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We’re working on a line of New Zealand reds that carry white, bred to SOP. Our rabbits are raised primarily for meat.

We keep most of our does in colonies, and we plan to create a buck colony during the winter of 2026-2027.

11/04/2026

LITTER REVEAL!!!

Motherwolf’s Princess Peach x Land of Enhopment’s Fiver, TAKE TWO!

Two broken and four solid, all healthy and IN THE NEST! Peach was worried and in my business while I was looking at them so I’m taking that as a very good sign. Last litter was kindled on the pavers and Peach refused to have anything to do with them.

11/03/2026

Tattoos got done this past weekend for the 6 week growout kits, which is earlier than we’ve done in the past. Fingers crossed that the color will stick around for legible adult tattoos, but we can do touchups if necessary. The main goal was to be able to track weight and type sooner.

What age do you all tattoo at?

11/03/2026

Motherwolf Rabbitry 2.0’s Princess Peach (“Peach”) is nesting like her life depends on it. We spread about a flake of hay around the pen for her this morning, and she’s digging it. I’ll be headed home at lunch to check on her… and hopefully this time she’ll put them IN the beautiful nest she’s building instead of in the middle of the colony pen.

11/02/2026

Anyone else? My phone suggests memories I might like, and since most of my photos are of rabbits, they’re usually rabbit photos. I like to play a game of “guess the rabbit,” and I’m surprisingly good at it. I never would have thought when we bought our first rabbits in 2023 that I would eventually recognize them from any angle.

Please enjoy this hindquarters photo memory of Motherwolf’s Hot N Heavy (“Hottie”) before becoming a mother.

10/31/2026

Please don’t fall apart, please don’t fall apart, please don’t fall apart.

I will not admit to naming this little man. He doesn’t have a name. 🫣 Do you think the universe believes me?

HHFF3 (remember, I’m telling the universe he doesn’t have a name yet) is out of Land of Enhopment’s Fiver and Rockin ER Rabbitry ’s Flurry, so he carries REW and non-extension, which is one step forward toward reds carrying white. He’s a little skinny because we had some rough starts during our baby boom, but I’m not holding that against him. Other than a little hollowness that should fill in, I think he’s looking really nice. He’s a little small for his 6 weeks, but so are most of the others born at the same time. We had tons of kits and not enough does actively nursing.

What do you all think?

10/31/2026

Meet Highway 64 Rabbitry’s Liz! Liz had a few wins with Jim this year, and he comes with a leg to show for it! I can’t begin to express how excited and grateful we are to have this beautiful buck in our program. He’s still pretty tense when we pose him (new place, strange people), so it’s hard to get flattering posed pictures. He was absolutely stunning when Jim posed him out for me when we met up, so I know the issue is some combination of nervous tension and my lackluster posing skills. Even still, this guy is gorgeous. He’s huge, and my fingers almost don’t reach around his loins. I absolutely understand why the advice for meat breeders is to find high quality show rabbits to start a meat herd with, because WOW. We’ve been looking for a super nice herd buck for some time now, and we finally found him!

We took some does to him immediately after he got here just in case, but we didn’t see any falloffs. Once they’re on the same pellets, Brink’s Starfire and Liz will share a condo for a few weeks to make sure Liz has his chance with her. That will be Starfire’s last chance to have a pregnancy take, so fingers crossed! We’re also breeding him to Rockin ER Rabbitry ’s Diamond to try and get a nice REW carrier or two, and we think Liz and Diamond will pair very well together.

10/24/2026

It looks like we have TWO house bunnies. Baggins Rabbitry’s Tookland Ivy and Land of Enhopment’s Clifford aren’t fast friends yet, but they both love their joint house time in the evenings. Zero fights so far 🥰 hopefully we can keep that trend going.

All of the bonding content out there made us pretty nervous about introducing rabbits to each other when we first got into rabbits, but I’m so glad we never tried “bonding” rabbits the “right” way…it looks miserable and scary.

10/22/2026

One more introduction to come, and we are officially done bringing in new rabbits for a while! We will be taking this cooler season to make pairings, assess our herd, hit some shows, potentially keep some growouts, and probably make some cuts.

10/21/2026

It’s so fun to play with babies. We took these pictures of some of Ruby’s kits over the past weekend. We will post an update on that litter sooon.

10/21/2026

New world screwworm is a quickly developing issue in New Mexico and Texas. The fly is devastating to livestock, and the rabbit community needs to stay alert. Hopefully we will have an intense, cold winter to drive them south again.

Make sure to keep a close eye on all of your animals, and reach out to your veterinarian, county extension office, or state department of agriculture if you have concerns about a wound that is not healing, smells bad, or has visible maggots. Making sure every case gets reported is essential for eradication efforts!

For New World Screwworm updates, visit:
🔗 https://screwwormnm.org/
Additional resources:
🔗 https://nmdeptag.nmsu.edu/

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