04/24/2026
As with any rabbit breed!
This weekend, a customer who bought a bunny told me, "I'm going to look into seeing there's a market for this, cause you're selling these bunnies for a lot"
I tried to explain to him how hard dwarves are and the loss, and the expenses and how it's not like a meat rabbit where you get 10 kits a litter so that he knew what he would be getting in to, but it was in one ear and out the other.
Y'all, I had eight kids born today out of 3 does. 2 are living. Out of 8. 4 were doas and 2 were lost to ants. Ants, somehow, even though they're in an air conditioned indoor building in off the ground cages and she had a thick thick nesting box with plenty of fur. đ And one of those was a smoke pearl đđđ And I don't have the shaded buck anymore to breed her back, because I sold him. đ
So out of 3 bred does, I got 2 living kits. 2 kits. Both black. And there was literally nothing that could be done about the ones that died today. It wasn't a cold or scattered issue where I could try and warm them and save some. Doas happen. The ants were super bad luck. One must have been inside, found them and told a few friends. It was only a few, but it only takes a few. Par for the course for raising dwarves.
Dwarf bunnies are so so hard y'all. Despite the very best efforts. That's why dwarves cost what they cost and are hard hard to find, because it's not easy or cheap to do this. If it was easy to do, they would be everywhere.