the tortoise twin's spotlight

now, I know, I heave definitely waited till the last possible minute to spotlight these 2 and I feel bad but luckily I did because yesterday I thought I noticed it and today it was in fact confirmed, check out the pics to see what I am so excited about

look at those adorable ears--all flopping side to side
I do believe the boys ears flop a bit more than the girls, but aren't they just precious.
in this shot you can notice just how fuzzy they are...again, the boy seems a pinch more fuzzy than the girl, but then again as I was checking again to see which one was boy and which one was girl I realized up till today we thought the girl was in fact the boy and the boy to be a girl, so I will definitely be re-checking before they go to their new homes to make sure we get it right
they were really enjoying sitting there, so much they didn't even notice that they could have fun off had they wanted to
and there is the little girl popping up to say 'thanks for the delicious treats'--look at thos beautiful eyes!!!!!

The Girls a

Eve delivered a surprise litter the day after we bought her, which just happened to be Thanksgiving Day--I remember it so well, I was walking out to give the bunnies scraps from the dinner I was preparing when I noticed she had pulled a bunch of her hair out, concerned cause I thought she was freaking out from the move I did some more investigating and notice the babies, I was so shocked I screamed--yes, truly screamed--for joy.

because it was so cold and a cold went through our house we ended up losing all the babies but 3, we did sell their brother but decided to keep the girls. We named them Black Beauty and snow white, bet you can't guess which one is which.
in case you couldn't figure it out I thought I would just tell you. This is snow white, we actually puchased Mr Prince to be her mate, and thought we could breed Black Beauty to skiddish, until we discovered skiddish was a girl--good thing we had already purchased prince, but I will tell you about him in another post.
see that lovely little patch of hair Snow white has got, black beauty have a little extra hair as well, they have a lot back by the hind legs as well, I did brush it out once but they seem to do a pretty decent job keeping it clean now
and this is black beauty, she is a little camera shy, but oh so pretty
Luckily Snow white has no problems posing for a decent shot, showing off all her lovely locks, unfortunately you don't get to see her lovely Red eyes--and yes, she is a Red Eyed White, also known as an Albino (when it comes to other species) and we love both our girls oh so much.

Adam=father of many

First off, one should note, Adam wasn't named Adam because we liked the name (don't get me wrong, we do love that name) but because we purchased him as a breeding pair with Eve--and we figured since they would be the first parents to actually conceive and deliver babies that Adam and Eve fit, little did we realize Eve not just pregnant when we bought her but would deliver the babies the next day--which only confirmed that we had picked the right names for them

unfortunately this is the first time we have actually tried to take 'real' pictures of Adam--turns out, he is camera shy
don't get him wrong, he is actually a cuddly teddy bear, he just isn't happy that I am taking his picture so he seems to be giving me the stink eye as to tell me 'get that Camera out of my face'
luckily he warmed up a bit. Adam is definitely a wonderful father. with our first litter we hadn't planned on it's sudden arrival and so space was definitely limited and we didn't have much choice as to who would be where we were just happy to have a cage for each rabbit, but since we were able to plan out the 2nd batch a little bit better I made it a point to keep Even in a Cage next to Adam to see how they would do after the babies were born, many a times I would go out to find the two nuzzling each others noses through the cage wires. Often Adam would lay down with his back against eve's cage and she would lay up next to him--I could definitely tell he was concerned about her welfare and wanted to as much emotional support as possible which just tore my heart apart that I couldn't put them together in the cage (out of fear he might get too excited and impregnate her before she was ready for another set of babies).

like I said before, Adam might act all big and bad and tough, but when it comes down to it, he is just a sappy bunny who wants to make sure his mate is taken care of. I have to admit, it astonished me when I caught him nuzzling the nose of one of his 2 week old babies through the cage wire--yep, definitely glad we got such a great daddy

snowball, our little Red Eyed White

this little one is not only curious--she was hungry, trust me, she isn't being shy, she is trying to eat a clover

I moved her a bit and she is now looking at me like 'why did you do that, I was enjoying that clover' oddly she never noticed the 6 others I stuck her right in front of her.
Red eyed whites are most often referred to as Albinos, and isn't she just lovely
I don't know why I find her so mesmerizing--she is truly a doll though, look at her all nestled up just sitting and looking and taking in her surroundings, I could sit and stare at this picture all day, unfortunately my schedule does not allow for that, so off I shall go now, but if you want to sit and look a bit longer feel free to.......if you like her that much you might want to reserve her now before someone else gets her first, just saying, as rare as Red Eyed Whites are, chances are she is going to go fast

I think we will call her JR

Cause part of me truly think when she grows up she is going to look a lot like her father
luckily I had my husband to help me take these photos--she is so curious had he not been there to help carol her she might have actually gotten away, luckily she didn't mind us not letting her run free to see her suroundings
she did sit rather still for this picture--I just wish I had a better camera so we didn't have to wait till it was dark cause as beautiful as she is in this picture she is so much cuter in real life!!!!

