LTW-4 Bunnies born November 25, 2018 All four are Black carrying Dilute (Blue) Sire:  Grand Champion Miss Maggie's Leon Dam:  High Rock's Twilight LTW-4 Weekly Assessments and Weight Records LTW1 - Buck - Black   carrying Dilute (Blue)  aa B_ C_ Dd E_ si most potential largest in the kindle fullness in the loins nice width not one to stay still and be posed well 12/30/2018 - Likes to explore. 12/23/2018 - Rather curious and likes to explore. 12/16/2018 - Largest of the kindle presently and looks to have nice width so far. 1/06/2019 - Constantly in motion and fights posing. 1/13/2019 - Seriously fights posing, wants to explore. 1/20/2019 - Very wide in the backside, nice in the loin, and easier to handle this time. LTW2 - Buck - Black  carrying Dilute (Blue) aa B_ C_ Dd E_ si Smallest of the kindle May have potenital 12/30/2018 - Highly active. 12/23/2018 - Handles well and rather sweet. 12/16/2...

Silver Fox is primarily a meat and show breed. They are docile enough to be pet breed, but most people do not want such large rabbits as pets, just because it is a lot of rabbit to handle. Still there are some breeders that have a pet breeder mindset when it comes to selling them. Here is a simple list to know with which kind of seller you may be dealing, which is helpful when you are new to rabbits! Let's start with the simplest first and move on to the most complicated. Silver Fox Meat/Fur Breeder Sale: Cash, bun...done! Basically, that is it. No muss, no fuss. Both seller and buyer agree where and when to meet and buyer is expected to have cash in hand. The rabbit can be any quality and age after weaning or state laws (usually 8 weeks old and up). There may be a pedigree involved or not. Silver Fox Show Breeder Sale: Discerning Typically, show breeders only want to sell rabbits that have good qualities—although not perfect, but have no disqualifying traits—an...

Yesterday a fellow Silver Fox Breeder came over for a trade breeding. However, GC Leon was rather tired out quickly and there were no fall-offs with either of her two does. She opted for Starry Knight, which was his first time, and he had the energy and stamina that his grandfather no longer had.  I have noticed that Leon has been becoming weaker in his back legs, and it may be close to the time he has outlived his ability to breed, but I plan to try him with another doe in a few days. I have considered using carpet or a rubber mat to help him have the traction he needs. I have been noticing this weakness for some time, but he was able to breed about six weeks ago when he won BOB at the Southern Pride show. So, I think he still has some good days, but yesterday was a bad one. I truly have fallen in love with that old buck. Even though I have had him only since August, he is like the patriarch grandfather of my rabbitry. I am still hoping to get a few more breedings out...

Three rabbit breeders talked me into showing and since then my life has completely changed. Throughout the year, I have bought seven SFs, three bucks and four does. I attended five shows, which included my very first rabbit show ever! Three in Georgia, one in Alabama, and one in South Carolina. Three were triples and two were doubles. My sweet Tale of Tails Ciara did the poorest at the shows, yet was in all five. She did snag one 1st/3 at WGRC 10/6/18 as an Int and has earned total of 124 points. She has been a trooper in helping us make numbers and she is a sweetheart. GC Miss Maggie's Leon is a five-year-old (retired to brood) buck, whom I never planned to show because he is obviously not in his prime and I did not want to stress him. However, to help us make numbers, I did take him to two shows. He surprised me by taking 1st/6 at SPRC 12/1/18 and in those two shows he earned 64 display points with 86.5 specialty points. It is hard to say which of my rabbits did ...

This is one of those posts that I hope I don't have to write and yet this is the reality of rabbit keeping...at least, sometimes. I had a difficult start this breeding season, partially because the heat of summer stayed well into the autumn season, which probably contributed to why the first breeding did not take—the bucks must have been heat sterile. Then there was the fact that I only had two does breeding age to start and I wanted to show them both, but especially Luna, who did not do as well as I hoped at first but when the cooler weather came, she finally went into prime condition, won her legs, and was ready to be bred. Finally, I had pregnant does, but.... Twilight, a first time mom, was clueless after she kindled and wanted to lie in the nest, but after separating her from her kits a few days until her milk came in, she was a great mother to her four kits and they are all looking healthy, fast growing, and quite wide. Canyon had three—one black, one blue, and one w...

I have been holding back a secret that I am now ready to tell. At our very first show, the judges commented much on the type of our Silver Foxes presented. One thing that I heard more than a few times was that many of our rabbits had long shoulders. So, I made a decision to try to find a doe with short, deep shoulders so that we could get better shoulders into the Georgia Silver Fox lines. The first breeder that came to mind was the same breeder of GC Miss Maggie's Leon. To my surprise, she had a junior doe entered into the 2018 ARBA Convention that she believed would be what I wanted and after talking about her back and forth for a short time, I was sold. I contacted my transporter to be sure she had space, which she did. Then I sent the breeder the full payment for Avery on October 9th, about 3 weeks before the convention, as well as paid my transporter. Imagine my surprise and excitement when the breeder contacted me to say that Avery had won Best of Breed at the co...