It has been a couple of weeks since the last blog but as with many hobbies unfortunately real life sometimes ends up interfering :) usually for good reasons.
So where to start, well the main thing as with all studs is that you have stock that moves on or new stock in the shed. The Siberians saw 2 adults move on to a lovely older gentleman who used to breed New Zealand's for meat and pelt about 40 years ago and turned up with his daughter and grand daughter a month or so ago for a pet mini lop, suffice to say he fell in love with the Glavcots, Hulstlanders and especially the Siberians ''proper rabbits!!'' as he called them lol anyway out the blue he asked for a couple of breeding adults so 2 lilacs now gone :)
Next to go was all our young stock of mini's, Sandy our choc otter doe had the 4 snowballs
as they were not the best of type we decided to let them go....in a week all 4 went :) which meant as the others were already spoken for we had no more youngsters left. We had 2 more enquiries and as we only had a couple of older rabbits to move on as well as the fur breeds...these went as well lol.
Our favourite was Solo a cinnamon agouti buck that had come back to us a few months back, who we were going to keep except another buck Hugo turned out to be a bit better than Solo. a lovely young lady who works at tropical wings down the road came for a youngster and ended up falling in love with him
A few of the Siberians ended up going as well, which actually helped us gain some hutch space which was nice....for a while :) with Kim's 50th birthday the other weekend we ended up with 5 new additions lol
The first was a rabbit that i had asked for to help with one of our mini lop lines. Our very good friend and mentor Daren had a little black doe that i needed to help our black otter and black self lines with...when he knew it was Kim's birthday he gave it as a present (she is a very lucky lady) :)
Her coat and colour is gorgeous (the picture here does not give her credit) so am very excited as we have 3 boys waiting to meet her :)
Our next surprise was with our Lutinos, unfortunately our lovely buck Baal was found dead in his hutch the night after a really bad thunderstorm :( he was a fantastic looking animal and was getting used to being handled, what was worse was the fact he was about to be used on the breeding programme that week. Another of our friends Darren and Hannah were coming down for Kim's birthday party and informed me (before knowing about Baal) that they had a Lutino buck rabbit as a birthday present for her :)
The next surprise was two fold as we were expecting a replacement for our Lutino doe who had a weepy eye, well Darren informed us that what we were getting was a 'Shadow' and an agouti doe that carries Lutino. Well the 'Shadow is certainly impressive, in the pic below you can see the difference in coat colour (though she is moulting which is why the eye mask lol) she is absolutely lovely and cannot wait to work with her.
again a very nice rabbit :) so a very big thank you to Darren & Hannah for these lovely rabbits.
Our last rabbit was a swap :) as in our previous blogs we have mentioned about our Argente lop programme :) well a lovely lady down Devon way called Sue Burgess is also working on Argente lops but instead of using Creme's as we were, she is using the St Hubert's which is a bigger bolder rabbit than the Creme's. After communicating with her for some time we found that another of our lovely friends who lived down that way was coming to Kim's party and was able to pick up and drop off our rabbits. Our last new addition is 'Lil Kim' :) she has a lovely shape head and body and the ticking is very good.
The difference with our Creme line is as you can see here in this litter, have a snippy narrower head...the plus is that with the Creme crosses...the ears are lopping straight away when they get to around 12 weeks :) (Will add some pics to the next blog)
