This afternoon was a busy time for phone calls about Rabbits!! When we were researching which breeds to buy and breed, it seemed that both Flemish Giant and Californian pure breds were hard to come by. We spoke to breeders all over Australia trying to track down these breeds. The Flemish were a little easier to come by, and eventually after quite a few months of searching, we bought our first 2 Flemish Does from Bacchus Marsh Vic. We then tracked down our oldest male Flemish, then a few months later we located our younger 2 Does, and 1 buck - that was our Flemish breeding adults sorted! It took a number of months more of searching to find Californians, we were lucky enough to source 4, 2 bucks, and 2 Does, and travelled to Melbourne to pick them up (they had travelled from NSW).
One of the calls I took today, comfirmed just how rare Californian's are, and as a result of other breeders trying to broaden their breeding stock, we may well have sold our entire litter of 10 Californians! We will also have the contacts of other breeders in different areas of Australia so we too can broaden our breeding stock!! :-)
anyway.. it's now getting late and time to go!! :-)
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