Sunday, February 15, 2009

My Holland Lop Rabbits

I now have only five Holland lop rabbits, because I had three rabbits outside, two of my seven Holland lops at the time and my only Velveteen lop. My Velveteen lop, Annabelle, got killed one night and when I went out to feed her in the morning there was just blood everywhere. I still don't know what happened to her, my two other rabbits that were out there were fine except one of the Holland lops, Felix, got his eyes scratched at, but the other Holland lop, Jumbo, was perfectly fine. So Annabelle got killed and then I gave away my other Holland lop rabbits that were outside because I didn't want to have to put them outside again where they might get killed and I didn't have any room in the house for them so I gave them away to a family friend. So now I only have five Holland lops. I have four a one and a half year old female, Camri, three 8 month olds, two males and one female, Bubbles and Champ are the two males and Roxy is the female, and a two month old female, Bella. I breed Bubbles to Camri exactly a month before Christmas and she had two babies two days after Christmas. She had Bella and another baby but it was a peanut and it died four days later. A peanut means that it is missing the growth gean and it always dies no matter what, this can only happen if you breed a true dwarf rabbit with another true dwarf rabbit. Camri has only had two litters, her first litter she had seven babies. Only one out of the seven was a peanut, that's pretty good, and it was her first litter. She had Jumbo, Juliet, Sprite, Champ, Roxy, and Bubbles, who was a runt and almost died two times but made it through and he is the dad of Bella. I gave Jumbo to one of my sister's friends, I sold Juliet to a family in Seattle, I gave Sprite to my best friend, Kendal, and I still have the other three, they aren't for sale though. We are planning on breeding Champ and Bella, when she becomes of age, and possibly Bubbles and Camri again sometime soon. Camri is a broken tort, which means she is brown with white, Roxy is a tort, which is all brown, Champ is a broken sable, which is a grayish-brown with white, and Bubbles and Bella are sables, which is all grayish-brown. It's funny because Camri is the mom of Champ, Bubbles, and Bella and they're all some kind of sable, and the their dad is Rodeo who is a tort, all brown. Camri only has two broken sables in her back ground and Rodeo has none, and we got two solid sables out of Camri and there is no solid sables at all in her background. I usually sell my babies for somewhere around $15.00 to $30.00, it depends on bone mass, ears, disqaulifications, and colorings. I hope I have more baby rabbits soon, they are so cute! Except for the first couple weeks, because they're all pink and their eyes are closed, but they're still kind of cute because they're so ugly!

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