Sorceress x Buckbeak have 8!
Buckbeak is a 3/4 New Zealand, 1/4 American Chinchilla buck that joined our homestead a few months ago. He has had successful viable kits, but to new does that didn’t […]
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Litter SY4 Tattoo Day!
S is for the buck, Sandrider, and Y is for the doe, Syren. This is Syren’s 4th litter at Clarjo Farms. So, it is litter SY4. There are 5 does, […]
Litter SY4 Tattoo Day!
S is for the buck, Sandrider, and Y is for the doe, Syren. This is Syren’s 4th litter at Clarjo Farms. So, it is litter SY4. There are 5 does, […]
And a Stray Baby makes it a Bakers Dozen
Well, I got an email from a fellow American Chinchilla breeder this morning. Their doe had a single kit on the wire, and they managed to keep it alive for […]
Dozen new American Chinchilla Rabbits! (Syren x Sandrider)
Yesterday, Syren had a litter of 12! It is the biggest litter she had ever had so far! This is my second breeding of Syren and Sandrider. The first was […]
The Birch
More black and white pastels. I really miss the north woods… And we used to start our fires with birch bark. This nostalgia gave me the motivation to paint a […]
Cemetery in the Moonlight
Sunrise in New Zealand
Finally got my color palate back! A few years back, I gave my heart to a country with phenomenal beauty, amazing people, and a whole bunch of sheep. Yea, New […]
Thai Pork Sausage
I have been practicing charcuterie, and totally invented my first sausage recipe. A Thai styled red curry sausage made with pork butt I got on markdown. I literally love this […]
The Incoming Storm (Art, not Farm)
Man, my color skills are so rusty! After I cleaned out the rabbit shed and all of the cages, and continued to scrub out my bedroom, and clean my craft […]
The Lifeboat
It has been awhile since the art part of Dirtartful came into the picture. However, I am on vacation, and it is pretty much saturated outside, so aside from basic […]
From the smoker
It was time to hickory smoke the jagerwurst! It was in the smoker for three hours around 160-180 F, and gently poached at 170 F until the sausage reaches the […]
Jagerwurst
On the lighter side, I have been doing a lot of meat processing and animal related products. So, I went to my favorite butcher store (Left Bank Butchery in Saxapahaw) […]
Where are you Christmas?
90% humidity….. are you f $#@ing kidding me? It was 82 degrees today! I don’t know how much more the rabbits can take of this! The temperature dropped to 30 […]
All Still Here!
I haven’t lost another female since my last post. It has been chaos around here, cleaning and sanitizing absolutely EVERYTHING! I got a new propane torch that I can’t wait […]
The menace is back…..
The pain is still pretty raw around here, i have lost 18 kits out of 29, which is hard enough. But when I woke up yesterday to find that my […]
Thestral x Sandrider litter
Thestral had a litter on her very first breeding! True to form, like her mother. Sadly, she only had three babies, and with the temperature being so cold, they froze […]
That B#$%&
So, I know it is Mr. Mustards first litter, and she wasn’t really taking great care of them. They were not very chubby, but not super fat. I showed her […]
Feeding Chart
I have 17 does to keep track of. Feeding fodder isn’t difficult, but once litters are involved, fodder amounts vary based on the amount of babies in the litter, the […]
Mr. Mustard and Warlock litter
Mr Mustard is an American Blue doe that I got as a young girl (that we thought was a boy). And on 11/29 she gave birth to her very first […]
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