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End of the Beginning!

It's that time of a young rabbit breeders' "career": I've become a young adult and life is calling, so for a time I won't be breeding or showing rabbits. Unlike most, I am not selling my supplies, as I have witnessed friends sell out only to get back in and pay for their equipment all over again!

But I am selling most of my rabbits, the ones I have left being the sweetest of the bunch or my favorite breeding does/bucks.

It is a bittersweet time. I had, at most, 25 rabbits at one time. Now I have 8. There is a lot less work, the rabbits get more time with me, and I enjoy being in an uncluttered barn! However, I miss the babies. Watching them develop at super fast speeds, figuring out the world, watching their bodies and minds develop... it was one of my favorite things to witness. On the plus side, I also don't have to witness the sad side of having baby rabbits around, the stillborns or the faders, they broke my heart everytime. However, their counterparts made it worth it to continue breeding.

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The Oranges Are Here!

Well last night one of my best bunny buds, and dearest friend who got me started in the rabbit habbit, called me exclaiming she had just bought an entire herd of Orange Netherland Dwarfs and wanted to know if I wanted some. I was like, "Um......heck yeah!". LOL. I've been wanting Orange dwarfs for like forever and only had 1 Orange dwarf at this point. Anywho........to make things more short, she came over and delivered a trio of 3 Oranges (1 buck & 2 does) from the herd she just bought and she also brought one of her proven Orange brood does to help me get started wi

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And the waiting game continues

I keep thinking that my foot is going to get better and I can get back to normal. For those of you that don't know I shattered my heel in July and nothing's been the same since. I thought on Oct 20th I was going to be able to walk again, but found out today that weight bearing doesn't mean walking! It's probably going to be the ned of the year before I'm "walking" like normal.

It so nerve racking, not being able to just get up and do the things that need to be done. My mom is living with us and she and my boys do not see eye to eye on things. There is always something wrong or someone upset. The pressure is just so hard. Plus I haven't been able to do much with my rabbits. My oldest son helped me this past weekend to get some pictures taken and some does bred. My mom and son go to the barn on the weekdays to feed and water and everyday the come back not talking. My mom likes to get there and get it done, whereas my son prefers to go around and play with all his rabbits first before he very slowly gets the chores done.

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Barn Count 2006

Well I did my fair entry yesterday (late like always, luckily the secreatry is very flexible.) I entered everything in the barn except the Netherlands and the 4 that run loose in the empty part of the barn as a test to see how they do. HOW am I going to get these guys to the fair I dont know, I think I only have 9 carrier holes! YIKES looks like 3 trips, Maybe I will jsut use a couple cat carriers or something. Carboard boxes?? I have 21 rabbits entered leaving 5 netherland dwarfs(3 babies) and the 4 loose bunnies, The 5 nethies I hope to pass along to someone else or they are going in the other side of the barn also as I am getting my Brittania Petits back.

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Deleting a blog entry

Ok how do you do it? I was excited about the show this past weekend but decided that it just sounded like so much bragging and now I can't find how to delete it?

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Around the barn

Well around our barn there are only dwarf hotots. About half of which are in a serious molt right now. But I am happy to say out of the half that aren't in that dreaded state, between my son in youth and myself in open we took 4 BOB's this past weekend and 1 BOS making another 3 of our rabbits GC eligable and two more pretty close. All in all a good start to the fall show season for us.

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FAIR TIME!

wow what a long day! wheew! we had i think close to 450 rabbits for our fair show. we had 3 judges and everything went pretty well. only problem we had was no help running rabbits so we were doing like 5 things at once. running rabbits, setting up classes, table writing, answering the publics questions, and keeping unknowing little kids from behind the table! got a leg on my nice copper satin doe! we had fun. BIS was a dutch, runner up was a brittania pettite. going back out today, have some rabbits for sale, its easier to sell them onsite, than over the phone. (they have to commit on the spot, as in fork over the cash! lol!)

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Question: Adding content to book pages...

Will, how have you intended content to be added to already created book pages? For example, I added a list of the reconized satin varieties to the 'the satin' book entry. Should I add it directly to the page (as I did), or as a comment to be posted below? I'm just thinking that it looks more uniform and makes more sense to add it directly to the page? But, then if someone wanted to tidy up poor grammar or spelling that someone else wrote, it could create a bit of a sensitive situation. Marie

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hurry up and wait......

Not much going on here. i went through a litter of satins yesterday i think they are around 6-7 weeks, didnt look really. some nice looking babies tho. too bad not a one of them is a RECOGNIZED color.....*sigh* oh well. puzzle pieces puzzle pieces puzzle pieces.....

