week 9 (week 8 got lost in the post)

Hello TS bloggers and welcome to week 9 in the exciting and riveting adventures of Tarax Stud Rabbitry :).
Now the more astute of you may of noticed a teensy weensy thing about this weeks blog and that is...week 8 seems to be missing....i'm not going to beat about the bush...i will tell it how it is....Kim lost it!! i had it all sorted out, a rough draft of everything, i had photo's, video clips, newspaper cuttings, i had 3 taped interviews from some top people in the rabbit world....i even had sky tv doing an interview for sky news to show you....it was all sitting on my desk ready to work on Monday evening last week....then Kim tided up and its gone....what can i say, the best blog any of you will ever get to see and read....and its lost....oh well never mind :)
Where were we...oh yes week 9 well after all the excitement of week 8 (you should of been there it was brilliant,,,,that escaped lion and our rabbit was amazing, and when the helicopter tried getting a shot at the lion it was so funny what happened next i couldn't stop laughing.....just goes to show how amazing rabbits are. Just glad the last bits of that Russian satellite have been taken away as they were a hazard with our dogs in the garden) this week has been a little quiet, we separated and sold a couple of our rabbits which is not unusual i hear you say but for me these particular rabbits were a little hard to say good bye to. The first were the Hulstlanders....because we need room in the shed for the Siberians and other projects in the shed i realised we needed to make space so i took the decision to move the Hulstlanders on. A lovely lady who i met through Trina took a buck and a doe :)

'Nij' our buck

 

''Tia' our doe

 

Next to go was Katrina our original doe and that left 3. Dillon our favourite buck had a buyer interested in him but changed their mind a couple of days ago, our last 2 Huls although i have advertised them all over the place still had no interest in them....until the show i went to on Sunday.

 

At the last Rare Varieties stock show in Colchester i got talking to the judge on the day (Mr Armstrong ) who was looking for some Huls for a young lady up in Yorkshire which i duly helped him with. On Sunday at the show i met with Mr Armstrong who told me that the same young lady had her shed broken into and her rabbits all let go...hutches were tipped over etc and what made it worse was that green paint was splashed over what ever rabbits did not run away. Understandably the girl and her son (who is autistic and adores the rabbits) were devastated....Steve asked if i had any Hulstlanders for sale again :) well how could we say no...Steve is going to check with the young lady if she would like the rabbits then its just a matter of getting them up to Yorkshire....which i just might have covered :)

 

'Nij' the last Buck

 'Jina' the last Doe

 

Its going to seem strange with no hulstlanders in the shed as such but we need to make room for the Siberians and the 2 other projects Kim has on the go :).

2 other rabbits that went last week were 2 of the lilac Siberian kits....as we had 3 bucks and 3 does we did not need all of them so we put rings on the ones we wanted, which was very hard as they all looked so similar.....

 

 

A lovely couple took the buck and the doe went a few days later to a gentleman we got to know from our web page :)

 

Other news in the shed are our 2 other litters born nearly 5 weeks ago. The first was our Golden Glavcot 'Fanny', this was her very 1st litter and she had 7 lol...3 glavcots and 4 browns

 

'Fanny and one of her daughters'

 1 of each of her litter

 

She has turned out to be a good mum but i think she has not quite got over the shock that these 7 kits are hers lol and runs away from them...a lot :) they have weaned already by the looks of it as they are all small for there age especially considering the litter in the hutch next to her who had their kits a day early.....and are easily twice as big :)

 

'Lillie' with one of her 2 large kit's :)



 

So that's it in the shed this week, our young helper Ellie was unfortunately ill over the weekend which meant she was not able to help out (and she missed all the fun with the lion and rabbit thing lol....though we are glad she didn't have to see the childish antics of that cameraman and Katie price on our front lawn of all places....just glad we had that paint remover on hand...)....lastly we went to Portsmouth to go to the Southern Champs, we didn't have any rabbits entered but it was nice to catch up with friends and also to pick a couple of rabbits up....something very new and unusual lol. It was a breed i had seen in a book about 12 years ago and never thought i would get to see one in the flesh let alone actually have a pair in the shed....there called  Lutino's

 and basically are a coloured rabbit but have pink eyes which are associated with white rabbits......

 at first i was not sure what to think about them but they are so striking (this is the buck)

 the doe is a lot smaller and a lot younger but again very striking in her appearance.

Kim and her fascination in colour genetics meant this was something she wanted to get her hands on (not that we don't need another colour/breed in the shed) and already her mind is working on the genetic background as well as what colours may work with the lutino colour. Reading up on what info is about it seems the colour was produced through harliquins. The rabbits vary from pale yellow to orange in colour, they have a creamy white to white belly colour and the eyes are obviously red...there is a variant that has a blueish colour running through it and this is known as a shadow (if i find some good pictures of it i will put them up.....exciting a guys :) anyway we will let them rest and as new stuff happens we will of course keep you all up to date.

 

Anyway i'm going to finish there, Kim's mentioned that theres still a piece of satellite sticking up out of one of the flower beds so i had better sort that out. hope you enjoyed this weeks blog people and if we ever come across week 8 we will of course....put it up ;) l8rs people.