This weekend I completed the update of all my show records, including each rabbits' records online. However, seeing it in summary form is a good reminder to me how my rabbitry stands and how it got to where it is.  I posted this to offer perspective for my readers as well. I am hoping you will understand that earning legs and sweeps points, and winning at rabbit shows would not have happened at all if I had not actually attended shows... many shows and some when my rabbits did not win anything. I had to attend to have the opportunity to win, but going to any show is never a guarantee of winning. What you will not see in these statistics is how many times each rabbit did not win as each one was in the process of earning its legs and points. Astro Man and Starry Knight are the only two left that started with me in the fall of 2018 and two grand champion senior does from that first show season had been culled. These records also do not include the rabbits, juniors to seniors, I e...

When I first started showing, my goal was to grand all my breeders (or have only breeders that were grand champions) and once a rabbit was granded, I would stop showing it. The idea was to give others a chance to win and build that excitement about showing so more people would get involved with it as there were so few Silver Fox breeders in the region. Then I had hardly any rabbits to show unless I showed the ones that were already granded. If I did not show those rabbits, there would likely not have been enough to earn legs so why would others bother to show and—well, what fun would it have been for me to breed towards show quality rabbits, keeping my best rabbits home in their cages forever after, and then just  not  go to shows? There was a combination of circumstances my first year showing that contributed to reaching my goal faster than I thought I would. I had only a few rabbits as I was starting out. There were so few Silver Foxes breeders and rabbits being shown in the...

I just received my show reports for Shows B and C from the Northwest Georgia Cavy and Rabbit Club, so I now have all five show reports in front of me to analyze from the Dalton shows held on March 6-7, 2021. If you read the previous post I did know the outcome for some of my rabbits in the NSFRC National and the GSFRB Specialty Shows, but Shows B and C ran at the same time and I was talking with buyers, so I did not write down my placements at all for any of the shows and I just gave up for the rest.   Now I have the chance to fill in all the blanks—Well, actually, the entire  page of my show journal as it was all blank except for rabbit names! In the order of class and ages... Senior Bucks GC Carrot Garden's Astro Man - He has been my biggest and most consistent prizewinner until his son Yanish hit the show scene and now that they are both in the senior class, it seems Yanish is a contender for the Tale of Tails Top Buck Throne, although not every judge there saw it tha...

I have started this post a few times in my mind and just could not get to writing it, partly because I am still in shock. However, I very much desired to share with you all how my Lord has done this for me and with me because, if not for God, this would not have happened. When I started this journey going from a meat breeder of seven years into a show breeder, I knew the quality of Silver Foxes I was starting with were not ideal rabbits. Then one of the rabbits I had bought won Best of Breed in my very first show! I was so encouraged that I bought another buck that was transported from out of state along with his brother bought by a friend who assured me these would be good bucks for us both. Then I bought a doe from a well-known breeder to be transported to me from the ARBA Convention, which turned into a very disheartening public ordeal after the doe won Best of Breed and Best of Best there—I nearly quit on the idea of showing altogether, all this in only a few months time. As rocky ...

All the rabbits that I will have available at the Dalton, Georgia show next weekend are from the same kindle. All of the blacks may carry dilute and/or white. The blue may carry white. They range in quality and size, although all are born on the same day. I have listed them here from the worse to the best at this time. The worst I recommend for meat brood only. The last two on this list are the best, one buck and one doe, and I may wish to keep to see them grow out a bit more to decide if they will stay with me in my breeding program. That is to say, I will not decide for sure if they are available or not until the Dalton show as a week's worth of development at this age can change quite a bit.  The first three on this list are definitely being offered and will be priced according to their quality, which you can discuss with me privately by Messenger.  TYIN7 - Doe - Blue Brood  - sold TYIN1 - Buck - Black Brood  - sold / actually turned out to have show potential!...