This Homestead Girl

Our two litters of Jersey Woolies just turned five weeks old. Cute as button, extremely friendly, and oh-so-fluffy, the bunnies are growing like weeds. Winnie, one of the babies from Lottie's litter, is pictured below. Since these baby bunnies are destined to be show rabbits, I decided it was high time to start training them to pose. There are only four bunnies total, so I picked them all up, and carried them  over to the picnic table. Winchester (Winnie), Remington (Remi), Morning Glory, and Emeth (formerly Echo), all sat obediently and stared at me. So, in order to pose a Wooly, they have to be up on their toes, but not too far. The front feet should be lined up with the eyes, and the fronts of the back feet should be lined up with the front of the hips. This position is actually natural for them, but they never want to do it on command. Anyway, I place Winnie on the table, and start to gently push up on her head. She poses...

I adore a good book, but they can be pretty hard to find. However, I've recently been reading some really good books, so I thought I'd share them with you. The Arcrean Conquest Series by Nicole Sager There are three books in this Christian fantasy series, and I just finished the last one. Once I picked them up, they were extremely hard to put down. I pretty much walked around glued to my Kindle until I finished them. I am now looking into other books by Nicole Sager, and they look pretty promising! Wars of the Realm Trilogy by Chuck Black I have read this series too many times to count. I just recently finished reading them over again, because I couldn't find anything else. These Christian thrillers are full of suspense, as they follow the spiritual journey of Drew Carter. This series is by far the best I've ever read, and it ranks higher then even the Chronicles of Narnia in my favorite book list. Fairest by Gail Carson Levine I'd be...

  Don't you just feel like this sometimes?     Meet Jade, an exuberant, bossy, adorable Californian. After surviving Coccidiosis (a disease most common in young rabbits) when she was eight weeks old, she lived in our basement for several weeks. She became quite the spoiled pet while living down there.   While Jade was residing in our basement, she acquired several quirky nicknames. Once, we started calling her "Jadis," forgetting that it was the name of the White Witch from Narnia. When I finally figured this out, I told my family, who immediately started calling the poor rabbit "Little White Witch."   Every morning when I feed Jade, she comes bounding up to the door, and then stops suddenly, waiting for me to pet her. If I reach in the pen to do it, she stretches out on the floor, closes her eyes, and soaks it up. If I stop petting her, she gives me a "seriously?" look, followed by an evil glare, which, if n...

Two weeks ago, Dreamy and Lottie, two of our Jersey Wooly females, had two bunnies each.   Lottie had two chestnut colored kits(babies) which are VERY pudgy. She's a bit of an over-enthusiastic mother. The bunnies are just starting to think about opening their eyes, which I am super excited about! Below is one of Lottie's babies.      Dreamy, a squirrel (light blue-grey) jersey wooly, produced one black otter kit, and one chocolate colored kit. The chocolate bunny was a pleasant surprise, as we haven't had a bunny of that color before in the rabbitry.   The funny thing is that I thought that this bunny was the same color as her mother when she was born. Considering this, I named her Echo. I had already got into a habit of calling her that when she grew chocolate fur. However, I couldn't bring myself to change her name, so Echo it is. She is pictured below.       The two bunnies ...