Saturday, December 20, 2008

I hate snow

So we've had snow on the ground for about a week now, it never lasts that long where I live. It was going away Wednesday, then decided to snow again that night. We're suppose to get more tomorrow. I've been bringing the water bottles in every night, as it's been down to the teens at night, and have had to check several times a day to make sure everyone still has working water bottles. The little doe that is living in the house (whose been renamed to Pipsqueak) is no longer the only rabbit in the house. Yesterday I noticed Bentley dragging his legs. I'm not sure if something scared him, causing him to pinch a nerve or what. I have him in a carrier packed with hay, to prevent him from moving. This morning I moved Sushi's litter in, as one of them was looking a little small, and seemed to be having trouble with it's eye. Sushi has already lost three to the cold this week (two of which were showable), so want to prevent losing this one. It was 15 degrees when I took the water bottles out this morning!
I have three does (Sasha, Maybelline, and Trelawn Ruby D) due on Tuesday. They will be getting their boxes today. Hoping all goes well with these litters, as I have no good upcoming show prospects... If it's still this cold when they're born, I will be bring the boxes in the house.
On the feed front, since we hadn't heard anything back, we did some calling the other day ago. The people at the headquarters were very concern over this when talking with them. Then when we talked to the rep who sent our sample back to them, he said it's defiently not rabbit food. It's his guessimation that it's cross contamination with another feed (as we were thinking).
I haven't been completely happy with the new feed. The rabbits haven't been finishing it up like they were with the other, plus it's so expensive. Once I use up what I have right now, I will be going back to my former feed. I will just be examing each bag big time before feeding it to my rabbits.





Here's a picture of Pipsqueak just three days before she became sick. She's doing a lot better, and is now eating a day's worth of food, plus unlimited hay. She's slowly starting to gain weight again. Only time will tell if she'll be able to get back into shape to show again. My next show is not until March, the Yelm show. I had been debating about going to the Saint Helens show next month, but with all the bad luck happening here, and the fact that I now don't really have anything to show, I'm going to skip it. Even at Yelm, I will probably only have a couple of Dutch to show. I should have several Silver Martens though, as Nicole and I have 6 young juniors coming up.

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