Creme Delivers, some Originals leave, and a Newcomer!

My favorite doe, JDV's Creme Brulee a broken Lilac Cream Tort gave me 6 beautiful bouncing bunnies sired by one of my favorite bucks, Celtic Hare's Whiskey O' (Self Chocolate) late on the rainy evening of 9/28/2010.
All of my girls seem to wait for rain or bad weather to deliver :-)

We have the following:
3 Blacks
2 Broken Reds
1 Lilac Tort

She sort of read the genetic prediction this time which said I should only get Lilac Tort, Choc. Tort, Chocolate and Lilac with a 50% chance of broken... The last time I bred her to Whiskey for her first litter she had 3 kits, 1 Red, 1 Broken Red, and a Black! Following in her mothers footsteps, she continues to throw Red.
I was really hoping for a Lilac Tort buck to go with my Lilac Tort doe, AVA's Persephone. I sexed the little bugger yesterday and he is indeed a buck! We will wait to see what kind of body he has to make the decision on whether he is a keeper or not. Creme is an excellent Mom, all babies are clean, fat and active!

The Blacks and Broken Reds will most likely be for sale. In typical Creme fashion, the Brokens MAY have too much color as they are blaket pattern Brokens. If so they will be available at Wooler only prices and will go without pedigrees and marked as Woolers in their ears.
They will be ready for new homes by the first week of December for Woolers, and by Christmas for show quailty babies which I do not sell until 12 weeks to insure proper conformation.
If you are interested you can contact me privately at LadyLeonard84@aol.com


On another note, yesterday three rabbits very close to my heart left my barn for a new home in CT.
Two of them are from my original set bought from Tina of Nutty Buckeye. NB's Courage (Tort. Buck), and NB's Mystic Raines (Steel Doe) as well as JDV Nutmeg's Tobi (Copper Doe of Megan's) have gone to live on an Alpaca farm with a wonderful woman named Shari who plans to use their wool to blend with her lovely Alpaca fiber, Shari also owns JDV's Cassanova a REW buck out of my now retired guy Platt's Peter.
Both girls left bred so hopefully Shari has some gorgeous kits in the nestbox in a month or so!
Congrats Shari on adding this beautiful trio to your farm!


This coming weekend I will be welcoming Spang's Massimo into my herd as a up and coming show bunny and breeding buck. I am very excited to bring some Spang size into my herd and I have waited quite awhile to get a buck from her. I specifically wanted a son of Spang's Giacomo, a stunning Tort. buck and I got that in Massimo, along with his gorgeous Sable Pearl color! I am told he is a big boy already with nice bone and will be a great show rabbit. Thank you Amy for letting me add this boy to my herd!


I'm just warming up on my breedings. I currently have 4 girls bred and due next month:
MG's Calypso (Fawn sired by Spang's Dijon) X NB's Leo (Grand Champion Fawn) Due- 10/12/2010
NB's Sunflower (Red) X JDV's Montgomery (Red) Due- 10/23/2010
NB's Artanna (REW) X NB's King of Spades (Black) Due- 10/24/2010
JDV's Fancy Pants (Black Tort.) X NB's Courage (Tort.) Due- 10/28/2010

I'll be back to add pictures in a little bit ;-)

It's been SO long!

I nearly forgot about my rabbitry blog. I haven't blogged since Jan. of this year, so nearly 9 months ago!
So much has happened in that time. Things went sour at our farm with the landlords who wanted to sell and the place was literally falling apart around us. We knew it was time to fly the coop, but it was a matter of to where and when?
We knew we needed cheaper rent, and I knew my bunz weren't going anywhere! So it was quite a challenge to find somewhere that was fine with 3 kids, 2 cats, 2 dogs, and the rabbits AND was in the price point.
I befriended a woman who lives in VT who is also a French Angora rabbit breeder and she and her family urged us to move to VT. So the search began. Right when I started looking I saw this house I liked alot, I found the ad on Craigslist and there is literally a YouTube video tour of the house that you can see here:
http://www.youtube.com/poultneyrental#p/a/u/0/rdfp7K5kn5A

Cute right? After having to clean and care for a 2500 sq. ft. house in RI, I needed something smaller for my own sanity... This totally fit the bill. And the pellet stove is just icing on my cake!


