jesse's Critters!

Markel had her babies!!

2009-01-30T05:30:00.000-08:00

I've been waiting a while for these babies... Ever since the bigining of the week I was thinking she would have them. Turns out last night when I was showing people bunnies, she started to pull fur and get ready to have them. Went out at 9:30 and they were all born and in the nest.

Counted 7, 2/3 solids and the rest brokens. Im thinking the solids with be harlies(magpies or japs).

For a first time mom she seems to be doing very well! Lets hope she keeps it up!

Update on the lionheads and Holland lops.

2009-01-29T17:59:00.001-08:00

So, these bunnies have made exellent progress in the past little while and grew up to be great bunnies! There selling fast, and although I was planning on keeping two I have decided to let them go to a pet home with a family.

Baily did an amazing job raising most of the litter, and only loosing a few to the wire on the cold nights.

She had one really nice, meaby even showable Broken chestnut buck who left for his new home tonight.

She also raised a beautiful, also possibly showable Opal doe!

And last but not least, she raised a impressive black doe!

Lexi, my lionhead doe raised all of her babies. She had a little bit of trouble handling them all but she didnt loose one!

All of her babies were very popular and sold right away!

My favorite was the tri colour buck.

She also raised three, relativley simular babies.... I only got pictures of two(pictures thanks to Annette)

So, hats off to these two does!!!! Im very happy with them!

More mice born!

2009-01-29T17:55:00.001-08:00

Well, all my mice have had there littles! Ive got alot of them in the nest right now!

First was my gray mouse on january 21st, and the rest to follow shortly after.

So there you have it, my male mouse has proven to be a good purchase! He will give me meaby two more litters and then Im trading with a friend.

Baby Mice!

2009-01-22T15:31:00.000-08:00

My gray mouse had some babies last night! She was HUGE and was expecting her to "pop" any second.

I havnt done a count, as I dont touch them until at least day three, but there should be a fair amount - she was HUGE!

More babies should be coming....four does pregnat.

So, Gray mouse babies born January 21st, 2008

Downsizing - I have to say goodbye to my mini rex :(

2009-01-16T17:31:00.000-08:00

Sadly, with school and my other work I have to many rabbits and need to downsize for now. I have decided to say good by to my lovely mini rex and focus more on my hollands, lionheads and Harlequins.

This is my altime favorite breed but I feel I need to move around and rotate. I think its good for me. I love these rabbits fur and am re-homing some really nice rabbits.

Lets look at some memorise:

I hope to get back into them later on....in the futer :)

Baily's Babies!

2009-01-10T14:29:00.001-08:00

Well baily has proved to be an awesome mother who has alot of milk! She is just amazing. She has some really nice fat babies peeking out of the nest now so I thought I would snap some pictures!

They are just amazing!

Big broken Chestnut buck...just amazing!(picture below)

Nice sized blue doe(?). She is really coming in nicley!

Black doe(?)... An absolutly awesome rabbit....just really nice!

And she also raised out a little castor mini rex!(buck)

They are now almost three weeks old....will be looking for a new home in two weeks! Will all be very nice!

Lexi's Babies are here!

2008-12-22T10:56:00.000-08:00

A few hours after bailey had hers Lexi decided to have hers as well. She was in the nest when i found them, they werent coverd up real well so i got some fur from another doe to help out.

At this point there are four in the nest, although she may decide to have more. From my quick glance looks like a few brokens.

I will keep an eye out for the single and double manes.

Kindled December 22nd.

Dad is Chester.

Bailey Kindles!!!

2008-12-22T06:44:00.000-08:00

Went out to the barn this morning to be greeted by a nest of baby bunnies!!

Looks like at least four babies, not really sure..I didnt want to count as it is biterly cold out here. I will get a count by the end of the day. The nest was coverd with a fair amount of fur so im happy! Good job Bailey, this is her second litter, first litter with me.

With her first litter she over cleaned the kits leaving them with some missing limbs....im really hoping this dose not happen this time!!

These babies will be partcially pedigree'd

Kindled December 22nd!

Pictures to follow in a week or so.

Father was Mojo.

Update - counted 5 kits, by my thinking there is no peanuts...everything looks good.

Mr.Mouse

2008-12-15T08:39:00.000-08:00

Last week I went on the hunt for a nice male mouse to add some fresh bloodlines to my colony. Annette got her male from Pet Paradise, therefore i could not get one from there(we trade males every few months). So I went to Pets Mart.

