Bolingbabiesrc

05/02/2025

In Cow Town tonight. Pudd is a runner in the Ft Worth Rodeo Calf Scramble. She’s gonna try to catch a calf for calf & scholarship money. Yes I’m seriously anxious but also excited. It’s gonna be so funny… unless she loses teeth … 🥴 and then I might have some “REGERTS” 😂. Please send up prayers she catches 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻.

03/02/2025

Let’s face it…the rabbits are seriously the smallest part of why we do this. Ty to all our peeps for including us in your weekend plans. We had the best time🥰

03/02/2025

2025 PaSRBA is in the books. First time but can’t be the last. I’m so glad my arm was twisted to take this “little weekend getaway” (to Lebanon,PA).

Ft Worth Stock Show is next weekend for Youth Rabbits and Houston a month later. Carlie didn’t want to risk her show team with Ft Worth StockShow next wknd & Houston a month later, we have 31 nesting boxes going in over the weekend so what does that leave to show???🤔… 5 young senior bucks & 1 young senior Doe😬. Yep…going 20 hrs with 6 holland lops … makes no sense except we get to see our peeps we normally only see twice a year.

I did talk Carlie into taking one young Holland buck that we signed up for the big shows, BB’s “The Man”. He’s turning a year old but she’s growing these few bucks out to see if they can take over for our 3 year old show team in another year🫣. We certainly didn’t expect much from this line up except table time & comments & just seeing if there’s any consistency in where they place. We got great info & competed against some AMAZING seniors so we didn’t place much but the comments were what we expected & they were just outside of 5th so very encouraging considering their age & the competition. Certainly heads need to finish popping and still working on ears&crown but the bone & body is going great🙌🏻. Ty Dawn Guth for taking the time to evaluate her hollands & give your feedback.

Show A, “The Man” stepped out and took BOB. 4 of the bucks placed in at least one show each & her young broken doe picked up one Senior leg for sure. We were pleased with these boys ..now back to a bottom cage to pray for some “magic”. Hoping BB’s “The Man” can hang on for Ft Worth🫣. He’s such a monkey! I think he’d benefit from some of my Adderall😂.

Congrats to all the winners Open & Youth. There were so many beautiful buns this weekend.

Carlie did not take any Jerseys but we picked up one & watched our friends & mini Rex went the same as Hollands, most signed up for next week & stayed home but she got to Hang with another amazing open mini Rex breeder, Mrs Mageles. Carlie has so much fun learning from the experts. It never gets old and amazes me to watch these super busy adults spend so much time pouring into a kid they don’t even know. Ty so much & you have no idea how touched Carlie gets by your time. It’s never taken for granted!

Congrats to All open & youth friends & breeders this weekend. Shanley Cunningham was the biggest youth winner of the show. What BEAUTIFUL hollands she brought & juniors she’s produced that were next level😍. It was great getting to meet everyone.
The weekend was worth EVERY hour we spent on the road…and still not back home🥰

02/02/2025

Carlie’s Jersey awards for sweeps last year not to shabby for only taking a. Few to each show

02/02/2025

02/02/2025

We have some cages we are going to let go of
Pm for info

28/01/2025

Our Sweet Litter of 7 is still hanging in there. Momma is doing a GREAT job!! When we breed two buns together, there’s always a lot of thought put to the pair. Whether color, body, strengthen lines, her “fix the ear & dont screw up the body” project🥰. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t but the thought & work goes in & God does the rest in his timing.

She’s finally got a couple broken black otters. I’ll post a couple pics in the comments. This is gonna be such a fun litter to grow out👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Parents:
BB’s “Gambling Man” - solid black otter from our
Cody black otter we named “Coming In Hot”
Bred to
Cammack’s “Gertie” - massive black&white broken- brood doe bought for Carlie’s color program convention 2023.

There’s one solid otter I thought was Blue but now Carlie thinks is a shaded “martinized” something??? Not sure. I’ll have to look at the pedigrees and see what’s back there but we’re excited to watch this little bundle.

26/01/2025

Well, I’m excited to be adding new states visited to our list… I’m headed to PaSRBA👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.

Some of our favorite people are gonna be there that I normally only see 1-2x’s a year plus traveling through states I’ve never seen. My partner in crime, Staci Hubbard is coming with me and she might be the only person who’s more cold natured than me. Not sure I have the right clothes for y’all’s weather 🥶.

The highlighted way is shortest but anyone up there have reasons we should or shouldn’t take this route.. what to expect?? I saw “put your chains on here” signs going to Reno… I had to google what that meant…😳😱.

24/01/2025

BolingBabiesRC’s “Fish Naked”
Showing is everything!! Why he’s never left over the others who showed & placed???

This buck Doesn’t show well compared to the others but if we need to add shoulder & width to a line… Fish Naked is our go too boy!

Shelbie had this buck born around the same breeding as 20X, Carpenter, SteelShot, Buckshot, & Oak & we’d just got Queen’s Lariat & Salted about the same time not to mention QC’s “City of Lights” & then came Laymon’s “Monday”. You can see why it was hard to pick anyone to rehome. Over time we have too make room for the next gen but this boy doesn’t ever need to show… what he produces earns his spot! Sometimes these guys are worth more than those that show.

When folks are breeding hollands, what you want to add to your program has WAY LESS to do with “if they’ll win”. What does your program need?? Does the animal you’re looking at have it?? If you’re looking and have the option to add a show animal that can win you some points VS a herd or brood animal
That can change your generation and move the whole program up a notch… that’s my choice EVERYTIME. Gotta have patience. Listen to your great mentors who’ve proven themselves & be coachable.

23/01/2025

Littermates from Carlie’s Color Program:
Cole’s “CRBC” x Duet Creek’s “Patsy Cline” (she’s a solid black doe out of BB’s SteelShot)
FINALLY A BROKEN BLK OTTER🎉🎉 & it’s a girl!
BolingBabies “Electra”
Solid Black DOE🎉: BolingBabies “Maya”

Sire: CRBC (We call him “Here To Stay”) is a Broken Blue Otter who’s granded. He shows well & always makes beautiful babies. This was a litter of 5, we rehomed 2 & have 3 growing out. We loved these so much, we’ve repeated the breeding.

22/01/2025

Next Gen SSB’s: we normally find homes at 6 months cause they can’t take a spot from our bucks but with our guys turning 3, we looked ahead a year ago and kept a few to grow out making Buck Alley a FULL HOUSE. here’s 3 bucks, 12-18 months old. Fingers crossed…

Mr boling has concerns that Carlie’s breeding were all focused on the color program. She’s worked hard on those & her mini Rex & reignited love of her jerseys BUT, the hollands still had some focus given to SSB & BROKEN. she’s worked on HEC so fixing that without screwing up the body they’ve built is the issue.

I’m liking these 3 a lot & she has several broken bucks that are doing really well. It’s not helping in our interest to cut back. There’s over 30 babies weening 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫. I’m sure she’ll find some keepers in there also. 🥰

22/01/2025

BolingBabies “The Man”🥰 (He’s Such a Flirt)Young senior Buck now. He was on Carlie’s Ft Worth “Alternate” list because he’s young; almost a year old. The girls have had some really great bucks for a couple years now but the bucks born with Shelbie are all around 3 now so we’ve been holding back a few Favs to step into some BIG SHOES and take the torch from them in the next year. It’s really making for “A FULL HOUSE” to hold bucks when they already have a LARGE SSB show team.