More Snow

 

It is snowing here...again.  I have yet to go and take care of the bunnies today, but I  will shortly.  Yesterday I was out there quite a bit.   I was cleaning out hutches and scooping up poop.

 

I put Phantom, Achilles, Mara, and Calypso up on craigslist.  I think I'm going to take Phantom down, as I really like him and would hate to see him go.  He's mean as all get out, but I really like him.  He's like a cranky old man.  He appears gruff on the outside, but once you get to know him, he's a real sweet heart :)

 

I sold the female bunny who had one blind eye, but she came back the next day because the woman who bought her got it for her granddaughter.  However, they didn't realize until she was with the bunny that she was allergic to it.  So she had to come back. 

 

I was a little worried with all the different scents now on her that her mother would regect her and I'd have to find another place to keep her.  So when I took her back into my rabbitry, I grabbed a handful of dry hay, poop, food, and fur out of the hutch where all the babies and Peanuts are.  I rubbed it all over her so that she would have her old scent back and mask the new scents. 

 

I was very happy to see it worked!  Her siblings immediently started licking her and putting her fur back into it's proper position.  Then she went over to Peanuts who started smelling her intensely and for a second I thought she might attack her, but she didn't.  After a moment of smelling, she began licking her daughter and I knew I could leave. 

 

And so that's currently what's up with my bunnies.  They're all good and happy.  A few of the pregnant females are a bit moody, but that's par for the course.  This Monday is when I'll be breeding 7 more females.  I have to pick which ones I want to breed with which males.  I'll use Chuck in the breeding this time.

 

For the last batch, he didn't get to breed.  He hasn't bred any females at all, but he's extremely anxious to.  He's a high-energy bunny, so he should do a good job and get everything done quickly.  PLUS, he's really beautiful in his coloring.  I'm really excited to see what his babies will look like.  I'll probably have him breed either Malaguena (who's an all black female), or Pocahontas (who's an albino female). 

 

Here are a few pictures of Rhett and LE when they were bred together last year in the fall...

 

I'm hoping (if I think of it) to take some pictures this Monday or the different rabbits all paired up.  We'll see if that happens or not though :)  Anyway, that's the latest with my rabbits!