Show results & rabbit pictures.

WW's Quinn - Black Senior Buck

LBF's Total Image - Blue Tort Sr. Doe

Show A Jersey Woolies:
Dayka 4th/7

Mini Rex:
Frezia 2/2
Ice 1/2 BOV

Show B Jersey Woolies:
Dayka 4th/6
Quinn 2nd/6
Image 3rd/3, 1st Colored Wool

Mini Rex:
Ice 1/1 BOV
Frezia - SCRATCH/CULL


I just wish Dayka had been in coat, the judges really loved him, he just couldn't compete with the REW bucks in top condition with his coat unfinished. I am very pleased with Quinn's placement and Image winning the Colored wool class.

Next show is Feb 27th in New Gloucester, Maine.

so my final show list got cut down..again

I went out this afternoon to clean some cages/feed all that good stuff, pulled my shaded wooly jr doe out of her cage, and oh my god.

The oats really did the trick getting her back into flesh condition, she is much smoother, but she hasn't finished out her senior molt and I doubt her coat will be ready to show in 6 days. I couldn't resist, the fluff was flying so I plucked the remaining spots of dead coat out. She is now half senior coat and half dark bald spots where I plucked and her new coat is growing in. I put my hands on her and I'm happy with her body type, nice width, good depth, and is becoming really smooth again after her week of rolled oats. I haven't managed to show her yet, but I really want to, she will be turning senior soon. That coat is also coming in nicely.

My broken wooly jr doe is also out of coat, the fluff is flying everywhere with both of them being older juniors starting to get their senior coats in.

The only wooly I will be bringing is Dayka, my self sr. buck. He earned a GC leg at his last show and I haven't shown him since then, so we'll see how he does, he is out of flesh condition too but I've been upping his grain ration and giving him oats.

I am bringing my 2 BEW jr mini rex does. Ice is looking really, really nice. She is so deep and wide. Frezia is very short in body, I like Ice's fur better, so we'll see what happens.

That's it, that's my show list. I'll see you all next weekend!

Well then!

My show list for next weekend just got shorter. My shaded wooly doe went into a major molt today, I was pulling handfuls of wool out all day long, and she has a big spot missing in her wool cap.

She was one of my hopefuls. Looks like I'm down to 1 JW for the show, my 2 BEW MR are starting to molt as well, they're both at that age where they'll be turning senior soon and blowing coats. One of them has it worse then the other, so we'll see.

I don't think I'll be bringing my jr. black buck along, I'd like him to grow out some more first, he is really tiny, too small to throw up on the table and be competitive.

I don't think I'll be showing the Hare, I have no interest in it, she's fighting me to post every day and she too is blowing coat.

So my show list is down to 3.

At least that leaves me more $ to buy cages and meat breed stock :)

Jan 17th Final Show List

I've made my final decisions on who I'm brining to the show next weekend. I've been up and down all week on who I want to bring and who I SHOULD bring. I need to learn to leave rabbits half bald at home!

I palpated one of my Black MR this morning...still doesn't feel like she took, but I am horrible at palpating..so I guess we'll see what happens, but if she didn't take, she's coming to the show with me, she is in excellent coat condition right now.

I am only bringing 2 Jersey Woolies. A Self Sr. Buck and a Shaded Jr. Doe. I was really contemplating bringing a Broken Jr. Doe, but I have a feeling she is over for a junior, and with her molty coat she wouldn't be able to compete with the senior class in full coat. She has a gorgeous head, better then all of my bucks in the barn, she also has the cutest pattern I've seen.

Mini Rex, I am bringing 2 BEW JR Does, sisters, who are very closely matched in type. One has better fur then the other so we will see who will beat out who. I may also bring a Black Jr Buck, that Black Sr Doe if she didn't take and that's it for that breed.

I might be bringing the Hare doe, because someone sanctioned them and might as well at least bring her to have more competition or fill a class. But that's it for my show list, very small. All the other rabbits look awful right now, blowing coats left and right.

Tough decisions.

