Sad Day

This morning we found a whole litter of Harli Dutch that died. They were still newborns and not sure what happened. This is a new momma and she just didn't seem to take care of them. I am sorry for all that are waiting on the harli's we have a second doe bred and will rebreed this doe too. Hopefully the next litter will come through ok.

Sheri

2009 Dutch club awards

The girls were recognized for top sweepstakes awards for 2009 from the Michigan Dutch Rabbit Club. They had top points in Blue, Chocolate and Gray. They also won Rabbit of the year with M&M's Twizzler their gray SR. Doe.

This prompted them to come home and breed several does and they can't wait to have some new juniors to show.

New Bunnies

New Polish babies were born in our barn yesterday. Very excited when the broken blue doe had 4 and the broken chocolate doe has 4 with a broken in the litter. We have been waiting quite a while for the blue's to come.

We have a lot of litters expected here shortly, Dutch blues, chocolates and grays. I will get more pictures up asap.

Sheri

Dutch news

I have been elected as one of the directors of the Michigan Dutch Club. I am excited to be helping out with the running and decision making of the club. I figured this way I could stay up with the news and know what is going on. Being that the girls show in youth and since my surgery we haven't been hanging out on the open side of the show too much. I feel that we were kind of in the dark as far as the club.

Our barn is pretty well full since I have allowed Alli to do the Angoras. We have many to sell this spring and will be having more Dutch real soon. We have a few does due.

Sheri

Back to the Barn

Whew, I finally got a chance to go out to the barn. It felt wonderful to spend time looking through all the babies and sorting them. I couldn't stay out there too long as I can't keep my foot down. With Allison's help I was able to sort out or at least look over several litters. From Dutch to Polish and back to Dutch. It was wonderful and very exciting to run my hand over them. We have some very promising looking younguns coming up. We are looking forward to the December 5 show in E. Lansing. We will have a couple juniors that will be ready to go along. Hope to see you there.
Sheri

Beautiful Fall day

Today is a beautiful fall day with lots of sun and warm temperatures. As I am healing from foot surgery, I am unable to enjoy the weather other than through the window. However, it enabled Mike to get out and ride the motorcycle and that makes a happy husband.

So whats new in the bunny barn? Believe it or not, we have added angoras to our list of breeds. I have a spinning wheel and with Allison expressing interest in spinning and the angora rabbits we decided to give it a try. We are up to 10 angora rabbits but 2 are still up for sale. We don't plan to do a lot of breeding of these fuzzy critters and our main focus remains on the Dutch.

Dutch babies are popping out of the boxes. We have a couple of awesome looking grey babies, very cute chocolates and some wonderful blues. These little guys won't be ready to show until next year but we have high hopes that there are some winners in the bunch.

I want to add that Audra purchased 2 Blue Dutch Jr.s from us in the early Spring. She had a great time exhibiting her new Dutch rabbits this summer at several shows. Froot Loop and Glory did very well, winning every time she took them out. Congratulations on your wonderful summer!

Looking forward to the December show in E. Lansing. Join us there!

Show last weekend

Last weekend we attended the show in Ionia. It felt great to go to a show after not having any ARBA shows since spring. The girls won Best of Breed with thier Gray Sr. Buck named Wayne. We also took some best varieties. Had a great time and glad we went.

We were able to bring home some new rabbits. We added a broken blue Polish buck and a solid blue Polish doe. Allison also added several Angora rabbits to our barn. They are very nice bunnies. The broken black Angora came complete with 8 newborn babies. Wow a lot of new bunnies all at once.

Sheri