Samssimonsays: Blazing Acres journal

[promiseacres]

We also welcomed a litter of 3 live and healthy babies from my one doe out of 7 does bred. She was the only one who took out of 7 does bred, but the other doe who took died before she was due... UGH. Go figure the ONE doe I need to foster babies from because she is not a good mom is the ONLY one who takes.... Yep. I do not have high hopes for them but we will see. As of yesterday she had moved them out of the nest box and into a small hole in her hay that is her cage flooring. (Solid bottom dog kennel) and I could only find two of the three....

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Hope they make it

 

[samssimonsays]

Hope they make it

Thank you! I have decided to retire her... she will be pet out hopefully. It is just too hard to get anyone to take at the same time as her.

 

[samssimonsays]

My husband, being a firefighter, and I participated in the 9-11 tribute Friday. We drove the fire truck, one of several for the department, in the memorial parade and attended the service. It was beautiful. It is very sad to see that it has dwindled down so much over the years... It seems like people have forgotten that tragic day we as a nation vowed to "never forget". I got several beautiful photos of the service and the parade but have only had time to edit a few of them.

 

[samssimonsays]

Well, as it happened before where Lilly moved the babies I am afraid it did not happen this time and the babies are just gone. I tore apart her cage and the surrounding area, nothing.

Then while feeding last night I noticed something weird in the food dish of Frostie.... upon closer examination it was the head of a baby. Frostie just went several days late is all but she ate the babies and left one head. In her food dish.

This round of breedings has been a nightmare. Rabbits: 4-Me: 0

 

[promiseacres]

soooo frustrating!!

Well, as it happened before where Lilly moved the babies I am afraid it did not happen this time and the babies are just gone. I tore apart her cage and the surrounding area, nothing.

Then while feeding last night I noticed something weird in the food dish of Frostie.... upon closer examination it was the head of a baby. Frostie just went several days late is all but she ate the babies and left one head. In her food dish.

This round of breedings has been a nightmare. Rabbits: 4-Me: 0

 

[Hens and Roos]

So sorry....

 

[samssimonsays]

soooo frustrating!!

Thank you. It is so very frustrating... I am "hoping" to rebreed all the does this week/weekend and hopefully it will be a better outcome. I have a lot of first time moms though Evey and Poplar are I guess my last first timers... and now three that were bad first time moms, one that is just a bad mom in general and one that was great her first litter and horrible her second.

Georgia, Honey, Kat are all my good moms at the moment
Jasmine has to re earn that title
Lilly is a bad mom
Roxy, Baby Blue and Frostie were all bad first timers.
Evey and Poplar are yet to have a litter.

And next year will be twice as fun with Alchemy, Iris, Margo and Eadda will all be joining the first time mom game so hopefully next year all will be ok and not like this nightmare....

 

[samssimonsays]

So sorry....

Thank you.

 

[BlessedWithGoats]

Aww! Sorry Samantha!!

 

[samssimonsays]

Things have been a bit quiet here. Somewhat stressful but so goes life right? LOL

I am preparing to send rabbits to nationals with transport and they will be trading mine with another transporter to send back rabbits to me. I have also been assessing my Jrs and who I want to hold onto and my Srs with who I want to share with others improving their herds. Kat, Jasmine and Ruben went to a wonderful 4-H'er Saturday who has suffered some set backs recently and hopefully they will do wonderfully to help get them back up and going with their Frenchies. Theodore and Georgia will be heading to another 4-H home in October to bring in some color and new lines to what they have as well. I am preparing for a show October 17th a couple hours from home. I will be showing the most at a show I ever have entered since I am keeping so many Jrs this year. After Watson, my brand new broken opal buck, died I realized i DO infact have a broken opal buck out of my own litters that I can keep for the time being. Weeeeell.... Turns out that buck is now a doe. OF FREAKIN COURSE! Why wouldn't it be a doe when I needed a buck, that is usually how it works when I have a doe I want to keep then it turns into a buck.... Yep. BUT on another note, my broken gold tipped steel buck in the same litter molted out baby coat and turned silver tipped! I do not have one of those nor have I ever so I am super pumped about THAT.

We have had some major stress with the dogs... For one our 1.5 year old Collie has been in heat (We plan to have a litter with her when she's old enough) and our Bernard mixed with pyrenees is not quite old enough to neuter for our preference, just turned 1 year, and they tied together. Praying nothing happened but preparing for if it did.