Eartha, my black doe, bred with Money Bunny, my big light grey, has nine babies in her nest.  Two are black, two are blue and five are STEEL, and very fat.

I love working with Eartha, because she is nice and likes to be handled and she loved being shown and has one leg.  she is nice and lets me into her stall to look at her kits without honking or showing me her teeth like some mothers (Desdamona).  She lets me in, but it is still too cold and they are too young for me to take them out and really inspect them, weigh them and attempt sexing them right now.  If it were warmer, sure, but it’s not been over freezing for a while now.  They are all fine in the nest and growing well.  I did take out a couple and see that a small one was 8 oz. and a fat one was 10 oz. at week one.

Eartha does have a couple of fray white hairs on her body, but only a couple.  What I am thinking is that I will breed her to a black from true blue and hope for blue.  If I get a nice blue, I will keep some blue; maybe if I can get something nice, I will travel up to visit Cathy Caracciola  at Sunny Oaks Farm http://sunnyoaksrabbits.tripod.com/index.html and get a nice blue from her too, and that could be in my future, but not this year.

In the meantime, my friend Pam, from PJ’s Rabbits  http://pjrabbitwv.tripod.com/  told me not to stress about the Blues right now, from Desdamona.  And Tracy did say that she put her blues on the table and did not ever face disqualification for eye colors.  I am just enjoying my rabbits right now and loving having the kits here.