Basic Rabbit Care And Housing Part: 1

While rabbits are most likely one of the most inexpensive animals to keep, there are still some expenses involved.  Probably the most expensive would be the hutch, or cage for your pet rabbit.
Here's some tips on how to make the best choice when buying or making your hutch.

Some ways people house rabbits are: free range (house or back yard), hutch, colony (a large pen with 2+ rabbits living in it), or there are special indoor cages. At the moment we will just stick with the most common outdoor hutch.

When you first start looking at hutch's available at pet stores/ start designing your own hutch etc, there are some things you should to keep in mind. The first important thing to consider when getting a hutch is how big your new rabbit is going to grow, and how much room he will need when fully grown. In this case we are talking about Netherland Dwarfs, the smallest breed- although this is no excuse to buy or make the smallest cheapest hutch available. An ideal hutch will have enough room for the rabbit to stand up on his hind legs to look around without banging his head on the roof, and at least the length and width of the rabbit laying fully stretched out x2. The hutch should also have a separate covered in area for him to hide, sleep and shelter. A hutch this small will still not give the rabbit enough room to play and exercise, so the bigger the better really- regardless on how big your bunny is . (But just because you rabbit might have a huge hutch is no excuse to not play and cuddle with him everyday :) )

Rabbits For Sale

We currently have 7 pure bred Netherland Dwarf kits for sale.
You can see the listing on Trade Me here... http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=695308408

New litters

Willow had her second litter at around 9:00 am on tuesday, 23/1/14.
There are 7- extremely huge litter!
 So far there are two smoke pearl bucks, one siamese sable buck, one sable buck and one sable doe, and one chinchilla buck and one chinchilla doe.
Five bucks and two does :)

Bubblegum Bunnies Willow had her third litter on the 22/4/14. There are 6 in this litter- and they look like they're all black otters! Pics to come in the next few days :)

Rosebank Fern

Here is a slightly better photo of one of our bucks, Rosebank Fern. I think this one was taken about a month ago- and excuse me for the bluryness/no good posing! He was not cooperating that day plus I am still trying to learn how to actually pose them properly :)

Willow did not take the last time we bred her with Fern, so she was bred to peter a week ago. So hopefully this time we'll have some popples!

Our Rabbits

Bubblegum Bunnies Willow:

Smoke pearl marten

Senior Doe

BUD, lovely colour, excellent temperament and a good pet breeder.






 Serenity Paws Bubble gum

Serenity Paws Bubblegum

Sable

Junior Doe

A very exciting addition to our small number of breeding rabbits, should make a great match for Fern- can't wait for our first litter from her!
Plan on keeping a doe from one of her litters.
                                                             

Casa De Quimera Jasper

Blue Otter

Senior Buck

Rosebank Fern

Black otter

Senior Buck

Super tiny buck who's still got lots of growing to do,and is developing nicely. Again, excellent temperament
and we should get some nice colours :)

Lil' Peter:

Chinchilla

Senior Buck

He was our first ND and first buck-
~Now retired from stud~

Up And Coming Litters

Bubblegum Bunnies Willow was bred to Rosebank Fern On the 22/11/13 so the nest box will
go in on the 20/12/13. Hopefully we will have some new kits for sale by January!

Bubblegum Bunnies Willow was bred to Rosebank Fern on the 22/3/14, hopefully this time she took!

Sold Rabbits

Litter number 1:

One Chinchilla Doe Kit- Sold

One Smoke Pearl Marten Buck Kit- Sold

One Smoke Pearl Marten Buck Kit - Sold

Litter number 2:

 Sable Buck Kit- On Hold

Smoke Pearl Marten Buck Kit- Sold

Chinchilla Doe Kit- Sold

Self Black/Seal Buck Kit- Sold

Smoke Pearl Marten Doe Kit- Sold

Sable Doe Kit-Sold

Chinchilla Buck Kit-Sold