As I have mentioned many times before, mine is a very small rabbitry. Skor, Noobie, BlueBerry & Holly Hope will always be the permanent residents although I know one day, they will be out bred by their offspring. I will be adding on more permanent residents at Meadow Haven while I “cull” and send most to good homes. Once Meadow Haven has reached its limit, I will stop breeding until the older generations pass on and free up the spaces I have.
I will fill Meadow Haven with its finest but what happen when I am faced with so many potential finest?
At this moment I am in dilemma as to which to choose between Eclipse & Luna. Both have their strengths and weaknesses but there can only be one.
There are of course many criterias which I look out for but I am going in this order:
1) Body Type
2) Color/Markings
Beside from the above, I am also looking for traits that could help me improve the herd further. I only have Skor as my herd buck at the moment and I do not know when will there be another buck coming along that could replace him. Eclipse being the only other buck I have at the moment makes it even harder for me to decide.
I wonder how other breeders like me cope with their herd. I guess it is always better to have a big rabbitry where every single kit can be kept. LOL. That’s totally the opposite extreme…
Maybe I shall pluck a sunflower and start plucking its petals to help me decide.
Luna, Eclipse, Luna, Eclipse…
UPDATE:
How can I resist this?
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Belive me.. this decision is not as easy as plucking sunflowers petals…
By end of petal.. you still confuse with the result. So.. ask your mind and heart which name come strong..
Or maybe you need to change the flower . Don’t used sunflower maybe used roses since she got more petals… LOL… good luck..
I know it’s so hard to deceide, if it were me, I think I would choose Eclipse. I love Luna’s pose and body too but he is such a nicely typed buck.;-) Very tough choice!
keep both??
I cannot keep for the sake of keeping. There is a limit to the time I allocate for myself to attend to my rabbits and of course space constraints. I only have space for the best of the best (not to say they are not nice rabbits). I have to align my actions towards complimenting the time and spaces that I have. Mine is not a huge farm that can accommodate hundreds of rabbits. Even if I have, I will have dilemma of keeping too many.
It is definitely difficult to juggle keeping the best with not keeping too many. The only consolation I have for releasing him is that, I get to keep in touch with his new owner and if he grow up well, I can use him as a stud. It is indeed time to spread the empire. I hope my judgments are good enough to identify a group of elite people that I can trust my lineage with. Those that does not have the intention to exploit that is. So far I am very satisfied.