Netherland Dwarf thread

[Rabbitshower101]

Regarding pedigree though, especially when I really sit down and get my rabbitry started, it comes to whether I want to first go show, which then pedigrees a must, or go meat. Still truly on the fence with that, but at least I have my options open.

ARBA has an excellent way to trace lines if you want pedigree. I'm leaning towards smaller rabbits, due to space, so focusing on show and pets would be my best right now for success.

Meat rabbits are more on what meat you have on your rabbit than pedigree. Mixing breeds to get the best meat rabbit is the key. Something that I know is in my future since I want to be self sufficient and raise my own meat.

Pedigrees are not a must to show your rabbits. Fitting the standard is. We showed several satins without pedigrees to get an idea of how well they compared to others of their breed. For my purebred meat rabbits, that they fit the standard and can be shown by other people is just as important to me as whether or not they growout well.

Also... Pics of a ND doe that we kinda rescued a few years back. Someone posted an ad for a free rabbit, we were looking for meat breeders at the time and asked how big it was since she didn't know the breed. She told us it was a medium-large sized rabbit. So we figure we would go take a peek. Well... I stayed in the car, my husband went to look at her, and came back carrying this itty bitty ball of white fluff. The people had already moved out of the house and were living a good hour away, and when DH went to look at her, there was snow in her empty food and water dishes and it hadn't snowed in 3 days!!! So we ended up taking the poor little bunny, who was just skin and bones, and rehomed her with my neice. Now she is really fat LOL

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Nice REW very nice

 

[Rabbitshower101]

cool what color are your netherlands

So far i have a Lynx Buck and a Broken black buck and i am getting at a show this week a Black Doe a Chocolate Doe a Steel Doe and a Chestnut Doe and a Squirrel Doe and a litter of kits i know alot LOL

 

[Tab003]

Our Lionhead cages are 11" long, 10" wide and 10" high. We found a metal nest box we plan to use for our indoor Dearf Hotot but I wouldn't make a nest any bigger than ours and probably a few smaller. It's easy to make one and a lot cheaper than buying! We use 1/2 inch plywood.

CYG

I think that is an awful small cage. My ND's are in minium 24Lx18W. Since most Loinheads I have seen do not fit the standard. I am not sure the size of yours, but most are crosses between Jersey Woolies & ND---which is still bigger than a ND. Just my Opinion.

 

[lastfling]

I'm thinking CYG was referring to nestbox size and not cage size -- typo maybe??

 

[2seth2]

i havent be able to show my 2 new really nice netherlands and i want to see how they do now . the next show is in febuary :/

 

[CYGChickies]

I'm thinking CYG was referring to nestbox size and not cage size -- typo maybe??

Haha oh god what a typo it is too! *sarcasm* I like to keep em from movin around too much!*endsarcasm* Yes I meant nest box. I can't believe I typed cage. Too funny but might get me in trouble if someone took it at face value haha. :#


My Lionheads all fit the "European Standard" of staying under 4 pounds--I think that's the maximum weight, I know it's not over five! I see a ton of Lionheads around here that are like fuzzy NZ crosses! Huge! I thought Lola was gonna be big but she never got any bigger. Her line probably had large rabbits at one point because she's got strong magpie and harlequin color genes. She probably got them from a Harlequin since she doesnt have a squished dwarf face although two of her kits do so perhaps that's debatable. ANYWHO sorry for alarming everyone with my insane typo! My rabbits are in minimum 24x18 and most are in 24x24 or 36x36 cages. They're meat rabbit cages that all the mamas are in right now.

CYG

 

[Zephyr Farms]

Big Dwarf breeder here! We breed at least one color for each group, except for Agouti!

 

[2seth2]

nice nethies

 

[Ms. Research]

Big Dwarf breeder here! We breed at least one color for each group, except for Agouti!

Nice looking bunnies. Congratulations!

K

 

[2seth2]

just not enough shows in the year