Lately I've been having a lot of issues within my rabbitry. Mostly, with the Hares. For the past 2 years I have not been able to get them to breed, I am almost on my 3rd year of owning them and I've had enough. I am not going to keep them any longer, I have been way too discouraged to continue trying.

I am getting out of the Hares, we are not meant to be. I have my last doe up for sale, she is out of a BIS winning buck and many well known and great lines.

When this last doe is gone, I will be turning my huge 6.5' long Belgian Hare brood pen into a CG hutch. I'm going to put a divider in the middle, so each hole with be a little over 3 feet long, 2 ft wide and a little over 2 ft tall. I'd like it to be a tad big bigger, but this will work fine because my rabbits get exercise outside of their pens every day. I am going to rearrange the barn again in the spring, and move this big hutch along the side wall where I usually hang the hose. This will provide lots of daylight but not too much, and it will open up another big wall for me to put more small breed stackers. I went through my scrap wood, and realized I had plenty more to build more hutches. So I will be constructing new wooden hutches, one more to go on top of my current wooden hutch, and possibly some for outside, although I get nervous housing rabbits outside, so I may just use the wall by the main entrance and stack more wooden hutches there.

I want to have about 10 CG's, and the remaining space for my little breeds.


While on the topic of breeds, I've been trying to pick between my MR and JW.
Competitively I have done much better with my Woolies then MR, but I haven't had the MR long, maybe I should give them more of a chance? IDK, I like having BEW's in the barn, and BEW MR are easier to come by then BEW JW. I also like the way Otter looks on the short coat of the MR versus the long wool of a Woolie.

I'm not sure what will happen as far as my breeds go, but I want to bring in a meat breed, and I am pretty sure I am going with New Zealands. I love those full, rock solid bodies and if I ever want to show them, there is competition here for the

Have also been thinking about Britannia Petites...a 2.5lb full arch breed....dreamy <3

First show of 2010 coming up!

For the past 2 years that I've been back into rabbits, I only attended maybe 5-6 shows total. I've been focusing on arranging the barn, reading up on genetics/feed and everything I could get my hands on. Playing around with some breeds trying to see what I would like to get going with and settle into.

My first show of 2010 is coming up, January 17th. I'm pretty excited, someone sanctioned Belgian Hares in open, which is probably a first here in Maine! Thank you for whoever sanctioned them, although my Sr. Doe is looking awfully out of coat condition right now.

I don't have a big show list for this show. Maximum of 8 rabbits, I'm still not sure if I'm bringing the 8 that I'm thinking of. I would like to get some rabbits registered, but I won't have the $ for that, I don't think, until I get called back into work.

My show list as of right now is:

MR-
2 BEW JD's
2 BLACK JB's, maybe 1 SB and SD

JW-
1 Shaded SD
1 Broken SD
1 Self SB

and I may bring the Hare doe, someone spent the money to sanction them, so might as well put her on the table in her horrible coat at least as a class filler and let someone earn a leg.

That's all for now.

EXCITED!

I am going to go pickup some new "kids" tomorrow, I can't wait. I'm going to get some cages setup for the new arrivals in the morning. My BEW's are finally coming along with a few other MR and JW's for breeding!

I got a nice little cash present for Xmas early, so I'll be ordering a new stacker as well, 8 holes - 18"x24" each for single juniors/seniors. Maybe some new water bottles, and feed cups. More room for growing out my juniors and picking out which ones I want to keep, wee!

We've also made our final decisions as of now for what we are doing for breeds in the barn. We narrowed it down to 3, and only 3. Mini Rex, Jersey Woolies and Checkered Giants. We're keeping the Hares for the breed promotion, but at this time we are having bad luck breeding them and getting new lines to breed too but we aren't going to sell out, just not breed until we get new stock.

I am very happy we made our decisions. We would love to keep breeding Flemish, but they require so much room...we have the room, but we'd like to expand our JW herd a bit more, and I like my Checkered's better, sooooo yeah :P

New pictures of the kids will be up tomorrow when I get them home.