Lionhead Babies!

Spring is in the air with lots of Lionhead bunnies born and more on the way!  We currently have 22 Lionhead kits out of 7 moms.  We have 5 REWs, 1 Tort-Blue, 1 Tort-Black, 4 BEWs, 1 Broken Blue Silver Martin VC, 1 Broken Black VC, 8 Blacks (4 are VCs), and 1 Blue. 

Here are two of my little black does out of Peppercorn's litter.  They are cute as can be!

There are many very promising babies this spring and will be going up on the Lionheads for Sale page on our website soon. 

I have one little REW doe available right now.  I think she is a Teddy, but she may shed out.  She has really nice type and carries herself well and would be excellent bred to a buck that needs more mane.  She is 8 weeks old and $50.

We exhibited our Lionheads at the Great Lakes Rabbit & Cavy Show in Mason and took BOB Lionhead on show A with Lynette and BOS on show B.  Cornelius took BOV on both shows as well and the judges loved him.  Hopefully in a few years chocolate Lionheads can take BOB too.

Have a great week!

Lionhead Breeding Program

With the wonderful news of Lionheads becoming an official ARBA recognized breed, we have been planning our fall/winter breeding program to focus more on the new fully-recognized colors, ruby eyed white and tort.  We will continue to breed chocolates, shadeds, and blue eyed whites, which have COVs with the ARBA.

There are many little Lionheads in the nesting boxes right now and they are looking very promising.  Milky Way X Hoppin' John - 2 REWs, 1 black, 1 chocolate, and 1 lilac.  Rain Dance X Le Petit Prince - 1 REW, 1 siamese sable, and 1 seal.  Cocoa X Royal Blue -1 REW.  Francesca Rose X Royal Blue - 3 REWs and 1 chocolate.

We also have two Lionheads available for sale.  One is a beautiful show quality REW junior buck out of Milky Way to Midnight Blizzard - $50.  The other is a sweet little lilac junior doe for $30 out of Peppercorn to Midnight Blizzard.  Lilac doesn't currently have a COV, so it is not showable, but she would do very well in a chocolate, black, or tort breeding program. 

We also have a sweet pet Dutch doe available for adoption.  She has a wonderful personality and is litter box trained. 

Winter is fast-approaching and the air is getting sharp already.  Thankfully, we can continue to breed our does throughout the season and everyone can stay warm indoors.  

Have a great week!  
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New Showing & New Rabbits

Today we attended the Central Michigan RBA show located in Marshall.  The show was very well attended with many rabbit and cavy breeds shown.  We brought some Lionheads to exhibit in a variety of colors as well as two cavies:  an American black tan boar and a TSW Coronet boar.  All in all it was a great show.  Below are our awards we received: 

Show A:

·         BOB, BOV:  Blossom Acres’ Royal Blue – Blue Sr. Lionhead Buck

·         BOS, BOV:  Weber’s Raindance –Siamese Sable Sr. Lionhead Doe

·         BOV:  WeeOne’s Cocoa – Chocolate Sr. Lionhead Doe

·         BOV:  Blossom Acres’ La Petite Luna Moth –Sable-point Sr. Lionhead Doe

·         BOV:  Blossom Acres’ Midnight Blizzard – REW Sr. Lionhead Buck

·         BOV:  Leo 9’s Thunderhead – Seal Jr. Lionhead Buck

·         BOSV:  Blossom Acres’ Milky Way – REW Sr. Lionhead Doe

·         BOSV:  Weber’s “Jerome” – Siamese Sable Sr. Lionhead Buck

·         Best Junior breed, BOV, BOG:  “Dirty Harry”, Tan Jr. American Boar

·         BOB, Best Sr. Variety, Best Sr. Breed, BOV:  “Franklin”, TSW Sr. Coronet Boar

Show B: 

·         BOB, BOV:  Blossom Acres’ Midnight Blizzard – REW Sr. Lionhead Buck

·         BOS, BOV:  Blossom Acres’ La Petite Luna Moth – Sable-point Sr. Lionhead Doe

