Butler PA Show

Well Saturday is the Butler, PA show and we can't wait! The only thing is we just aren't showing yet. Right now i have Chester I could take, but the rest are either have kits or are pregnant. Most of my stock i bought senior does...and some of my juniors are just too wooly to show. OR they had their mane chewed by either mamma or their cage mate. I have juniors in together because I have so many rabbits I'm holding for nationals. Next year I'm not going to start holding rabbits until about March/April. That way kits are 2 or 3 months by Nationals TOPS. I'd prefer 2 1/2 months tops... i just am a small rabbitry, and i dont have the space. I didnt realize the chewing stuff because well i've only been breeding for about 7 months. lol. Hey, you learn from your mistakes and i certainly have.



I'm So excited for the two does I am getting from Dan @ Perrysburg lops. Ryan was the first doe i picked and this is her first litter so I really hope all goes well. The second doe is Colleen. She has had kits before but her first litter they got out of the nestbox & chilled. So I am nervous for both does. You really dont have to worry so much about kindling issues with lionheads. They are extremely prolific. If I find that hollands are just not for me, with their birthing issues and lets say i'm just not fit for them as a breed in whole, well I haven't invested much... and i dont have that many. I really love them though, and they are very exciting. I have really studied a lot about them with info and pictures and i dont think i'm that bad. I think i am starting to get the "holland eye". All with time. I am excited for when i actually start showing both my lionheads & hollands. I am in no hurry though. A lot of breeders told me they had not started showing for about a year after they started breeding when they had more of their "own" stock. I think I will be ready to show in the next few months though. I have a lot of very promising does, but i decided to breed them instead. I can still have them take a break from breeding and start showing. With the hollands though, they seem to be not so complicated as far as that. If you have a show/breeding doe... it doesn't take as much to condition her for showing as it would with lionheads. So they both have their good & bad points.



Well i'm rambling, i cannot wait to get my girls tommorow... and in no time Nationals will be here & i will be getting all my rabbits then. I am up to 23 holes and that is honestly the limit. I see 25 being the limit and that's it! lol... I promised my husband a few months ago it wouldn't get more than 5 or 8... these rabbits are addicting. lol



I hope everyone is doing well & your nestboxes are filled with tons of spring babies :)



Kristen