4-H & fair families
We can talk through timing, age, weight, handling, showmanship, and what will help your young keeper walk into the fair feeling ready.
The Rabbitry • Come meet everybody
Come on in—there is always something happening out here.
This is the heartbeat of our Nutt House: where I learn, laugh, worry, clean something I swear I just cleaned, and raise heritage rabbits with purpose behind every pairing.
Pull up a feed bucket
You can ask the question here.
If you are brand-new and wondering whether everyone else received a rabbit-raising manual that somehow skipped your mailbox, I understand. I started with a mountain of questions and about six different answers for every one of them.
Tell me what you hope to do, what makes you nervous, and where you could use a hand. I will meet you there with honesty, patience, and probably a rabbit story.
You are not just leaving with a rabbit. You are leaving with records, honest expectations, and someone who still answers after pickup.
What brought you out to the barn?
Maybe you came for the fair. Maybe for the freezer.
Families arrive here for all sorts of good reasons. We can start with yours and talk like neighbors from there.
Show & preservation homes
We will look at type, coat, temperament, pedigree, the Standard of Perfection, and what it means to protect a rare breed for the people after us.
Homestead & meat homes
We can be honest about growth, feed, useful traits, humane care, processing readiness, and raising food you feel good serving your family.
Fur & full-use homes
If using the whole animal matters to you, it matters to me too. We can talk pelts, preservation, and thoughtful full-use stewardship without making it awkward.
The breeds that made themselves at home
Three kinds of rabbit. Plenty of opinions.
Each carries a history, a useful purpose, a breed standard, and its own way of looking at me when breakfast is three minutes late.
Meat • Show • Conservation
Livestock Conservancy positionWatch2026 Conservation Priority List
American Chinchilla
The breed that changed an industry
A gentle American heritage breed with a useful commercial body, fast growth, a good meat-to-bone ratio, and four beautiful bands of color hiding inside that salt-and-pepper coat.
Open the conservation story
How we got here
American breeders enlarged the early French Chinchilla into a hardy 9–12 pound working rabbit suited to meat and pelts. When the fur market faded and commercial meat production favored white rabbits, this quietly capable breed lost much of its foothold.
Why this survival matters
Protecting the American Chinchilla keeps an American-developed working breed, its unusual banded coat, and its practical production traits available to future breeders. A breed can look perfectly healthy in one barn while still being dangerously scarce across the country.
Read the current Livestock Conservancy profileFrom April: These were our beginning: soft coats, curious minds, steady temperaments, and very little concern for the joyful noise of our household.
Wander into the heritage profileMeat • Fur • Show • Conservation
Livestock Conservancy positionGraduatedFirst rabbit breed to graduate • 2026
Silver Fox
America’s gentle giant
An Ohio-born, American-developed rabbit with a calm temperament, a practical meat body, and the only coat in rabbitdom that stands upright until somebody smooths it back down.
Open the conservation story
How we got here
Walter B. Garland developed the Silver Fox in North Canton, Ohio. Recognized in 1925, it was built as a true multi-purpose rabbit for meat and fur and later proved itself at the show table and around family barns too.
Why this survival matters
Silver Fox moved from Critical in 2006 to becoming the first rabbit breed ever to graduate from the Conservancy list in 2026. That is proof that thoughtful breeding and promotion work—not permission to wander off and assume the job will stay finished by itself.
Read the current Livestock Conservancy profileFrom April: The silver-ticked coat got my attention. The personality made room for them here. That is usually how rabbit plans get out of hand.
Wander into the heritage profileMeat • Show • Conservation
Livestock Conservancy positionWatch2026 Conservation Priority List
Crème d’Argent
The golden treasure of France
A relaxed, useful meat-and-fur breed with a bright orange undercoat glowing beneath its creamy-white surface color—and a history too narrow to take for granted.
Open the conservation story
How we got here
Developed in France in the 1800s and imported to America before 1924, the Crème d’Argent was shaped here into a more commercial meat type while keeping the unmistakable orange-and-cream coat that makes the breed its own.
Why this survival matters
The Livestock Conservancy notes that the breed is now extinct everywhere except the United States and United Kingdom. Every sound, well-recorded American herd therefore carries more than pretty color—it carries part of the breed’s remaining future.
Read the current Livestock Conservancy profileFrom April: Padme and Buddy brought those warm orange undercoats, creamy tops, and two more distinct personalities into an already full family.
Wander into the heritage profileOhio made • Recognized in 1925 • Graduated in 2026
Ohio built the Silver Fox. Ethical breeders carried it off the list.
