Reedy Branch Ranch

08/24/2023

These buns are 12 weeks old and ready to hop to their furever 🏡 Need the space so 👇🏻💵

07/20/2023

These babies will be ready to hop next week. PM for more info

07/20/2023

I get lots of rabbit questions. LOTS…
But mostly when I share their cage system. It’s great for rabbits and their safety, but without proper rabbit anatomy education, people always comment,
“Why are they in wire cages?”
“Oh their poor feet!”
“Why aren’t they outside on the ground?”
“Such small cages, sad.”

Here’s an amazing rabbit fact for you, rabbits are a mammal that do not have toe or foot pads. They are naturally adapted for durability. Their feet consist on long hard bones, covered in two different types of dense fur! Using appropriate wire flooring should have little to no affect on their feet, also providing resting mats or bedding with hay. Sore hocks is a possibility in some breeds, but most of the time sore hocks is genetic, it’s a hard cull in our herd. Rabbits housed on solid floors have a higher chance of sore hocks, due to moisture and bacteria constantly in contact with their feet. Another bonus to wire is p**p and urine fall freely away from the rabbit, reducing their risk of urine scald and coccidiosis.
Rabbits on the ground can be attempted, but comes with great risk. Predators, fatal disease from wildlife and parasites will quickly kill rabbits in tractor type ground pens. It’s not a risk I’m willing to take.
A rabbits natural habitat is a burrow under ground, so naturally, they feel most protected in small spaces. My ARBA standard cages provide just that.
I am always striving to provide above and beyond husbandry for my herd, while sharing rabbit knowledge with others.
As always, if you have questions, ask💛

07/08/2023

Holland lop kits will be 👀 4 🏡 after 7/24/23
2 Black otter heavy VM bucks
Blue heavy VM doe
2 BEW does
2 BEW bucks
Barnwell county, SC

07/08/2023

4 black otter Jersey Wooly kits 👀 4 🏡 after 7/24/23
2 bucks, 2 does

06/28/2023

👀 for 🏡
Will be ready to hop to them 7/24/23

06/25/2023

06/19/2023

I really hope this happens when that day comes ❤️

06/19/2023

Daisy’s holland lop kits are definitely flopping now at 3 weeks today 🥰

06/19/2023

Jersey Wooly kits are 3 weeks old today and just keep getting cuter 😍

06/15/2023

I did not know that!
“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.”
—
Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)
OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE.
Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.
Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.
Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”
Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne—after telling her not to publish).
Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.
Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.
Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

06/13/2023

Jersey wooly kits at 15 days old 🥰

06/13/2023

The holland lop kits are growing. 15 days old today 😍

06/06/2023

And the Jersey Wooly kits are growing like weeds

06/06/2023

Seems I miscounted the day they were born or someone was just hiding too well. Daisy gave us 7 precious Holland lop kits 🥰

05/29/2023

Two litters born today. Daisy has 6 holland lop kits and Misty has 5 Jersey Wooly kits. These are the Woolys