Thursday, April 21, 2011

Spring time means more new babies

If anyone thinks that having a spring wedding to plan for and calving at the same time is easy, is probably nuts! It's been a very busy calving season so far and we've only just started here on the farm last Sunday with one cute little black calf. We've now got seven youngsters running around and doing well.

On to the bunny news. . . We've got more new babies out of both GC SLR's Bailey and her full sister SLR's Hailey both litters out of GC SLR's Tritan. Haileys babies are about three weeks old right now and do they ever look promising! Huge bone, fat chubby faces short compact bodies and short fat back feet. There's two broken bucks and one solid buck in that litter growing like weeds. Bailey just had a litter of four with two peanuts a few days ago now that are doing really well.

There's also a harli buck and tri doe out of GC SLR's Tritan and SLR's Kaylee which are just stunning little guys. The harli buck may come out to a show or two just for the fun of it, he's looking just like dad but in a harlequin color!

GC SLR's Tritan has been proving where he is most valuable and that's not on the show table dispite his multiple BIS & RIS wins but in producing babies that are almost look alikes. He's been used a lot in the tri program and even though the babies are torted the type on them has made a huge leap! We've got some of the best looking kits in the box than we've ever had in the past 11 years that we've been breeding, now that's some exciting news! Just to work on cleaning the color up in some of the tris now and they will be gorgeous.