I Swear, I am Back!
Wow! Usually I am much better at keeping things updated. But I have had a Lyme flare-up, and managed to drop a butcher cleaver on my foot, requiring stitches. I […]
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April Sorceress x Buckbeak Litter
Nine little wiggling kits were born on mid day Sunday to Sorceress and Buckbeak. Lots of cute speckled babies, including hopefully, an orange one! They are nice and toasty warm […]
Fun with Color Genetics 4: Warlock the Buck
Here goes nothing! This is the the fourth installment of color genetics, starting with my other buck Buckbeak. I wanted to try and predict what color his kits will be […]
Color Results: What Can I Expect?
Looking only at Sorceress and Magician, both being bred to Buckbeak, what can I expect? (Not looking at the C and E gene for now, as that brings the possibile […]
Fun with Color Genetics 3: Profiling Sorceress
Well, this will hopefully be the last installment in finding out what the genetics are found in Buckbeak. In the second post, where we looked at his offspring from Magician, […]
Fun with Color Genetics 2: Profiling Magician
This is the second series trying to profile the color genetics of my rabbits. As I pointed out in Part 1, Magician and Buckbeak wound up with a broken yellow […]
Fun with Color Genetics: Profiling my Buck
Bring out the inner nerd! So, I am not one who cares much about coloration on my babies, so long as they are healthy and edible. Because of the complexities, […]
Laying out a Target Marketing Plan
Fingers crossed that we get a real farm… and if we do, we are hoping that it will be near the Charlotte, NC metro area (the red star). This project […]
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 […]
Rabbitry Woes
I decided to dive off the grid for a bit. Mostly because my computer has been in disrepair and posting from the phone is hard. I managed to get an […]
Joy and Sorrow
I have fallen head over heels in love with turkeys… I mentioned that in a couple of previous posts… So we got home from herding sheep with our new kitten, […]
A litter for Brimstone
It is good to know that even in this stifling heat and humidity, that my rabbit buck didn’t go sterile. I woke up this morning to a litter of 8 […]
Three Sows to the Breeding Pen
Today I moved three sows to the breeding pen. Two from Raspberry’s February litter, and another white pig that is around 9 weeks old. All of these piggies are above […]
Krinkle’s Friday the 13th Piggies!
I came home last night from dinner with the family to find that Krinkle had popped out three babies on Friday the 13th. One of them was huge, and died […]
New Sows!
It won’t stop raining, and my backyard is a sinky, souplike substance. So, instead of getting my crops ready to put in the ground, I am perusing Craigslist. Craigslist was […]
Everything is Frozen, and Three Lost Piggies
This weekend, the temperature was in the 70s, and it was damp and raining. Last night, the windchill (a term nearly foreign to NC), was hovering at 0. Below freezing […]
New Setup and Buffy and Lisa’s Babies Into Growout
I did some major shuffling of the homestead recently. I moved the pigs into a more shaded corner of the yard that stayed a bit drier. With this Pacific Northwest […]
Update on Babies
Rabbits have a high mortality level as it is, but the first litters usually are much higher than most. Spytfyre pulled out a ton of fur, and the nest box […]
Pumpkin Heights and Fertilization
So, on Wednesday night, Bella and I went out to fertilize pumpkins and measure their heights. Some of the plants are over a foot tall, and others are only 3 […]
Mental Illness… Bipolar, and Robin Williams
When I was first diagnosed as bipolar, my therapist recommended that I research bipolar individuals that I could use to prove to myself that those with bipolar can live long, […]
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