A Post Easter Miracle: Magician
I thought Magician was at the end of her breeding cycle. Her litters went from 8-10, down to six, to three. She is nearing four years of age, and this […]
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Flyte x Sandrider
She is such an amazing mother! But she hadn’t had a litter since July. She had lost a lot of weight since then, and needed to get back into condition. […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Don’t Worry, I hate me too…
So, butchering is always super difficult. It takes me a lot of mental strength to do it. This is especially the case with guinea pigs. They are sweet, adorable, and […]
Rabbit Racks
After building the cattle panel barn, it was time to devise a rabbit holding system. Without these rabbit racks, we can only hold 14 cages. With it, we can hold […]
The New Rabbit Barn
Well, it has been another crazy few weeks. After losing the buck to pasturella, i went through and gave everything a deep, deep clean, scrub, and samitization. It was unlikely […]
Have I lost count?
And two more baby pigs were born. A solid white pup and a white piggies with a brown mask! So cute!
Four new piglets from grow out!
Four new babies were found in the grow out pen. They are thriving right now, but I am worried, as two of the three mothers wound up with ketosis. I […]
Turkeys Rock
The turkeys are growing into fun, amazing companions. They have to be personable, because they sure are ugly! They see me and come running. They are perching everywhere, and are […]
Frizzy’s first litter
Every once in awhile, I mess up and sex a pig wrong, and wind up with a whole bunch of pregnant girls in my growout pen. And today, Frizzy gave […]
Chunk’s trio
Last Friday, Chunk had a really gorgeous trio. A really cute red pig with black markings, a pig with a red head, white blaze, and black butt, and a mostly […]
Twins for Twix
Last week, I wound up with two tan and brown guinea pigs from the sow on the left. She is doing such a good job as a first time mother.
Sorceress, you Hussy!
Well, Sorceress wound up giving birth in the yard after she escaped her cage. And lo and behold, Physick the yard rabbit managed to find her and impregnate her right […]
Cinnamon’s Trio
All three were born this morning, and really doing well! I am very excited to get my numbers up again, as I haven’t lost any to the heat in three […]
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