Thursday, March 25, 2010
More Show Table Fun!
Amara & Garron introducing Tank's Dunkirk, our young Chinchilla Senior Buck.
MBT
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Springtime & Love Is In the Air!
Spring is in the air at The Rabbit Tank! Full information on our latest breeding coming to this space soon...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Let's Get a Win in 2010
Howdy there. I realize how long it has been since I last managed to pound out a post, my apologies. Good news- we have spent over a year in our new rabbitry & have come through all sorts of economy-related issues (where's that change I was promised? I believe it has been stalled...)
Anyhow, aside from all that, our rabbits have mostly fared well. We lost Tank's Meilyr at 6 years & several months, which was disheartening. He continues to be the backbone of our ND line and will never be forgotten. There are plenty o' pedigrees featuring Meilyr's name. He was quite the lady's man.
I have a theory that there is a mass-intelligence at work within our rabbit herd & frankly, any rabbit herd. We say that our herd "knows" what it needs- when it wants more shadeds, we receive more. When it needs bucks, we produce them. Recently we've had a bushel of very typey bucks. We had a surprise REW, Tank's Milkshake, who has surpassed all expectations. I have a photo of he and I as my Facebook avatar.
We also have Tank's Dunkirk, Chin buck extraordinaire, Tank's Hjolmir, heir to the Otter tradition in our rabbitry & Tank's Jupiter, fair-to-middlin' Himi buck. On last Saturday, we traveled to Fort Worth & met some great people. Chris Thomas met us there & we'll be talking more about bringing in some new does. We have a GREAT little black buck, Thom's Mister A, that will improve our program.
Things are looking up, in my estimation. We hurdled some major obstacles, even as our trail leg hit one or two, but we managed to qualify. Now onward to the goal, a win in twenty-ten! &c.
MBT
Anyhow, aside from all that, our rabbits have mostly fared well. We lost Tank's Meilyr at 6 years & several months, which was disheartening. He continues to be the backbone of our ND line and will never be forgotten. There are plenty o' pedigrees featuring Meilyr's name. He was quite the lady's man.
I have a theory that there is a mass-intelligence at work within our rabbit herd & frankly, any rabbit herd. We say that our herd "knows" what it needs- when it wants more shadeds, we receive more. When it needs bucks, we produce them. Recently we've had a bushel of very typey bucks. We had a surprise REW, Tank's Milkshake, who has surpassed all expectations. I have a photo of he and I as my Facebook avatar.
We also have Tank's Dunkirk, Chin buck extraordinaire, Tank's Hjolmir, heir to the Otter tradition in our rabbitry & Tank's Jupiter, fair-to-middlin' Himi buck. On last Saturday, we traveled to Fort Worth & met some great people. Chris Thomas met us there & we'll be talking more about bringing in some new does. We have a GREAT little black buck, Thom's Mister A, that will improve our program.
Things are looking up, in my estimation. We hurdled some major obstacles, even as our trail leg hit one or two, but we managed to qualify. Now onward to the goal, a win in twenty-ten! &c.
MBT
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
August 2008 Breeding Info
Here is the roster for the breeding we completed on August 11-12. Does should kindle around September 9-12 .
Netherland Dwarf Breedings:
Tank's Thor (otter) was bred to Tank's Dyvette (black), Tank's Sapphire (siamese sable agouti), Tank's Rashida (chocolate) and Tank's Ena (siamese sable).
Tank's Bacchus (opal) was bred to Tank's Aiobh (black), Tank's Habiba (black), Tank's Sisele (chinchilla) and Tank's Inge (blue otter).
Tank's Almond (chocolate otter) was bred to Tank's Chatter (black) and Tank's Kate (black).
Hill's Phoenix (silver marten) was bred to Becca's Beka Dot (broken black) and Tank's Freya (chocolate otter).
MBT
Netherland Dwarf Breedings:
Tank's Thor (otter) was bred to Tank's Dyvette (black), Tank's Sapphire (siamese sable agouti), Tank's Rashida (chocolate) and Tank's Ena (siamese sable).
Tank's Bacchus (opal) was bred to Tank's Aiobh (black), Tank's Habiba (black), Tank's Sisele (chinchilla) and Tank's Inge (blue otter).
Tank's Almond (chocolate otter) was bred to Tank's Chatter (black) and Tank's Kate (black).
Hill's Phoenix (silver marten) was bred to Becca's Beka Dot (broken black) and Tank's Freya (chocolate otter).
MBT
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
New Baby Rabbit Photos- July 2007
Hello there! Hope everybody is having a great summer and your rabbits are staying cool. Above is Tank's Hans, our newest Holland Lop buck. My mom says I always give the Holland Lops short-shrift, so that's where we start and end in today's post. Following are photos of new and available rabbits for sale:
Bacchus and M'Nyara produced two wonderful little chestnut agoutis, above.
Busy Bacchus also gave us this blue otter with Inge, (at right, not for sale, sorry!) and a black and siamese sable pair of bucks via Oseye (both available!)
Diana and Dakir gave us a sweet black doe and a REW.
Somewhere far, far back in their pedigrees, Thor (black otter) and Emma (tortoiseshell) had some himalayan-patterned relatives, as they surprised us with three himi does!
Jean-Claude and Sesheta gave us a short-eared pair of cuties- one black otter and one chestnut.
Meilyr and Kelita teamed to have our newest black otter out of his storied line, Tank's Gunter (not for sale.)
... and we'll leave off where we began, with Tank's Hans (fawn) and his orange sister with the interesting ears!
We also have several adult rabbits for sale- Tank's Aiobh (black doe,) Tank's Ilene (black otter- proven doe,) Tank's Nyosha (black- proven doe,) Tank's Ivor (sable marten buck,) Tank's Silver Dragon (silver marten buck,) and Hopperhaus' Hiram (black buck- two legs.) Photos of these rabbits can be found in the posts under this one, or I will send new ones upon request.
Thanks!
MBT
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