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ARBA Registered Rabbitry
Raising American Chinchilla, American Sable, Rex, Palomino, and Silver Marten bred to the SOP

04/25/2026

That is a wrap for the Asotin County Fair. They really did impress me today. Our fair is not an ARBA-sanctioned show so our awards are a little different. Here is the rundown. The Top Of Class awards are equivalent to an ARBA BOB. The Sweepstakes award is equivilent to a Reserve In Show!

Caty Creek's Gimic - Jr. Himi Rex Buck - BOB, RIS
Conrad's Mara - Sr. Black Silver Marten Doe - BOB
Moon Phase's Pookie - Sr. American Sable Doe - BOB
Caty Creek's Spartan - Sr. American Chinchilla Buck - BOB
Leblanc's JMP1 (Kapoon) - Sr. Golden Palomino Buck - BOB
P3's Dubwool - Sr. American Chinchilla Doe - Best Overall Open Breeding Project

04/24/2026

Let’s talk tattoos. I have been asked by more than a handful of people how I get my tattoos so neat so I thought I would make a quick post about it.

The first tattoo pictured is one I did about a year ago. And the two other pictures were done yesterday.

There really is no shortcut to getting good at tattoos. You just have to practice, and practice again, and practice some more. I have tattooed hundred of rabbits and gotten lots of experience with it. The quickest way to get good at tattooing is to practice on culls. Particularly the ones you are going to process. You can tattoo them twice, for double the exercise. Don’t forget to be patient it took me about a year and a half to have what I would call decent tattoos.

04/22/2026

We take rabbits to the fair tomorrow, so here is a litter update while I have a chance.

Ursa Major's It Goes Around A.K.A. Orbit had her litter of 9 beautiful babies on the 19th. These babies are out of Cooper Creek's Tracker, so I have hopes there will be at least one chinchilla in there. Interestingly, there is a white baby in her box. There is a chance it is a himi or a REW, but we will have to wait and see.

Ursa Major's In Motion A.K.A Inertia - Her litter is now four weeks old and I did four week weight checks and here is how they did.

Chinchilla Doe - 10.1 oz
Chinchilla Buck - 9.7 oz
Lynx? - 10.8 oz
Opal? - 7.4 oz
Broken (Castor) - 8.3 oz
Broken (Chocolate) - 12 oz
Broken (Lynx?) - 10.9 oz
Broken (Chinchilla) - 9.9 oz
Otter (Black) - 11.3 oz

Moonshine's Venus litter is also four weeks.

Yapper - 12.9 oz
Green - 12 oz
Brown - 7.1 oz
Yellow - 11.5 oz

P3's Dubwool's litter is the last I did weight checks for.

Rosalita - 12 oz
Brown - 8.8 oz
Yellow - 8.6 oz

04/14/2026

Caty Creek’s Gimic is looking good! He is 5 lbs 4 oz at 14 weeks. He may not be the biggest but that is definitely an improvement from some of my other Rex lines.

04/09/2026

We have Palomino babies! Leblanc’s Flower gave us 3 babies this morning!

04/08/2026

Litter Update!

Rex-
Bear Paw’s Blu Blu and Bear Paw’s Estel both lost their litters to the cold. Estel was an overachiever and gave me 12 babies as a first time mom so I fostered three out and they are thriving with Ursa Majors’s In Motion.

Ursa Major’s In Motion has 8 kits and they are all doing amazing. She has 4 brokens (lynx, chinchilla, Amber, and Castor). As well as two chinchillas, a lynx, a black otter, and an opal.

American Chinchlla-

Moonshine’s Venus originally has only 2 babies. But when I went out to check on them two days later she had had more babies. She had 8 babies 1 DOA. After a week I found her eating a babie so I fostered hers out to Dubwool.

P3’s Dubwool had 5 babies. One died after a day. Two weeks later she now has 3 of her kits and 4 of Venus’ babies. They are all growing very well.

Caty Creek’s Ivy was bred to Bella Rose Black Out, a Black Otter Rex Buck. She kindled early this morning with 8 babies. My hope for this litter is to improve the growth rate and size of my American chinchillas.

