So, a few weeks ago, I finally got rabbits! I have three does (girls) and one buck (boy). My mom also got a free Flemish Giant rabbit, but he's not technically mine, even though I'm taking care of him and feeding him. My first doe is Chloe. She's a purebred Californian, and she has white fur with black paws, nose, tail, and ears and red eyes. She's about two months old. She's very skittish and doesn't really like me to pet her. Then I have Zoe, a purebred New Zealand White, who is completely white with red eyes. She is very curious, kind of hyper, and very friendly. I can pick her up and she doesn't run away. Then there's Star, my newest rabbit. I got her about two weeks ago from a different place than the rest of the rabbits. She came from a friend of ours who bred her for me before I got her. She is hopefully pregnant and will be having a litter of kits in about two weeks. She is a black tortoiseshell, which means a brown/orange color that turns into black as it gets close to her points (ears, nose, tail, paws), with a white spot on her nose and white paws. She's more calm, but she doesn't really let me pet her yet. Corus is the only buck that is actually mine, and he is a purebred Californian like Chloe and has the same coloring. He doesn't really like me to pet him either, but otherwise he's a very friendly rabbit. Fezzik is the Flemish Giant. He's an albino like Zoe, and he is about two or three times as big as the others and still isn't full grown. He could get up to 20 lbs! He has a very proud attitude, and he even looks proud when he sits up. He has this way of holding his head with his nose almost pointing in the air. It's hilarious. He's not really friendly and my mom thinks he's mad at her. You see, he was free to hop around wherever he wanted at his old home, and now he's in a cage, so my mom thinks he knows that she's the one who put him here. He was free, and my mom just couldn't resist getting a free rabbit, so she brought him home with us. He's a kind of grumpy rabbit.
My rabbits are raised on pasture, which means they're in a cage with wire on the bottom that is set on a field so they can eat the grass through the wire. They are also given some pellets as a supplement. I move them every morning to fresh grass. I'm raising the rabbits for meat rabbits, though the ones I own now are going to be used for breeding, not to eat. I'm also thinking about joining 4-H and showing my rabbits, as three of them are purebred. I also am excited to learn and be able to experiment with color genetics with my rabbits. That's one of the reasons I got Star, so I could have more variety of color. I can't wait for my first litter of rabbits! Star was bred to an Chestnut Agouti buck (a wild colored rabbit), so there are several possibilities for colors.
So, that's all about my rabbits. Now for exciting things that are coming up.
Tomorrow my Drama class is performing a play. I can't wait! It's called the Elves and the Shoemaker, and though it is a little corny and silly, I'm really excited about it. I play one of the elves, named Mortz, who is a bossy leader on the outside, but who is afraid of breaking or changing the rules, and doesn't like new things. We had our first dress rehearsal today and tomorrow is another dress rehearsal and then the performance!
Then on Tuesday I have a Choir performance for the same co-op that I take my Drama class at. I'm in Choir and Ensemble, and we're singing lots of awesome songs. We're singing some Latin songs, a Spanish song, a spiritual, and we're singing a collection of Irving Berlin songs like God Bless America, There's No Business Like Show Business, Putting on the Ritz, and others. Plus, I'm playing the piano in the prelude for the concert. I'm planning on playing Chariots of Fire.
So, that's it for now. I'll update tomorrow to say how the performance went. Thank you if you read this!
