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!!!!!
now I know, these bunnies look like normal bunnies so I am sure ya'll are wondering 'so what is the big deal?' someone else might pull ask 'Don't you already have 2 red eyed whites?' and if your anything like my friend Jen you might just be thinking 'she has officially lost it, why in the world would she want anymore bunnies?!?!? she already has 6 adults with 7 babies....'
now sadly we haven't decided on any official names, we have been so busy trying to get their new houses built and providing them with a permanent place to live we haven't had much time to talk about it. I was thinking of calling little miss Fawn above Bambi (since a fawn is a baby dear) but nothing is official yet and bamb is kind of a boys name, so who knows.
there little one here is 15 days pregnant, so we figured we better hurry up and get them settled in before she has a chance to deliver. I did forget to ask how old she is but after making 3 trips from the car and around dog alley I wasn't about to run back to find out, luckily I got the number of the guy who sold her to me and hopefully he will know.
so what is so incredibly special about these 2 new bunnies, with Even looking around trying to figure out what all the fuss is you would only imagine that these little girls are something to make such a big fuss about, but guess what...
they aren't that little, in fact, they are Flemish Giants--yes, GIANTS!!!! That is a laundry bucket that we purchased from Sam's club
some of you might recognize the brand and know how big it is, compared to our little miss momma you it's size can be deceiving--so in case you still don't believe me I took a few more pictures...
I don't know what I keep calling them little, that piece of paper is 9 inches long--and yes, she is not at all 'stretched out'
I know this isn't exactly the best photo but I wanted to give you an idea of how 'wide' they are--yes, that is the same 9 inch paper
oh and there is the picture of her 'somewhat' stretched out, she started to unstretch when I took it, and yes, that pice of paper has a 9 inch ruler on it...now do you believe me? and now do you understand why I am so excited? I am sure there is a place somewhere out there where these bunnies are so common that me being able to find 3 seems like no big deal, but thanks to their size (they can get as big as 25 lbs) they don't tolerate the heat very well and since Texas gets so hot it is hard to find not only a breeder but someone selling them during this time of the year, so yes, I am beyond excited and I truly can't wait to see the babies our lovely Red Eye White is about to have--wish us luck!!!!! (and no, this isn't an April fools joke)
Granted, pictures are a bit harder to tell differences in then when I am out playing with and feeding the bunnies. Like when I saw this black bunny in the picture I thought 'this must be Black Beauty' unfortunately it wasn't until I notice the 2 water feeders in the pen that I realized I was truly mistaken and this is in fact Skiddish.
We have owned Skiddish for 2 years now, we got her from Atwoods to be a friend to our first bunny rabbit (whom we no longer have, she got out of the garden and was chased off by the kids in the neighborhood who didn't know she belonged to us) Skiddish was one of the bunnies that lived in our Bathroom, and as much as I thought that would be an OK place for them to chill till daddy built the hutch boy was I mistake, Dominic would go in every morning and chase those bunnies till they were scared to death, I always got on him for it but he definitely didn't make their lives easy--and for that point Skiddish tends to be a bit stand offish. She loves daddy though and he was always able to calm that poor little heart of hers down, but that is how she got her name Skiddish--cause she is so skittish 
now, when we bought skiddish we were told she was a he and we thought that forever, then we finally flippered her over and compared her to our other female, they looked a like, so we assumed she was a she, then about 9 months later some one else flipped her over and told us she was a boy, so we went looking for another female to breed and luckily we found one with a male cause to my suprise the other day I finally flipped her over (now that I know a bit more about figuring out if they are girls or boys) and sure enough she is a she....
a she that has never had babies, ofcourse we discovered she was a she after we stuck her in the cage with a boy so we figured why not see if she can have babies (she has never had babies before but she is still at an acceptable breeding age) and so in 3 more weeks I guess we will see.
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.
but how could I pass this little guy up. Now the lady I brought him from was very helpful, she tole me he was a mini-Rex and that he was born in October, I am sure she gave me an exact date but I don't remember it right this minute, I was just so excited to find a Red Eyed White that was about the same age and sweet Snow White, so I excitedly wrote her a check and carried him off--litterally, I shoved him in my sweetshirt to keep him warm and off we went, Luckily my loving husband was wise enough to pick up a box to put him in for the ride home, but I did carry him through all the booths and even into the bathrooms (but don't worry I didn't put him fown or use the bathroom myself with him, I was in their with little K so she could go)
we actually named him Prince because we purchase him for the sole purpose of breeding him with Snow White, and so after drastically searching for the name of snow Whites Prince I was very disappointed to know that he never had a name, they just called him prince, and so from that point on Prince was called Prince. now that we have discovered that skiddish (who we intended to breed black Beauty to) is infact a girl though we have decided that unless we find a black mini-rex we will be breeding Black Beauty to Prince as well--and I am almost excited to see what color patterns they produce
but then again with a face that cute--he didn't mind one bit (he was just happy he didn't get poked)
tonight Tulip was the most active we have ever seen her, she spent about 30 or more minutes climbing all over us, it was so fun to finally be able to see her roam and investigate, since the move she has been a bit moody and today has made it all worth while
but then again she is an extra weight on my shoulders as well
now if only she would get off my back--I know I hadn't cleaned out her cage yet but it seriously hasn't been 'that long' but she has a point so I guess I better get on that
