Tough decisions.

Lately I've been having a lot of issues within my rabbitry. Mostly, with the Hares. For the past 2 years I have not been able to get them to breed, I am almost on my 3rd year of owning them and I've had enough. I am not going to keep them any longer, I have been way too discouraged to continue trying.

I am getting out of the Hares, we are not meant to be. I have my last doe up for sale, she is out of a BIS winning buck and many well known and great lines.

When this last doe is gone, I will be turning my huge 6.5' long Belgian Hare brood pen into a CG hutch. I'm going to put a divider in the middle, so each hole with be a little over 3 feet long, 2 ft wide and a little over 2 ft tall. I'd like it to be a tad big bigger, but this will work fine because my rabbits get exercise outside of their pens every day. I am going to rearrange the barn again in the spring, and move this big hutch along the side wall where I usually hang the hose. This will provide lots of daylight but not too much, and it will open up another big wall for me to put more small breed stackers. I went through my scrap wood, and realized I had plenty more to build more hutches. So I will be constructing new wooden hutches, one more to go on top of my current wooden hutch, and possibly some for outside, although I get nervous housing rabbits outside, so I may just use the wall by the main entrance and stack more wooden hutches there.

I want to have about 10 CG's, and the remaining space for my little breeds.


While on the topic of breeds, I've been trying to pick between my MR and JW.
Competitively I have done much better with my Woolies then MR, but I haven't had the MR long, maybe I should give them more of a chance? IDK, I like having BEW's in the barn, and BEW MR are easier to come by then BEW JW. I also like the way Otter looks on the short coat of the MR versus the long wool of a Woolie.

I'm not sure what will happen as far as my breeds go, but I want to bring in a meat breed, and I am pretty sure I am going with New Zealands. I love those full, rock solid bodies and if I ever want to show them, there is competition here for the

Have also been thinking about Britannia Petites...a 2.5lb full arch breed....dreamy <3