Mr. Charcoal

I think the hardest part about these babies is knowing that we just don't have the room or means to keep them all, but we know with easter just around the corner we will be able to find loving homes for each and every one of them.
Now this guy doesn't want to be shoved in an easter basket to surprise a kid on easter day and then shoved into a cage in the backyard never to be though of again--he wants to be loved on and cuddled, he wants a home where he can sit in your lap while you feed him some celery (oddly our bunnies prefer celery over carrots), and he wants to know that he is not forgotten.
I have to say, this guy is special. With 2 spotted patterned parents and most his siblings patterned I find it impressive that he is all one color, and such a studly color such as charcoal--yes, this is your prince in shining armor, and he will sweep you off with not only his stunning good looks but also his precious little eyes.
I believe, of all our animals, bunnies are definitely the easiest. If I was going to compare them to a 'regular' household pet I would think cat, but without the dander, although they are way more impressive than cats (in my honest opinion). This little guy is working on his litter box skills so that he can continue his training in his new home with his new parents. Unlike cats litter boxes when using the right kind of litter you can empty a bunnies litter box into the compost bin or even directly into your garden--bunny poop is one of the few that won't burn your plants. they are easy to please, and very entertaining (just give him a toilet paper roll and I am sure he can entertain you for hours--or until the roll is destroyed ) oddly enough bunnies are not that expensive, you can get large bags of their feed for less than $10 at pretty much any feed store. Yes, i would say bunnies are pretty easy pets, but don't take my word for it--google it and see what others have to say.......

Sexing the baby bunnies (3/23/2011)

incase you don't know what I am talking about, don't worry, this does not contain adult content--I am talking about the process in which we try and determine whether the bunnies are girls or boys. Now the bunnies are a day off from being 3 weeks old so the tally may change in the next week or so but so far we believe we have: (drum roll please)

this pic was taken when they were 10 days old, but it is sadly the most recent pic of I have our little red eyed white baby, also known as an albino, we refer to her as snow call--and yes, we think she is a girl
this pic is to show the grey and white bunny who is at the bottom of the doggy pile so you can't really see her--but she is a believed to be a girl as well--yippee, she will probably have similar colors as her father (adam) I will definitely be posting a better picture when I spotlight her later.

now if you want a lovely jellybean but only wanted a boy or a girl--you are in luck, we have 1 of each, unfortunately, that means only one is a boy and one is a girl and so if they go as a pair they would either need to be fixed or kept in separate cages so they don't have inbred babies--but they are still so precious and I know whoever gets them will love them (whether they get them as a set or an individual bunny)

and yes, the twins are also 1 boy and 1 girl so the same goes for them--I just love to sit and stare at their color patterns, I can't tell the 2 of them apart for the life of me (so I made sure to mark which one was the boy in his ear so I could remember)--I will be spotlighting them in the next couple of days as well cause they are just so cuddly.
and Mr Charcoal, last but definitely not least, appeared to be all male tonight. look at that handsome face he has, I just want to kiss him all over, that curious little guy he is.

Adam and Eves 2nd batch of babies @ 10 days old

it is always a special treat when we get to meet the baby bunnies--this was special special cause we discovered 7 healthy babies all 10 days old with their eyes open!!!! Can we say SUCCESS!!!!!

I love finally being able to play with them for a few minutes each, we definitely made sure to take the Camera out so we could get plenty of pictures to share with you....

one of the 2 Jellybeans
this one definitely takes after the parents
look at them all running to cover up....we took the house out so we could better look at them all....
they didn't like that very much--but luckily there was plenty of hay to cuddle in

here is one of the 'twins'--or so I call them

baby boy bunny sold 1/16/2011

the day after we bought Adam and Eve we were blessed with new baby bunnies. While preparing thanksgiving dinner I took out some vegi scraps to find Eve had given birth to babies, I couldn't count them accurately at that time and didn't want to bother, I later discovered she had birthed 7 babies, one died before he even got fluff and then between three and 4 weeks we lost 3 more babies (and one of our adults dug out and ran off) it was a very devastating time for us (specially since one of them was found dead on Christmas Day), we loved these babies very much and my son prays for them every time he says a prayer (and surprisingly he prayers a lot). 3 babies survived, we are keeping the 2 females, and hope we can find a suitable home for this little darling. He will officially be 6 weeks on Thursday the 6th, he appears to be very healthy and I can't see anything concerning, right now as I type this he is sitting rather content on my chest, he was very compliant when I took his pic and I know he is going to make someone the perfect pet.

he is tiny and I have no clue how big he is going to get but he his parents aren't huge, we just don't have a weight, I would guess they are about 5-6 lbs, he is about 2 lbs right now at most I would think, but I am bad at guesstimating, sorry, he is super cute and I know he will make a wonder family pet. Bunnies are rather easy to litter box train and can totally be left to roam out of a cage after they have been litter box trained.

this baby boy sold on Jan 16, 2011 to a very loving lady--thanks!!!!