Tag: velveteen lops

For Sale

January 28, 2024 / ashjones03 / 0 Comments

Below, you’ll find a list of animals for sale currently at Purple Ribbon Homestead! Our sales policy is as follows! No animal is considered reserved without a non-refundable deposit. We offer our babies first come-first served unless otherwise previously reserved. All animals sold are guaranteed healthy and disease-free. Herd test results are available upon request. Once an animal leaves the homestead, due to different environments, biosecurity issues, and management practices we do not honor returns, replacements or refunds. Every baby comes with a care sheet, transitional food, and a bottle they’re used. Breeding stock is sold with application for registration, tattoos, and vaccines. Baby goats not picked up by 6 weeks of age and bunnies by 8 weeks will incur an added care fee of $5 per day. We hope you find what you’re looking for, for sale below!

We feed: Tucker Milling Dairy Goat, Tucker Milling Nature Crest Rabbit Feed, Orchardgrass/Alfalfa mix free-choice, Sweetlix Meat Maker minerals, and Show Flock 17% by Tucker Milling to the chickens, ducks and quail. We sometimes also supplement our feeds with additives depending on body condition and production.

Willow

July 30, 2018 / ashjones03 / 0 Comments

“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.”

“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.

“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”

“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”

“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

-Margery Williams Bianco “The Velveteen Rabbit”

Willow joined us from Feather Hollow Farm. She is a purebred, pedigreed velveteen lop doe who lives to be snuggled.

Purple Ribbon strives to breed quality velveteen lop rabbits that conform to breed standard. It’s my hope that they will be recognized by the ARBA one day and our stock will help improve fellow breeder’s lines as well.