·         BOV:  Blossom Acres’ Royal Blue – Blue Sr. Lionhead Buck

·         BOV:  WeeOne’s Cocoa – Chocolate Sr. Lionhead Doe

·         BOV:  Leo 9’s Thunderhead – Seal Jr. Lionhead Buck

·         BOV:  Weber’s “Jerome” – Siamese Sable Sr. Lionhead Buck

·         BOSV:  Blossom Acres’ Milky Way – REW Sr. Lionhead Doe

·         BOSV:  Weber’s Rain Dance – Siamese Sable Sr. Lionhead Doe

·         BOB, Best Sr. Breed, Best Sr. Variety, BOV: “Franklin”, TSW Sr. Coronet Boar

·         Best Jr. Breed, BOV, BOG:  “Dirty Harry”, Tan Jr. American Boar  

We also came home with new acquaintances for the rabbitry.  I got a New Zealand Red buck prejunior from Razzle Dazzle Rabbitry.  He will be hanging around here for a while for a New Zealand Red project in the future.  I also picked up a broken black intermediate Satin buck for my lone black Satin doe.  She has been in need of a husband for a while so I am hoping I can get her bred soon for baby Satins.  We also have a new junior chocolate agouti Netherland Dwarf doe that we plan on using in our orange program in our Netherlands.    

Here are some pictures of some of the new stock.  Here is Eric the Red as I named him.  He is a typical baby constantly on the move so it was hard getting pictures that showed his body at all.  I saw his sire at the show and he was a large, gorgeous, typey red buck with 1 GC Leg.  While the pictures don't show his type very well they do show off his rufus beautifully!  

 

 Here are some pictures of Equinox (my name as well).  I got a picture of him without my hand so you could see his markings but his body doesn’t appear as deep for this reason.  I also included a top shot.  He has amazing width for a buck so I am hoping he will make me some gorgeous kits when paired with Vanilla Bean.   

 

Lily of the Valley has been progressing well through her pregnancy and I am looking forward to her litter in ten days!  I can’t wait to put some French Angoras on the table again. 

We only have one Lionhead baby available for reservation from our last litters!  We are now taking in names for our current Lionhead litters that were born recently.  Please see the website for more information.  http://www.blossomacresrabbitry.webs.com

I will try to update this blog frequently so please keep checking it out!      

Rabbitry Update

I haven’t been very good about keeping up with this blog, but I have been very busy.  Here is the latest news in the rabbitry. 

We have bred quite a few of our breeding stock – New Zealands, French Angoras, and Lionheads.  Some of the litters are current and some are upcoming!  Both of my beautiful New Zealand does had their litters fairly recently – about 3 weeks apart.  Tracey had 6 chunky babies and Snowflake had 11 born, with 9 still around.  I am very impressed with this doe’s mothering abilities.  This is her first litter and she is doing an excellent job caring and doting over her family.  Perhaps she will have the best success rate of all my does?!  So far it looks like there are 7 bucks and 2 does.  I really hope that some of those “bucks” do turn out to be does as I don’t know if I could manage 7 of them.  They are in the ? faze right now so I am really hoping that at least some turn out to be does!  If not then I should have some very nice bucks available for sale!    

As for the other litters, I am expecting 2 litters of French Angoras, one of which is due on Independence Day (not purposely planned).  We are also expecting a whole bunch of Lionhead litters.  Please check out our website to see our current and upcoming litters as there are way too many to list here!

Unfortunately, we have not been able to attend any shows lately.  The last one we attended was in March, so it has been a fairly long time!  We plan on attending a show on August 25^th, located in Charlotte Michigan.  From there it will lead to a show in September, plus a few others later in the year.  For this reason, we are not going to have very many rabbits available for sale during this time, as most of the breedings that we have done were specifically for these shows. 

Right now we do have some very nice rabbits looking for new homes.  The following rabbits are available for purchase:

Blossom Acres’ Ocean Storm, Jr. Opal French Angora buck, born April 3^rd, 2012.  Out of a grand champion chocolate buck and a red doe.  This rabbit has a very nice body and beautiful fiber.  Chocolate carrier.  $50 with pedigree

I also have a broken black satin doe for sale as a pet.  Spot has a nice personality and is very flashy.  I really need the cage space so I am letting her go.  $15 no pedigree

I also have 2 chestnut French Angoras, full siblings, a buck and a doe.  I have decided to keep both babies for now as I am trying to figure where I am going in my breeding program.  I may keep 1 or both, time will tell!  Please contact me and ask to go on the waiting list if interested!  Both are chocolate carriers and very nice quality. 

Well, that wraps up the updates.  I will keep everyone posted! 

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