Pics of my breeding stock of meat rabbits

[wYs Ranch]

I really like his color.

 

[AlpacaEmployee]

Do you know how to pose him? I'd love to see posed pictures of him!

I do not know how to pose a rabbit. Is there a website that tells the basics of that? I'd be interested in learning.

Put him on a "carpeted" surface.
Hold his head down and push up his hindquarters. you want to make him look like a big basketball. Don't let him "push" with his front legs. It'll throw off his topline.

 

[ChickenPotPie]

Do you know how to pose him? I'd love to see posed pictures of him!

I do not know how to pose a rabbit. Is there a website that tells the basics of that? I'd be interested in learning.

Put him on a "carpeted" surface.
Hold his head down and push up his hindquarters. you want to make him look like a big basketball. Don't let him "push" with his front legs. It'll throw off his topline.

Essentially, but you also need to line up his back feet with the front of his "knees" and the toes of his front feet should be right underneath the center of his eye. Don't scrunch too much else you might over pose him and not find out much about his true body type.

Here is a good article on posing. http://www.rabbitsontheweb.com/node/31 It's a compact body type rabbit they use (Mini Rex) but posing commercial body type rabbits (Cals and NZ) is essentially the same, just not as, um, compact or scrunched up. In a show rabbit, you still want to see a lot of depth in the commercial typed rabbits but for meat production, I'm told by the experienced NZ old timers that solid "bricks" is what you want.

Here is another very important Q&A about posing commercial body typed breeds. http://en.allexperts.com/q/Rabbits-703/posing-Chinchilla.htm

Here is a good description of how to pose commercial typed rabbits as well as the other types. It's good because it is accurate and you can compare and contrast. http://www.rabbits.amberwiseman.com/bodytypes.html

 

[DianeS]

Oh, excellent! Thank you both for helping me with that!

I'll start practicing and show some pics when I think I have it right. Thanks again

 

[collector]

Those are some nice looking meaties. Hope all goes well!

 

[parkersmom120106]

That buck has a dewlap?!

Yes, he does. I'd always heard that males don't, but this one is definately a male. Prominant testicles and all the right other "equipment" too. So either "no dewlap for males" is a myth or I have an unusual male, I don't know which.

I bought a couple of mini rexes at an auction once. It was my first time there and with it being so fast paced, and me being shy I didn't think to figure out boys or girls before I bid. So I bid on 2 based on the dewlap, assuming that with one it would be a doe. Nope..one of them was very much a boy. Now I know to get there early and find the seller of the animal and find out if it's a buck or doe before I bid!