Clean up, clean up everybody everywhere...

My poor husband has been working his tail off all week on his VACATION trying to get our barn cleaned up. We are almost moved out of our house "completely" in Cordele.  He finally moved the rest of the rabbits here to Ashburn this week. No more feeding bunnies in two places. That takes a tremendous load off of him. Of course from now on, I've got to step it up a notch and pitch in with the feeding and watering. I did a head count today on bunnies and the total was 126! Wow. We said we'd never end up having that many rabbits when we first got into bunnies in 2005. On the positive side of it, we do have 3 different breeds in the barn, so that makes the number sound better. Only about 7 Lionheads, and the rest are divided equally between our Hollands and Netherlands. The bad thing about us is we never move bunnies out after we're done using them! We keep them forever and ever. We have two 7 year old bucks out there. Saynora's Sam and SF Oreo. They are SOOO sweet! Probably could've moved them out, but never did. It's okay. They are very lovable sweet buns. We have probably over a dozen 5+yr old rabbits. Is this normal? I don't think we've quite caught on to the breeding and culling process. We don't breed NEAR enough, but when we do, we keep it all! We have a flush clean system in our rabbit room, which I really don't care for, but MIke does all the clean up on it. He pressure washed the top row today and moved bunnies around. We cleaned and sanitized all the crocks and water bottles and feeders. Can't wait to get out there tomorrow and get fresh pine shavings out on the dirt floor and print up some new cage tags to go on all the feeders. Mike installed a new countertop and sink and added water to the rabbit room. The sink isn't plumbed with a drain yet, that's a whole 'nother job there. Just fine though, at least we have a water hook up for a hose in there now. I am going to get pictures of all the work he did this week tomorrow. I will try to post them here. Looking forward to going to the show in FL in 2 weeks! Even if we do get whooped, it's all about making the breed better and improving your herd. Lisa is picking up some new rabbits we got this weekend. I cannot wait to see them. It's been a couple of years since we bought any Holland LOps. Don't know why I'm so excited about that. Guess it's all about having something new in your barn.  One GREAT thing about Mike cleaning up the barn this week and bringing all the cages and buns home from the house in Cordele, is that there are SO MANY EMPTIES! ;-)  Anyone that's ever been to our barn knows we hardly ever have empties....if we do, it's only 1. Takes a big load off of your shoulders to see empty cages in my opinion. You  know you've got somewhere to stick those juniors! That's another thing we are so bad at. Getting those juniors off of mama. We leave them too long, and mostly because we don't have a cage for them. We need some major culling tips!  Oh me.... guess I will quit babbling and write again later.