Week four....a quiet one :)

Well this weeks blog is a lot later than i anticipated due to circumstances beyond my control, last week i was doing jury service so lost out on my first week of the Easter Hols, so although i was hoping to spend a couple of afternoons in the shed it did not come to fruition. Friday and Saturday were our cleaning out days and because of the time its taking to clean out hutches recently (28 hutches Friday and 17 Saturday) Kim said we needed to assess our stock again. Harmony our main Harlequin doe left us for a new home.

 

A really nice lady called Chris who uses one main breeder for her stock took her and seems to be really pleased. We also got to meet Wendy and her to boys (another lopper lol). Once Harmony went Kim decided 2 others needed to move on, the first was  Bramble a sooty fawn we kept., bred through our original lines; as a baby he was absolutely stunning, anyone coming into the shed always reached for him first which looking at his body and colour was understandable. (the ears are another thing lol i think we kept saying he will grow into them)
 

 As you can see he is a high Rufus colour

 

 

and as he has got older his shadings have got darker  but he did grow into his ears finally (as you can see here in his picture taken a year later)

 



 He has the most loving personality but he cant stop moving and when someone comes near he starts dancing he is quite manic lol, we kept running him on and each time we thought of selling him we ended up changing our minds until this weekend when we advertised him.....he is going to a perspective breeder this weekend. Our next rabbit to go is the last of our Harlequin line called Tessa which to be honest surprised me as i really thought she would keep her :)

 

 







Soon as she went up on line she was gone lol, in fact we also sold a choc tort doe of the same age at the same time :) I'm at a show at Harlow this coming weekend and another one of our does will be going then which gives us a bit of room in the shed finally :)

Kim has also suggested that I also need to look at my own stock within the shed as i have my Golden Glavcots, the Hulslanders, the lilac Siberians (and possibly brown Siberians) I have a Perlfee plus some F1's and some agouti F1's and an Argente Creme doe with some F1's so really i need to let one of my breeds to go :( but which one?....the Glavcots which there are not many breeders and their British in origin or the Huls which are established but did help me start back up in the fancy....what do you all think? i will put this off a little longer until i see how the Other breeds do on the table and how they will help our various programmes.....

 

On a different note we are looking forward to some shows coming up the next few months, next week its Harlow but the week after is our main one which is the Essex Championship Show :) so hopefully plenty of pictures....Harlow has our mentor Daren judging the mini lops but Kim is going to a guinea pig show so i am only taking some of my rabbits of which for 2 of them it will be their first time....Edward an u/5 Glavcot and Alfie is our 1st u/5 lilac Sib so getting them ready for the Essex. Anyway I'm going to finish it here so short and sweet lol photos of Harlow show next week and of course for any happenings within the shed :) until then...l8rs people