Moonstruck Meadow, the home of Jody’s Rabbitry is located in the beautiful Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Our one acre hobby farm is nestled in the West Coast rainforest. The weather is very moderate with sun, rain… lots of rain and a few weeks of snow in the winter. We made Moonstruck Meadow our home five years ago. I moved all my numerous critters to the farm and have been enjoying the space of the acreage and three barns since. I live here with my partner and son but I am the only rabbit fanatic. This works out very well since I have not been good at sharing the barns. *laugh*. I however, solicit help with the feeding and lifting on the show weekends.

My herd consists of approx. 25 Mini Lops and 8 Californians. I have downsized to two barns and a few out-side fryer hutches. The third barn is becoming a wood working shop where I will be able to tinker with my other interests. I will be including a page on items available for sale out of the wood shop in the New Year 2006.
Approx. 15 years ago I began breeding Mini Lops. I purchased stock from Derek Carnahan from California, Jan Coffelt from Washington State, Kim Nelson from Washington State. I have also added Quimbley, Hood and Glover lines. I also purchased an unusual marked (F1X: Harlequin X Mini Lop) rabbit from a breeder out of California; this is where my tri-colored Mini's began. I am now on the 14th generation of tri's. I keep my tri's and the tri gene completely separate from my other lines. More recently, I have introduced Quimbly, Hood, S&K, Glover, Alpine, Rah, Horizon, 4K and 'Love a Little', Northern Lights, and Tamashanter bloodlines to my Mini Lop herd. Most of my own lines were originally named after my married name Wonnenberg. In 1999 I began naming my stock Mitchell and Moonstruck.

The range of colors I normally produce in my Mini Lop lines are, Chestnut Agouti, Black, Opal, Blue, Chinchilla, Seal, Squirrel, Ruby-eyed white, Tortoise, Golden Steel, Tri-colored (black/gold/white), and on rarer occasion I also produce Smoke Pearl, Frosted Pearl, Blue Tortoise, Harlequin (non-showable variety) . I have recently introduced the chocolate color into the herd which will make it possible to produce the color lilac, lynx, chocolate, chocolate agouti and chocolate steel.
My original Californian stock came from Stan Mobey (S&K Rabbitry). I introduced animals from New York (Rocky Mountain) and Montana (Graning) . I am very pleased with their overall quality of type, size and meat production.