Fulton + Memorial day auction

I went to the Fulton show this past weekend with Beth Collins (Family Pride) and Denise Robertson (Jordon Hollow) We stayed at Denise's B&B for the night which we got to at around 10:30-11pm. I have to say Denise's house is absolutely beautiful. We we're on the road again by 4:30am, I was still half asleep at the time, we had no trouble at the border at all. We arrived at the show without running out of gas as the gas light had come on shortly after we crossed the border which was very nerve wracking for some of the passengers I.E. Denise and I. I don't think the rabbits or cavies had any idea that we could run out of gas at any moment. The show was great, I sold a REW mini rex baby from Smoke Baby's litter as a pet, and the Blue Tort doe from Cicada's litter as a brood doe to a lady from Quebec just starting in Jersey Woolies. Meanwhile Beth had sold seven already.
I also picked up Little Schoolhouse's Charlie a sable point Jersey Wooly buck who is an absolute sweetheart, and by total fluke I bought a beautiful smoke pearl doe, even after I was told I wasn't allowed to buy any rabbits under any circumstances.
On the way home we stopped at a Bob Evans and stuffed ourselves to the gills, then once we crossed the border we dropped Denise off and poked around at her cavies for a while then headed off for Beth's house which we got to at midnight.
After a slightly longer nights sleep we were on the road again this time to the DR&CBA memorial day and auction in Schomberg, where I waited for my dad to pick me up and managed not to buy anything in the auction, although I got in trouble later after I mention the fawn/red Netherland dwarf bucks that Tristyn would of liked.
So we got home, got everyone back into their appropriate cages, and once my mom saw the Smoke Pearl doe she didn't mind that I bought her.

Wow its been over two weeks since my last post, in which time Raven had her oopsie litter of one booted castor monster of a baby who resides in the wall of the rabbit shed and somehow managed to survive several cold nights all by its lonesome. I have sold several Mini Rex in the form of Baba O'Riley, Arya, Teslin, and Ace, and the blue buck from Smoke Baby's litter which leaves me with next to nothing to show in the Mini Rex area... Meanwhile on the blooming Jersey Wooly front Starshine is due tomorrow hopefully, Cicada's babies have reached their gangly stage and are currently the ugliest bunch of furballs ever, I'm going to be picking up a Sable Point buck from Little Schoolhouse rabbitry this weekend at the Fulton show, and hopefully try to sell some of my excess stock either at the show or at the DRCBA Auction the next day.

Thats it fur now

devon

Baby news.

I'm having terrible luck with litters this year =( After losing 3 entire litters and most of a fourth litter, and a whole bunch of does missing, one of Boston's three and a half week old babies passed away. He was the smallest and the liveliest until about two days ago. The other two are doing great, and Smoke Baby's babies are doing excellent as well. I palpated Starshine and I am certain I felt little marble sized babies in there which has me jumping for joy.

Today I tried something a little new with grooming the baby Jersey Woolies, I reversed the shop vac and blew out their coats, they didn't like it at all, but it works great. I also blew out the coats on the adults who didn't mind it at all. I'll probably invest in a blower now mainly because they aren't as loud as a shop vac, and don't take up as much room.

At the MSrba spring convention I had the chance to feel a beautiful blue fuzzy holland jr doe (Plank's Aqualena owned by Gina Cook) Man did this doe have a body to die for, killer hindquarters to boot! So I was going over my Jersey Woolies and on Cicada's entire litter I felt these great hindquarters which reminded me of Aqualena, and anyone who has felt that doe knows what I'm talking about, I swear my jaw hit the ground when I felt them all, and it stayed there.
Publish Post
--Devon (Looking forwards to Baxter)

I forgot to write down Raven's due date, which I'm pretty sure is any day now. I also seem to of lost the photo's from the MSrba convention hopefully this is only temporarily I will be initiating a full fledged search for them once I'm done this post. All the babies are doing great and are so adorably cute I think it's going to be hard choosing just one. Bala's baby (BruceMoose) is doing great it is hilarious that he is with a mini rex litter he is getting so poofy while they just look like miniature adults.

Going to look for missing pictures now
Devon

MSrba convention part 1

What a great trip we had. On the way down it was snowing like mad and the roads where just awful, but my dad still drove me to Vaughn Mills where we waited about an hour for Jen (Jentle Lops and Woolies) Bass Pro Shops is amazing!!! I spent my time teasing the big fat fishies. Finally I bid farewell to my dad and Jen and I where on our way to Kitchener to pick up Jessica (BumbleBeary Angora's) which took much longer then normal (about 4 hours). We somehow manages it get 11 bunnies, four of which where English Angora's in enormous carriers into Jen's little Chevy Aveo hatchback, which was a very tight squeeze. A couple hours later and one rest stop we make it to the border which we had to issue getting through, (it was on the way back we had issues)


Another couple hours later and after numerous wrong turns and bad directions we make it to the hotel which had lost our reservations, then they gave us a single bed room, and then finally a room with two beds. We got to bed around 4am. We managed to sleep in till an amazing 6:30am. Then we had to get to the show, so once again we got lost and missed our turns but we made it and got our entries in. Arya got Best Blue Sr doe, but she was the only sr doe. The Dutchman who I sold to Richard was best sr buck and best opposite sex lynx out of 2 lynx all together. Meanwhile on the English Angora front Jessica was kicking butt and won Best Of Breed with Calliope, shortly followed by Jen winning Best Of Breed in the Jersey Woolies with Cesar.

We had dinner with another Angora breeder but before we actually made it to Bob Evans, we where driving around looking for a Denny's that had closed like 2 years ago which was extremely funny. We got back to the hotel late but stayed up and "judge" our bunnies, we turned in around midnight....

more to come soon...