Monday, January 28, 2008
I Got Nothing
I've sat in this seat over 550 times and written to you about rabbits. Either I've written about sportsmanship, husbandry, showing, human relationships, breeding, shows, or something else related to rabbits. Today, I got nothing. Maybe I'm at the end of the road. Maybe this BLOG has had its day and is finished. I'm not sure.
There's nothing much going on in my rabbitry right now. I still have no juniors. I have one false dwarf doe pre-junior I named Mama and one pre-junior doe that I named Baby. Mama is destined to be a brood doe. I hope that Baby is headed for the show table.
My eleven babies continue to grow, but they are entering the danger zone. I'll be glad to see them graduate from their mothers in a few weeks. I just hope they are all still here.
One seems to be a fuzzy. They are all cute. That's about all I can say about that. I'm playing a waiting game.
I have bunnies due in a few days. I've started emailing Andrew in advance when I need clean nestboxes. He uses bleach, which I can't be around. He's complained about me not giving him enough notice (especially important in the winter when there are few acceptable days for spraying and dunking). He's also said I didn't tell him. We'll not get into that. So, even though his desk is about 14 feet from mine, I find that emailing him works best.
Now mind, I'm not complaining about Andrew. Oh no. He spent all afternoon yesterday doing bunny stuff. After the nest boxes, which take about 20 minutes each, he had to repair my water system.
I came in to feed the other day to find icy water spraying ten feet down the first aisle. It's a fortunate thing for me that my rabbitry is half empty - or I would have rabbits dead and dying, I'm sure. As it was, Anna's Jersey woolies had to stay in the back of their cages to keep dry. But no bunny was injured.
Apparently there was one piece of low pressure PVC that had been used in the high pressure part of our system (the watering part is reduced pressure). That's the piece that burst.
The only good thing about the pipe freezing and bursting is that now Andrew has put a threaded spigot inside the barn, so I can use a waterhose without having to go outside to hook it up. I like that.
I did get some good news from breeder friends in Georgia. Tiffany Harris wrote to say that her junior Rainbow was Best Junior under Chris Zemny. Rainbow's parents are The Nature Trail's Baron and The Nature Trail's Oktober. Baron was Best Junior at one of the Triple Crown shows two years ago. It must run in the family! I appreciate Tiffany sharing the good news with me. I always like to hear that folks are able to get good things from rabbits they get from me. Good work, guys, and congratulations!
Other than that, there's not a lot going on. My next show will be in mid-February. Until then, I'll just keep plugging along!
Laurie
¶ 12:23 PM
There's nothing much going on in my rabbitry right now. I still have no juniors. I have one false dwarf doe pre-junior I named Mama and one pre-junior doe that I named Baby. Mama is destined to be a brood doe. I hope that Baby is headed for the show table.
My eleven babies continue to grow, but they are entering the danger zone. I'll be glad to see them graduate from their mothers in a few weeks. I just hope they are all still here.
One seems to be a fuzzy. They are all cute. That's about all I can say about that. I'm playing a waiting game.
I have bunnies due in a few days. I've started emailing Andrew in advance when I need clean nestboxes. He uses bleach, which I can't be around. He's complained about me not giving him enough notice (especially important in the winter when there are few acceptable days for spraying and dunking). He's also said I didn't tell him. We'll not get into that. So, even though his desk is about 14 feet from mine, I find that emailing him works best.
Now mind, I'm not complaining about Andrew. Oh no. He spent all afternoon yesterday doing bunny stuff. After the nest boxes, which take about 20 minutes each, he had to repair my water system.
I came in to feed the other day to find icy water spraying ten feet down the first aisle. It's a fortunate thing for me that my rabbitry is half empty - or I would have rabbits dead and dying, I'm sure. As it was, Anna's Jersey woolies had to stay in the back of their cages to keep dry. But no bunny was injured.
Apparently there was one piece of low pressure PVC that had been used in the high pressure part of our system (the watering part is reduced pressure). That's the piece that burst.
The only good thing about the pipe freezing and bursting is that now Andrew has put a threaded spigot inside the barn, so I can use a waterhose without having to go outside to hook it up. I like that.
I did get some good news from breeder friends in Georgia. Tiffany Harris wrote to say that her junior Rainbow was Best Junior under Chris Zemny. Rainbow's parents are The Nature Trail's Baron and The Nature Trail's Oktober. Baron was Best Junior at one of the Triple Crown shows two years ago. It must run in the family! I appreciate Tiffany sharing the good news with me. I always like to hear that folks are able to get good things from rabbits they get from me. Good work, guys, and congratulations!
Other than that, there's not a lot going on. My next show will be in mid-February. Until then, I'll just keep plugging along!
Laurie
¶ 12:23 PM
