Silver Ridge Rabbitry

Visit my wordpress site to read the latest blog, about becoming an ARBA member.

http://silverridgerabbitry.wordpress.com/

Please visit http://silverridgerabbitry.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/post-2-of-30-cages-and-supplies/ to see my latest post on New Zealand White Rabbits and hear my posts on raising rabbits.

30 Day Post on the Wordpress Site click link to go to 1st post of 30

Post #1/of 30 Rabbit Recipe

I will try to post every day for the next 30 days to my wordpress site and this blog.

I am planning to breed more New Zealand White does this weekend. I am resolving this new year's to post more to the blog, and put up more relevant content, about rabbits and supplies and my life.

Every morning Sarah Feed's and Water's us at 8:00am,

Sarah and SR's JR BB, one of the founding sires of our rabbitry, born and bred at Silver Ridge Rabbitry.

Visit the Vermont Farm Safe Blog, Alex has great tips on farm safety.

http://farmsafevt.wordpress.com/

To join a great Rabbit group on yahoo, run by Bob Fox  join Rabbit Talk.

He and his group have great ideas about rabbit raising, heath topics and show info.

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Rabbit_Talk/

I have a lot of Purebred New Zealand White rabbits for sale at this time, email or call me.

The doe in the below photo kindled and had 11, WOW! I am glad I checked them, 2 were down at the end of the nest, not in the fur, I counted and put them all together, I will post photo's tomorrow.

Today was the day to give 3 does nestboxes, but I saw them carrying hay in their mouth, so I gave them their boxes early. All three built, but they get in it a little to eat, and it mats the hay down, so I gave them more today.  I will keep you posted on kindling times when it happens.  I have also posted some photos of a mother and young stock.

Silver Ridge Rabbitry is pleased to announce that we have changed our set-up. Previously we were raising out of our garage. That was not an ideal situation, now we are cooking, we have stacking cages from our manufacturer, in a milk house adapted from my father's cow barn, generations of farmers, now in my family. My new set-up is stacking cages with trays. It is so organized and neat, and I hope to keep it that way. I can not say enough about setting it (the rabbitry) up once and doing it right the first time. I just sold off my used cages, that didn't fit into the rabbitry, now I have new and wonderful challenges with my rabbitry. I can not stress how much you want to think about your set-up (cages feeders watering systems, etc.) As much as you want to find the best stock to begin with. If you begin with great stock and a great set-up you can deal with minimal or plenty of space, a barn with poop falling, or stacking trays in basement or a garage or shed. Rabbits are a commitment, so start with the best stock and supplies. Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in seeing our set-up.  802-371-9387

Wow! I attended my first show yesterday, it was so much fun, I must thank the lady at the show who fixed my rabbits tatoo, and she did it for free! I was at the show and everyone was so helpful and sweet.

Below are photos of the ride to Taunton

Below are photos of the Show

Become a fan of Silver Ridge Rabbitry on Facebook. View more photos of our stock. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Morrisville-VT/Silver-Ridge-Rabbitry/364437722622?ref=ts

Last night my husband and I dressed out 4 of our young bucks. My husband will make rabbit chilli this weekend.

I have about  7 Pure New zealand White bucks for sale from my 2 best senior bucks. Blocky builds, great meat rabbits,  Visit the for sale page to see them http://www.silverridgerabbitry.com/newzealandrabbitsforsale.htm But I am willing to make deals to get rid of them. Contact me at s.ouellette@comcast.net some pedigrees available.

The shelves of our grocery stores are filled with genetically-modified (GM) vegetables. The cows/meat in your Big Mac are fed genetically-modified corn and tons of antibiotics, and they wonder why antibiotics don't work on H1N1. Tell the FDA to take GM corn off the market and put safety over profits http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/755645429?z00m=19825385 

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I have noticed that summer kits and winter kits are different in the way they grow and develop, below are some photos, the winter kit has a thicker coat, and noticeably shorter ears, and a shorter body. The summer kit (not really summer just raised in my basement at a constant 70 degrees.) has much longer ears and and a longer body and better fur quality. Please feel free to comment on why these rabbits from the same genetics (the mothers were sisters) are different

Our new litters are growing fast, we lost a couple of litters, and have one case of nestbox eye,  (that will be culled)

The others are gaining rapidly and are about 6 weeks old.

Our New Zealand white rabbits are quick gaining, I usually cull at about 8-12 weeks, keeping the best prospects till I see growth and good meat or show quailties. I have a litter of pedigree stock available at this time, call 802-371-9387 or email s.ouellette@comcast.net

photo at about 4 weeks.