The open class rabbit show at the fair starts on saturday morning. had to borrow some carriers so i can get them all there in one trip. hopefully coming home wont be so cramped. planning to sell a bunch! i need some empty cages!!

We are only there for 3 days (come home monday night). so it should be pretty easy on the bunnies. watched the weather reports this morning. and should be in the low to mid 80's over the weekend. so it will warm up but not be scorching either. yay!

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Need Room to Grow!!!

The weather has finally cooled off now which is awesome. I wanted to do a lot more breedings this year, but with 3 months of constant extreme heat, that wasn't pratical or in the plan. So now, I want to breed. Like 8 does. I want a lot of jrs. to show at our February show and then in consequence, April & May. (Well, they may not be jrs. by then, but young Srs - I can deal with that). I had some awesome breedings this spring that lead to a lot of almost GC'd animals - they are just waiting to turn Sr. to get their Sr. leg!! Which is totally awesome! At the last show here, I basically did next to nothing on the show table becasue the stock that I had either sold/given to friends and 2nd family were kicking my butt! I only kept 2 juniors for myself this spring, and one of which passed away :(

So, yes, I want to repeat some of those breedings. I lost my beloved Maybelline who was going to be my little "Revlon the 2nd". She was a gorgeous lynx doe.

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Reboot Part 2: The Bunny Sitter is Less than Ideal

I found out today the bunny & house sitter will be a guy that knows next to nothing about rabbits.

Great.

This is going to mean a LOT of post its, bright colours, and signs all over my barn.
And to be on the safe side...
"NO TREATS"
"NO VISITORS"
"NO PETTING"
"NO EXTRA FOOD"

And... a return of a sign I printed for shows:
"Please do not feed fingers to rabbits!"

Gaaaah...

--Jenn

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Visual editing for the site

I have enabled the TinyMCE editor for all text areas on the site.

This theoretically will make things easier for you all to enter. Please let me know if anyone has any problems.

EDIT: --->Will, what does the "p" stand for in your html? --Jenn/Pasada

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FINALLY, my birthday party!

My best friend is coming over for a sleep over tonight. We will be going to a concert with my family, and tomorrow going to a tea room (http://www.tealaceandroses.com/) with my mom. My newest litter of NDs is doing great! (http://www.rabbitsontheweb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5778) Me

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The Slow Reboot

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I haven't been active in the rabbit world for over a year, trying to force myself out of it... not too efficiently, I might add. I was losing my interest, without goals. I needed specific goals instead of just following the herd! So I looked at my animals... I had been barely trying to get BEWs. And then I thought... whatever happened to creating BEWs? That is what I shall doe! Chocolates and BEWs!

My doe Queenie is due soon. Queenie (AKA Rah's Queen Elizabeth II, her dam being nicknamed Elizabeth by a barn-helper... and Queenie was her dams twin likeness sooo... yeah :D) was bred before I went on vacation, on August 2nd. When I got back on August 15th, I palpated 3-4 kits.

This is Queenie's first litter. Queenie is very near and dear to my heart, I am hoping all goes well.
She has gotten a bit antsy, we're now in Week 3 of pregnancy. She's tipping over his crock for the first time and drinking more. She won't come up for petting as much as usual. It's stressful for me and her!

I found out too late that our plans changed for dropping my brother off at University for the fall. Before, we would be back in the afternoon of the 1st. Now, it's the 2nd. Her Day 30 is Sept 1st, her Day 31 is Sept 2nd... so I'm worried I won't be here incase something happens. Queenie is a first time doe.
My nearest trusted rabbit friend lives 20 minutes away and works fulltime. The best I can do is prep a nestbox before I go and leave it all in the hands of someone that only knows how to feed and water rabbits... very stressful!!

On another note, I've almost completed my Fall Cleaning... early! I just have to pressure wash my nestboxes, show carriers, and two stackers (& the floor beneath them & the walls behinds them). Then I'm DONE bwahaha!!

And yeah. That only leaves me with raking the roof of the pine needles, but I don't REALLY need to do that, do I? Noo.. it's enough that I already cleaned the 5'x3' sliding glass window? haha :D
Why did I paint the walls white again? I know they bounce light better, but MAN. Does anyone know how badly urine stains white walls? Bleach isn't working! What works better than bleach? Maybe vinegar???

--Jenn of Rah Rabbitry

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Sad News

A dear friend of the family passed today. We have known Betty for 20 years. She was one of the first friends we made when we moved upstate. We used to travel to rabbit shows together. Her daughter and mine were great friends and still are. They were the backbone of our 4H rabbit club. Betty will certainly be missed she was one of the most helpful and friendly people I have ever known. I didn't want to bring anyone down, I just had to get it out. The funeral is this sunday. I will write again when I have something more cheerful to say.

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