New Rabbit! Showable?

[annanicole18]

Hi everyone! Just got a new baby and had some questions. Sorry for the one less than stellar picture we got home in the dark so I only have pictures from previous owner. This is Astrid (unless my husband wins the name debate she has only been home 12 hours) I was told she is a 8 week old lionhead. She is harlequin with a tiny white spot which would technically make her vienna marked? Would love it if some breeders it rabbit knowledgable people would share what they know about showing lionheads. The previous owner said she was showable but everything I had read before and after getting her says she can't earn CH legs due to her color not being officially recognized here in the U.S. Regardless she was the color and breed I was looking for and I am so excited to have found her! I will get better photos when I get home again.

 

[Bunnylady]

If your rabbit isn't a recognized color, it is disqualified from showing. If you entered her in a show, all you would do is waste your money, because the judge would just put it off the table for being an unshowable color - she wouldn't even count as one in the class that the other rabbits beat. Even if she was a recognized color, a white marking like you describe would also be a DQ (incidentally, that white marking could be either Vienna or Dutch marking; they often look alike, though considering how many folks like to play with BEW in the Lionheads, Vienna does seem to be more likely). If her ears are as long as that at 8 weeks, she most likely will wind up weighing more than the maximum showable weight, and she kinda looks like she might be single-maned, all of which would rule her out as a show rabbit . . . but, fortunately, none of these things have anything to do with her being a great pet.

 

[featherhead007]

Does this guy resemble a lion?

 

[annanicole18]

Hello neighbor! I’m about an hour east of you. Not sure about showing her as I am just starting out on this breed. She is beautiful though! What breeder did you get her from?

I got her from an individual not a breeder. She said she did plan to breed Astrid when she was older. No idea where she came from but as the original breeder let her leave mom at 4 weeks according to previous owner I don't think much of the breeder. What colors do you currently have?

 

[annanicole18]

@Bunnylady
Thank you for the info. I purchased her as a pet but hey if she was showable why not try something new? I wonder if the seller was going to show something other than ARBA? Or just wanted her gone? She was crazy cheap ($20) in terms of a lionhead with her coloring in my area I still consider her a good purchase.

 

[annanicole18]

Oh I wanted to tell you the lady I got my buck from has 2 bucks left. A blue eyed white and another Siamese. Both are double maned and 8 weeks old.

They are cute! No more rabbits for me though! My husband didn't want one much less let me get crazy with rabbit math as well as chicken math. (Incubator is on round three for the year already) I have family members with lionheads so I just might take her for a date in the future but it will takes lots of husband convincing. Fortunately she is hilarious and sweet so that might help. She was a house rabbit at her previous home and like you I have to acclimate her to the heat. So yesterday I brought her inside in the heat of the day to chill out in the AC. She was frolicking around and teasing the dogs after minutes. I locked her in the dog crate at first with her litterbox and she even went back in the crate to potty!

 

[featherhead007]

You posted a pic of your beautiful lionhead, I looked at it, so you did show it to someone! ME!

 

[AlleysChicks]

Hello neighbor! I’m about an hour east of you. Not sure about showing her as I am just starting out on this breed. She is beautiful though! What breeder did you get her from?

 

[HuskerHens18]

I had a lionhead identical to Astrid! His name was Sherbet very cute! I don't show rabbits though so I can't help you on your question

 

[4 ever Orpington]

Does this guy resemble a lion?View attachment 1396870

Very handsome is he a Buff Orpington ?