3 does mated up on Saturday. (Nicola tell Tom that Parsley's son was mated to Sandy and our other choc otter buck was mated to Parsley's daughter Bess...so fingers crossed he may get one of Parsley's grandchildren). On the other side of the shed we had one our Glavcot maiden does mated up which should produce some nice youngsters if she has taken.

 

Our Glavcots Dan with Fanny :)

 

 

Our next mating is our 1st brown Siberian to a lilac Siberian, this mating should help us establish the browns in the shed as we only have the lilacs at the moment.

 

The lilac is Lillian here she is pestering Sibs to start with the loving :)

 





 

10 minutes later and ...wait for it...7 matings later.... Sibs  has had enough lol

 

 

 

So some positive matings so far...until we got to the Hulstlanders...we only needed 1 doe to mate up.....and did we get one....no! 3 does and not one raise or show of interest in the bucks Katrina i think to be honest is a little on the curvy side so may explain why she would not mate....(looks like the Atkins for her) the other 2 does were more interested in what food there was in the bucks hutches and to be honest looked as though they were....whats the expression...oh yes... just thinking of England lol so we gave up with the Hulstlanders until later in the week. The only other bits of news to pass on until next week is that 2 of India's kits died Saturday night :( but as we left the shed tonight our other little choc tort doe Saffron had pulled a ton of fur so we may wake up to to Wrigley's :) we will let you all know next week ....until then have a good week everyone.