Dinner rabbits, Journal

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Cassy nest



Tappy kits. All fat. And colors changing.



Berry was breeding ready, lifting. Choc rex couldn't figure it out, Bluey couldn't figure it out.
Chinchilla buck got 2 fall offs.
Looks like the choc and blue buck will be culled without any kits.

 

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Cassy kits

 

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So, the tappy×g REW buck was found paralyzed, hinds cold as ice and no response to pinching. Had to cull him. And since I had to get him done, I went ahead and culled the choc and the black doe. Put their hides in the freezer to tan, since they're rex furred and old enough.
I didn't see any bleeding, no obvious break. But since he was already on the cull list, there wasn't a point in trying drugs first.


The only kit from Raven. So friendly, always waiting for pets before feed.


The black rex doe. Tons of fat! And it was crisp white! Never seen fat so white before, but camera didn't really capture that well. Dog food, so didn't open her up to see how much internal fat there was.



Ordered more alum to pickle the rabbit hides.

 

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Put in bowls where missing and a 2nd bowl in with kits. As its too cold already for bottles.

Cassy × Chinchilla buck & Mallow
Two steels, blacks, broken blacks.
I kind of like butterfly-less brokens....They've got eye masks on. Lol



Tappy × Cast & Rew
Lilac looking odd in nest, but seemed right out of nest. Curious to watch it grow.

 

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Out of the freezer and into the pickle.
Black, chocolate & white Rex pelts starting their tanning process in 91% Isopropyl Alcohol for 3 days, then borax for 4 days.


Tails starting the preservation process

 

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Gawd, fleshing rabbit is heck.
Flesh from 1.5 buns.
Black was "easy". Chocolate was easy for the front half. REW will be hardest, as its oldest.

Bruising from 30min of peeling.

I have got to make something from these hides...

 

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Out of poo space, again. Because it snowed before fully drying. Now drying again. Wtf. Ugh.


Cassy kits



Tappy kits
One is a possible false charlie, not sure of color.

 

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Got 3 does bred.
Raven was supposed to sell, but it's not working out, so bred her for the last time.
The broken buck who was going with her, I think I have to put a doe with him long term. I'll move him outside with a young doe and wait. Had a proven doe with him, but until I left to deal with others, he refuses to move, and as soon as I appear, he freezes dead solid. So, that's where that idea came from.
The Jet buck is turning into a very willing buck, got 3 fall offs today. Hoping he'll be a good one. I have almost no SF, they're all Rex and Rex mixes.


Coal × Rew & Bluey
Coral × Chin buck
Raven × Jet buck

 

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The Rex program has exploded, and I'm wondering why I still bother with the Silver Fox, there's almost none of them.

Chocolate chin doe, always overposes hind legs.
choc steel will be kept until I butcher for pelt.


Glitter doe, big, but ugly...


The two Hops kits, doe n buck. Both not great. But I need a buck and more SF does....


The Sky buck that grew fastest. Not pretty, but w/e. Since one culled itself, I guess the other is staying a long while, until this one can breed.

Navy × Trouble & Mallow. I don't believe Mallow is in any of them.
I need to move on from Navy, with a rex and a sf...Not great shapes, but good rex fur and decent silvering on the other....what to do...These mutt does exist to go in two directions and make more of each breed.


Berry × Trouble. Bit away from choosing one or none.

 

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Tried again. Can't push her in.


Updated comparison, chin vs steel