Thank you. When I first started I had one fawn, one sandy and one black. She was great black doe- I think she was a Mullinax not sure. Royal Arch?
Anyway, problem here in California is that it is difficult to findflems that are not related to each other, and we are all constantly "importing" bunns from back east to improve our lines.
I had a couple litters of the "other" colors- steels, blues, (a gorgeous steel actually). But the other colors are more difficult to find good breeding pairs out here.
So I went back to the original color group. I figure I will stay with that until I really learn what I'm doing.
Yes I am speaking about the Bolyards. Lovely people. We are arranging to have a friend of mine bring back a couple of Bob's rabbits from the Kentucky ARBA. That will help here as well.
Plus a friend of mine in Tulare- Randy Cunningham- has a Bolyard buck he just bred to one of his own show winning does. Randy tells me I'm welcome to a coupleof the babies in July.
So I have set aside three bunns out of my last litter for breeding to those later.
I like the Bolyards cause they have such good long color lines, so lacking in inbreeding. And because they are very discriminatory in which rabbits they bring in. So when I buy a rabbit from them, I definately know what I'm getting.
Right now though I'm on the search for a white doe if my upcoming litter does not produce one. I had a knock-out of a white doeI got from Barbi Brown. She was just stunning.
Barbidelivered her to the Specialty Show in Stockton last fall. She was three months old, I had only owned her for ten minutes before she won her first leg in a specialty.BOV LOL.
Took her tothe nextshow, an open, a month later and she got another leg. BOV
Took her to Oregon to show last month, got DQd for a bump on her jaw, took her to the vet and he told me we would have to remove 1/3 of her jaw plus molars to save her. Dental deformity. So I had her put to sleep. Very upsetting for Randy and Barbi cause they had to listen to me bawl like a baby for three weeks. LOL Upsetting for Barbi too cause shewas her breedingand Barbi really liked her.
That is the only time I ever bought a bunn from Barbi that had problem later on. Usually she sells me really really good animals.
But now I'm actually better and starting to look for another white doe. I will probably have to have her come out from ARBA if Rose does not produce one for me. Ifigure I have a 6% chance of a white of this coming litter. LOL
I guess I'm not quite over my little doe yet. I kind of obsess over her actually. She is the first one I have ever had to put to sleep. It just was a no brainer though when I thought about what she would have to go through for the rest of her life with that problem. And I would never be able to breed her cause it was probably a genetic thing.
. Please post lot's of picturesso that I can decide which one(s) I am going to bunny-nap... er um ...dream about 
