Jumping the gun. Part 1

About 2 weeks ago, My husband started cutting the cage wire for the cages and realized that we were only going to be able to build 2 cages out of what we had. UGH! (That cage wire was $66. So now it's going to be DOUBLE THAT! see expense reaction photo from previous post) So after he had all cage pieces cut he put them in the side shed and there they would sit for 2 more weeks :(

I was starting to feel antzy because I had heard that there was alot of profit to be had a Easter and we already have 1 rabbit named Pebbles (not sure what breed she is) and she is breeding age. SO I was hoping to at least get a New Zealand buck of breeding age and breed her. Then maybe we would have a kit ready to leave the nest by the time Easter rolled around in like 12 weeks. Soooooooo.....I started hounding my husband to put together the cages to no avail. (Shane is very laid back so without a deadline things kindof get put off for more prudent matters.)

So yesterday, again in hopes to light a fire under him, I started calling around to local rabbitries to see what they had available. Once that snowball got started though it wouldn't stop (making my YIKES face)

It seemed no one had any available kits til February and then I talked to a guy in Sophia which was about a 40 minute drive from where we are. He said he had a 2 month old litter of Broken Black New Zealands and he had one White New Zealand BUck who was 3 months old but he didn't have any older bucks for sale. I think after our "search" Shane and I became panicked and agreed to buy 2 Broken Black Does and the 1 White Buck. The man said he would rather us come today if we could and so 45 minutes later we were in the car with our borrowed cat carriers to go pick up our new bun bun's. (Remember we still hadn't finished building the cages. This would prove to be a disaster)

When we arrived at the rabbitry, we immediately started taking mental notes about his set-up, the mess, his cages, his feeding system ect. And he was very accomodating. He answered every question we had and more. He showed us how to sex the rabbits for Does and Bucks and told us how much food they needed everyday. He also showed us some full-size New Zealands and let me tell you they are HUGE!

After much conversation, he gave us the pedigrees and we headed out with our new babies. We were very optimistic about the amount of work we had set ourselves up for once we got home........