We are very excited to announce that we will be showing again! We will be attending the Great Lakes Rabbit and Cavy Show on August 25th, located in Charlotte at the Eaton County Fairgrounds. We will be bring New Zealands, French Angoras, and Lionheads to show and will also have New Zealand juniors and prejuniors for sale.
If anyone is interested in reserving some of my New Zealand White babies please let me know. I will hold them for you and they can be picked up at the show.
Looking forward to showing! See you there!
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Fair Results
I promised everyone the results of our fair week so here it is:
We received many awards and top placings in 4-H and open class. We received blue ribbons in 4-H in our rabbits, vegetables, herbs, photography, art, cats, handspun yarn, flowers, and sheep fleeces. In terms of Best in Show awards, we received them in our herb display, crop displays, summer squash, vegetable market basket, group journalism, and decorated trash barrel. Open class also went very well. We got 1st places in our vegetables, flowers, crop sheaves, art, photography, and handspun yarn. In addition, we also got sweepstakes in photography (2 pictures of Lionheads and 1 of an orchid bloom) and also one of our handspun yarns (100% angora single ply). We are very pleased with our winnings and are looking forward to next years fair!
Now, the fair’s rabbit show in more detail…
Some of the rabbits that we brought had their very first showing, so it was very exciting to see how they would do. Blossom Acres’ Popeye, an intermediate New Zealand White, received a blue ribbon. He was one of the last rabbits on the New Zealand table. The judge decided to give it to a senior. She had great comments for Popeye but she said that she was going to give it to the larger rabbit. Popeye had just turned an intermediate and he is a very substantial size so I am hoping that he will be a big boy as a senior. Popeye also received a blue ribbon on his fur and was in the top 4 for the normal fur competition.
Blossom Acres’ Cute as a Button, a baby chocolate Lionhead buck was used as our showmanship bunny. He was a ham so he made a great show rabbit! I showed him in senior division showmanship and received 3rd place. My sister Barb showed him as well and received 4th place intermediate showmanship. Julia, the cloverbud in our family, showed this little guy as well and did a wonderful job!
We also showed Blossom Acres’ Royal Blue, a blue Lionhead buck in breed class. He took Best of Breed. This was Royal Blue’s first showing. Since this class was added later in the year, we were not able to specifically breed for the show, but were very excited to receive Best of Breed with Royal Blue, even though he is not in his prime for showing. He did very well and had fantastic comments from the judge.
Last but not least we showed Sunrise’s Newt, an orange Netherland Dwarf. We don’t breed Netherlands - he just hangs around. Anyway, he got great comments and got a blue ribbon. He aced the fur class by receive grand champion normal fur as well as a blue ribbon in a very large class.
We also showed in the rabbit poster class. The winning poster received a trophy. My poster about French Angora Rabbits won this class.
We also participated in the skillathon, where all 3 of us were in the top 3. My sister Barb won the class and received a very nice medal.
We showed under Firestone Farmers 4-H Club, our 4-H club. We have a very involved club - we do just about everything. Our club is involved in sheep, goats, rabbits, cats, fiber arts, crafts, horses (not a main focus), horticulture (vegetables and herbs), floriculture (flowers and flower arranging), crops, and more. We are always happy to get new members involved in our club! Here is a picture of our club’s booth:
We’ll be going to an ARBA show soon! We are looking forward to showing again as our last show was in March of this year. We will most likely be bringing Lionheads, French Angoras, and New Zealand Whites to show; however, it will all depend on how everyone is looking by the show. We also plan on bringing some nice purebred pedigreed New Zealand White pre-juniors and possibly some other breeds.
Right now we have 2 purebred pedigreed New Zealand White's for sale. They are 10 weeks old. $25 each with partial pedigree.
More rabbits for sale soon! Please keep checking our website and blog!
http://www.blossomacresrabbitry.webs.com/
We received many awards and top placings in 4-H and open class. We received blue ribbons in 4-H in our rabbits, vegetables, herbs, photography, art, cats, handspun yarn, flowers, and sheep fleeces. In terms of Best in Show awards, we received them in our herb display, crop displays, summer squash, vegetable market basket, group journalism, and decorated trash barrel. Open class also went very well. We got 1st places in our vegetables, flowers, crop sheaves, art, photography, and handspun yarn. In addition, we also got sweepstakes in photography (2 pictures of Lionheads and 1 of an orchid bloom) and also one of our handspun yarns (100% angora single ply). We are very pleased with our winnings and are looking forward to next years fair!
Now, the fair’s rabbit show in more detail…
Some of the rabbits that we brought had their very first showing, so it was very exciting to see how they would do. Blossom Acres’ Popeye, an intermediate New Zealand White, received a blue ribbon. He was one of the last rabbits on the New Zealand table. The judge decided to give it to a senior. She had great comments for Popeye but she said that she was going to give it to the larger rabbit. Popeye had just turned an intermediate and he is a very substantial size so I am hoping that he will be a big boy as a senior. Popeye also received a blue ribbon on his fur and was in the top 4 for the normal fur competition.
Blossom Acres’ Cute as a Button, a baby chocolate Lionhead buck was used as our showmanship bunny. He was a ham so he made a great show rabbit! I showed him in senior division showmanship and received 3rd place. My sister Barb showed him as well and received 4th place intermediate showmanship. Julia, the cloverbud in our family, showed this little guy as well and did a wonderful job!
We also showed Blossom Acres’ Royal Blue, a blue Lionhead buck in breed class. He took Best of Breed. This was Royal Blue’s first showing. Since this class was added later in the year, we were not able to specifically breed for the show, but were very excited to receive Best of Breed with Royal Blue, even though he is not in his prime for showing. He did very well and had fantastic comments from the judge.
Last but not least we showed Sunrise’s Newt, an orange Netherland Dwarf. We don’t breed Netherlands - he just hangs around. Anyway, he got great comments and got a blue ribbon. He aced the fur class by receive grand champion normal fur as well as a blue ribbon in a very large class.
We also showed in the rabbit poster class. The winning poster received a trophy. My poster about French Angora Rabbits won this class.
We also participated in the skillathon, where all 3 of us were in the top 3. My sister Barb won the class and received a very nice medal.
We showed under Firestone Farmers 4-H Club, our 4-H club. We have a very involved club - we do just about everything. Our club is involved in sheep, goats, rabbits, cats, fiber arts, crafts, horses (not a main focus), horticulture (vegetables and herbs), floriculture (flowers and flower arranging), crops, and more. We are always happy to get new members involved in our club! Here is a picture of our club’s booth:
We’ll be going to an ARBA show soon! We are looking forward to showing again as our last show was in March of this year. We will most likely be bringing Lionheads, French Angoras, and New Zealand Whites to show; however, it will all depend on how everyone is looking by the show. We also plan on bringing some nice purebred pedigreed New Zealand White pre-juniors and possibly some other breeds.
Right now we have 2 purebred pedigreed New Zealand White's for sale. They are 10 weeks old. $25 each with partial pedigree.
More rabbits for sale soon! Please keep checking our website and blog!
http://www.blossomacresrabbitry.webs.com/
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