Azurite Rabbitry

01/01/2026

If anyone is interested in some quality brood stock please let me know 🙏

I have the color pointed white English Angora project.
One color pointed white buck
One color pointed white doe -reserved at this stage.
One Lilac doe (carries the himi gene)
I would love these to go to someone willing to keep developing this color variety and I am happy to stay involved and mentor anyone interested.

Two Angora doe's, one squirrel and one lilac (mother and daughter) -reserved at this stage.

A good variety of rexs.
Chinchilla doe's
Chinchilla buck's
Ermine doe's
Ermine buck's
Harlequin Doe's
Harlequin buck's
Tri buck's
Tri doe's
Broken black doe -reserved at this stage
Broken black buck
Orange doe

These are from several different lines.
Colors have been kept clean altho some of the harlequin lines have produced tort here and there.
Record's and lineage well kept (some with 8 generation's + of Azurite breeding)
All papered and microchipped.
Most vaccinated.

Netherland Dwarf:
One chocolate martin doe
One junior chocolate point doe (possibly show quality but is quite long in the body)
One blue point buck

Satins:
One adult buck
One adult doe
Two junior doe's -one reserved at this stage
One junior buck
I would consider the three juniors show quality.

Only available to people interested in keeping the breeding pure and concentrating on the betterment of these breeds and colors.
Hopefully someone who is interested in showing as well.
I am happy to mentor.

These are all great bunnies that are capable of producing show quality stock with the right mix and matching.

02/12/2025

The Day the Good Breeders Vanished

One morning, the responsible rabbit breeders of the world woke up, looked around, and said, “You know what? We're done. Y'all clearly don't want us here. Good luck!". And just like that, p**f, they disappeared.

At first, the internet rejoiced.
"Victory! Adopt don't shop forever!" TikTok’s were made in celebration. A rescue somewhere popped a bottle of carrot juice.

But then... things got weird.
Pet stores ran out of rabbits in 48 hours. So they started importing them from "some guy's cousin" who breeds in a shed behind a gas station. “They're purebred," he said. "See? They're all white”. No one could identify colors. Someone bred a Vienna to a broken and called the babies "moldy marshmallow pearl”. A woman in Ohio started a line of Teacup Flemish Giants, they're just regular kits, but she swears they stay small if you believe hard enough!

Rabbit health took a nosedive.
Someone tried to treat Gl stasis with essential oils and a prayer circle. Nobody was breeding for health anymore, just for TikTok virality, and whether the rabbit's ears matched their owner's aesthetic. By spring, half the rabbits had mysterious food sensitivities, seasonal depression, and a genetic predisposition to faint if someone opened a bag of lettuce too loudly. One line developed a spontaneous sneeze reflex triggered by eye contact.

Meanwhile, the good breeders?
They were sipping coffee in peace, watching the whole thing unfold like
"Remember when we offered mentorship, and lifelong support?”

And the rabbits?
Well... they deserved better.
Instead, they got mystery mixes with the immune systems of overripe bananas and temperaments that ranged from "feral gremlin" to "Victorian fainting goat."

Moral of the story.
If you chase out the people doing it right, you don't get fewer breeders. You get worse breeders. You get rabbits who sneeze when you say the word 'parsley'. You get "rare" colors that look suspiciously like hay stains and regret.

But wait, Adopt Don't Shop became bored.
The good breeders were gone, the TikToks had peaked, and the carrot juice was flat.
They needed a new cause. A new villain. A new dopamine hit. So the champagne was repurposed. The new mission? End breeding entirely. Everywhere. Forever.

They launched a campaign featuring moody black and white photos of rabbits staring into the distance. They tried to get a bill passed that would classify intact rabbits as "emotionally hazardous materials." One influencer declared, “If we just stop all breeding for 10 years, the overpopulation crisis will fix itself." When asked what would happen after that, she blinked and said, “Well... I guess we'll cross that bridge when there are no rabbits left."

Meanwhile, the rabbits, those that hadn't developed gluten intolerance or spontaneous molting syndrome huddled in their hay piles, wondering what they did to deserve this timeline.

And somewhere, far away, a good breeder looked up from their coffee and whispered,

“Told you."

