Planned pregnancies

It finally feels like spring is near. I am hoping the rabbits also begin to feel it as I had 16 missed breedings since October 2007.

I am watching very closely the few litters that have arrived since January. Mitchell's Galaxy has two remaining kits from the breeding with Rah's Lightening. There is a beautiful little blue and an ackward REW bopping around the cage. I am hoping the blue will be a replacement animals for Lightening who is getting very old. I also have five tri's in Dizzy's litter from Pebbles. Pebbles is an F1 outcross carrying A_BBCcD_EejENEN genes. There are two ejej offspring, one eje offspring and two tri 'charlies'. An excellent tri litter. I am hoping that I can darken the red factor in the orange spotting and improve mass and heads. The kits are only two weeks old so I have much to look forward to in this litter.

My new arrival blue Silver Marten doe 'Silver Streaks Fiona' kindled seven live, beautiful blue kits from 'Silver Streaks Marten'. Marten is unrelated to Quervo so I plan on keeping at least one nice buck and one doe from this litter. There is also a small litter of fryer Californians in Blitz's box.

Over the next few weeks I hope to get six more litters; two being 'TEST' litters from Tamashanter's Kenya and Posey's Austin. If these litters come through it will help me determine if these two bucks are malocclusion carriers or not.

I have bred Velotta's Cattabrie to TOM, my home bred broken black buck. Also Mitchell's Ruby (chinchilla) is bred to Simmond's Pluto (chinchilla); Sunny's Phebe (broken chinchilla) is bred to Mitchell's Link (chinchilla) and Milkhouse Summer (chestnut agouti) is bred to Smith's Paddy (broken black).

This week I am planning to breed two of the three senior Californian diva's in hopes of generating some juniors and replacement stock to replace them. (Grasshopper, Ladybug and Star). If any of the three girls miss again they will be gone......

My next Mini lop breedings in the upcoming months will be Hillside's Kimmi (broken chestnut/choc. carrier) to Alpine's Munchkin (choc. steel); Alpine's Aero (choc. steel) to Alpine's Munchkin (choc. steel); Mitchell's Jewels (chinchilla) to Mitchell's Link (chinchilla), Hillsides Jazzy (broken black) to Hillside's Kong (golden tipped steel) and possibly Mitchell's Bluebell (blue harli) to Mitchell's Martin (broken chestnut agouti) as an F1 outcross. If I can make cage space for one more producing doe I will also breed Tamashanter's Kaylee (silver tipped steel) to S&K Stanley (golden tipped steel). I also have one 'test' doe available to test one of the new bucks. I am undecided yet who that will be. Maybe Kong or Paddy.