Saturday, February 20, 2010

Pictures Galore!


Bluestar's Edmund, a smoke pearl buck that's is maturing nicely!


A very pregnant MLW's Cammie, due next week!


She has the cutest face!

WO's Wanda Attempting to run away from me after being fed up with her photo session!

Enjoy!
- Michael
www.silentspringsrabbitry.com

Monday, February 15, 2010

First litter of the new year!

Today I woke up to 9 Mini Lops babies by my reliable doe, Silent Spring's Jessa! She's a really pretty steel doe with 2 legs that's been throwing some absolutely gorgeous babies for me. Her sister, Jana, placed 8th of of over 40 SSD's at this year's ARBA Convention in youth and has went to live with my friend Qadoshyah of Hoppin' Herd of Hares.

The sire is a broken chestnut buck that I brought in this summer, Velotta's Blake, a Grand Champion with 8 legs and a proven producer. In fact, my friend Tricia had shown one of Blake's sons at Convention and he ended up placed in the top ten (I think 5th!) out of over 40 BJB's in open!

There are 5 brokens and 4 solids. Most of them are steels and chesnuts but two of them are a bit of a mystery! I know Blake carries dilute but I had no idea Jessa carried any fun recessives. I'll have to give these babies a few days to grow some fur before I try to guess at their color!

- Michael
www.silentspringsrabbitry.com

Sunday, February 14, 2010

KCRBA Show Results

These results are a little late since I haven't had too much time lately. . .

I showed in Open both shows. For Mini Lops, we got Chris Zemny for the first show and Ray Stacy for the second show. As for Jersey Woolies, Scott Williamson was the judge for Show A white Ray Stacy was the judge for B.

Show A:

Mini Lops:
Silent Spring's Triton - BOSV
Velotta's Bella - 1/3, BOV, BOB! * 6th Leg
Silent Spring's Minerva - 1/1
Jersey Woolies:
Silent Spring's Diamond - BOG
Bluestar's Edmund - BOG, BOSB
White Oak's Wanda - 2/2
MLW's Cammie - BOG, BOB! * 1st Leg!

Show B:

Mini Lops:
Silent Spring's Triton - BOSV
Velotta's Blake - BOV, BOB! * 8th Leg!
Velotta's Bella - BOSV, BOSB! * 7th Leg!
Silent Spring's Minerva - 1/1
Jersey Woolies:
Silent Spring's Diamond - BOG
Bluestar's Edmund - 1/1
White Oak's Wanda - BOG, BOB! *3rd Leg!
MLW's Cammie - 2/2

Overall, I was very pleased with our results! (: Bella also got an Honorable Mention for Best in Show, which was really exciting.

I also sent Edmund and Wanda to Stockton on 2/6 thanks to my friends, the Votaw family!

Show A:
Bluestar's Edmund - 1/1
White Oak's Wanda -1/2

Show B:
Bluestar's Edmund - 1/1, BOSG! *1st Leg!
White Oak's Wanda - 1/2

That's all for now! We have several does due soon and I'll try to keep this blog updated as the babies start coming!

- Michael
www.silentspringsrabbitry.com