Willow and Muffin

These are me and Abbi's new rabbits, Willow and Muffin. If you want to be fancy, I'm pretty sure you would say that Willow is a blue or lilac, i cant decide, silver martine Netherland dwarf doe kit, and Muffin (Abbi's bunny) is a sable martine Netherland dwarf doe kit. Their mother I think is a smoke pearl Netherland dwarf, while their father is a black otter dwarf kind of like Muffin. We only just got them last Saturday and they are already pretty tame! Unlike what we did when we got Peter, we didn't hold them straight away. Instead we did things properly (although Peter is fine and likes being held) and put them in their brand new walk in rabbit run, just sitting in there every now and then for them to get used to us and offering them food. Only two days later did we start picking them up and holding them. But it wasn't easy! They still run away when you go to pick them up but you can't expect them to kind of jump into your lap or something just because you feed them, especially not at their young age of about 7 weeks old!  

I am hoping that they will grow into their ears like Peter did- as Netherland ears are supposed to be 5 cm in length- no longer and no shorter. I did measure them the other day and they where perfect, so fingers crossed! The reason why I want them to be a good length and everything is because me and Abbi are planning on breeding them with Peter and possibly supplying the local pet shop with some rabbits because Nethies aren't always available there. Or just selling them on trade me etc. The downer is that we have to wait until they are at least five months old before they can start breeding!

  They are really cool rabbits and I would suggest Netherland dwarfs to anyone interested in buying a pet rabbit, despite what most rabbit books say about them being nervous and grumpy, our Nethies are anything but that!