A Gorgeous Little Black Buck

We've just gotten back from a long day of picking berries in the mountains over west and came home with pail fulls of blueberries and huckleberries! Despite the long day I had to share this little cutie which is Robin's first bunny. He's black so harder to tke photos of but here he is anyways! He is yet to be named and is only four months old in this photo, just coming out of those ganglies  = )

For Sale Animals

The above gal has found a new loving home and what a cutie she was! We still have the following available:
Three month old tri color doe
Three month old tri color buck
Four month old black buck
Four month old chestnut doe
Eight month old broken chestnut doe
Eight month old torted tri doe
Three year old chsetnut doe

Here's some photos of the Eight month old torted tri doe

She's a beautiful doe and would make a great brood doe or a pet. Has not been bred yet and is about 4.25 lbs full grown.

On another note we are just about done silage for the year! We have half a field left and then we can all get back to our regular lives an the other things that need to get done - like taking some more bunny photos!

GC SLR's Tritan 9th Top Lop for 2010

A big congratulations goes out to Grand Champion SLR's Tritan a homebred buck that has placed 9th Top Lop in the world for the 2010 show season! He'll be featured in the next issue of the Hollander through the Holland Lop Rabbit Specialty Club (http://www.hlrsc.com/). Here's some photos of our little boy.

An Update at SLR

We have said good bye to the black/ orange harlequin SR doe and the broken chestnut SR doe to a wonderful pet home up north here. We haven't posted a eight month old tri colored doe, an eight month old broken chestnut doe, a black/orange tri two month old doe or her brother a two month old black/orange tri buck yet. Hopefully we will have some photos of them up on here before Friday but we'll see how the week goes! It's silage time here on the farm and we're hoping to be done in the next two weeks, until then things are a little crazy!

For the mean time feel free to browse the previous blog posts as there is quite a few photos of our animals and educational posts! We hope everyone is doing well and catching some good summer sun!

For Sale Black Buck and Chestnut Doe

Well as promised here are photos of the two little cuties! They are just coming out of the ugly stage and are looking pretty nice.

Black Buck, three months old.

Chestnut doe, full sibling to black buck above

Anyways those are the newest two that have become available, soak up some sun until next time,
Shannon

A couple helpful tips when e-mailing a breeder!

Oh what a lovely holiday today! We managed to get the bunnies that are up north settled in a little more and took a few photos of the black buck and his three month old sister the chestnut doe - what a pair of cuties! On a more serious note I wanted to go over some tips to use when e-mailing a breeder about what stock s/he has available.

First off use complete sentences and proper punctuation! If this is not present there's a few things that go through my mind, one is that it is a child e-mailing with/without parental consent or two the person that sent the e-mail just doesn't care. If you are really interested in a bunny you can take the time to use complete sentences and punctuation. Also with spell check so readily available there's no excuse to have common words spelt wrong.

List what you are interested in! List the age, gender, color, whether it's for show, brood or pet and what traits you may be desiring and which ones are already an issue for you so you want to steer clear of. This helps greatly to give the breeder an idea of what you want and they can get back to you with animals that fit your description.

If applicable say where you live. If you live far away from them and are planning on shipping it's a good thing to get that out in the open ASAP. Some breeders do not ship and others have a minimum shipping order. If you have other ideas on how to get the rabbits talk about that too, ie meeting somewhere or bringing to a show or driving to their house.

Say your budget. This can narrow down and make the process simpler by avoiding getting attached to bunnies that are out of your budget. If you can't afford any of their animals they can probably point you to another breeder that can help you out.

Those are just some things that are on the top of my head. It's so nice to get e-mails that are complete and outline exactly what they are looking for, after all there's no point wasting either of your time!

We'll post the two cuties tomorrow but until then enjoy the rest of the long weekend!
Shannon