Oops {she} did it again

Brittney is a second time mom! She kindled 9 kits on Friday!!! 3 broken and 6 solids! Porky is the daddy! Brittney was in the #1 meat pen last year at county fair. Her mom was Sarah Jessica. Brittney won BOB at Red Bluff, CA in December!!! She comes from some of the best lines in the west.

Royalty/Achievement/Management Apps

Well. Last year, I had a *horrible* experience with royalty. Not the actual royalty itself, but the people that revolved around it and the events that occured that weekend. I told myself I would never do it again.

And here I am.

I have downloded and printed off the applications, and I am *IMPRESSED* with the boosted quality, and I am *excited* for this event! Last year they just had royalty, but this year they have added achievement and management contests as well. This year I plan to get more sleep, eat and relax, three things I did not do before royalty which led to all the crappy things that occured, lol. Some of the questions have really got me thinking....... so, I will let you know how it is going, right now I am off to do some calculations for it!

Random April thoughts

We have decided our show list for Myrtle Point Triple 4/27-28. We are not sure how things will work out when I am working for my registrar's license, I can always have my dad show them, but he is not too savy on the ML classes.... lol. We will be showing Stitch, Honey, Bridget, MAD, Peppercini, and Habanero. We may throw in another closer to the due date. I am in the process of deciding who I will work with at Myrtle Point. Vern P and Lynn Eden will be judges, I guess those are always good canidates. Babies are doing well. We kept 3 Satin juniors for a while. The bkn blue doe from Jessica and the bkn black doe & bkn copper buck from Brittney. Gigi's babies are still doing well. Kaluah's two are doing fine, very curious critters! Jenie and Cloey's babies are growing by the day and there is a *variety* of color in those two boxes! Brittney is nesting, due tomorrow to Porky. We are expecting a bigger litter this time. School is coming to an end, shortly. We have just ended third quarter with 9 more weeks to go. I am doing well though and am excited for some free time, although am not excited for the summer weather that will be brought to the bunnies.

Registrar's Test

Some of you may ask what a youth member is doing by going for her registar's license, or why I would be even granted one in the first place. The idea started long before my "spark". I had always considered pursuing it, and even came close to going for it early last summer. But, I dropped the idea as soon as it came to me. Upon fair 2006, before I had won Grand Champion Showman or Judge, or had both the Reserve in Show winners in open and 4-H, Vern Palmblad had told me to go for it, he knew I would be a good candidate for it. And so I did. I requested a application, I got my 20 signatures at the Crescent City show just two weeks later, and I sent it in. Now, that was the easy part! The hard part was GETTING me to study! I am not a person who studies for my school tests or exams and I get by with good grades, but I do not know how. So, upon winter vacation I told myself I needed to get my butt in gear. I had joined a yahoo group for others pursing the same thing I was, and I got some helpful tips on how to study. I didn't really get the nerve to study until the first of Feburary. I had gotten a Registar's Study Guide from ARBA. Now, it did not help me entirely, BUT it gave me the DESIRE to study. As I said to my examining judge, the SOP is "uncomfortable" with all that information on those breeds I don't raise or have never saw! Yet the Registrar's Study Guide is "comfortable". It's notebook size, and pretty durable. I would take mine to school with me and when I got some extra time I would take it out and study. And my best suggestion is to use the SOP and the study guide together. They work well that way. (and can find some mistakes too ;)) So I studied for a month. And I was wanting to take my test before June, but I said screw that, I am ready NOW!
I was able to take my test on April 1st. I am confident I did very well (only two questions stumped me, I got one right and the other I was completely opposite!). The oral test was rather easy. I got to give comments on a young black satin and I got to tattoo a young bkn blue satin. I was also able to get one my of Satin does bred and gaze at Roger's beautiful barn of Satins (oh I did not mention my examaning judge was Roger Hassenpflug!!!). So I am just waiting for my results to come back. Counting my chickens before they are hatched, I have 4 shows planned out. Myrtle Point 4/27-28, Canby 5/19 and Portland 5/26. All are shows I have never attended before, so it shall be nice and I am excited for them! I also have some beautiul Mini Lops that I will have my father show for me. I will post more with my test results and possibly more info on becoming a registrar.

Baby Bunnies

We have many baby bunnies in the barn right now. It is spring time and it is the best time to have rabbits, as we have blazing summers that are hard on the rabbits.
Cloey has 2 chestnut, 1 black/seal, 1 chin, 1 bkn chin, 1 bkn black/seal and 3 bkn blues.
Jenie has 1 bkn black/seal, 1 bkn chestnut, 1 seal, 1 chinchilla, 1 opal and 2 bkn blue chinchillas.
We will have pictures soon.
**UPDATE*** The colors are changing (darned shadeds!) Looks like we have some bkn smoke pearls, and a siamese sable!!! (from Jenie). Of Cloey's babies, we think she might have have some sable chinchillas.

