What Rabbits Do You Have? Show Off Your Rabbits Here!

[ShadyGroveFarm1]

Let's see... I was pretty close to Rusty Westhoff's table which I think was 12 or 13. I only brought 4 does and no bucks, so only a chair and a couple of travel cages. I had 3 AmChins and a Blue Rex.

I wasn't over that way very often. Just when I went walking around to see where the Hollands were being shown next. I saw the AmChins being shown at one time though!

 

[RedRidge]

Let's see... I was pretty close to Rusty Westhoff's table which I think was 12 or 13. I only brought 4 does and no bucks, so only a chair and a couple of travel cages. I had 3 AmChins and a Blue Rex.

I wasn't over that way very often. Just when I went walking around to see where the Hollands were being shown next. I saw the AmChins being shown at one time though!

It was a larger amchin turnout than usual for the southeast. Even had a few classes large enough for legs. Hopefully Conyers will be just as large of a turnout. I've got one of each sex who just need one leg each and I'd really like to finish them before fall and this is likely our last show off the season. Just too hot after this.
Are you going to Conyers?

 

[ShadyGroveFarm1]

It was a larger amchin turnout than usual for the southeast. Even had a few classes large enough for legs. Hopefully Conyers will be just as large of a turnout. I've got one of each sex who just need one leg each and I'd really like to finish them before fall and this is likely our last show off the season. Just too hot after this.
Are you going to Conyers?

I'd considered going to Conyers, but Greensboro is the same weekend. We are a lot closer to Greensboro than Conyers. And I know more people at the Greensboro show. Good Luck at the Conyers show!, I heard a lot of people talking about it last weekend

 

[kacklinkelly]

Where exactly are you?, and where would you be willing to travel?

I'm in Phoenix, AZ. I would love to start with simple 4 h and any shows that might be within an hour or two of us until I figure out what the shows are like. However, the weather is starting to warm up around here. I don't know when the shows would most likely be. I've check local 4 h group online calendars as well as the ARBA calendar without much success. I suppose I could do it the old fashioned way and make some phone calls.

If you have any other suggestions, I am all ears

 

[RedRidge]

 


Where exactly are you?, and where would you be willing to travel?

I'm in Phoenix, AZ.  I would love to start with simple 4 h and any shows that might be within an hour or two of  us until I figure out what the shows are like.  However, the weather is starting to warm up around here.  I don't know when the shows would most likely be.  I've check local 4 h group online calendars as well as the ARBA calendar without much success.  I suppose I could do it the old fashioned way and make some phone calls.   If you have any other suggestions, I am all ears

I'd call your county extension agent for 4-H info. For local ARBA shows, there is a nationwide list on the ARBA website where you can search by state

 

[ShadyGroveFarm1]

I'm in Phoenix, AZ. I would love to start with simple 4 h and any shows that might be within an hour or two of us until I figure out what the shows are like. However, the weather is starting to warm up around here. I don't know when the shows would most likely be. I've check local 4 h group online calendars as well as the ARBA calendar without much success. I suppose I could do it the old fashioned way and make some phone calls.

If you have any other suggestions, I am all ears

I was just gonna suggest to look at the ARBA site. Theres a Triple Open, Triple Youth show in Tuscon on the 21st of this month. There's also some shows in Kingman in May. But that's a little further from Phoenix than Tuscon

 

[kacklinkelly]

Thanks so much for the info. (Kingman happens to be near some casinos so I may be able to twist my DH arm

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[K Epp]

Do does who've grown up together fight? I never saw or heard anything, but I have one with dome pretty serious scratches. They aren't real visible, but I picked her up to clean her cage and felt scabs. I looked her over and didn't find and mites or pest. I had 5 does living in a big hutch. I took 1 out to breed and raise her kits about 9 weeks time. After all the kits were sold I put her back in hutch. I sold her and breed another and she now has kits. I breed and took one to the highschool for their Vet Science class that left two. I moved them to a smaller cage. They get along fine. When I was cleaning that cage I found the scabs. This was about a week after I sold the doe who had been reintroduced to the group. The girl who bought doe came back for eggs and she said she was like that two. Could being apart for 2 months cause them to fight? Non of the others have anything going on. I feel bad if I could have prevented this. I have them all I separate cages now.

 

[RedRidge]

Do does who've grown up together fight? I never saw or heard anything, but I have one with dome pretty serious scratches. They aren't real visible, but I picked her up to clean her cage and felt scabs. I looked her over and didn't find and mites or pest. I had 5 does living in a big hutch. I took 1 out to breed and raise her kits about 9 weeks time. After all the kits were sold I put her back in hutch. I sold her and breed another and she now has kits. I breed and took one to the highschool for their Vet Science class that left two. I moved them to a smaller cage. They get along fine. When I was cleaning that cage I found the scabs. This was about a week after I sold the doe who had been reintroduced to the group. The girl who bought doe came back for eggs and she said she was like that two. Could being apart for 2 months cause them to fight? Non of the others have anything going on. I feel bad if I could have prevented this. I have them all I separate cages now.

The trick with keeping them together is "keeping them together". When I wean I divide each litter into 2 groups by sex. After that, if I have to remove a kit for any length of time I do not put her back. If I want to spend some time really evaluating a few and they will be taken away for several hours, I take them all unless I'm willing to divide into two more groups at that point. Normally by 12 weeks I know who the show potentials are, but even so, each sex is split into two more groups, so now I have 1 litter in 4 cages. So... for this, and other reasons, I always breed arty least 2 does at once. This way the litters from all the does that breeding cycle can be weaned into the same place... I still have only 4 pens, but I have combined all the litters. This makes the most efficient use of my grow out pens. By 16 weeks all non-show are gone, some of the show have been sold, and a few who may be keepers for further evaluation are the only ones left.
Hope that helps

 

[Bunnylady]

People who keep colonies often manage to take a doe out for a while and put her back, but the key to that sort of thing is having lots of space, and plenty of hiding places. Of course, having really mellow, easy-going rabbits helps, too - a seriously 'alpha' alpha can make everyone else's life a misery.

Keeping them together doesn't always work, either. I once sold 3 does to someone while they were still babies. A couple of months later, they brought them back, and by then one doe had already had to be separated out because she was roughing up the other two. According to their owner, the other two were "the best buddies in the whole world." Within the next couple of weeks, one of those "best buddies" ripped a piece of skin the size of a postage stamp off of the other one's backside.