Indiana is still swinging without restraint — 20s to near 70 and back again. That kind of instability stresses, bodies, lungs , anything that has to regulate temperature to stay alive. We are at three losses. I expect a fourth today despite intervention. A younger harlequin litter has taken the worst of it. I’ve already lost two of Foxy’s bucks. Her doe began showing symptoms last night. We also lost a Red New Zealand doe. Necropsy showed sudden, acute pneumonia — lungs completely saturated with pus, consistent with a silent presentation of Pasteurella. No sneezing. No discharge. No crusted nose. No drawn-out warning. The only visible sign came at the end — head extended back, labored breathing, then dead within hours. At that point you are not reversing anything. You are watching the body fail. The farmhand and I feel the pressure shifts too — congestion, fatigue, headaches. We compensate. Young rabbits often cannot. Rapid temperature swings, barometric shifts, warm rain to freezing snow — that combination stresses the respiratory system hard. Anything marginal goes first. So far it has affected only a few. I am monitoring closely. Anyone even slightly off gets pulled and watched. The wetness visible around the nostrils in the photo was from Vet-RX I applied in an attempt to help open the airway while antibiotics circulated. It was not discharge. This was acute. When a rabbit extends its head straight up with the neck fully stretched, it is attempting to maximize airflow. By the time that posture appears, lung involvement is already significant. Antibiotics require time — usually 48–72 hours — to reduce bacterial load. In cases like this, treatment would have needed to begin days earlier, before visible respiratory distress. Once gasping begins, you are behind. Silent Pasteurella does not always present with obvious upper respiratory signs. Sometimes there is nothing outward until the end. The only early indicator I’ve consistently seen is subtle: Off feed.

CCR's Persephone earned her 3rd and SR leg this past Saturday at a Rex Specialty Show. I'm so excited to be getting my first rabbit granded! And she's a homebred🙌 (I don't consider it my lines as both parents were purchased, but she is the start!) She will be tagging along to the show this weekend to get her paper work done, but I didn't enter her. She is almost 9 1/2 months old so she is retiring from the table and hopefully will start producing the next generation soon🤞 Pictured with judge Callie Webber who gave her her first and last legs

For the specialty, But here is our leg yay !! And some Candids!

Show day is here, and I’m en route to the Indiana State Convention! I’ll be in Show C and the Harlequin Specialty—and yes, I’ve got some tricolor bucks available if anyone’s got a project or meat program going. But enough about me! Who’s already there, who’s showing, or who’s thinking about entering their first show? Drop your stories, share your pictures—let’s see those bunnies!

I skin my rabbits whole to sell to taxidermist which I started selling last fall and the lady working on them has finally gotten around to some of my pelts. So fun to see my rabbits turned into cool work of art.