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Black Beauty's Burrow We are a farm based in Russellville, AR area. Our main focus is rabbits: Silvers & English Angoras. Our main duck breed is Muscovy.

We also focus on goats: Nigerian Dwarf and a variety of other diary breeds. We have a variety of other species as well.

Well, they are making their dents but this pen probably has a week or 2 worth of brush in it! I had to pull all the stan...
03/08/2025

Well, they are making their dents but this pen probably has a week or 2 worth of brush in it!
I had to pull all the standards to feed them so the pen didn't go down quite as quickly as I was hoping.
But they'll get there! Depending on how long this pen takes them, this might be the right size for our movable electric fences in the future!

Well, we took advantage of the cool temperatures this weekend and worked on a new temporary fence today for the goats. W...
02/08/2025

Well, we took advantage of the cool temperatures this weekend and worked on a new temporary fence today for the goats. We are trying to claim back our lower pasture for our goats. If we can do it, it will help us cut back on parasite load majorly. It will also decrease predator count.
But, we can't reach the main fence to put up the new goat proof fencing! So we are having to improvise with a roll of weld wire and some cattle panels. This should keep the goats secure while allowing them to work the brush out of the area and away from the fence.
Then once they are done, we can fence off the next section and move them to it and put up the official fencing where they have cleared.
I'm looking forward to having it done. Once it's done, our whole property is goat fenced.
Our standard donkey, Soot, had to help us pull the fencing across the pond too!

While messing with the fattest baby bunny I've currently got, I discovered some heartbreaking news. At some point after ...
02/08/2025

While messing with the fattest baby bunny I've currently got, I discovered some heartbreaking news.
At some point after initial check, this baby lost a back leg. Likely due to his mother. So while I was over here worried about the nick on his ear, he was missing a whole leg 😭.
He does have a foster sibling but was orginally a singleton.
This is heartbreaking because this means I've got one less show bunny for this coming fall/winter.
He does appear to be a male. I'll know for sure later on. But since he is a male, and not a female that would need to carry a litter, I will still evaluate him for type and determine if he has breeding potential.
If he has issues walking or with sores, etc. then he will be terminal culled.
Madison x RRR's Stuart - Silver

Everyone else seems to be doing good so far. We've had to shuffle around a few babies to ensure everyone gets fed and has the best chance of survival. So far we've not lost one.

A couple of our young doelings got sheared last night. We will be showing them at county fair at the begining of Septemb...
31/07/2025

A couple of our young doelings got sheared last night. We will be showing them at county fair at the begining of September and I'm still figuring out how much growth of hair I want in advance.
Plus, it's a good way to get them used to it.
But this morning, this doeling's rump kept catching my attention. It's so hard to capture in pictures but when she is moving at attention, she has the prettiest little rump. So even though this isn't the best pose due to her head, it shows off her gorgeous little rump.

She makes me excited for her future even if we are still working on posing 🤣.

Lucky Pickens When Stars Align (Lucky Pickens SM Destiny Moon x Lucky Pickens RM Tickle Tickle).

This is Tinkerbell. She is a 15.5 week old Nigerian Dwarf doe. She is mostly blind and can only see lights and shadows. ...
29/07/2025

This is Tinkerbell.
She is a 15.5 week old Nigerian Dwarf doe.
She is mostly blind and can only see lights and shadows.
We took her in at the end of April from a fellow goat breeder.
She's been a mess of a kid but has adjusted to life well and will be joining the girls in the front pasture in the next days or week.
She will not be bred. She is just a weedeater here and will enjoy her life being a pet.

Don't ask me why I thought belling the deaf goat was the right move 🤣. She was supposed to have a friend but the doe had boys so she has been friendless but I think she will quickly transition.

A little after midnight on the 27th, Madison gave us a baby! Madison x Stuart - Brown SilverI had already done last chec...
28/07/2025

A little after midnight on the 27th, Madison gave us a baby!
Madison x Stuart - Brown Silver
I had already done last check for the night and I was walking the young goats around the barn to train them to lead when I saw the baby.
This girl had this baby and had him completely clean and dry within 30 minutes of my last check.
To say I was surprised is an understatement.
It's just the one but it brought me to tears. And I ugly cried for about 20 minutes off and on while I was still working in the barn.
I haven't had this many babies born at once since April 2024.
I haven't had this many litters in a month since January/February 2024. And I lost 90%+ of those either due to the weather or the feed.
In 3 days I was given 6 living and 2 DOA babies. 5 of the living are Silvers.
I can't explain to you guys just how happy it makes me to see healthy babies in my box and know they will live since I've got 3 completely healthy and perfect weight month old silvers. I may be obsessively checking the babies multiple times a day because I'm worried about one ending up on the wire 🙈.
I know many people will say, 'but it's only 6 living babies' but when you go from having 40+ at a time to none basically overnight and no matter what you do, you can't seem to get babies or keep them alive, it's everything. It's the hope that was still just barely burning. It's the desire to raise that had been extinguished. It's the proof that the future will be better. And honestly, I was very close to giving up. 1 more season. That was all that I had left to give. 1 more season after over 10 years of rabbits.

So yes, I cried over 6 living babies. Because they are my herd's future. It will take a while to get back to what we were. We may never reach it. But my herd has a future and that's enough for me to keep going.

