Category: Chinpin

Two boys to new homes

6/6/2013

These two boys from Pinny are off to new homes. Born on April 15 out of AeroBar, these two sweethearts will be making a young boy and girl quite pleased. Living both an outdoor and an indoor lifestyle. :)

They brought along a friend who might wish to get a bunny in about four weeks. :)

Chinpinny x AeroBar - Apr 15

4/14/2013

Pinny

four kits born from Pinny. Suspect one is a chin, two are quite light and one I'm just not sure on.

Aero Bar

Watch me Grow

one day old

Two sold (on hold) and three sold (in homes)

3/23/2013

Today was a rather busy day.
Lots to do. The lad was BORED STIFF, but was rewarded for good behaviour by getting a new nerf gun.
Sold Bunny poo, Bunnies, attended a meeting for the rabbit club, did some shopping, met a lady and talked snakes, shot the breeze with some other bunny people. All in all, a fair good day for me, but the lad was tired and bored and needing to do something fun....had a nerf gun fight when we got home.

ChinPinny x Soldier - Feb 4

3/22/2013

This kit made it through weaning. He's a small, but hearty young lad.

ChinPinny x AeroBar - Mar 14

3/14/2013

Four kits born, took a while to come, quite cold when found.

Hopeful to save them, have them warming in a nest with older kits.

Animal Management

2/5/2013

The unfortunate reality of raising any kind of livestock is that some mom's will do a better job than other moms.

This of course leaves the owner in a quandry at times. Particularly if the better mom has lesser quality kits then the poorer mom. Do you foster? Do you let nature take it's course? Do you supplement?

In my rabbitry my choice is to swap out kits however I have need to do so.

I have two harlequin does in my rabbitry who are STELLAR mother. Rarely losing kits, caring for them well, no sick kits. Just healthy happy babies. EXACTLY what you want in a momma rabbit.

I've had some does kindle over the past few days.

Pinny...raises three well. (holland lop)
Oreo....raises up to four well. (polish)
DJ .... big mini rex doe, doing an excellent job as a first time mom
Lisa..harlequin doe
Splash...Harlequin doe
Marie ... Holland lop doe doing a good job as a first time mom.

KNOWING that Oreo and Pinny sometimes struggle in their roles as momma's I did some litter switching.

Marie's kits went to Lisa along with a couple from DJ.
DJ got Lisa's kits.
Pinny got two of DJ's and one from Splash.
Oreo got three from DJ.
Marie got Oreo and Pinny's kits.

This should hopefully result in a bunch of healthy happy kits in five - six weeks time.

And DJ who is now raising Lisa's kits will be able to go to her new home sooner as her litter just jumped 10 days older. :) Should make her new people happy. :)

ChinPinny x Soldier - Feb 4

2/4/2013

Pinny

funny, little Pinny gave birth to four kits today. One is teeny tiny (a peanut) and it most likely will not survive. Most are darker in colouring

ChinPinny x Sprite - Nov 19 - SOLD

1/1/2013

This young lad is out of a 2.5 lb doe and a 3 lb buck.
He is a bright happy fellow. Eager to see what is going on around him.
Quiet and content in his cage, he'll be a lovey when he matures.
He likes to explore. He has a medium-shade to his eye.
He is a black magpie in colour.

Events of Today

12/31/2012

Sold

ChinPinny x Sprite - Nov 19 - Present for a young lady's dad.

ChinPinny x Sprite - Nov 19 - this shy girlie went to a pet home.

For the winter, new accommodations

Slippers was not enjoying the cold of the winter, so i moved her into the warmest part of the rabbitry, which meant a small cage. She was MOST unhappy. So I asked a rabbit friend if Slip could hang out at her place for the winter, and she said sure, if I'd take one or two of her bunnies for the winter. Even enough switch I thought. So today my old girl Slip went to warmer digs. :) She'll come back end of March.

A sad cull

These two young kits up until about 3.5 weeks of age where splendid youngsters. Growing well, doing all things rabbity, and then I started to wonder on them. I started checking their teeth, digestion, feeding extra hay, fed some probiotics and then just continued to fade. It happens sometimes with kits and it kinda makes you wonder what is going on with them. Today when I looked at them I said you know what kiddos...this has gone on long enough and you are getting thin and very poorly looking. So I euthanized them quickly. It's a sad thing to lose young stock, but it's better to lose them young and quickly than to watch them have issues as adults with illness when it just means prolonged suffering.