What you aren't seeing in that vid is that there is a 16' X 24' workshop right in the backyard with remote ceiling fan, huge front doors that open for ventilation, side windows, electricity, HEAT (no more frozen water bottles for ME! YEAH!), and it's all insulated.






See here:



Alex jumped into the shot LOL

As if that weren't enough the rent was well within our budget.

We almost didn't get the house. I came up to look at two houses, this one and one other and by the time I got up here, both were rented! I kept looking but to no avail and a few weeks later I saw this house re-posted on CL! I jumped on it and came out to see it and within a week I had the lease signed and keys in my hand! The other renter had backed out!

The downside of this house is that I am right on a main road and it's a small city lot. No more acres of land, no more peace and quite at all times in the middle of the woods :-( It has certainly been an adjustment. I'm still adjusting to hearing cars and trucks right outside my door at all hours. And so are the bunz, who are used to a very serene and peaceful environment with no sudden noises. For the first two weeks the bunz were hunkered in their cage corners looking all scared, I felt horrible.


The upside (and can be downside since I gets to be a pain after awhile) is that because my rabbitry is right in my backyard often with the huge front doors open, anyone walking past that glances into my backyard can see my rabbits and I often have people wander over while I'm doing chores to chat about the rabbits and ask about bunnies for sale and babies, etc.

That's kinda un-nerving for a hermit like me. The first three times it happened I inwardly jumped out of my skin. I'm not a very talkative person with strangers and here I am being forced to talk with all sorts of people who are curious about the new "Bunny lady" in town.
I have been very patient and nice to people though.
Even when a guy and his teen walked over while I had a buck and doe trying to mate, talk about awkward! lol
And it had to be my shy buck, Leo (a fawn) who was like "OMG STRANGERS!" and clammed up while the doe was like "Ummm, Hellllo, I'm ready here!". I apologized that I couldn't allow them to enter the barn because #1) I generally never ever let strangers in my barn for biosecurity reasons, you never know what someone could be carrying on their shoes even if they don't have rabbits of their own! and #2), the bunz were trying to make little bunz and I can't even be in the barn when Leo is getting his groove on, let alone other people!
They must have thought I was crazy, but they still took a buisness card and said they would check back in a couple of weeks to see what I had for babies, which leads me to why I am blogging today!


31 days ago Creme Brulee (Broken Lilac Tort doe) was bred to Whiskey O' (Self Chocolate buck) and Sunflower (Self Red doe) was bred to Monty (Self Red buck) for my first two Vermont born litters!
The girls are due today and Creme has an awesome nest built and Sun is just lounging around her cage.
Both are off feed and I highly suspect that Creme will deliver tonight as she is having contractions and panting away.
Back in RI at the farm, it was so quiet that my girls often kindled in broad daylight, I suspect that here with all of the daily hubbub they will hold off until the still of night to have those kits.


The litters will both be named in themes centered around two popular VT things, Maples, and Cheese.
Which just happen to be two things Keith and I love, we have tapped our own trees and made our own syrup, and Keith loves cheese....

Creme's litter will be the cheese litter, with names like Cabot and Crowley on the list (VT cheesemakers).

Sun's litter will be the Maple litter, with names like Sugar Shack and Amber (a syrup grade level).


I also (FINALLY) have Calypso bred to Leo and I'm DYING to see the Fawns they produce, she is due October 12 and has never had a litter less than 9 kits.


I will update when the new babies have arrived! I cannot wait for a kit fix, I haven't had babies in my barn since March!

My Computer is Out!

All Hail the Blackberry!!!

For those of you wondering, I have not fallen off the planet. My computer has a wicked virus and I am now reduced to using library computers to update my website and blog.
I can read emails on my crack, errr blackberry though!

For sale bunnies please check my website at:
www.joiedeviverabbitry.webs.com

or email me at:
LadyLeonard84@aol.com

Thanks for the understanding!