Two posts in one day! wow. I recently got new pictures of most of my does and bucks, except the ones on my for sale page which I am hoping to get to later today when the batteries for the camera are done charging (which takes forever)

You know your a rabbit nerd when...
-You see a picture of a rabbit and instead of saying aww you say I just want to feel the back on that rabbit. (which is exactly what Heather Charles from Little Hutch on a Hill said about Noirette)
- You can remember the names of all your rabbits, and who their related to but can't figure out how you know half the people you do or their names
-You've been late/missed work or school because of an issue with a rabbit or rabbits
- You spend more money on rabbits then you do on yourself
-You always seem to find shavings/hay/poop in your socks and don't know how it got there (Happens to Lori all the time)
-Sticky children are your biggest pet peeve especially if you have a wooled breed or rex breed

Thats it for now.

I added a new page to my website, Videos which are videos I have created featuring my rabbits I thought it be fun so you can actually see some of the rabbits instead of just a picture. Also I decided to keep Teslin mainly because she is drop dead gorgeous!!! Her fur is simply amazing although she is a tad bigger then her sister Mercedes who is another stunner (I'm definitely going to repeat this breeding!!!)

By the looks of it I'm going to have some simply stunning animals ready for convention. Lori will be traveling to convention with us this year as well. (Lori if your reading this I'm signing you up to the DRCBA and ARBA)

Bala's one baby is a siamese sable, even though it's a buck I'm still going to keep him. Smoke Baby's litter looks to be, 2 bucks and a doe (one blue is a doe) Bostons are 2 bucks and a doe as well. Looks to be a theme this year.

Attack of the Whites!!!!

As much as I like Whites and their great qualities for show (I.E not worrying about scattered white hairs, mismatched toenails, or wrong under colour) I don't intend on having a rabbitry full of them since they just don't sell, and unfortunately at auctions they usually end up being sold for meat. As it turns out almost all of my Mini Rex have the REW gene for certain (Especially Baba O'Riley and Sundown) and I just had a pure white litter born from Boston (by Baba) and one white in Smoke Baby's litter (by Baba) and the one thing Smoke Baby and Boston have in Common is their mother Sundown.
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I sold another buck! this one a blue from Cicada's litter. I still have all my big, ugly(not really), very friendly Mini Rex bucks that need to be sold fast, since I'm completely out of cage space and am going to be needing to separate some litters soon.

I'm planning on going to more Spring shows this year, instead of just Baxter Schomberg and Powassan. I'm planning on attending Elmira, Brooklin and Vandorf.

JNL's Ginger Snapp (First Mini Rex) National Velvets Zorro & Myself from 5 years ago.

=( Bad news time.

Yesterday I lost 5 kits, 2 of Bala's got out of the nest box and froze. Nicole lost her entire litter probably from stomping on them. All of this happened within a two hour time period while I was in Midland. Bala's remaining kit has been fostered to smoke baby, and it looks to be a smoke pearl, the other two where a black and siamese sable :( Smoke Baby has 3 +1 peanut of her own 1 REW and 2 blue (the peanut is a lynx). Boston had 3 REW. White seems to be rampant in my rabbitry this year... Dala had 4 DOA yesterday as well all of which where extremely large and what I like to call "Hippo Babies" Which has occurred once before in my rabbitry with Cahira (a mini rex)

On another bad note, Raven might of been bred to the broken opal buck Todd, who I found running free in the rabbitry with her yesterday morning.

On a happier note, I really like the way Cicada's babies are turning out, really great bodies, heads, and wool on them. Same with MoonShadow he is turning out to be a real handsome fellow and should do extremely well in the shows. He also likes to ride on your shoulder like a parrot. this spring. As for Mini Rex if my bucks can hold their coats until the spring shows they should do really well to, especially Ace who seems to get better and better every time I look at him, considering he had to of been the ugliest baby ever, Raven has produced some really nice kits including Emmet who has several BIS's and RIS's under his belt so I'm hoping Ace will do the same.

I decided to keep Arya because she is just an amazing little doe with extraordinary fur and a killer body and she never seems to be out of coat. She should do very well in the shows this year.

The next litters I'll have after Ice Baby's due date won't be born until April when the weather is warmer, and so I can have doe and litters at the Schomberg Spring Fair, which the public loves... who doesn't love a bunch of baby bunnies??

--Devon

Babies Babies Babies!!

This morning when I went out to the rabbitry I found 2 nest boxes with babies in them. Bala had 3+2 peanuts, Boston did the same with 3+2 peanuts. So content with that I go back to the house and await Lori's visit, and while I do that I did do the dishes... So Lori came over we talked about stuff played bingo online, had lunch then went out to see the bunnies and while we where out there playing with the older babies and adults, Nicole decides to have babies right in front of us! Since she didn't pull enough fur we stayed and waited for her to finish. She ended up having 3 +1 peanut, and now has a magnificent nest with nice long, and soft white fur from Dala who made a beautiful nest just over a month ago only to have babies on the wire (She's due in 2 days!!) So, Smoke Baby is the last February 11th doe left to have babies.

Boston's 3 all look like REWs, Bala looks like she's got 1 Black 1 Blue and a Tort, and Nicole looks to have 1 black, and 2 booted blues.

The Baxter spring show April 12th will be my first show this year and lucky for me I'll have a couple of older jr and young sr Mini Rex and Jersey Wooly ready by then and a Doe and Litter!!! (If Ice Baby has at least three kits) so for spring shows my show team will consist mainly of:

Mini Rex:
DevonGlen's Ace (black otter sr buck)
DevonGlen's Ilfracombe (blue/fawn tri sr buck)
DevonGlen's Brom (black sr buck)
DevonGlen's The Flying Dutchman (lynx sr buck)
DevonGlen's North Of Forty (white sr buck)
National Velvet's Alaska (otter sr doe)
DevonGlen's Mercedes (otter jr doe)
DevonGlen's Teslin (black jr doe)

Jersey Wooly:
Oswalds Stardust (shaded sr buck)
DevonGlen's MoonShadow (shaded Jr buck)
DevonGlen's The Big Kahuna (shaded jr buck)
DevonGlen's Moonstone (solid jr buck)
DevonGlen's Hocus Pocus (solid jr buck)

In other news I sold the buck from Alaska's litter to make my grand total of rabbits sold this year : 2





Bracebridge 2006 BIS
DevonGlen's Emmet (Pictured with moi)