New Rabbit! Showable?

[featherhead007]

Very handsome is he a Buff Orpington ?

Very buff, and very Orpington!

 

[featherhead007]

But he obviously isn't a rabbit like hers

 

[4 ever Orpington]

Very buff, and very Orpington!

This is picture of my first Orpington Roo

 

[4 ever Orpington]

But he obviously isn't a rabbit like hers

 

[4 ever Orpington]

But he obviously isn't a rabbit like hers

Very handsome boy you have!

 

[annanicole18]

If your rabbit isn't a recognized color, it is disqualified from showing. Even if it was a recognized color, a white marking like you describe would also be a DQ.

That what I was thinking but the color is recognized in the UK so it may be in the pipeline for here as well. I did read that off colors can go for best of variety and such just not earn CH legs. Just was trying to clarify with someone who knows the full scoop.

 

[featherhead007]

Very handsome boy you have!

Thank you very much, I love him a lot!

 

[featherhead007]

What do judges know! That rabbit is Awesome looking!

 

[AlleysChicks]

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?

4 weeks! That poor baby!
I’m actually picking my buns up today 2 black/white does and a gorgeous Siamese buck. I like to play with colors so who knows what I’ll end up with.

 

[Bunnylady]

That what I was thinking but the color is recognized in the UK so it may be in the pipeline for here as well. I did read that off colors can go for best of variety and such just not earn CH legs. Just was trying to clarify with someone who knows the full scoop.

(Re-read my previous post; I edited it)

The process of getting a color recognized is a complicated one. A breeder has to get a certain number of people to show an interest in the color, and submit an application to the ARBA standards committee to get the color admitted. If the committee agrees, they issue a Certificate of Development, which allows one person to develop that color, and which gives them a limited time in which to get it approved. They have to bring one senior buck, one senior doe, one junior buck, and one junior doe of that color to the ARBA national convention. The juniors have to be the offspring of at least one of the seniors. Several judges will look over the rabbits, and if they are good representatives of the color and breed, the color will have passed its first showing. The COD holder has to get their presentation passed at a total of 3 national conventions within 5 years to get a color admitted into the breed standard; if they fail (or fail to show up) twice in a row, they lose the COD and the whole thing has to start all over again with a new COD holder. (This is a somewhat simplified version of the process)

Knowing the ARBA standards committee, a harlequin anything would be required to show the pattern of the Harlequin rabbit breed, and I know from personal experience how few of them are show quality. The reason that the Lops and Rex show in tricolor, but not harlequin, is because a tri only has to have patches of both colors, they don't have to have any kind of pattern to it (though there is a preference for a balance of the two colors). As popular as harlequin is in Lionheads, I just don't see anyone having the patience to get it approved . . .

What do judges know! That rabbit is Awesome looking!

They know what the breed standard is; that is what determines what a breed should be like. Without a breed standard, and people breeding to the standard, you get people breeding anything to anything and as long as it has a mane (or even just a maned parent) they call it a "Lionhead." I have seen these so-called Lionheads that were dead ringers for New Zealands, except that they had tiny wisps of longer hair between their ears. If you want a big ol' rabbit, well, that's fine, but anyone who has an adorable maybe 4-lb half-fluffy bunny in mind when they buy a "Lionhead" baby is gonna be pretty disappointed when it finishes out as anything but!