Preperation for convention.

Getting ready for Convention isn't stressful until you realize you are in a royalty competition and you have not studied anything!! I need to at least study Breed ID seeing as i am on a team. (well im the alternate but still!) i still haven't tattooed or clipped nails. i have an awards night tonight and church tomorrow and some sort of appointment on thursday. Guess i have to squeeze it in somewhere. On top of that i have tons of school work. Other kids do it so i can do it to i guess! I bred 3 rabbits last week. 2 of them are first time mom's. bred them in time for someone to palpate them at convention because i still don't have the skill down very well. I am not sure if any of them took seeing as none of them doe and buck did not want to breed. i guess its because the weather is getting colder and we haven't had a lot of sun lately. We rearranged cages so that we could fit all of the new babies in real cages and not travel cages. So we threw the ones that aren't going to convention into the the cages that face the elements. Not very kind of us but its just temporary. We hope to sell at least 3 more of our rabbits at convention. Since we only presold 2. We made these gorgeous cage tags for convention and now we can't seem to find them. Guess thats the down side of making them 2 weeks before convention and not procrastinating.

Fun show.

We went to Hanford today with my juniors! im told i am supposed to cut off showing a month before convention but they didnt seem to stressed so i guess it went well. I got Best Opposite Breed in one of the shows with my Chocolate Buck and that is his third leg!! My Broken Sable steel doe got her third & Forth leg but she is still a junior so i am super excited to see how she does at convention. she got a leg both shows! I brought 4 junior bucks from Posey's Mae and DeSurra's Gabriel's litter and one of them took first in his class out of 7 or 8 i think.. well anyways at only 3 months he got his first leg!! Michael Perez got Best of breed with his Jersey wooley and Best Opposite with his mini lop open for the first show and Best Of Breed that second show.
So all together it was a good and successful show!!

MY BABIES!!!

so unfortunately i did not get a first place at the kern county fair. but the babies i sold to show at the fair did excellent!!! one got best of variety at 5 months old for the brokens then another one got best of variety and breed at 4 1/2 months old and then went on to win BEST IN SHOW!!! even though i dont own her any more i am super excited!! who knew i would have one of my own babies win best in show!! especially so young!! that owner was excited and a little shocked. this was her first show showing a rabbit. she had previously shown hogs but her FFA was cut at her school because of cut backs. it hadn't set in that she won best in show yet when i left the fair grounds. im so excited for her and that rabbit i am trying to convince her to let us bring her to convention. haha we will have to see!!

got the catalog!!

I got the ARBA catalog and its awesome!! just thought i might share that with you.. Updated my website and it seems i have no clue what my babies colors are so if you could help me that would be nice. they are under bucks and does NOT litters since we have decided to keep them until convention.

It can be a little frustrating..

So im new to breeding and figuring out colors of babies is really hard.
First i thought the five babies we had were two smoke pearls, two smoke pearl chins and one sable of some sort. and now it looks like our chins are not in fact smoke pearl at all hahaha. They are chins but what color? one looks like a black chin (of course out of all these lovely colors we get a regular black chin) and the other may be a lilac chin but im not sure. Oh and it looks like they are all Bucks except for one of the smoke pearls which is good cuz thats what we begged for hahaha we have to many does but now we are overwhelmed with bucks since we are keeping this whole litter tell convention.

The camera broke!

I was supposed to update our website when i got home from tahoe like two weeks ago. But while in Tahoe my mother dropped the camera and it broke! the only camera that works in this house now is my sisters, she will not let us use it. We have one that we borrowed from my aunt but even with the flash on for some odd reason its super dark in on the pics unless they are outside. Since it is like 112 degrees outside i would rather not be taking pictures out there. So i guess i have to wait tell we can get a new one. (We want a nikon, something that can capture the color of our bunnies better). Have any idea on what camera we should get?

Getting ready to leave.

so while we are out of town a transporter will be dropping off two mini lops with one of my unlucky family members that have never held a rabbit to carry out to duty of putting stressed out rabbits in there cages. im super excited about them and i think they will do well at convention! i have completed the task of cleaning out all! the cages and now i am relaxing for a bit before i have to go pack. i have been procrastinating on packing. Our white does babies are looking healthy her attitude has changed a lot towards us she is a lot nicer and she seems to always check her box to make sure the babies are in there. She does not seem to like us taking the box out to check them but she seems to not stress to much and still feeds them. I got blonde and red high lights. the blonde is VERY noticable but it will be ok. It is pretty hot here but the bunnies aren't too hot.