Walter B. Garland developed the Silver Fox in North Canton, Ohio. In 2026—just over a century after the breed was recognized—it became the first rabbit breed ever to graduate from The Livestock Conservancy’s Conservation Priority List. Around here, that calls for a very large cup of coffee, several happy tears, and absolutely no pretending the work happened by accident.
Breeders protected a useful meat-and-fur rabbit by selecting sound animals, keeping records, sharing breeding stock, showing the breed to new families, and making honest decisions about which rabbits truly belonged in the next generation. Graduation is proof that preservation works. Staying graduated will require the same good judgment that got the breed there.
Our herd, one personality at a time
These are not inventory numbers around here.
Every rabbit has habits, talents, strong feelings, and a story of their own. I will keep adding introductions as I catch everyone looking respectable.
Introductions are coming
The herd is here. The decent photographs are another matter.
I am gathering each rabbit’s story, quirks, and best side. Check back as the family begins wandering onto this page.
Upcoming litters
What we are hoping may arrive next.
Rabbit plans are written in pencil. I will share what I know, update what changes, and never pretend a hopeful date is a promise from a doe.
The nest boxes are quiet
No litter plans are ready to share just yet.
That can change, but only when the rabbits and the timing are right. The general waiting list is still open below.
Available from our farm
Live rabbits and frozen rabbit, with no guessing.
I keep these lists separate and current so you can see what is actually available before you rearrange your whole week.
For the barn, show table, or project
Live rabbits
No live rabbits are ready to leave today. That usually means I am still watching them grow, and I would rather be sure than hurry.
For your family table
Frozen rabbit
The freezer is currently spoken for. I will post here when farm-raised rabbit becomes available again.
A thoughtful place in line
Tell me who would feel at home with you.
Joining the list is not a purchase or a promise. It is the beginning of a conversation about your goals, timing, experience, and which rabbit may genuinely fit.
4-H project families are reviewed first.
Verified 4-H youth requests receive priority when a rabbit and fair timeline are a suitable match. Everyone else keeps their place in the order their request arrived.
4-H Kids Fund
A little help can change a young keeper’s whole year.
Fair projects take rabbits, feed, supplies, entry fees, time, courage, and usually one more thing nobody remembered until Tuesday night. This fund helps committed young rabbit keepers begin with quality animals and practical support—and reminds them that their community is cheering from the barn aisle.
- A suitable heritage rabbit for a sponsored youth
- Starter feed, hay, and basic care supplies
- Hutch or cage materials when they are needed
- Fair entry fees and project registration
Every dollar goes directly to youth rabbit projects. No overhead and no administrative fee.
So, what happens after you reach out?
We talk it through, one step at a time.
Tell me what you are hoping for
Show, 4-H, breeding, meat, fur, preservation, or a little of everything—your real goal helps me point you toward the right rabbit.
We take our time with the match
Temperament, age, purpose, experience, timing, and the rabbit’s needs matter more than making the fastest sale.
We get you ready together
Before pickup, we will go over records, care, honest expectations, and the questions that always seem to appear at bedtime.
You can still call afterward
A Nutt House rabbit does not leave with a disappearing breeder. Updates, victories, worries, and the occasional ‘April, is this normal?’ are all welcome.
A few things I have learned not to rush
The rabbit still gets a say in the plan.
Litters do not follow business plans, young rabbits do not promise exactly how they will mature, and the right answer is not always the quickest one. I would rather tell you “not yet” than give you a convenient answer that is wrong for your family or the rabbit.
Health before a date on the calendar
If a rabbit needs more time, we take more time. Rabbits remain completely unimpressed by schedules, even very tidy ones.
The useful truth
I will tell you what I see, what I know, what I am still watching, and whether I honestly believe a rabbit fits your plans.
Records that travel with the rabbit
Pedigrees and working notes help the next keeper understand the rabbit, its family, and what may come next.
Questions without embarrassment
You never need to pretend you know something here. I remember being new, and I still ask questions myself.
What I hope you feel when you leave
If you want someone who cares where that rabbit goes, helps you prepare, celebrates your wins, and answers the nervous questions too—welcome to the family.
If hutch-to-table is part of your plan
We can talk about the whole path.
Daily care, humane processing, safe handling, understanding the cuts, and cooking a meal your family is proud to serve all belong in the same honest conversation.
Come into the Farmhouse Kitchen
Hurricane’s corner
One small squirrel. A frankly unreasonable amount of nerve.
Hurricane has been part of the funny days, sad days, scary days, and brave ones. I will keep adding those stories to his Hideaway little by little, exactly as they happened.
Soon he will scamper through these rooms too, leaving watercolor thoughts, little adventures, and a trail of things he has forgotten where he put.
Visit Hurricane’s Hideaway