Office Work, Part Deux: Professional Mayhen

[maple]

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That's good cuz IL. is gonna be getting a heat wave this weak...so stay there.

 

[NellaBean]

I like snout pics!

This is just the cutest fat little baby ever. They grow so quickly that every time I go in there its like a new surprise for me. Its only 9 days old now. Can't wait til its 3-4 weeks old. OMG SO CUTE!

Have two does due early August. Tribble is probably not preggers, but I think Fancy is. Going to breed BP this weekend. Cotton and Smores will wait until early to mid August. That will get a litter out of everyone of age, so I can then decide where to go from here. If Tribble doesn't have babies she will go on an exercise and diet plan and I will try to rebreed after another month.

Going to be building house cages this weekend. Plan currently is to build 2 separated into 2 each....so 4. Depending on how they turn out, I might just splurge and build another set of 4. That would give me room to bring all the ladies inside if needed.

 

[debilorrah]

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Beaner for a nice fat pic: www.northernwindsranch.com go to rabbits then gallery, then click on the chestnut agouti. It may or not be show quality, but I am in LOVE with that bunny!!!!

 

[NellaBean]

Are you keeping it? have you sexed them yet?

 

[debilorrah]

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If it's a buck. We tried to sex, but it is not prominent yet. At least to our untrained eyes. They are ALLL so sweet, but THAT one has my heart. Sexing bunnies is hard!!!

 

[NellaBean]

Yeah, I'm not very good at it. I like when they are 3-4 months old and it gets way easier ha ha ha.

 

[saddina]

Come on girls if i can sex day old quail chicks, surely you can manage a month old bunny.

 

[NellaBean]

I should learn to vent sex chicks.......sure would make life a lot easier if I just started lopping heads early on.


............spoken like someone who has never lopped a head in her life. Someday...

 

[debilorrah]

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I have links for all kinds of pics and even in the pics at 4 weeks they look the same. Difficult. darn it.

 

[saddina]

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Quail are plate size in 8 weeks, so you gotta be quick. They're also the most vicious bird i've ever had, males will silently kill each other if left to thier own devices, so will stressed hens, so sex and seperate early. I keep harems of 1:5 from the first few days, excess males are raised in a seperate pen for the table. Pretty much you have a week to make me satisfied you deserve to say, or you're smothered in gouda and wrapped in bacon. Having each group set from the beginning helps to avoid the "odd bird out" issues when you intro a new bird after maturity, and they gang up.