First Litter Of Baby Thrianta

Here is a collection of photos from our Thriantas babies born on 12/9/14

12/13/14

12/18/14

12/29/14

1/4/15

As of right now, it looks like we have two does.

1/23/15

Giant Chinchilla Rabbits ~ Ready For Autumn

Our baby Giant Chinchilla rabbits are getting so big, easily over 6 pounds today and only 10 weeks old. I wanted to get some cute pictures and I'd have to say that we did. They had no interest in the traditional pose, instead opting for fun games of hide in the crate and bunny pyramid. Hope you enjoy!

Growing Giant Chinchilla Kits

Our babies are really growing like weeds now. They are hopping all over their hutch, eating pellets and grass hay and drinking from their mother's water bottle. At 3 1/2 weeks old they are quite the cute group of hoppers.

Lily Of The Valley

Lily is one of our very first Giant Chinchilla Rabbits. She was purchased more than 6 years ago. She is now officially in retirements and is really acting like an old lady. She just sits around, no interest in running off to explore. She doesn't even need to be penned. We had her out today and she was so pretty, I had to grab a camera.

Look What's In Our Bunny Barn

We had a little photo shoot for our 15 day old Giant Chinchilla rabbit kits. What do you think?

We set them out on our decorated table and they all promptly fell asleep.... just like babies. 

Yay! Giant Chins In The Nest Box

So, I didn't want to post anything until we had results and news. On the 5th of last month (July) we tried it again with Rosebud and Cowboy. (You can read our last attempt here) The result arrived on the 5th of this month with 11 big, beautiful, healthy kits. Really one was born at 7 pm on the 4th and then 10 the next day about noon.

1 Day Old Giant Chinchilla Rabbit Kits

Today is day 6 and as of last night we were happy as larks with all 11 still growing strong and beautiful. We did have a bit of sad news this morning with the loss of our biggest. For some reason it had worked it's way into a corner and died, probably suffocated. Keep your fingers crossed that we will still have these 10 at 8 weeks.

Over all I am thrilled with this litter. Never before have we had such a consistent size and color throughout the entire group. When I weighed them yesterday there were none that were considerably shorter in length than the others. They all show the same skin color and weighed between 2.5 and 4 ounces each. I do think that it was one of the 4 oz kits that we lost though.

I hope you are having as blessed a day as we are. Best of luck in all your rabbit adventures.

Babies

Lily

Lily was one of  the first rabbits we purchased when we first got into rabbits. We have bred her several time and she is good at taking care of her babies. We have kept several of her offspring and they have won ARBA breed competitions.

Apple

Apple was one of the first rabbits we purchased when we first got into bunnies. She has great color! She is very good at taking care of her babies. Many of her offspring have placed well in shows.

Flopsy - LO4K

Flopsy was kept to be a showing doe. She is from Lily and Oden. She has placed well in the shows that we have taken her to.

2/6/10 - Flopsy took first place junior doe at her first show, the PSARBA Convention. What a great job!! There was some good competition even with the snow.

5/22/10 - She won first place intermediate doe at the Baltimore and Howard County Spring show. She has grown into a large beautiful girl.

9/11/10 - Flopsy took first place intermediate doe as well as Best Of Breed at the BRRCC open fall show. She now has a leg and we are so proud. She is such a good doe and we hope that she gets two more legs. Hopefully she will get the opportunity.

This pretty girl went to a new home as we are downsizing our rabbitry.

Princes-LO1A

Princes was kept to be a show doe. She is from Lily and Oden.
11/14/2009-Princes took third place junior doe in the Baltimore and Howard county R&CRA show.
2/6/2010-Princes took second place 6/8 doe at the Pa state rabbit breeders association show.
5/22/2010-Princes took second place senor doe at the Baltimore and Howard spring show.

Grace - S04T

Grace is a doe from Star and Odin that we took to the Lebanon show in October 2009 to sell. Anita Trautwein went through the litters and picked out two that she thought had potential. I took her advice and kept the two.

Grace is one of the two that we kept. She was shown for the first time at the Wade Memorial Show in Carroll County Md. She won first place intermediate doe and Best Opposite Sex. Then we took her to the PaSRBA show and she won the same. Both of her BOS counted toward a leg. We are very excited about her potential and look forward to the next show.

We are very grateful for the guidance that other breeders, like Anita, give to us to help improve our line. This breed is great and the other breeders are wonderful and delightful to hang out with at shows.

UPDATE- Grace was a bit careless while playing in her cage one night and broke her back. She had to be put down. This was such a tragedy for our rabbitry because Grace was turning out to be a prized doe, our best in her class and best in the rabbitry. What a loss. Replacing her will a challenge.

Big Guy - LO1K

Big Guy is the first choice of the first litter of Lily and Oden. He showed wonderful color from 4 weeks and was one of the largest of the litter.

Update from 10/11/09 - Big Guy won third place junior buck in Open at the Lebanon Valley rabbit show in Lebanon Pa. We are very excited. He was just 15 weeks old and 6.5 lbs. The judge's evaluation of him was very positive. For the most part he just needs to fill out, which will come with maturity.

Update from 11/14/09 - Big Guy won first place junior buck and took Best Opposite Sex for his first leg. We knew he would do well.

Update from 1/31/10 - At the last moment we decided to go to the Carroll County RBA show. Big Guy took first place intermediate buck and then Best Of Breed for his second leg. We will see how well he does next Saturday at the PaSRBA show in Lebanon.

Rock - LO3C

Rock started his harness training this morning.... and it was incredible!! I was expecting to have him on a leash by next week and we jumped into it within the first five minutes.

So, we started by introducing him to his harness.... he wasn't impressed. Then I moved to the next step and put the harness over his back.... he wasn't the least scared. So I went ahead and buckled the harness on him.... and he hopped around the kitchen. At this point I figured that he would have more fun outside so we took a walk around the garden.... and he loved it.

We will take another walk this evening just to make sure that I wasn't dreaming. !)

I look forward to the rest of his training and hope it all goes as well. Wish us luck!