May 9

The grass is green and it looks like the warmer spring weather is here to stay! The rabbits will soon be moving back out to the rabbitry and show season is starting up.

We’re breeding into the warmer weather this year, a little more than we usually do. I got a bright Idea to breed several Hollands to my older bucks so I could replace them with some younger ones, but it didn’t exactly go as planned. We had several misses, but I guess that’s what can happen when you breed older bucks. I re-bred some does over the weekend and there are a few more I have to work on getting bred ASAP. I have a few nice-ish Holland juniors, particularly a broken junior buck, but I think the best are yet to come. Better late than never though!

We have some adorable mini rexes in the nestboxes, we’re really looking forward to growing out some of these babies. We have chocolates, lilacs, REWs & Blacks, and we’re waiting on 2 more litters. We kept 3 junior mini rex from our winter breedings, a REW buck, a black doe and a chocolate doe.

In Dutch, we’re waiting on one last chocolate to have her babies, we have had problems with her before so we have our fingers crossed for her this time. Out of our 18 junior dutch we had this winter we kept a black doe and a chocolate doe. The black doe has gorgeous markings, the chocolate isn’t bad either but has unreal type, she’s so solid, probably the nicest type I’ve produced out of my Dutch breedings.

I love spring, there's so much to look forward to! Hope to see you all soon at the show tables!

March 23

We have had a crazy March so far with lots of decisions that were made and more babies of course! I have to say that I’m really happy with where we’re at right now with our herd. Some of our current babies and juniors are looking better than ever.

The weather is changing and we’re seeing more sunshine and warmer temperatures, which is great! Most rabbits are not molting…yet! I’m waiting, knowing it will be anytime. Since the rabbits are in the garage, they’re not feeling the temperature changes much yet.

As far as decisions go, one of our major decisions was to part with our English Lops. This was a huge decision and an especially tough one for me because I definitely have a special soft spot for them. They’re a lot of care though and breeding them seems to have its ups and downs. They’re always going to be a breed I love but I’m ready to move on. Besides, I have a “secret” rabbit project in the works that I’m insanely excited to get started on, some of you know what it is, but I’m keeping it on the down low for a bit, for personal reasons.

As far as babies go, we had 3 litters of Dutch, which gave us 18 babies (2 chocolates and 16 blacks) and a few litters of Mini Rex, we have REWS, blues, blacks, chocolates and a broken tort. No more Hollands born yet but I have a litter of due on the 2nd of April, and I also bred 3 does over the weekend. I have one more Dutch bred and a Lilac Mini Rex too, we’re also planning to do even more breeding in the next moth and we’ll take most of the summer off except for the odd litter here and there.

Another decision I made was to do some Holland lop buck-shifting. I parted with a great buck, Nutar’s F2 and have decided to sell another, Bunny Hop’s Landslide. It’s hard sometimes but I have a great doe out of “F2” and I have 2 does bred to Landslide, so I can justify it. Landslide is a great rabbit, awesome type and head and he’s a small little buck. His ears are short though and he has control over them most of the time, it may change with age but I can’t wait forever so I’m taking my chances with him. I only want to keep the best and if a buck is not being used for breeding or showing, than what’s the point? I bought an older buck from Bunny Hop Wabbitry, Bluestorm’s Milo. I’m really excited to have this guy and see what he can produce for me. I’m keeping back 2 junior Holland lop bucks to grow out, and will probably hold onto more once the next few litters arrive.

That’s all for today! I hope everyone is enjoying the nicer weather (at least here in Atlantic Canada) and best of luck with those spring litters!

Almost Spring!

It’s already March and I’m hoping spring will be here before we know it! It has been a rough winter here weather-wise. Lots of snow, lots of wind, and all of that fun stuff that goes along with it. The rabbits are lucky this year, because they get to stay warm in the heated garage. They do get a little spoiled, maybe, but we have had great luck with our litters.

We have several litters on the go now, which is exciting. I don’t want to get too much into detail because there’s so many, and they’re all posted (along with pictures!) on our site www.kritterkorner.net.

We have two more litters of Mini Rex due in a few days and several other does bred including 3 Dutch and one more Holland lop. We also have 3 new rabbits arriving from Ontario next week, hopefully by Wednesday. 3 Mini Rex are coming from Kristen May of BKM Rabbitry. We’re super excited to be getting some new blood, while keeping with some of our current lines that we enjoy working with including McCabes and Cresthill’s.

We thought long and hard about our Mini Rex herd before eventually deciding to give up our Castors and really focus on self colors. We’re raising Blacks, Blues, Lilac, Chocolates, Brokens, as well as the occasional REW to give that fur an extra boost.

As far as our events go, for those of you wondering what the heck happened to our events page...We haven’t completely stopped doing events, and we still have booking for the next few months but our plans as of now are to slowly move away from it. Maybe someday we will get back into it, but right now we are just too busy with our lives and want to have to really enjoy our animals, especially our rabbits! I’m still available to help out with rescues in any way that I can and all of our critters will be staying with us! It has been a great few years and I would like to thank everyone for their support along the way!

I don’t have much other news! We do have our hotel booked for ARBA convention this fall, which is exciting! I also was able to line up a pair of black Dutch from Barb Kline of Megan’s Dutch Hutch. There’s a lot to look forward to this year! I plan to TRY blogging at least a little more often to keep everyone updated! I hope everyone is having a successful winter full of healthy babies!