Hobby Breeders vs Respectable Breeders

[polly]

I found myself nodding and agreeing with many of the posts and Starlights first post stood out to me as how my rabbits are to me and that they are pets as well as show rabbits. Sometimes it can take me a long time to get a rabbit who was another breeders to realise they are a rabbit and they can have fun too!!

I enjoy showing but i would never get into the i put your rabbit up this week so you will put mine up next week lark. However i do feel that showing is a good part of breeding rabbits as you get to learn so much at the shows on how to improve your rabbits and how to get them to sit and other breeds too. The experience and the friends with expereince are invaluable if you are serious about breeding rabbits as a hobby. Also you soon get to know who to take yoru time with and who to stay away from!

And yes it is a hobby. Unless you constantly breed yoru does you will never make money breeding. And if thats why anyone considers it (for making money) forget it right away.

Breedign rabbits is about this.

1. Meeting other people as mad as you about their rabbits (and yes you will meet people who you don't agree with their practices)

2. improving the breed you have chosen to work with.

3. enjoying rabbits

4. Being part of a wide group of like minded people.

5. Being prepared to spend a lot of time, money andeffort on them ( and the money thing is not just from buying your stock in)



I would also like to say there are3 types of rabbit breeders. There are fanciers and there are stock men/women. and then there are the 3rd type!

difference is the fanciers see their rabbits as a pet the stock people don't and won't treat them that way. Both take good care of their rabbits to maintain the optimum health.Neither way is wrong to me the only person that is wrong it the 3rd person who breeds the same doe constantly for no other reason than to try and make money, they would not care their rabbits are ankle deep in faeces or that there were problems with the babies (a bit like what Zin encontered)

As for over here we have the BRC (Brittish rabbit council) who moderates the fancy.

 

[Bo B Bunny]

polly wrote:

how my rabbits are to me and that they are pets as well as show rabbits.

I forget that Tony is a show rabbit sometimes. I love him and kiss him and talk to him and he's spoiled rotten.

Infact, I just had him and played with him for a bit. now he's playing in the playroom.

 

[ZakuraRabbit]

gentle giants wrote:

A note for Zakura. "How do you even make rabbit breeding your full source of income?" The answer is- you don't! The only way to actually make any money off of rabbits at all is usually to breed for meat production, and probably if you give vet care and the like you still wouldn't make anything off of them. Personally, I don't think it's possible to make money off of raising any kind of animal, not and still give them the proper care.

That was pretty much what I was thinking. :? You can't live of any type of animal. To me it seems every time I feel I have a lot of money, one of my animals fall ill (then again you've got to adimre their timing, could get troublesome if they fell ill when I was broke:shock: Luckily dad has paid most of my emergency vet bills lately:biggrin2: I only had to pay to get Zakura neutered, which of course was the most expensive vet-bill I've ever had... And it definitely wasn't done to increase the chances of baby buns being born, rather preventing it since Zakura the Killer Rabbit is the last rabbit I would have used for breeding
I won't give her up though, she was my first rabbit and she's here to stay! Even if she can't be shown or bred. I have also thought about neutering Sasuke later on, even if he's the best show-rabbit I have, but only after he's become a father:biggrin2: