week 7 and as usual its late again!

Evening mid week bloggers :) I know its late ...again but i get distracted lol I will catch up...I promise :)

Anyway week 7 went off really well :) we had some boarders stay with us mid week, who were originally from us a few months ago. Paul purchased 2 rabbits from us but brought one back because it was chasing the other rabbit so much. He ended up with a choc tort doe and an orange butterfly buck, so it was very nice to see them back here for a week. Paul admitted he was finding it hard to look after 2 rabbits and expressed that he would like to find a new home for the choc tort doe when he got back from his holiday. I didn't think much of that conversation until a few days later :)
The weekend saw a young lady called Ellie come to the rabbitry to help with various chores around the place (mainly cleaning out of hutches etc.) We hope she enjoyed her time with us as I know she has her own animals she looks after but Kim is treating it as a work experience project and is also going to organise some NVQ style work sheets for Ellie to use for her CV :)  The idea is that Ellie works in each area (rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens and bee's) with not just cleaning but looking at animal husbandry as well, so exciting for us just as much for her :)

In the shed the rabbits are coming along in leaps and bounds the lilac Siberians are doing very well

 

Trevor Lilac Siberian sire

 

Vivianne Lilac Sib Doe 

 

6 kits born

 

all look exactly the same lol

one of the does 



                        and one of the bucks

 

Whats good is that we have an even split of gender 3 bucks and 3 does which we are really pleased about :) 1 of the bucks has already a new home with a couple picking up a buck this week.....the others are harder to choose as they are so similar lol. Asking the advice of some fellow Siberian breeders we think we have chosen 2 bucks and 2 does which we will put to one side and see how they progress :) i suppose its watch this space lol.

 

Our other litter which we have been excited about is the argentes, this is a genetics programme Kim is playing with (when doesn't she play with colour genetics lol). Anyway mum has mellowed slightly since the babies which is good :) the kits are quite striking already with 4 oranges and 2 agouti's

 

Argente dam 'Princess' 

 

some of the Argente F1's at 4 weeks old

 

 and at the moment very cute









Just waiting now to see if any ticking starts which listening to other argente breeders usually starts around 8 weeks :) so again very excited. The last litter in the rabbitry are our Perlfees

 

The Perlfee's 

 

                                                      Pelfee 'Charlie' with her 4 kits



 

So that's it with the litters so far, we do have some younger litters as mentioned last week but will save them for when they are old enough :) the only other piece of news is that we have decided to give up breeding our Hulstlander due to needing the space  so we will let you know how we get on with that on our next blog.

Rabbit of the week will also be saved until the next blog as well as item in the shed....due to this blog being so late. We have a 3 day fair this weekend so will be back on as soon as possible hope you all understand :) so until then l8rs TS bloggers.