Hotot Talk

Allow me to ramble aimlessly about my banded bunnies and their quite complex lives for a moment. ;-)
First of all, my lovely new does whom I acquired from a friend of mine in Iowa all aborted their litters when they arrived home from convention! Touche bunnehs, touche... I was so excited for those 3 litters but unfortunately, they never happened. Oh well! Welcome to my life as a rabbit fancier. Lol!
 Two of the does, Paramore and Telsa have been rebred to my lovely old man, Teddy who I am on a quest to get as many litters out of as possible before he's retired. I have 4 does bred to him right now that are due over the course of November 24th to December 22nd. That leaves me with two more stubborn does to get bred to Teddy. Miss Adaliene and Mirror Mirror. Stubborn creatures.
Now, lets discuss my interesting findings with Teddy. I've come to realize that this buck crosses fantastically with almost every doe, outcross or linebred, that I try with him! I'm very impressed with his current offspring! I have an upcoming jr buck named Tucker who I am in loooove with! And to top it off, Tucker is out of Mia so Tucker's grand sire is Buddy Holly, my deceased herd buck who I lost tragically this Summer. I'm so excited to be getting keepers out of Teddy now. I hadn't really been using him much because I was using Buddy heavily and was super limited on does. I would like to keep more from Teddy because he is the base of my line and crosses so well with everything I have. I want those genetics to live on in my barn. I currently have Adaliene and Tucker as keepers from Teddy and I'm praying for many more keepers out of him. I would love one or two more bucks and many does from him.
I also have Valentina who is a 3 month old hotot junior doe. She is beautiful and develops more and more type every time I pose her. She is a linebred daughter of Buddy Holly and Mia. I can't wait to add her to my breeding program. She would absolutely excel on the show table but I'm working toward  the 2014 Convention so I won't be showing locally much this year, if at all. This will allow me to continue to improve with no set backs or wasted time. Although I miss Buddy so much, I'm happy that his legacy can live on in my line. One thing I don't miss about Buddy is my litters of half blue, half black banded babies. Buddy was heavily blue bred. Normally color doesn't bother me until it comes to producing unshowable colors or colors I don't particularly like. I got about 8 blue babies out of Buddy is 3 litters. Wowza! I hope that will be bred out in a few generations. Lol! I'm just not impressed with blue hotots like I am with black hotots.
Hmmm... What else...?
I can mention my plans for the Spring! I'm hoping to work with my current animals to get some foundation out of my own animals and my new Thunderhills animals throughout the Winter. In the Spring, I plan to bring in some gorgeous stock from Texas. These new hotots in the Spring will be here just in time for the final convention breedings in April and May. They will perfect the type in my current animals and add that extra "UMPH" to my convention hopefuls. Sigh, but anyone who has raised rabbits knows that game plans completely change courses in a few weeks time so we'll see how that differs in the Spring.
I'm really excited to be seeing my hotots finally getting back on track! That will be all for now. I apologize once again for the lack of photos. Someday, I'll find my camera in a box and I'll start taking pictures again. But until then, enjoy my photo-less posts!