Trying something New

Well I figured it was time for a change.

I dyed my hair, it's a 'Chocolate Cherry' color. There's also highlights that go with it as well, but we may not get to the highlights tomorrow, we shall try.

I'll get pictures of magic's ramp tomorrow, we got it done and into place today and got magic to go up and down it. she's not a freak for going up, but down she's got down pack.

Babies growing up

Well, no pictures today, don't have the time to go take some and then upload them.
I've gone through two of the dutch litters and sexed them. KItty's didn't survive, so I'm just retiring her and getting her a pet home. As for the HOlland Lops: Skye killed hers like normal, so she's getting rebred, that's the only way to get kits from her is to bred her back after she kills one litter. Angie is about 2 weeks off from her due date with a Fuzzy Lop. Let's see if she produces to him.
Back to my babies, the Dutch:

Robyn's got 3 bucks, and 1 doe(Shamefully) but everyone one of them are awesomely marked, so they should sell well. Naturally I'd get a full litter that looks great when I'm in a spot that I can't really keep any to show first.
Amita's I haven't sexed all of them, but so far one steel is a buck, the other I think is a doe, same thing for the blue-steels, 1 buck, 1 doe. The black I didn't check.
Neena's are still too young to sex properly but 3 Grays(Not steels like I thought) and 3 blacks(Yes I thought there was only five but there's six! One of these days I'll learn to count better) Her Gray children, 2 of them aren't badly marked, I've pulled one of those to keep to start my gray lines, the last is slightly mismarked. the blacks, one has a heart shapped(sorta) black spot on it's shoulders so it's pet quality.

The horses, my gosh Jazz needs a bath, I don't think much more dirt can get into her fur. If it's nice this weekend, I'll get both Jazz and Pheeny bathed. They need it soo badly after the long winter and it's been a long time since Jazz had a bath last, Pheeny I'm sure had one more recently.

Relay for Life

Yesterday was the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life in Queensbury. This is my 5th year in a row with Rachel and her mom. It's a 12 hour event(7pm Friday night to 7 am Saturday morning), though I've yet to stay the whole night. Something or another keeps pulling me out and away at night, last night it was because I was freezing and I've already got a cold.

The opening of the whole fun is the Survivor walk. They start out with bagpipers, I always have loved the bagpipers. I stayed down near the campsite until they had gone by and then I caught up with Debbie and the whole team took the lap with Debbie, Rachel and I took turns pushing Debbie around the track, Debbie preferred me since I didn't run anyone over. Rachel ran me over at least once, lord only knows who else she ran over.

This is the team. Across the back is Allen, Rachel Gonyea(Team captain), Kimmie Bean, Valerie Rode. them the bottom is Me, Debbie Heflin(Rachel's mom) and James Smith. The shirt color's do have reference. Purple shirts are Survivors of Cancer, white are people that are there showing support to find a cure. Our Team is centered around Debbie and Rachel, they started us all.

Someone helping to light the Luminaries around 9:30, I think. It was after dark, that I do know. I was going to help but forgot that the 'lighter' that I have was in the truck and we had changed our minds and taken Allen's car up instead. And you can also see behind the person, the CR Bard sign, they support the American Cancer Society.

This is the luminaries up in the bleachers to spell out HOPE, they used to have a second set on the opposite side that spelled CURE, but they haven't had those in a couple years now. The digetal camera doesn't do a terribly good job at night, but at least I got a decent one.

This is some of the Luminaries that were present for Karen Welcome. Karen Welcome was our Human Resource representative at C.R. Bard and she was very well loved, she knew every one of the 1,000+ employees and she was just the friendliest person. She had a total of 17 luminaries, I didn't get her one, I got the carnations that are in there. The picture below is for my friend Pam Cali, she's still in treatments for breast cancer, so I got her a luminary in honor of her fight, and also the carnations.

Well, it was still really fun, despite being sick and really tired.

Memorial Day babies

Well 3 of 4 dutch have now kindled. Neena's was the bunch I was very eagerly awaiting. I wanted to see how a Tort crossed to a Steel would turn out. I guess I got my answer. Though they don't have fur yet by the skin colors, I'm going to put a guess on three steels and 2 blacks, no torts like mommy.

Amita's Have enough fur to know 2 Steels, 1 Black and 2 Blue.

And Robyn's are growing like little weeds. I don't know what it is with my blue dutch, but they seem to keep their first litters, Neena didn't keep her first one that's why I was so anxious for this litter to come.

And Robyn's babies:

Kitty I fully expect to have torts, she's a tort and the buck was a tort.

I've got a person that is willing to take the others, I'm selling the mismarks for meat, if they don't sell as breeding stock. They will go a week or two before I leave for KY. He just asks that I kill them(Rather I told him, he'd have to pay my dad or brother to do it, I just simply can't bring myself to do it) and I've also got Rachel's mismarked babies that we can also use as meat.

Fresh Rabbit anyone? It does taste really good and there are no hidden things in their diets.

Bunny Show!!