Caty Creek’s Willow is due today with a litter from Caty Creek’s Spartan.

Palominos-

Powder River’s Atalia and Leblanc’s Flower are both due today with litters from Leblanc’s JP1 “Pip”

03/25/2026

It’s a miracle!

I went out to the barn and we have 5 litters! I am so beyond happy. We have two American Chinchilla and three Rex litters. Here is who kindled.

American Chicmhilla-
Moonshines Venus X Caty Creek's Spartan - 7 kits
P3's Dubwool X Caty Creek's Spartan - 5 kits

Rex -
Ursa Major’s In Motion X Cooper Creek’s Tracker - 8 kits
Bear Paws Blu Blu X Dremin’ Vader - 7 kits
Bear Paws Estel X Dreamin’ Vader - 12 kits

03/15/2026

Tri-Cities 3/14/26

We only brought 8 rabbits with us. So it was kind of a calmer show day. There was another exhibitor that brought pals so there was a leg given for BOB in show B!

American Sable
Moon Phase's Tamale - BOB in both shows

Palominos
PIP - BOSB, BOSV, in youth. BOB, BOV, in the B Show (1 leg)
Flower - BOB, BOV, in youth. BOSB,BOSV in the B show

03/14/2026

Who's Due?

We have 12 does due spread across the next five weeks. So here is who we are on watch for.

Ursa Major's It Goes Around (Opal Rex) X Cooper Creek Wah Boo's Tracker (Broken Chinchilla Rex) Due on March 15th.

Bear Paw's Blu Blu (Blue Rex) X Dreamin' Vader (Blue Otter Rex)
P3's Dubwool (Am. Chin) X Caty Creek's Spartan (Am. Chin)
Bear Paw's Estel (Blue Otter Rex) X Dreamin Vader (Blue Otter Rex)
Ursa Major's In Motion (Castor Rex) X Cooper Creek Wah Boos Tracker (Broken Chinchilla Rex)
Moonshines Venus (Am. Chin) X Caty Creek's Spartan (Am. Chin)
Are all due on March 24th

Mable (AM. Sable) and Pookie (AM. Sable) are both due on the 31st of March. They were bred to a buck at the breeder's house before they came home with me.

Flower (Palomino) X Pip (Palomino)
Ivy (AM. Chin) X Bella Rose Black Out (Black Otter Rex) - Meat Project
Willow (AM Chin) X Caty Creeks Spartan (AM Chin)
Are Due on April 7th

And last but not least, Powder River's Atalia (Palomino) X Pip (Palomino) is due on April 8th.

I hope we have some luck and will have a spring baby boom. Hopefully, there will be some nice offspring, and I will have some available for those who have inquired about rabbits.

03/12/2026

Ursa Major’s It Goes Around aka Orbit got her next box today. Hopefully she will have babies for me when I get back from the Tri-Cities show this weekend! She is bred to Cooper Creek Wah Boo’s Tracker a Broken Chinchilla. I am hoping for Chin babies.

02/20/2026

Rabbits can't be fun all the time.

We talk a good bit about all the fun it is to have rabbits. Going to shows, winning legs, breeding cute babies. There are a ton of reasons to love raising rabbits. But like everything else, it can't all be fun.

I have not had a lot to post on my page lately. Nornally my posts consist of breedings, litter announcements, and rabbit evaluations. As some of you may have notived there has not been any of that on my page in a while. Almost 9 months to be exact. I have not had a litter make it past three days old in 9 months. This is a bit of a rant post, because this is not like one or two does this has been a combination of every rabbit in my barn.

I have bred 10 does, 3 different breeds, many different lines. Across 27 breedings in the last 9 months, none were successful. 22 of those breedings failed due to my does not taking the breeding. 4 were failed because my does miscarried the babies, three were at day 25. The only breeding I had that resulted in a litter actually being alive was a Trouble X Vader re-breeding. Those babies ended up getting chilled at three days old and passed away.

I will not lie to you. It has been very discouraging. But all I can do is keep trying. That's all I have for now. Hopefully, I will have a litter to announce in the near future.

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