Ramblin' Woman

Years ago before I temporarily got out of rabbits, I had developed a passion for wanting to work on unshowable colors. The force behind the excitement then and now is the lack of time to attend shows. I figured, if I'm not showing, what would be so bad to accept a challenge to dedicating time to working on a variety, rather than time to showing. I'm a single woman homesteader, not usually presenting any time to leave home too often. Sarah at DTL Rabbitry sold me a blue/fawn Harlequin doe when I added rabbits back into my life. I had a broken siamese sable buck who carries non-extension, and bred them together, our first litter was a blue, a broken black, and a broken blue tort tri-color, all does. We kept the two brokens to make our foundation. Pictured, said doe from Sarah, "DTL's Meg"... such a sweet doe, long as a school bus, incredible wool. These two kits were actually very nice prototypes. I did not expect a tri-color on the first go around, although a s...

As I have grown more health conscious and become a plant enthusiast, in hand comes a sustainable outlook on the world around us. It's joyous to realize that all around us is a natural ecosystem from within that animals eat from, excrete manure, to nurture soil, that feeds plants, that supports insects and animals, around it goes. If you see the world as each thing being connected to one another, with many systems married to each other (like without flowers you don't have bees and without bees you don't have flowers), then you may start to find yourself honoring life's natural cycles. Breeding, carrying, laboring, birthing, lactating, nursing, and weaning all come at a cost. It's a huge expenditure of energy. I feed a quality, nutritionally complete alfalfa pellets compounded for rabbits. It's fortified with all the stuff they need to be able to thrive within an internal environment. While I've been breeding rabbits for many years now, my outlook on what...