Convention Rabbits back!

Sunday we picked the rabbits who went to Convention up, as well as the new ones we purchased.

The 2 we showed had been travelling for the last 10 days, and lost condition on their journey.

Results from Convention:

We actually did the best with the ones we sold to other breeders. The 2 we sent were really docked for condition. They just didn't hold it. They started their travels on Thurs afternoon, and didn't get judged until Monday, and I guess they didn't eat great on the trip.

Kylee was 35 / 64 SJD's. So half in her class, not too great. She had good comments all the way through, except wanted more in her HQ (I agree), and more condition.

Storm Warning was NP in the SJB's. Good comments on his body, but only Fair head and lacks width in HQ (agree on that HQ).

The ones we sold though were 5th SJD/64 for Susan Howman, and 9th SJD of 64 for Susan Howman. The 5th place was Trixie, the sister to Porter, Parker and Kia. The 9th was a Gold Tipped Steel doe out of Trinity X Zeke. She had the HQ!!!

Also, Alison Votow had 8/50 BSD in Youth with Precious Moment, who is Jamison's sister out of Montana X Gillian.

Caitlin & Ben Votow had 5/34 SSB in Youth with Country Boy (the dad to the 5th place SJD in Open above). They also had 3/39 SSD in Youth with a Lilac doe out of Heather Rose X Diesel.

So not bad at all for first Convention... The comments were what we really wanted, and knowing that we need more work on HQ's really helps guide us for our breeding program this next year.

We actually went through our Mini Lop herd today, and decided what our next step was with working on the HQ, and also improving depth and trying to keep our shoulders short.

We have a list together of some For Sale animals to go up, since I removed everything off our for sale page for Mini's until we had a chance to go through the herd. That list will go up in the next few days.

As for the new rabbits, Kitsemble's Gus & Kitsemble's Sidney arrived. They will work perfect in our breeding program. Gus is a brother to Sara "Too", so will work great for linebreeding with her kids. He is a nicely balanced buck with similar type to Sara. He's also a big sweetie!! Sidney has depth GALORE!! She has 8 legs with a RBIS win. Very nice doe, with even a nice head. So we are thrilled to introduce her into our program.

We also had our 3 new Mini Rex from KT's Rabbitry arrive. We are very pleased with them, and can't wait to show Mayhanna when she returns from Florida! We bought a Black doe, Broken Blue doe and Broken black buck. I need to get the Mini Rex portion of our website set up. However we need to get pictures of all the Mini Rex. We will work on that soon (everyone here, besides me, has been sick so this will happen in time!)...

In litter news, I forgot to mention GB1's litter (ML) in my last blog. She has 5 babies by Ethan. So far we are keeping an eye on 1 G'Tp Steel doe. They are only 6 weeks though so won't make final decisions yet.

Bridget's litter is doing great too, so far we have our eye on a Brk S'Tp buck and a G'Tp doe. This litter is by Hunter.

In French Lop news (I haven't mentioned much about them lately, but it's been pretty quiet on that front). Emerald has 3 babies left. I think we are going to start the French on some Calf Manna when they have litters. They just don't have the milk supply like the other breeds. Anyway, Emerald has 3 babies. I believe 2 does and 1 buck. Squirrely has 3 babies left, 2 Blue Chins and 1 Black Chin. All bucks.

The older 2 French we kept back from our July litter from S&K Posey X Rugby are really coming into themselves. I like the depth and short body on the Sold G'Tp buck. He is a pretty decent size too. The Brk G'Tp has better size, and I know will be bigger. He also looks nice, with a better head, however isn't as deep/short. But still is looking promising!

Will post about Satin's in another post another day...