Little Rascal's Rabbitry: New Babies and Life Changes

Whew! I've been so busy lately that I've barely had time to do anything involving bunnies. To start off, it's the end of the year and we have 1.5 weeks until the last day of school! So this means I am quickly trying to finish up all of my work and finals for the year! And if this wasn't enough, we're also starting our new house next week! Yes, our new house we've been waiting 6 years to build!! Yay!! We will probably also be building the rabbit barn with the house so as soon as we move, we can put the bunnies out in their new barn instead of tucked away in the garage for a few months. Hehe!
Along with the new house, I've also been cleaning all of the houses my dad has been building. They have all sold along with a few families interested in having homes built. What a huge blessing! After years of not having any work with the bad economy, my dad is finally building many beautiful homes! We have families from Idaho, Wyoming, Texas, and Kansas moving to Utah within the next few months along with many families currently in Utah moving into homes my dad has built. So exciting!
We are also planting hay, raising calves, raising 30 chickens, and planting our 3 acre pasture behind our house which will have a small herd of Black Angus and Jersey cows on it. Maybe someday if I'm lucky, also a Quarter Horse or two.
Speaking of Quarter Horses, we are driving out to Aurora next weekend to look at a beautiful palomino mare. Her price is pretty high but from what I can see, I like her a lot! Who knows, maybe she'll be the one for me? We'll have to see next weekend!

Well, enough about life and my random, busy happenings. Let's talk BuNnIeS! I haven't talked about bunnies with anyone much in the past weeks. I miss talking about them! Lol!
Maybelle had a litter of 3 but the sport passed away leaving 2 banded. Mia had a litter of 4, she had 3 banded and 1 sport. What a perfect first time momma! I officially love that doe! And to top it off, the litter I was dying waiting for, Adaliene had 3 banded babies!!! Unfortunately, she almost trampled them and so I ended up fostering her first litter to her momma, Maybelliene. I expected Addy to act like this for her first litter though. I've rebred Adaliene and she is due on June 23rd.
I'm absolutely loving these babies!! We have 8 Hotot babies right now with 7 banded and 1 sport. They are all so small and compact like their dad, Buddy. So exciting! I will likely grow these babies out for a while as I'm so excited to see how they mature.
Unfortunately for the hollands, Katara didn't take when she was bred to the buck in Oregon with her previous owner. That leaves me with once again, no holland babies. :(
I've bred Manda for June 26th. I tried to rebreed Katara but she refused to lift so I will be supplementing her until the 29th and then trying again. Fingers crossed for some babies out of Gilroy and these two does. This is likely the last straw before I will be making some serious changes with the hollands. I've had almost a year dry spell with hollands so it is time for a serious change after this attempt. Only time will tell!
My camera broke a few weeks ago so I haven't had anything to take decent pictures with! I apologize for these poor quality pictures taken from my phone. Lol They will have do for now... ;-)