Wonderful Day For One Lop Too Many

Today has been amazing. I did have some internet problems, but then again who doesn’t?

Two things happened today! So back a couple days before OSRBA’s Mini-Convention I joined Velveteen Lop Rabbit Club of America (I highly recommend joining if you are getting into Velveteen Lops) and today I got in my membership card AND binder with my guidebook! In general I love getting mail that I didn’t know was coming simply because it’s a surprise! The guidebook looks great and I’m sure it will help me a lot with my current genetics project. I can’t wait to start reading!

The SECOND thing that happened today was that when I went upstairs to give Licorice and Truffle some kale, I was petting Licorice and I ran my hand over her back and felt a hard little bump! I’m so excited to see what comes out of these two litters. This is my first breeding with a broken so I’m beyond ecstatic.

Just a little update because I haven’t posted about it, both  Licorice and Truffle both now have a nest box and have started nesting.

I will try and post as soon as the kits are born, but I might not be able to Friday, Saturday, or even Sunday. I will however try my hardest too.

4H Rabbit Topics (Important to Cover)

4H is a HUGE  deal for me. I’ve been in 4H for the last 7 years. It’s one of those things that is addictive, once you get started you’ll never want to stop. Whenever my mom would have me sit down and cull some activities so that my schedule wasn’t so jam packed 4H would never budge.

Just like 4H is such a huge part of my life, rabbits are just as or even more important. They have influenced my life in ways that I never thought animals could. They’ve also done a considerable amount of influencing on my parents as well. When I got my first rabbit, they made it very clear that I would NOT be breeding rabbits ever. Now look at me, I’ve got two brood does and two brood bucks. I’ve had one successful breeding and I’m expecting 2 more litters next month.

I’ve learned a lot in the last 5 years of having rabbits, my goal is to be able to start teaching new rabbit owners some of the lessons I’ve learned and enhance the rabbit community. So how I’ve decided to start that chain of events is to make a small group within my 4H club focusing on rabbits. Any breed of rabbit, covering topics such as:

-Rabbit Health

-Rabbit Breeds

-Rabbit Care & Health

-Showing Rabbits (this would be kind of like a field trip)

-Breeding Rabbits

-Caring for Pregnant Does

-Caring for Nursing Does & Kits

After the basic topics have been covered I’m going to try and get them all to come up with a topic that they want to cover so that everyone is learning something new. I really want to make a separate 4H group that is just for rabbits, but I need to be able to handle a smaller group before I make a larger group. 😀

If you are in Anne Arundel County and would be interested in a rabbit 4H club please fill out this contact info form 😀 I’ll include you on an email list.

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Not Gonna Lie

So, a lot of the times people that are just getting into rabbits type in the search bar “posed _____ rabbit” and that’s great if you know exactly what your doing. When I first started I got really lucky, the breeder I got my original rabbit, Thumper the Holland Lop had been working on posing her since she was old enough to leave the cage.

In the last 5 years I’ve learned a lot. First thing I learned was no matter how good you get at posing rabbits you can’t take any rabbit and simply have them pose and keep that pose. I have worked long and hard with Thumper and she still doesn’t pose every time I put her on a table. There aren’t enough words to explain how frustrating it can be, but at the same time just as rewarding because you’ll have that moment where they’re perfectly pose and then they move.

The important thing though is that you saw it. I’ve found that I get to that moment, just when I’m ready to give up. I’ll take anywhere from 30-50 photos and that might only be from 4 bunnies.

The pics I’m going to post are all from one shoot. I will be putting ALL of the pics here.

Yes, I could have gone through and hand picked my favorite, but that would be taking away from the point I’m trying to make. The point being that you will take 60-80 pics your first time and only end up using 6. Try and see if you can pick out the ones you think are the best.

If you have an idea of the ones I’m going to use then go and check out http://oneloptoomany.com/our-rabbits/ where I will be posting the favorites out of these.

 

 

Buns In The Oven!

Hi Everyone! It’s been a while since I had anything to post about relating to my rabbits so I figured everyone will be happy to hear that we have 2 new litters that we will be expecting on June 6th! The two litters that we are expecting are from, Baggins and Licorice, and Baggins and Truffle! They were bred 2 days ago. I will be posting updates on their pregnancy and once the babies are born you’ll hear about it! 😀

This is the little cutie pie Licorice (doe)!!!

Truffle our proven doe!

Programming

Funny Rabbit Memes!

This post is simply for your enjoyment, I’ve wanted to do something like this for a while and decided to just do it today, I hope that if your having a good/bad day this makes it a little better. Enjoy!

I’m A Bigger Bunny Now!

I decided that since I’ve been talking a lot about the kits that I’d take some time to talk about Licorice and Baggins since they are both 4 months and Baggins is quickly approaching 5 months old.

 

We got Baggins at 2 months old and absolutely love him!

This is him now at almost 5 months old:

We’re hoping to breed Baggins to Truffle so that their kits will be available in time for ARBA’s national convention in Fort Worth, Texas!

Licorice we also got at the same time as Baggins at  2 monthsand she is now 4 months old. We are planning on breeding her at the same time as Truffle, but with her half brother Blondie.

Licorice at 2 months old when we first got her.

This is a picture of Licorice now at 4 months old!

 

Appointment For the Runt

The runt of the litter seems to have some sort of eye infection so we’re going to take it in to get checked out by Dr. Wendy Feaga who is our vet for our less common animals (the rabbits) and have her check out its eye. I’ll keep everyone updated on how the runt is and what is actually wrong with its eye.

The rest of the litter is coming because the runt is to small to regulate its body temperature on it’s own.

On a side note I’m going to start doing a question of the day (QOTD). It might have to do with animals and it might not, it really depends on what I come up with.

QOTD: What is your favorite quote?

My favorite quote is: Dreams aren’t what you leave behind when morning comes. They are the stuff that fill your every living moment. ~David Cuschieri

Out of The Nest Box and Into the Big Cage

Today the kits are 2 weeks old! Can you believe it??? I can! They’ve gotten SO big!

Last night we watched them as they got fairly active and started binkying around in the nest box. Since they have gotten so big and were trying to find their way out of the nest box anyway, we decided that they were big enough that they could be moved in with Truffle. I took a video when they were first put in and here it is:

Blogger Fail

So, I seem to have neglected my blog a bit…the last blog I wrote I explained how I was checking on Truffle every hour to see where she was in terms of kindling and then once they were born I kind of stopped updating the blog…

Now that I’ve apologized at my being distracted by pure cuteness… The babies have been born and are going to be two weeks old tomorrow, they are getting so big and reached a mile stone this last weekend. They opened their eyes!

First of the kits to open their eyes!

So far it looks like we have three solid black kits, two blue tort kits, and a mystery kit that is obviously some kind of tort we’re just not sure which just yet. One of the three blacks was born as a runt and about 4 days in we started to worry because it seemed to not be getting any food. We were given advice to wait until a week old and then step in and start hand feeding, but I felt that the kit wouldn’t make it to 7 days if we didn’t step in. The little kit is not as developed as its siblings , but is making quite a comeback. We are still watching her because she’s not in the clear yet. This is my current update.

Hope to be updating again in the very near future! If I’m not able to make an update in the very near future be sure to check out One Lop Too Many Rabbitry’s Facebook page where I post almost daily with updates on the little ones!

https://www.facebook.com/oneloptoomany

Feel free to comment! If you have any specific questions about the rabbits I might even do posts at request on certain topic if there’s a demand.