Show Results

Last weekend was the Clusters of Specialty shows, inconjunction with Kevin's benefit show. It was a very busy day, with several shows going on. The benefit show raised a lot of money though! One of the Mini Rex in the auction went for $400! Above is the judges who were judging in the benefit show. I'm on the end in the blue sweatshirt.

I judged Mini Lops all morning-- there were a lot of them, and several very nice ones! My two best ones end up being in the same class (hate it when that happens!).

By the time I was done judging them, it was time to start the specialty shows, which I was the secretary of. We were down in numbers, compared to usual, only 63 Dutch entered (with breeders selling out, on vacation, etc).

In Eric Stewart's show (new Executive Director of the ARBA) the winners were:

BOB- Jan with a Black buck

BOS- Jan with her awesome Blue doe

Honorable Mention- the Steel doe that I had gotten from Lloyd (stuck her under Lloyd's name, she end up going home with Jan. Earned a leg for BOV Steel!)

In Jake Kuntz's show the winners were:

BOB- Jan's Blue doe

BOS- Lisa & Hilary's Black buck

Then in the all breed show, with Donna Brak judging the winners were:

BOB- Jan's Blue doe

BOS- Pete... not sure with what, as I was judging during this show

My Dutch did pretty good, especially my Black jr doe. She was BOV Black in Donna's show, and BOSV is Eric's for her second and third legs. She was 1st of 4 in Jake's show. DDLB was BOSV Black in Donna's show for his second leg (which he is currently for sale-- very nicely marked buck).

For Silver Marten's, Maddy was BOB. Maryann won BOS with her Black buck. Arson completely blew his coat in the hot weather we were having, so looked horrible.

Nicole and I had Martens leaving to go all over the place. Rainy went to Scott, Stormy went to Larry and Sharon (we traded him for a Black doe, which we'll get in the Fall), and Flash left to go down to California with a transporter. We went through our Rainy x Arson litter, and kept two does, a Black and a Blue.

For Dutch, both Rodeo and Revlon went to Cassy, whose just getting started in the breed.

I have several litters coming up! I bred 8 does (6 of Lloyd's) last Friday and some a few days before that. I also have does due this week.

Due on Friday:

Stryker x Jill's Wild Blue Venus

Stryker x Trelawn Ruby D

Bazooka x Pipsqueak

Due September 4th:

Rodeo x Piper

Rodeo x Ariel

Due September 7th:

Trelawn Chico x Zoe

Trelawn Chico x Ash

One of the Blue does is bred to Stryker and the other to Bazooka

Then 4 Black does from Lloyd are bred to Bazooka, Stryker, and two to Rodeo

(don't have the pedigrees with the names for the new does yet)

New Rabbits!

Wednesday my dad and I made the 5 hour drive to Lloyd's. I told my dad that I did not want anymore than 8 rabbits a week beforehand... The day before, i said defiently no more than 10... I came home with 12... I do not have pedigrees quite yet, so I only have very limited info on them all. I got 9 Blacks, which it wasn't until after picking them all out, I found out they were all his pure Blacks. I got two nice bucks. I'm very excited to be breeding TC into my rabbits. This bucks has an awesome head! Lloyd only had a handful of bucks throughout the years that he considers his greatest, and this buck is one of them. At least 4 of the does I got are daughters of his. I believe he said that TC's sire is Britton's Barry, who was a nice animal, with a Best in Show win.
I also got a young buck, who looks around 5 months old, that is nice too.
All seven of the does are very nice. Five of them have not been bred before, and a few are only 5 months old. I was looking for type only, disregarding the markings, so there are a few not so pleasant marked ones in there. My favorite doe for type is probably my split stop doe. Some of these does go back to Bazooka, and one of them is even out of Johnston's Lucky (a nice buck I got from Don & Carol when they sold out, that Lloyd borrowed).
I also got two Blue does, both are very nice.
Then I got something I did not plan on, and no she's not staying... a Steel doe. What's left of Lloyd's rabbits are going to a meat lady next week, and she was just too gorgeous to send to that. She has a huge buck head, and gorgeous type. I'm tempted to keep her, and do Steels again (probably my fave color after Blacks), but I like keeping my rabbitry small. Jan is going to take a look at her tomorrow at the show, and she will most likely go there.
So since I took more rabbits than planned, I really need to make some cuts... I just do not want to part with anyone though... Luckily I have the cage space, it's just me wanting to keep the herd down to a small easy to care for number (believe it or not, I still have several empty cages).
Currently DDLB a Black 6 month old buck, with one leg for a BOSV and DDAF a Black 4 month old doe with one leg for a BOB are both for sale.
Tomorrow is going to be a very busy day. I'm secretary of the two Dutch specialties, and will be judging in the all breed benefit show. Nicole and I also have to go through Arson x Rainy litter sometime during the day (which are really super already!).
Not expecting much for any of the rabbits. With the heat, everyone has blown their coats. The worst is probably Arson... He has no coat right now.
Litter wise, Desperado x Piper have a gorgeous litter! They'll be 8 weeks on Monday, but I have a gorgeous typed and marked little Black buck. Also have a nicely marked Black doe and Blue doe. They're both a bit on the runty side, but show promising type.