Mountain Brook Farm

Welcome to our rabbitry.  This page features rabbits for sale and our current litters.  View Current Litters

 

A non-refundable $50 Venmo, cash app, Paypal or credit card down payment is required to hold a rabbit in your name.  View Waiting List   Cash payment in full is due at the time of pickup.  Scroll to the bottom of the page to see all the bunnies and rabbits that we have for sale.  View Rabbits For Sale.  We have video Channels and update them weekly so that you can follow along watching the development of our litters as the kits grow.  View Video Channels.

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Email Wade to be added to the waiting list and for more information.  

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Kindle is a term used to identify that a doe has given birth.  Baby rabbits are called kits.  Kits nurse from the doe (dam) to grow and develop into bunnies.  

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At kindle bunnies are born naked and nursed by the dam when her milk comes in.  The milk comes in within the first 48 hours after kindle.  The hair and fur grows in each day as the kit develops.  Usually around 3-6 days we can see what color the kit will be.  Some varieties of Holland Lops change color as they grow and we wont know what color they are until later.  This is true of sable and pointed white.  Kits will open their eyes at approximately 10-14 days old.  Kits leave the nest between 15-20 days old and the nest box is removed from the cage. 

 

We supplement the dam with oatmeal, black oil sunflower seeds and calf manna after kindle until the kits leave the nest box.  Once the nest box is removed we give rabbit pellets in a shallow dish that the kits can reach to encourage them to start eating solid food.  The nest box had hay in it so the kits will have already been eating by the time they leave the nest.  The dam continues to nurse them thru 6 weeks of age and in some cases longer if the kits are left with the dam.  We encourage clients to schedule a pick up time and rabbits should be in their new home by 8 weeks old.  The time frame of 6-9 weeks is ideal imprinting time with the new owner in the new home.

 

Bunnies are eating on their own at approximately 42 days or 6 weeks.  We evaluate and monitor the bunnies during weaning and establish a litter price.  We determine a litter price by evaluating the best rabbit and the rabbit with the most faults in the same litter.  The litter is then given a price based on the average overall quality and each rabbit is priced the same in that litter.  Our litters are open to selection at six weeks old.  During evaluation we can determine the gender by 6 weeks time.  Some rabbits develop smaller and gender will not be determined until 2 months old or older.  Bunnies must be 8 weeks old eating and drinking independently before they can leave our rabbitry.  Bunnies go through a phase of soft stool as they transition from nursing to eating hay, pellets and drinking water.  8 weeks is a good amount of time for them to obtain independence as a junior rabbit.  A junior rabbit is a rabbit under the age of 6 months.  Rabbits 6-8 months old are called intermediate.  Rabbits older than 6 months are referred to as a senior rabbit.  

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Looking through our rabbits you will notice identification combining numbers and a letter.  In the example “59C2” the first number 5 identifies the month born.  The number 9 indicates the year born.  The letter C identifies the Dam of the rabbit C= MB Cherry Rum.  Generally if we know the dam its easy for us to recall who the Sire is.  The number 2 is a litter number for each rabbit (1,2,3 and so on).  This set of numbers and letter is called the EAR number and is tattooed into the left ear only of each rabbit.  The right ear is reserved for a additional Pedigree number given by the show judge when earned through competition at ARBA shows (American Rabbit Breeders Association).

 

Click on Rabbitry in the toolbar above and select the option from the drop down screen to see our Holland Lops with Clean Lines (No Vienna), our Vienna Marked & Blue Eye White’s, our Japanese/Magpie Harli and Tricolor Holland Lop rabbits.