Gwennie’s bunnies are doing so nicely!!!  They will be 5 weeks old on Saturday!   Bunnies stay with their moms for 8 weeks, so we just have another 3 weeks until they can start to go to their new homes.   One bunny Jessy is keeping, a little doe with grey and white markings.   One buck is going to our neighbors, Miss Julia is so excited for Orville to come to his new home!   And we have a hold on the other little solid grey doe.  That leaves only 2 bucks to find good homes and we haven’t even advertised them yet!

As soon as these bunnies have their new homes, we will do a breeding with our other doe, Grizelda.  We’re excited to see how her babies turn out because her father was a red buck and we are hoping for a little color in our herd… not just black and white and grey.  We would like to have most of our litters in the warm months, since that is so much easier on everyone, and safer for the babies.  (Not really the HOT months)  but spring and fall.  So we have one more litter planned for spring, Miss Grizzy’s.

We are top of the list for a litter pick from a lady just north of us that breeds lovely pedigreed Angoras…  she has one litter that is about a week old, and has an opal kit in it…  not sure if it’s a doe or buck yet.  Opal is a light pretty cream/brown color.   And she has another litter due i two days and so we’re hoping for maybe a red or chocolate doe!   Once our new baby is born, she will come to us in about two months it seems.  She will be ready in the fall perhaps for a litter, we’ll just have to wait and see about that.  We want to be able to raise pedigreed bunnies…  our batch right now is half pedigreed.  (Well, meaning, that their father has an impressive lovely full pedigree and their moms?  Well, not so much. )  They will make lovely fiber pets and great family pets.

We are one of the few Angora people in our whole area!  It’s crazy.  We’ve had to go far afield to get our bunnies and we see a lot of people asking for angoras in Craigslist and other Facebook lists, etc.  People are really getting into spinning and fiber arts and a nice Angora bunny or two will give you some lovely fiber without having to have a flock of sheep!  I think it’s really pretty cool.  We plan on using our angora wool with our Shetland sheep wool and making a nice beautiful yarn from it!

But don’t worry, we are going to be nice, selective breeders of our bunnies.  Even though rabbits can have several litters a year, we would like to keep it to one, possibly two for a young healthy doe, if we have the waiting list.  We’re working on getting our logos and website and cards together for promoting the farm and it’s offerings… but that is still in the works.  The sheep have haircut appointments for this coming Monday!!!  How exciting…  can’t wait to see them all clean shaved and nekked!  And just can’t wait for those lovely lovely fleeces!!!

Meanwhile, we are just adoring these sweeeeeeet little babies!   They are so tame and nice, we’ve been handling them daily now and they don’t bite or squirm, they just see it as part of their day.   Jessy says they are going to go outside this weekend in the grass cage in the courtyard for a little play time and grazing.  I know Gwennie will love that.  It will be fun to see how the babies react to the outside and the yummy grass!  They are eating solid foods and using the water bottle really nicely.  And they are already getting used to being groomed, just little easy sessions, learning to lay on their backs for belly pets and just getting used to the nice soft little nubby brush.  We want to set them up for a lifetime of comfortable grooming so that they can be wonderful little fiber pets!!!

They are just SO adorable!!!!