Ohhh More Babies!

White rabbit had her babies! She had 7 total here they are at 4 days old:

 3 white babies

1 dark and 1 light brown baby. (The light brown is totally my favorite rabbit we've had so far.)

2 black babies. 

I've got to admit I've totally become smitten by the tiny little light brown one. C says we can keep the little fella and work him into the breeding schedule since he IS so different to play with colors! YAY! Yeah, it's the small bizarre things that make me happy. 

The Netherland Dwarf babies will be ready to be sold in the next week or so. We will probably keep 1 if we can reverify that it IS a doe. (Yeah, we still have no true idea what we're doing, but we're doing it well :p ) They've gone from SO small to bunny size in 7 weeks! 

Those are all 3 the same Bunny! The last is Charles taken yesterday, at 6 1/2 weeks. Charles is the one we are probably going to keep and breed to Oreo. Ooooh the colors that we could get could be fun!

This is Oreo. He weighs a little over 2 pounds and it's not looking like these babies are going to be BIG so probably the standard Netherland Dwarf 2 pounds or under.. But all the others in the litter were the same color as the Momma doe. Yep. We actually sit around and talk about the color of bunny rabbits. Not for any purpose other than to see what colors we think we might be able to make. I guess when that stops being amusing, it's time to stop having bunnies. Clearly, we aren't there yet.


Oh we also go these the other day!

These big fluffy ladies are Buff Orpingtons. They are young laying age and have settled into a fairly nice laying pattern after a few days of getting acquainted with their new barn mates. We got them mostly as a compromise for the fluffies the goats stepped on and killed, but these things are pretty funny. They *talk* when they lay in these odd quirls and chirks (for the lack of a better description of it.) We have 1 Orpington rooster I've named it "Opie" because it's reddish and well. Why not?

Look at this big boy! Adams is weighing in at a full 50 pounds now and he looks so ferocious!

 The geese are big now too :) And they bite everyone but me! BWAHHAHHAHA!

 One of our egg layers! She likes to lay them in a different place every single day. Although, now we actually CAN play "Duck, Duck, Goose"!

BABY BUNNIES!!!

We are so excited, our first baby bunnies were born last night! The little grey Netherland Dwarf doe had 3 little babies that are all healthy and fairly big considering her size. We pulled them out of this giant nest she built the day before and looked at them and took pictures. They are healthy, fat, wiggly looking little fur-less blind babies. Not to mention we are all super excited because we doubted the level of success we would have. Not only had we heard and read that Netherland Dwarfs were the hardest to breed, but who doesn’t doubt their first attempt at anything?  These babies are to be sold as pet bunnies – they should be less than 2 pounds – the White Rabbit is our meat doe and we will probably breed her in the next month or so since she’s getting close to 7 pounds. Those babies will be raised to be fat and then for food (for people or snakes or whatever). 

Aren't they so cute, but grotesque at the same time??


We've also been getting visits from some deer who have taken an interest in the goat food. They've figured out how to work their tongues through the fence into the goat food buckets we've got hanging and just snack away! (Excuse the really, really bad pictures - it was the best I could do without spooking them.)

Look really close and you can see the glowing eyes. The deer had been snacking out of the goat food. It's hilarious. It drives the ducks and big house dogs insane. Absolutely, wildly insane.


And for the random joy of it:

 Just look at that giant Rupert!