Sunday, February 4, 2018

New kits born!

We've had a few new litters born this last week as the girls are off of their break so everyone was bred. We should have four more litters expected in the next couple weeks as well. The broken fox and the black otter out of Dove December litter are both spoken for at the moment. I think we'll be holding back the black/orange harlequin buck as a replacement sire but it depends how his type develops. We have nothing currently available at the moment and won't until these new litters are weaned and ready to go(8 more weeks from today!).

SLR's Wyatt Earp x SLR's Honey had a litter of five. There looks to be one black/orange harli buck, one tort doe, one broken fox buck & two solid fox does. All the foxes will be available as it's another color program that we just don't have room to keep in the barn.

SLR's Fox x Reg. SLR's Fly Girl had a litter of five with two peanuts, one that was born dead and she's got two healthy kits remaining. One black/orange tri doe and one broken tort(possibly a broken fox?) doe - this girl has too much white on her ears so she'll be available to a pet home(it's not a desired trait in show rabbits).

Reg. SLR's Oreo x SLR's AnnaPrimRose had a litter of three with one born dead and two live healthy babies. She's got one broken tort doe and one broken black that looks like a doe as well. This litter will probably be all held back until the babies are at least three months as I am wanting to replace some bunnies in the tort program and these guys have the genetic so far to be great replacements.

We'll update the blog as the new litters come(the next doe is due on Jan 31 and this litter is a test breed to see if one of our bucks is a fox so I'm possibly expecting black otters in this cross). Still nothing from this gal yet but I hadn't confirmed she was in fact pregnant yet either but she is nesting so we'll see! I'll palpate her today sometime. Our next three litters are due on Friday(Feb 9th) these gals I haven't confirmed pregnancy in yet either.