Well the Vermont double show was yesterday, and I actually didn't do too badly. Naturally my Hollands were showing at the same time as my dutch, so I was running back and forth both times. Here's Sam waiting patiently on my lap between the shows.

First show, Wordy(Steel dutch buck) was DQ'ed off the table for long bottom teeth, but Sam(Blue Dutch Buck) took Best opposite sex variety, in the second show Sam was DQ'ed off the table for only having one testicle. I haven't the faintest idea what happened there, he had, had both not even five minutes before that, but he seems to still only have one now and Wordy took Best opposite sex variety. Mimzy was 2nd out of 3 both times. That's all the ducth I brought, I did bring Matt, but only to sell. He sold and is gone now, to a wonderful home with a new breeder.

My Holland Lops were even in both shows, three of the four placed the same in both shows, Montana didn't get a chance to show, she apparently had been hiding her cold and stress from first time showing made her bring it out, so She was there for the exposure of showing, but she stayed back and didn't show. Calleigh was second best broken senior Doe in both shows, Dylan was 6th and Speedle(Dylan's father) was 5th both times- first and second off the table in Broken Senior bucks. Gabriel was mid pack- 6th out of 13 first time but the second judge didn't like him, and he ended up 12th out of 13 out of solid senior bucks. hehehe, it was fun.

Gab, waiting for the judge to type him out. The second time around, first time around, We didn't get a chance to get pictures, all the Buck's were nuts, they had Does on that table last so all the group of 13 wanted to do was get out and breed(not realizing they were all boys!)

And Montana. I had a lot of breeders and a judge that wanted to buy her, since I had one Holland Doe for sale (Mom's, but she got saved thanks to a judge that told me what to do to get her on the show table and to get her to produce babies)

Montana got to ride up front with Rachel, Damien(Her Cockapoo that came with us) McGee(A 8 week old Holland Baby Rachel bought) and myself. Everyone else had to ride in the back, tarped and covered. Sorry dad, that Cap doesn't fit my truck, it's too wide or my truck is too narrow. It did come off a Ford so that might be part of the problem.

There's Amita's babies, I'm leaning towards 2 black, 1 steel, and 2 blue.

Robyn's have figured out how to get out of the box already, I had to put two back in the box that were on the wire and one fell out of the cage wire and onto the floor so I had to go get him/her and put it back in too. Then mommy fed them while I watched on. Thankfully Amita's box is taller and there isn't anyway for her's to get out, and Robyn but alot of hay and fur in her box, Amita did not.

Anyway . . . Lots and lots of bunny stuff. Neena, Skye, Kitty and Calleigh are all I'm waiting on. Calleigh's got three weeks, Kitty has two, Neena and Skye should have theirs by Wednesday. I shall be patient and just wait for updates on Arizona. :)

Amita's babies now too

Amita had hers the day after Robyn had hers! and she had one more! Amita had 5 on the 20th, Robyn's 4 on the 19th, I was hoping on Neena having hers on the 21st, but she didn't, and still nothing today. *pouts* well I had a good run. I know two of Amita's are blue, the other three I'm still tossed up between Steels(like their father) and Blacks which is the default color as I call it. I'm hoping for Steels, one of them black/steel babies looks very nice and promising markings to show and sell.
I'll get some pictures of them up tonight/tomorrow. Mommy's not being as hospitable as normal. I don't want to bother her too much. THe one day I did go to take pictures, the batteries in the camera died(Of coarse!) SO they're charging today and I'll get pictures tomorrow of the babies and at the show! One last NY show, well it's in Vermont, but I get the feeling I won't be in NY for the Cobleskill show. I'll have to take Aunt Lisa to a Rabbit show in Kentucky, let her see what they're about, so long as she takes me to a dog show(with the girls hopefully!) We'll educate each other on our show worlds if we move down(or when it seems).

Babies!!!!!

*squeals* I'm excited, my Dutch are starting to have their babies!!! Robyn is a first time mom and Sam is a first time Daddy so they only had 4 babies(all Blue of coarse!) and they look really decent for markings.

Neena is nesting now, expdecting babies in the next day or so on her. Then there is just Amita left this weekend(Both Amita and Neena are due to Wordy. Wordy's a first time Daddy, Neena's will be her second litter but hopefully first live one, and Amita's just a very good mommy.) And Kitty who's two weeks off from these guys. And that's Robyn in the background cage there. Robyn was a good girl, she put them in the box, Neena's insistant on building her nest in the opposite side of her cage on the wire . . . . silly little doe.

And here's Poppy's little ones, they keep laying down to sleep when I come in. But I do have a really cute one on the camera.

Skye is due this weekend for Holland babies, any that I do produce are already sold, we've (Rachel and I) Have a waiting list of people for Holland Lops. Calleigh accidently got bred last Saturday(Thought I have put her and Speedle as far as possible away from each other, apparently not.) So end of June I'll have a second litter of Hollands. *Shruggs* oh well, at least people really want those! I've got show people that want the Dutch, the others will probably end up as meat or pets. That's the tough choice with mismarked Dutch rabbits.