#Rabbit Breeder

[g0thbrooks]

Bet y’all didn’t know I also breed and show rabbits 🐇

This is one of my homegrown Flemish babies, Jughead 🩵

[mosneakers]

Coni: So the Bella clone was... you? [Eyes welled with tears] And the real Bella ...she wanted to call me Belladonna?

Coni's breath trembles as she listens to her alien parents give a rather clinical, emotionless version of events that paint the story of what happened to Bella Goth. She's engulfed in a kaleidoscope of glowing colors that signify a mixture of both anger and sadness. The betrayal she feels towards the Breeder Unit, or the family she once trusted, begins to fester.

Cacti: According to her records, upon reviewing them.

Coni: Why didn't you tell me? Cacti: It was years later that we reviewed her personal records, Concept. Coni: No. About any of this? Why didn't you tell me about her? Her family has been worried sick about her for years. Her children.

Pollination-Technician No. 12: [Shouting] You've become too emotional and fragile, like a human. You've lost your place, Concept. You forgot your purpose. You've grown up surrounded by human influence and fallen victim to their emotions. Cacti: Polly, stop-

Coni: [Shouting] She considered me her daughter! Pollination-Technician No. 12: [Coldly] She was mistaken! A mere surrogate, incapable of comprehending beyond her limited scope. Humans waste their energy on emotional attachments and family ties, overlooking the importance of survival. Look at the consequences it led her to. Cacti: [Screaming] POLLY, ENOUGH!

Coni: Please don't tell me you...

Cacti: I'm sorry Coni you had to find out like this, sweetie. But at the very least, we weren't the ones to- Pollination-Technician No. 12: She's dead. She endangered our species and all extra-terrestrial beings with her foolish behavior. She was transported to Sixam and handed over to the Eradication Unit and promptly eliminated.

Cacti: We had no choice, sweetie... if it were to get exposed-

Rabbit: We would all be contained in a government facility, subjected to endless tests, including you, Concept. And you wouldn't be running around playing house with humans right now. Coni: You could have erased her memory. Rabbit: Oh that seems to work well for your friend, doesn't it? There couldn't be any trace of her. Eradication would've found her eventually, anyway. You can't hide from them.

Coni: You... You're all monsters! All of you... [Cries]

Cacti: [Gasp] Coni, I raised you!!! Pollination-Technician No. 12: The humans have corrupted your mind. You used to be so intelligent. We may be monsters, Concept, but you're one of us. You're just like us.

Coni: No. I'm nothing like you...

Pollination-Technician No. 12: [Scoffs] Oh, how typical...

Coni: I want nothing to do with any of you ever again. Never contact me or my family again.

With tears streaming down her face, Coni rounds up her pet goat, and storms out of her childhood home for the last time.

[bunposting]

Much to the dismay of Silver breeders everywhere, she's sticking around.

{don't mind how patchy she looks she's still molting out her baby coat}

[mulberryfox]

TW: meat animals, animal processing, animal death.

A part of coming back to Tumblr is so that I have an outlet for my homesteading/home farming projects. Because it’s winter and the midwest, not a whole lot is happening out in the garden, which means its rabbit content time!

Did you know, domestic rabbits actually handle the cold better than the heat? This can make them great alternative meat source on cold-climate homesteads, especially in the winter months! Rabbits are the most efficient small homestead meat source, because you can breed them yourselves, unlike Cornish cross chickens. Other breeds of chicken can be bred and hatched on farm, but yield smaller quantities of meat.

Rabbit manure is also great for your garden, and does not require any other processing to be garden ready, unlike most other manure types.

Pictured is Boris, one of my meat rabbit program herd bucks. His purpose is breeding, and when he is eventually retired (if he is ever retired!) he will be placed in a pet home thanks to his wonderful temperament, or passed on to another homesteader looking for a starter buck.

Reasons for retiring him would include: low rate of gain/production on his offspring, producing genetic ailments, sterility, or if he produces a son that is a significant improvement on his own faults. Boris is still a junior, meaning he is young and still developing. He is also a “mystery mutt”, so it is still up in the air on how he will finish out. Based on his current development, I am excited to see where he finishes at!

In a future post I will share some of the qualities he has that are useful in my herd, and I hope to introduce some of my other production (and show animals) soon!

[auggiez-animalz]

The bunnies got tomatoes today 🍅

[mockva]

[isthedogawolfdog]

Unrelated but does anyone here breed rabbits? I know a breeder whose had some weird happenings with the limbs of some babies in their recent litters and was wondering if anyone knew what it could be. If anyone wants you can dm me and I can show you some pictures (they aren’t graphic, don’t worry!) so we can determine what it is.

[exoticghosts]

Can anyone point me to amchin breeders in the Maryland/Delaware/Pennsylvania area?? I'm looking to get a breeding trio

[spitepenny]

Lemon the bristlenose pleco eats some sweet potato

One of the rabbit snails attempts a ring trick

[tetedurfarm]

a polite little lad

[anoras]

retail sale of dogs banned in ny????? :0

[mosneakers]

Coni pedals her bike all the way to Shady Acres. She storms into her childhood home—a little farmhouse built into a rock at the very top of the Plateau. She swiftly draws the curtains shut, gathers all the members of the Breeder Unit in the living area, and slams the flash drive onto the coffee table.

Rabbit: [Croaky voice] What is the meaning of this, Concept?

Coni: Bella Goth. She went missing several years ago, leaving her family devastated and confused, with no answers as to what happened to her. Reports on a doppelgänger were linked HERE. To this address. [Voice trembling] What did you do?

[bunposting]

Got my first ever grand champion leg! Constellations' Dark Lightning ("Electra") won Best in Show for Show A at the South Jersey RCBA show today!

[mulberryfox]

Next up in farm chat is picking your hold back stock!

TW: Animal death, meat animal, animal farming

This is Arizona, an 8 week old satin x silver doe. She is my hold back doe out of her litter of 5, and I want to talk about some of the reasons why she’s staying!

The traits I am looking for:

1. Nice, smooth shoulders. I don’t want to see low shoulders, or any pronounced semi-arch type.

2. Nice width throughout. I don’t want thin, narrow rabbits who lack muscling over their topline, or appear to be long and lean.

3. Large size. Because silvers are a slightly smaller breed, I want to make sure I am retaining the heaviest, fastest growing offspring. This doe is the largest by several ounces, and is almost a full pound larger than the smallest littermate.

4. Handleable. I am okay if a rabbit is a little bit squirrely, but I do not tolerate extreme fear or aggression. This whole litter is a little squirrely, but not bad.

5. Color, fur, and sex. I knew i would be retaining a doe from this litter, with the potential of retaining a buck. The only buck in litter is the smallest, and so it was easy to pick based on sex. The four does are all the same shade of fawn, with one being a booted broken and therefore less useful in my program right now as my bucks are both broken and I don’t want charlies. The buck is a better shade of red, but thats okay. All five have identical fur.

In the end, her size is what won her a longer term cage because this litter was surprisingly consistent on type. The other four will go on to help provide food for my family in about a month, and anything left over will go into our garden as fertilizer to bring us abundance in the summer.

[h0ney8ee]

i went to a cat expo today and saw so many cute cats and got sooo many freebies, my girlies are going to have a new treat and toy to try every week for months 🥺

[cowboyposer]

Possibly the last Kim Wexler post, we won showmanship grand champion!!! She did very good and I'm very proud of her, as she also won third in type. She will be auctioned off in a few days, and I'll miss her lots, but I'm very proud of both of us! Til then, I'm sure she'll be enjoying the air conditioned barn lol