09/11/2025

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02/11/2025

This is a rabbit!
What end is what tho 🤭

30/10/2025

A huge shout out to A4dibble Pet Transport 🥰
They always take super great care of my babies and take them to their new homes all around the country.
They are the only pet transport company I use.

This has been a big week of dropping off babies to their new homes and getting them to the pet transporters ect.

We will have some more rex babies and some more English Angora babies some time soon.
Plus a litter of tans and a litter of satins in the oven 🤞
Then that will be it.
We don't breed from November to March.

13/10/2025

Azurite Bobo starting to mature and looking more like a proper English Angora 🥰
His ears are really well furred!! His fur is still short all round but he's just a baby.
This is my first gen Color pointed white English Angora 🥰

09/10/2025

Some good information here. I often wondered this myself

🙋🏼‍♀️Hello! Just reposting this fact about the Filavac Vaccine for your information.

This last weekend we had several people, clubs asking if the Filavac dose can be halved or quartered or if there is any “extra” amount left after drawing up 0.5ml can it be used on another rabbit and if the dose is the same for all rabbits whether giant or dwarf as it was advised by a vet that it could and the advice seems to have spread through numerous chats/groups with people asking the same question.

It’s actually a pretty good question! Because there is a huge difference between a 7kg giant and a 900 gram dwarf, so you can see the reasoning behind the question.

However, in true WARCI form, we like to go straight to the source to get the correct information for you.

Please see below, portion of email received from Ceva on behalf of Filavie, in response to my questioning rabbit size vs single dose rate.

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“We have previously been asked this question and Filavae has advised that the correct dose rate for any size of rabbit is 0.5mL as a reduction in dose volume will reduce the amount of antigen and thus reduce the immune response and efficacy, some vials appear to have more liquid than others, this doesn’t mean there is more inactivated vaccine, it just means the “liquid carrier” is more, the entire contents must be used on the single rabbit you are administering it to, not split up as “extra”.

See below advice from them on this question -

"As Filavac VHD K C+V is an inactivated vaccine, dividing the dose by 2,5 means having 2,5x less antigen administered to the rabbit at 0,2ml/D and thus efficacy at risk.

Only administration of 0,5ml/D guarantees efficacy. There is no additionnal risk on safety when administration of 0,5ml/D on a smaller rabbit."

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So in short… all rabbits are to receive a single 0.5ml dose or THE ENTIRE CONTENT OF THE VIAL, irrelevant of breed/size.

If new knowledge comes to light and a different dose rate/recommendation comes into play, the supplier/label will advise.

If your vet says different, please ask them to contact the supplier/manufacturer to confirm. Please also be aware, Australia is still in the learning phase for this vaccine, don’t criticise vets/ rabbit owners who might not have a complete understanding of the protocol.

Education is key, vets are afterall trying to help you.

04/10/2025

🥰🥰 I still say English Angoras are the cutest babies out of them all 🥰🥰

29/09/2025

A big thank you to Topflite for sponsoring the show and providing all these goodies.
The topflite pellets are especially great for our English Angoras. Topflite has pellets made of timothy hay and lucerne hay so we can feed them mess free.

And another big thank you to Narnia Rabbitry New Zealand for our prizes.
We fed the vitality meal topper to our little Nethie doe after her emergency c-section and it perked her right up again 🥰
We highly recommend this product.

And anyone else who donated little prizes and prize packs at the show.

23/09/2025

Another cool thing that happened this weekend is we added some new additions and a new breed to our rabbitry.

Introducing our Flemish Giant family.

Two beautiful 8 week old fawns from Sarah Taylor and two gorgeous 10 week old red eyed whites from Madeleine Gray.

We feel a bit spoilt getting our hands on such lovely bunnies!

22/09/2025

A successful show for my daughter Melissa as well 🥰

~Azurite Soot~

BEST IN SHOW at the RCNZ Sarah Freeman Memorial show.
2ND RESERVE BEST IN SHOW at the FGNZ show.

The main thing we took away from the show for Melissa was that she treats her bunnies a little too well and needs to cut them back to one meal per day 😅
She does spoil her bunnies!

(Lighting makes her look a little brown but she is a true black)