Scratch the last post! BBL1 decided 1 wasn't enough! She had to give me 3 more throughout the day!!!4 little brown silve...
27/07/2025

Scratch the last post!
BBL1 decided 1 wasn't enough! She had to give me 3 more throughout the day!!!
4 little brown silvers total. Good count. I'll take it with a smile on my face! That's about average for her.
I saw her pulling hair after I removed the buck but I figured that the stress had caused her to not pull and now she was going to take that chance to do it.
I've never had one pause labor. The first baby was 100% dry and clean. Nothing else was there. But she surprised me!
So now to decide if she gets the EA baby, or if I split the litters, or....
The singleton is doing good so I'd hate to go ahead and pull it. I'll have to make the decision in the next day or so as I see how the does maintain their litters.
Looks like my brown silvers might make a comeback! Fawns are struggling a bit but we will get there! Blacks are basically non existent though so I'll have to rebreed for them.
Y'all have no idea how much joy I have to see any babies in my boxes. It's been a long year and a half. But this means that winter/spring shows might be a possibility!

At this time, no females will be available. We will be keeping all of them unless they look positively awful.

Well, 2 more baby bunnies to add to the list! Yesterday, BBS6, a blue chinchilla English Angora had 1 living baby and 2 ...
26/07/2025

Well, 2 more baby bunnies to add to the list!

Yesterday, BBS6, a blue chinchilla English Angora had 1 living baby and 2 DOAs with BBMO2, a lilac English Angora. There is a chance the other 2 were DOA due to the stress of the buck still being in the cage with the doe but this is something that has to happen unfortunately.

Today BBL1, a brown silver, had 1 living baby with SL77, a brown silver.

The does were potentially exposed after birth but both bucks have now been removed. I may be combining these 2 litters and giving them to one mother but I am waiting to determine who is the better mother.

We lost the fawn baby out of S7B a couple weeks ago and went ahead and re-exposed her to a different buck.
And the other 3 babies out of BBX3 and BBK6 are doing great and both mother and babies are maintaining weight and growing like they should. I'm happy for that! I've checked genders but can't remember what they were now 🤣.

This trip is never easy. It took us 6 hours start to finish. And I'm exhausted and have a headache. But we do it every 1...
26/07/2025

This trip is never easy.
It took us 6 hours start to finish. And I'm exhausted and have a headache.
But we do it every 1.5-2 months to have quality, safe rabbit feed.
I'll be trying out this new 18% dairy pellet for the dairy and show goats. Next time I plan on getting more Alfalfa hay bales.

Plus, it's a nice benefit to be an affordable feed. Even with gas cost.

Just gotta love a good 'Gator' Goat. Redbud R/Y Jillion aka 'Jill'. Registered Nigerian Dwarf. This girl will have a dat...
25/07/2025

Just gotta love a good 'Gator' Goat.
Redbud R/Y Jillion aka 'Jill'.
Registered Nigerian Dwarf.
This girl will have a date with 3, yes 3, different bucks this fall (as long as we get DNA pulled on at least 2 of them first 🙈). And she will stay with them until we have a positive pregnancy test or until January.

Well, it was determined that the old pump had likely kicked the bucket so we rushed into town to purchase a new one befo...
21/07/2025

Well, it was determined that the old pump had likely kicked the bucket so we rushed into town to purchase a new one before it closed yesterday evening.
I was also informed that I'll need to purchase a new belt before too much longer because the current one is starting to break apart. That normally has to be changed at the beginning of the season and when I fired the swamp cooler up for the first time this year, it squeaked and I had my suspicions. And then it quit so I quit worrying about it 🤣.
Yesterday we spent most of the day spreading rabbit manure, mostly liquid from sitting for months, across our milking paddock and cleaning out the barn. We will need to spread another 5 ish barrels in the next few days.
We even got to see a garden/zig-zag spider! Who we left alone because I like them. It's been a couple years since one graced our presence by deciding to make a web in the barn.
Garden spiders and soldier flies are good things to have around! We managed to make several soldier flies upset though becuase we ruined their home 🙈.

We do not, nor do we want to, have an AC barn for our rabbits. This is why. Mechanical issues. I went out to milk the go...
19/07/2025

We do not, nor do we want to, have an AC barn for our rabbits.
This is why.
Mechanical issues.
I went out to milk the goats this morning and noticed the barn seemed a bit warm. Well, once I was done milking I took apart our swamp cooler to find that our pump isn't pushing water.
I contacted someone to repair it but they can't make it out before tomorrow morning. We may need to buy a new pump tomorrow or we may be lucky and can just deep clean this one.
So we've left the fan off and the system apart for most of the day.
I went back out at about 2:30 pm and decided the barn was too warm. I had angoras panting pretty bad.
Please keep in mind, our English Angoras were breed for heat resistance but it's been a few years since they've had to face it.
So I put they system back together and manually wetted it with a hose. I'll have to do this several more times today. This alone dropped the temperature 5-10 degrees but it can't maintain it there without constant water.
After that, I located our cage fans, which we haven't used since we purchased them, and set them up.
We also moved all of our EAs to the coolest area of the barn.
Our Silvers and the few Belgains we have are doing fine. I'm not worried about them.
This is the first time we've had to worry about the heat and our rabbits at all this year and it's not something I enjoy. But if this was an air conditioned barn, this mechanical issue would kill dozens due to the temperature change. Our swamp cooler only keeps it 10-20 degrees cooler than normal so our rabbits can cope.

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