LHHR's new Grand Champions

This is Velotta's ReCurring Vision "Stitch". He is a chestnut buck, 7 months old who is now granded. He has won 3 Best of Breed, 1 Best Opposite of Breed & 1 Best Opposite of Variety. He is a proven stud. His first babies were just born with GC LHHR's Lil' Gigi!
This is LHHR's Lil' Hollister. He was born last January from one of our homebred does and a Milkhouse buck. He is a gold tipped blue steel. He has won a first of class and 2 Best Opposite of Breeds! He is a proven stud. His first babies were just born with GC C.C. Jenie!

This is Velotta's Boomer. We recieved Boomer last June from Nicole Velotta. He had been a "problem child" because he has a bob-tail. Sometimes it goes unnoticed and he places well and sometimes he gets DQ'ed for it. But last weekend he won a first of class to grand! He is a proven stud. His first litter out with Velotta's Milly, his daughter, Habanero, at 4 months has been burning up the show tables. She won BOSB last weekend at Emerald Empire and won BOB at Pear Blossom!

This Weekend's Results

On Friday evening the Rabbit Rally went well. We had over 55 youth from Central CA to Central OR come and compete.

Saturday went just as well. I clerked many breeds I did not know much about, I sold a few animals and got great placements.

Ilana - 1st x2
Sanetti - 1st x 2
Honey - DQ (overweight) & 2nd
Hollister - 3rd & BOSB!
Boomer -1st & DQ (bobtail)
MAD - 1st & BOB
Stitch - BOSB & 1st
Bridget - ? & BOV
Habanero - BOB & 1st
Peppercini - ???

WTG on Hab's BOB win, she is a 4 month old junior doe who has hit the show table with a bang! She will be a senior by Canby . . .

Babies, Babies, Babies!

Cloey kindled to 9 kits yesterday. 4 solids, 5 brokens. Plenty of color and dilutes. Cloey is a bkn opal doe, who BOB her first show out, but never gained the massiveness to compete well after that. She was bred to Hollywood Dun It, our chestnut Registered Grand Champion buck with 4 legs on him.
Jenie kindled to 8 kits today. There are plenty of color and dilutes. Jenie is a Registered Grand Champion doe, a BLACK with 7 legs! (most all for BOB/BOS). We decided to retire her this year and get some litters out of her. She was bred to Lil' Hollister, our bkn blue g. tp'd steel buck; he has 2 legs on him.
Northern Lights was also bred to Lil' Hollister, she is nesting. We expect her to have babies this evening.
Kaluah's two babies, the chestnut is a doe and the black is a buck. Gigi, Jessica & Brittney's litters are doing well.

Wonderful Weekend!

Emerald Empire was a great show! Thanks to EERBA for making it all possible!!!
My results:
Youth: Judge: Tom Keyes
Porky (Satin, BSB) Best of Breed
Dreamin (ML, SSD) DQ (broken tooth) :(
B.B. (ML, BSD) Best of Breed; Honorable Mention in Show!
Open: Judges: Cliff Dick (A) & Randy Shumaker (B)
Ilana (Satin, Red SD) Best of Variety x 2
Sanetti (Satin, Copper SD) 1st x 2
Honey (ML, SSD) DQ x 2 (overweight)
Hollister (ML, BSB) ??
Boomer (ML, BSB) 1st & 3rd
MAD (ML, BSD) BOSV & DQ (overweight)
Stitch (ML, SSB) ?? & Best of Breed!!!
Bridget (ML, SSD) ?? & ??
Habanero (ML, BJD) 2nd & Best Opposite of Breed!!!
Peppercini (ML, SJD) DQ (overweight)

We are ready for the Rabbit Rally & Pear Blossom this weekend! Check back for results!

Just one week left!

Seems like when you are waiting for a show to come, the days go by slower and slower. Emerald Empire is creaping near though, and we are getting ever excited! We entered Ilana Sanetti, our satin does in the open show. We entered our buck Porky in the youth show. We entered ten mini lops. Eight in the open show. (Honey, Hollister, Boomer, MAD, Stitch, Bridget, Habanero and Peppercini). We entered Dream and B.B. in the youth show.

Our litters are growing! The Eight satins are together now due to some mothering issues. Gigi's litter, looks like two chestnut bucks, one blue chin buck and one doe. The doe being the bkn chestnut we hoped was a buck! And she has had a mild eye infection due to the weird weather. We are hoping it will have no permanent affects, as she looks very nice!!!

Kaluah has had some issues with her litter. In the process we lost two kits, leaving a chesntut and a black. They are nine days old now, so we are hoping the remaning two will be okay.

The rabbit rally plans are well underway. We have gotten quite a bit of interest in it and we should have the help to keep things running smooth.

The photo pictured is the bkn black satin buck we have decided to keep. We have named him "Midnight Madness".