There I saw Mr. Mouse sitting in the tank, i bought him there...a little expecive(almost $6).

He has not proven himself a good purchase, but we will see in the next few weeks.

Have a good day!

New Bunnies!!

2008-11-25T13:52:00.000-08:00

I finally got my Blue eyed white Mini Rex buck yesterday!!!! He is a really really nice rabbit. I am planning on showing him next year. I had the oner to go to the rockton show with Annette, she was interested in a broken Castor and the owner was selling this fellow with the Bkn Castor and there was me "ill take the buck, ill take the buck!!". So Annette housed him for a while and sold him to me for $15 with breeding privllages to her as well. He is FULLY PEDIGREE'D!!

We've called him Balder Pig!

I also bought a little Blue Holland Lop doe from Annette. Shes partcailly pedigree'd. So far shes been a nice little doe. Very curious. She escaped on me last night, i had to search threw the whole barn and ended up finding her burried in the straw, little rascal! Her ears havnt quite loped over

yet, there on thier way though!

Havnt decided on a name for her yet.

Update - named her Rascaile

Breeding!

2008-11-22T09:20:00.000-08:00

Well, i bred 2 and a half does today. My lionhead doe bred FANTASTICLY!! I put her in Chesters cage and her butt went right up! My HL doe bred good to, she let him breed her a few times. I left them to do there buisness and went up to the house, came back about an hour later to find the lionheads grooming each other and eating hay! And the holland was laying down eating hay.

Then i brought my mini rex doe over to Annette's to breed to "my" BEW buck. She wouldnt breed, wouldnt raise. So Annette's doing me a favor and keeping her for the weekend.

Well i was at Annette's i saw this really nice blue HL doe. Should i take her? hm.... i think i will.... we will have to see.

Anyway, ill try to blog more.

First litter of mice!!

2008-11-15T19:27:00.000-08:00

So, i went up to the tank tonight to feed the mice and i thought something wasnt right. I was hearing tiny little sqeaking going on too. I really didnt know what it was and i noticed only one mouse was out waiting for the feed when usually they all are. So i opened up the nest box and saw two of my three does(the brown one and golden one) were hudled in the corner and i kinda expected they were giving birth. I didnt want to bother them so i fed them and left.

I went back up a little while ago to check and it turns out there ARE BABY MICE!!!! I only saw one - three but i only wanted to take a quick glance. Not sure which one is the mother at this point, either the brown doe or the golden doe.

So in short... first litter of mice born late November 15th UPDATE: Mice have all been born, November 15th - November 17th.

Rockton Show!

2008-11-09T10:03:00.000-08:00

Annette from At Home Pets asked if i wanted to tag along with her to the rockton show. I took the offer and went up to rockton yesterday!

It was a really fun experiece, we learned some new things, like how to hold a show rabbit(mini rex), and how to pose a holland, i also learned that there are only six recoized colours in the polish, and there is only a few harlequin breeders in Ontario(CONGRATS to annette for becoming on!).

I have a little more breeding to do down the line before i get to show anything....

I knew i was going for 2 hollands but ended coming home with three rabbits. Annette was interested in a broken castor mini rex doe but you had to buy it in a pair with a BEW mini rex buck. I immediatly said that I would take the buck and after alot of convincing she got the pair. Now he's at her place for now as we are sharing him.... i LOVE this buck, he is really nice.

Yeterday was the best experience i had in a long time, it was REALLY fun, thanks Annette!

I GOT MICE!!!

2008-11-09T10:00:00.000-08:00

YESSS!!!! Finally i got my mice, i coudlnt wait!! I am just starting with three prego females from At Home Pets. They seem to be pretty nice little mice. There due in a few weeks. Ill keep you posted, but email me if you want a mouse!

Fiesta Kindled!!

2008-11-09T09:57:00.000-08:00

Wow, i did not ecxpect this doe to kindle!! This whole time i thought she wasnt bred and she ended up having 5!!!! One sable point and the rest were frosted pearls, she threw a really nice mixter of males and femals and proved to be an exellent momma!!

Dusty Kindled!

2008-11-09T09:53:00.000-08:00

Dusty had her babies last night, on september 20th! There were five littles in the nest, 2 broken blacks, one black vienna, one chocolate vienna, one blue vienna. All exept the blue vienna made it to selling age.