Hello Again! It has been awhile since I wrote a blog post on here! I am hoping to catch everyone up on what has been going on around here. We had Christmas which was beautiful - my favorite time of year. Sadly, Georgia gets no snow which is a huge bummer but it was a very mild winter overall here! We jumped right into 2022 with the breeding and put together Luna/Blizzard and Endora/Arthur and Godiva/Choc.Chip. All of the ladies did amazing! Endora was a first time mother and while her milk production was slow to set in, and half of her babies were faders, we got 3 healthy babies which all have found homes with wonderful families. We are so happy to get to place a bunny with the right parents. Luna had 3 beautiful big babies that were a struggle to kindle for her. I did not expect the babies to be almost bigger than her body could handle! Some TLC to the nip marks on the kits legs, and they were good as new! Godiva was a harder story for us because she had 6 kits, and every time she would hop out, she would take a baby with her and by the time we noticed, it was too late. She also would eat on some of the babies that perished. It was the first heartbreaking loss of babies we have experienced. It's just hard because it is preventable by most costs, but if it's while you are sleeping, you just can't know when a baby is in need. I wish I could protect every baby and we TRY so hard to but it just happens, like all rabbit people will tell you. "Loss is just part of the hobby." And that is so true. From peanuts, to faders, to just bad genetics, it happens. We just raise up prayers and rejoice when we get healthy litters and most importantly - keep going through discouraging times. Luna had 3 beautiful big babies that were a struggle to kindle for her. I did not expect the babies to be almost bigger than her body could handle! Some TLC to the nip marks on the kits legs, and they were good as new! We got some bunnies back, Nova and the two Christmas gift bunnies - Thumper Jack and Whiskers but they have been rehomed again and living great lives. We swapped two bunnies out for Nova and Miss Liv is so happy with her new babies. Nova was a handful but we got it straightened out. We also found out in this time period that Nova was a boy, not a girl as we previously thought! He was sold to a local rabbitry which bred with him and wanted to sell him without our permission or asking us first if we wanted him back. Needless to say, we did buy him back for nearly double what they paid for him, and we aren't going to let him go again for awhile. :) We have gathered a couple new bunnies since 2021 : Picasso - Kailey Williamson's Rabbitry, from Colorado Eden - Murphy's Lops, from Pennsylvania Ozzy - Murphy's Lops, from Pennsylvania Jim B "Grim" - Proud Ears Rabbitry from New York Rhett - Tz Bunnies from Decatur, Ga. Noel - Mountainside Rabbitry, from Pennsylvania Lolita - Brittney M Rutter's Rabbitry in New York We have 2 coming in May: Nighthawk - Grabooski's Rabbitry Broken Otter Buck - Reeders Farmhouse Rabbitry -Coarsegold, California c/o Trey King in San Antonio, Texas Lastly, Most of our babies are gone this time and we feel very successful that people are finding us without ads and that we have some great people who are looking out for us and dropping our information to people. We wanted to give back and so we sent a little something to our Petco staff who have always been great to us and our puppies and has referred us to people seeking bunnies. We love them! We wanted them to know that. Thank you everyone for your continued support and commenting on our photos and enjoying this process with us and loving our bunnies as much as we do.
From the bottom of our hearts - Thank you. - Whispering Wilds Rabbitry
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