Dinner rabbits, Journal

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$387 in the red. 20 in dog food. Just 3 left to cull.

Currently $367 in the red.



Yynx × Goliath & Jasper.
Definitely some Jasper kits.




I'm confused. They're otters?? Could they be anything else? Did I really breed to Baymax as well? Wtf! But, there's no other way for these patterns, right??
Black and blue otters, brokens, solids. What on earth! Why would I put her to another Rex when testing with the new Rex?? Heck was my brain at?? Well, I guess if the rex furred, non-otters grow noticeably faster, then they'll be Goliath's...




Tipsy does

 

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I have one of these, from a local store a few years ago, expensive! But found them online at only $6 each, cheaper than Amazon. Hoping it works just as good as the one I bought years ago. If so, I'll buy more so all have one and use a soda bottle to add more water to each reservoir.




First timer, Fennel, had her kits! 9 of them and the reddish ones look...tort? Sire Gold.
Was bred to Gold, for last week nest, but then I bred her later again to Gold.
And look, she's nice!




Getting this doe. Missed out on another. Going to cull out as many rex as I don't need, but they're raising kits, lol, so still have to wait...But I'll write the list down and post it out there.



Got new pics of the Rex boys for a breeder I'm talking to.

8.09#. Goliath. 8.5mo.
Dad was 12#, unknown how heavy the mom. Kinda expected him to be larger, especially since he's 8mo now.

 

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7.15#. Baymax



New Rex to replace...hmm...
36 adults if no parent sells but replacement kept. Wtf.
Moved 6 to cull cage.
Jasper is listed, giving a bit more time before culling.
Ella should be sold/culled. Bred to Rivian though, listed. If not sold in time, will keep until litter is weaned, then culled.
Jessi needs to sell/cull after weaning her litter.
Hopefully, Yynx has a kit to replace her. Then be sold/culled.
Sugar is so sweet, I don't want to sell/cull until I get a really good replacement.
Freckles' doe & Rusty's doe are near breeding age. So, we'll see if anything worth keeping is born, if not, will sell/cull out.
Need to decide if the reg fur Ella doe is staying. The rex furred sister is staying. Or should Ella be kept and both of her does sold/culled? I guess since she's bred to Rivian, probably best to keep the rex furred one.
Aqua doe is an ahole, so put in the cull cage. Aqua buck was put in his own cage. But Fennel had torts, so, might keep one of hers over this buck in the end.
Need to decide which of the 2 Darkie kits & 2 14 kits I'll keep or sell/cull all 4.
Decided to sell/cull out the Vickie line, just too slow.
So, that'll leave it at....10 to 15 culled? That only gets me to 21, which is where I'm supposed to be already. Wanted to go even further under that number.

Waterers arrived. They were disassembled for shipment. Thought they were broken when I picked up the box, lol. Got them set up and wire blocking the black plastic. Now we wait n see.
Baymax & Goliath demonstrating how to use them. A bit of drips lost, but no gushing amounts of water lost!
They'll have to be on the sides of stackers, as they'll be in the way of pans otherwise. And the hooks they come with are unusable.



Ebony, 9.39#. Not a great shape, but an improvement on size.

 

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Aqua buck. To keep or to cull, that is the question.



Did some musical cages.
Lynx's doe finally moved out of mom's cage.
Rivian moved to a stacker. He bounces around too much to stsy in the hanging cage.
Aqua buck moved above him.
Baymax got his own big cage. Wish someone wanted him as a pet, he's super friendly.
Quincy moved into a 2level cage.
Freckles & Rusty does moved into the hanging cage.
Widy n kits moved outside to the growout pen. Unity's kits will move in once weaned and Widy will move back to a single cage then.

Red, already gone.
Yellow, need to go.
Teal, breeder.
Purple, up n coming.

38...oh no. I messed up my math again??
Working on a full map of relation.

 

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And the whole thing.
It won't load the original, so it's a screenshot.



At least she's super mellow. 5.79#.



6 went byebye. Tipsy went out with them.
Kept the Vickie doe, put her in with Tipsy's 2 kits.




$367 in the red. 4 in dog food. Bought a bun at 50. Sold buns at 60. Then there were 7 bags of poo for the garden, but redoing their worth to 3 each vs 5. And 40 in cup refund.

Currently $292 in the red.

 

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Sugar's 2nd litter. Best is the V legged buck. Do I risk it? Do I try yet another breeding to a different buck again and hold him back until I know?
On the plus side, was able to match pics by shape!
Middle doe is a cull by size and shape.


Black has best side, middle has best hind and last has nothing horribly wrong. Ugh.







Oh, no. Liking the weight of the reg fur, silvering coming in.


Heavily silvered is a pound lighter, she doesn't seem to be eating much of the new food.



Aqua buck looking pretty decent.

 

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Blue is much smaller, but much better shape.


Surprising weight on this one.


I figured it out and I am pissed! Both at myself for not seeing it sooner and for sellers faking pics.

Seller angled shot


My angled shot. Head not mashed back.


My proper angle shot.


Seller, line showing profile, rest is the top of the back that shouldn't be visible!

 

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Here, correct angle & wrong angle. They all look better in the fake one.
And I found out a couple months ago, some people use photoshop to squish images horizontally, making long rabbits look more compact and better.

Its so mofo-ing hard to be a good breeder when surrounded by liars.

 

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$292 in the red. 1 bun sale to guy who bought a few before for a culling class at 25.

Currently $267 in the red.


I further figured it out! And I'm even more mad now, but at all the breeders who do this!
Years ago, I stated the spine is flexible, manipulative! You can force the shape.
People were mad at me, telling me it's not true. Yet here they are, doing just that to sell them, lying to themselves about the quality they are breeding...

Several rabbits posed here. Some really change a lot! They're all bracing forward, which is supposedly not what you want. All sucking in and pushing up.
I've got to start putting my hands on these rabbits before paying, cannot trust anyone...

They all "improved".

Even this flat one posed well today, no longer as flat, but poke n jab, ta-da! A showstopper!

 

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Unity × Goliath, April 22, 4wk 4d