Funny Face Farms

06/19/2024

Found on my FB memory file.
What an incredible man!
I am humbled that I have been blessed to grow old with him.

12/02/2019

AS MANY OF YOU HAVE NOTICED, Funny Face Farms has done some major scaling back over the past year.

We have stopped all market participation and have just met our final event obligation.

Our bunnies are very old. They are frail and we have had to say goodbye to most all of them.

We have not spun their beautiful fiber in more than a year, because shearing them for their fiber is stressful to them now and painful for us to have to put them through it.

Life is change. It comes. It goes. And some are left behind and some go on.

Mr. Beck was our first bunny - a rescue. He is 9.5 and still with us but is frail and declining. Today, as he sat in the highest pinnacle of our “bunny room”, he watched another sweet soul, Fawnie, breathe her last and escape from this place of physical constraint.

We now have 17 left. We had 100. Most we held gently as they passed. Some left us unannounced. Several now are ill. One will not be with us shortly.

For Jose and Me, it has been a long year of final goodbyes to our beautiful, long haired friends and pseudo-children. But we are satisfied that most have lived long, loved and vibrant lives and we have met our moral, ethical and humane obligation to them to the end. Many, from their births to their deaths.

To that end, it is bittersweet that we must announce that we have sold the business end of Funny Face Farms.

When Jose and I went back to more than full time jobs one year ago, we knew it may be the death knell of our little farm.

And it was.

We will spend the remainder of their lives caring and loving the little souls who are left and who need us so badly now at this final stage of their lives.

We thank you all for supporting us down through the years and wish you all the best lives possible.

Please wish all of us a happy “binky free”.

With gratitude,

Billie and Jose Rodriguez

10/21/2019

You’re almost there, little frisky boy! Another 10 days and your little leg should be good!

What a sweet, gentle little patient you’ve been.

10/10/2019

This boy!
Champagne, your broken leg is healing, says your doc, but you apparently don’t realize she is married!!!

Champagne is and has always been, our “eveready bunny”.

A broken leg cannot keep a frisky bunny down.

We warned them.

10/03/2019

10/03/2019

What an Ah-mazing spin. 50/50. Superwash merino/tencel....and OH, so soft!

09/30/2019

CHAMPAGNE!!!!
What have you done????

09/20/2019

FIBER IN...

Here we come!!!

09/19/2019

Dyeing. Dyeing. Dyeing. It’s a hard life but someone needs to dye.

Come join us in Kissimmee for our 9th year at Fiber In!

Our inventory of roving, locks, curls, cakes, braids, art yarn and this year hand dyed sock yarn, will blow your mind.

We look forward to seeing you again this year, September 20-22 at the Holiday In, 5711 W. Irlo Bronson Memorial Hwy, Kissimmee

09/19/2019

Fiber In
this weekend
Orlando/Kissimmee

04/20/2019

Pippin, along with several other grown bunnies, was rescued from a “meat” farmer 9 years ago.

His last litter mate, Jack, passed away yesterday afternoon. Jack was 10.

Pippin is the only bunny from that group of 5, that is still alive and whom we allowed to have a family. His sweet demeanor and soft, gentle personality, seemed like wonderful traits to pass along.

Pippin and Merry had 2 little boys, Tiny Boy and Gimley.

We lost Merry many years ago. Tiny Boy became my “heart bunny” and we struggled valiantly to keep him alive with surgery, medication and massive wound cleanings 2x a day until his big “little” body just gave out.

Tiny Boy looked just like Pippin. I remember Tiny Boy almost daily. He has been the only bunny out of the many, many we have had, that would lay his face on my feet and jump into my lap at his whim.

Gimley, his brother, is sweet and gentle, like his parents and brother and lives quietly with us.

Pippin is old. I know his time with us draws shorter each day that passes.

For now, it appears that the old man will be on medication for at least a month.

Potential diagnoses:
1. Arthritis
2. EC
3. Infection in right testicle
4. CA in right testicle

Because of his age - 10 is a good old age for buns - the potential for arthritis is strong.

Because we have had so much EC in our herd, we will treat for that just in case.

Pippin now has a rather distended right testicle that wasn’t there when the doc saw him last. It could be just as simple as his aging but there is the potential of infection and/or cancer.

Thank you for all your positive thoughts and prayers.

Pippin, my personal Easter bunny, is still with us and was truly an Easter treat to the techs and back office at the vets this morning.

04/20/2019

Emergency vet visit this morning - my big, beautiful, sweet, 10 year old Pippin has lost use of his back legs.

I’m suspecting EC - please, good thoughts for my big red boy.