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[ShadyGroveFarm1]

Hello! I just showd our mini Rex's today! For there first year we did great! One buck (9weeks old) got best of opposite in his color class( part 5of mini Rex breed class)

Was it an ARBA show?, or a Fair Show?. Fair shows are great and you get a lot of those 4H and FFA competitors, but ARBA shows are just so much fun!!

 

[SternRose]

4-h but soon ARBA shows and state shows, all vry soon, im working on my line first. theyer a little over the weight. 5lbs+ on the one bucks babys.

 

[ShadyGroveFarm1]

4-h but soon ARBA shows and state shows, all vry soon, im working on my line first. theyer a little over the weight. 5lbs+ on the one bucks babys.

How many animals do you have in your herd?

 

[SternRose]

How many animals do you have in your herd?

3 right now plus 6 babys i sold, and a few litters are planned for 2015!!

 

[ShadyGroveFarm1]

3 right now plus 6 babys i sold, and a few litters are planned for 2015!!

I have 3 too!, but one of them is a Mini Lop that is not in my breeding program. I'm trying to breed my Holland Lops again tomorrow. I know how to breed, but does anybody have any tips?

 

[SternRose]

PM me and i can help you with some of your questions and tips.

 

[Bunnylady]

A Mini Rex that weighs over 5 lbs doesn't have a dwarfing gene - it's what is sometimes called a "false dwarf." If you are breeding false dwarf to false dwarf, you certainly won't get any peanuts, but you'll never get animals that meet the size requirements of the breed standard, either. Some people keep the false dwarf does (calling them "brood does" or Big Ugly Does) in their breeding programs, because they have numerically larger litters and seldom have kindling problems, but it takes a bit of practice to learn to recognize good type when it's stretched out over the frame of a false dwarf.

 

[SternRose]

A Mini Rex that weighs over 5 lbs doesn't have a dwarfing gene - it's what is sometimes called a "false dwarf." If you are breeding false dwarf to false dwarf, you certainly won't get any peanuts, but you'll never get animals that meet the size requirements of the breed standard, either. Some people keep the false dwarf does (calling them "brood does" or Big Ugly Does) in their breeding programs, because they have numerically larger litters and seldom have kindling problems, but it takes a bit of practice to learn to recognize good type when it's stretched out over the frame of a false dwarf.

are does are under 3 1/2lbs

 

[ShadyGroveFarm1]

PM me and i can help you with some of your questions and tips.

Ok!

 

[Bunnylady]

Those are small does, considering that the minimum weight is 3 1/4 for a doe. Sounds like your does are true dwarfs; I wonder why they seem to only have false dwarf babies?