Hi Jackie, Welcome to the Giant list. I have added some Giants to my rabbitry, too. I have a couple of senior does I plan to breed soon to my senior buck. I...
Thank you Jane for the warm welcome! I look forward to seeing your Giants at the show! I will be giving you some competition in no time! Laid back and...
Hi Laura-J, I just found this webpage: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/paphian/ Hope it helps! Janet ... just started raising alpacas and wanted me to find...
thank you very much! had not come across this site yet! i've emailed her today i hope i can get together soon with her as she is not to far away! it would be...
Hi all! My Giant doe did well at the show. No competition, just me but the judge gave good comments on her and I learned alot about color too. This was her...
Hi Terri, I'm so glad she did well! Being a bit flat in the shoulders is pretty common among Giants. Actually, it isn't that the shoulders are flat, it's that...
Yes, there are! My new German buck also has wonderful shoulders. Make sure you check out the shoulders of the animals at the PA Convention in February. I'm...
Just FYI, anyone wanting to submit a photo for the home page, PLEASE DO! The new photo is of a German buck, not quite 6 months old, who weighs in at about 8...
Hey Janet! I posted a photo album on the list and I don't know if you can take photos from there or not. How do you go about submitting the photo? There are...
Hi Terri! Thanks! No, that is his natural pose, he isn't squished together! My late and beloved Billy was built like a tank, too. Snowman shares some...
I really need to do lots of hands on with bodies I suppose. So he definately looks to have the commercial body type of the Giant. And that is just looking at...
Hey Janet!! I was just flipping thru your photo album folder, Yahoo Photo. I was noticing with some of your rabbits that the bodies in the photos look ...
Hi Terri, I didn't pose any of the bunns, that's just how they were when I snapped the picture. They all have a basically commercial body type. When Louise...
So if her intention was to get a bigger German, what did the German breeders do to get the bigger German we are now seeing? Why are the German breeders in the...
Hi Terri, The bigger German we are seeing now is the result of selective breeding. From what I have been told, NO shorthaired breeds were introduced to bring...
Oh, so the German breeders bred the biggest to the biggest to get big rabbits. I see. Well Louise didn't have the best stock to start with so she improvised...
The newer German imports are often 11 lbs or more. Their weights aren't shown on the pedigrees, but often their evaluation scores are. If they have 20 points...
I have a French buck here that carries lots of rufus. I'm hoping to take him to PA and you can see him and his daughters. He has given me reds with the right...
The comment below was made by Teri, I think, on the last digest that I read. You should be at a point that if you have decent wool you should just about have...
Yes, it is Demetri. He's a cool old guy, he'll be 5 yrs old in Feb. Wow!! His sire is an opal and his dam is a choc tort. Weird combo there. I still don't...
Thanks for pointing that out Barbara. But since the shorthaired gene is dominate, when you breed a short hair to a long hair you should get all short hairs...
Hey Janet! So to get back on the subject of breeds, how long is it going to take you to get where you want to be with the otters? Cool color I shall have to...
Unfortunately, Barbara, I can't seem to get otter angora bucks to live long enough to reproduce. The couple I have produced met with accidents. I'd like to get...
Well, thanks for the offer, but after thiinking on it some more, I decided that I'll probably use one of the 1/2 angora shorthaired otter bucks I have. I don't...
I think it will take 3 years before I am ready to get a COD for them. At that point, they should be big enough, the color should be pretty good, and most...
... Although I don't have Giants right now :( , I have done some normal- furred/wool crosses in my French. I wanted a certain body type, so bred New Zealand...
That's OK, if you have a 1/2 otter buck I would go with that too. I thought you wanted reds. Demetri is great for reds. Terri in VA ... would ... coat...
OK, I just got an email from Louise and I asked her basicaly just what I had asked you. She said if she runs close in the gene pool and needs to add in, she...
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