Meet the "Bun Buns" PART 1

Ivy, our Blue Satin Doe

     Exactly 27 days ago today we borrowed a friend's Satin Buck to come "romance" our Satin Does since they had finally reached breeding age. He stayed for 4 days and split his time equally between the girls, visiting with Ivy first. He was a super-duper sweet guy. A real gentleman, in fact. We all very much enjoyed having him here and the girls got a kick out of naming him.

Hazel, our Chocolate Otter Doe

Pablo, our new Black Satin Buck

     My friend has so many bunnies that she hadn't thought of a name for him yet, so she told Miss E and Miss D that they could name him for her. Miss E first suggested naming him Borrowed since he was not ours and we were just borrowing him for a few days. I didn't think that my friend would be too impressed with that name, so I looked up names that mean borrowed and came up with a rather interesting list. Since my children can't read yet, I only shared a few of the cuter name possibilities with them and they quickly settled on the name Pablo. We instantly fell in love with Pablo and found it very difficult to return him once his services were no longer needed. Ivy and Hazel are fairly standoffish even though they have lived here for nearly 4 months, but this guy was so curious and friendly!

     Lucky for us, our friend was looking to downsize her rabbitry, so over the weekend we were able to go back and get him for good! If all went well we should have teeny tiny baby rabbits arrive any day now and we just couldn't be more excited. Miss E, who has a birthday coming up in April, has been telling us that all she wants for her birthday is a baby bunny. The good news is that even if one or both of the Does didn't take the first time, we now own a buck and can re-breed in ten days if need be. Hopefully, though, that won't be necessary and we will have cute pictures of brand new baby bunnies to share by early next week if not even sooner...

                                                 Hoppily Yours, Mrs. J :)