The Bartow show was my first and I only had the Jr Chocolate doe. I got there just before 7:00am, people where already setting up inside. I quickly picked an open spot. I did not want to be so close the judging tables and where I could get in and out of. After I set up a nice lady with her group of Holland Lops and friends set up next to me. Between the 3 of them they probably had over 30 Lops. They had several for sale and seemed to do good business. I meet Lisa Wilson of Gentle Giant Rabbitry, she was one of the first people I emailed when I decided I was going to raise rabbits in Florida. She introduced me to two of the day's Judge's Marvin Cummings and TL Andrews, both of which raise Havana's. TL (Tommie) had just sold his entire herd of Havanas deciding to go a different route and start fresh with a new breed, seems I missed buying a few by a week or so. I did talk to his wife Terry a few times thru out the day and she was a super nice lady. Marvin was really laid back and I got to talk to him for about 30 minutes. I found he breed's Chocolate Havana's exclusively now and had 3 litters here in the month of June. Hopefully I can buy a few from him. He does still have other breeds but only Chocolate in Havana's. I soon found out I was the only Open class Havana, but did meet a nice family who had just bought a trio at the previous Bartow show at the end of May and was at there first show. They were doing a 4-H project so they where in youth. They had a Chocolate Broken doe, who had a broken tooth so was DQ'd in both the A & B show. They had a real nice Chocolate SR doe, and a Black SR buck who was DQ'd in B show for being only 4 lbs and was over 8 months old. The Judge in the A show mentioned how thin he was but never weighed him. Being the only person and rabbit in the open A & B I got 1st and BOB. Both judges had similar comments and really like her and think she'll be fine after she molts her baby fur out. Hopefully that will be in the next few weeks and I 'll show her in August as her last Jr
DeLand 6/02/2012
It was a 3 1/2 hour drive up, not to bad. There was some road construction but no accidents and very few cops. We got there and made are was around, we where meeting Joan Geisy there and saw her right away as she was wearing a Havana Club apron, she was busy talking so we continued walking around. Was only 150 or so rabbits there, and only 8 Havana's. Lots of Flemish Giants, English Lops, Holland Lops and Netherland Dwarfs. Good turn out for Dutch also there where 39 of them. They had two raffle tables and at least 12 rabbits up for raffle. We watched some judging and saw some Cavies being judge also. We saw Joan sitting down so we made our way over and introduced ourselves since we had only exchanged emails. We had a nice talk and learned even more with Joan's knowledge and her history with rabbits and Havana's. |
AuthorTom Nelson--Palm Beach Rabbitry. I'll try to write a quick overview of each rabbit show I go to and/or anything I feel might worth writing about. Archives
October 2012
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