weedflemishgiants
Well-Known Member
Hi. I'm just venting a little. Why, why when people sell flemish don't they tell people it is not a pure bred Flemish?
This is happening all over our state and it is getting really hard to find breeders who have Flemish Giant pedigrees that are actually Flemish Giants. And it is a problem.
Recently. a friend of mine had a blue buck he bought. Paid a fortune for it and it ended up with terrible malocclusion. He called the breeder, said I can't breed this rabbit, and she said I will be happy to take it back- his brother just died and I need that Harlie gene. Harlie gene? My friend had been under the impression that his blue buck he bought was all flemish, not part Harlie.
Another friend of mine called me this morning. From another state altogether. She had taken a doe I bought from someone that was supposed to be a pure bred Flemish, I also thought was pure bred, I paid a fortune for it, and it was an awful rabbit. So bad that when she hit the tables, the judge said, you need to strangle this rabbit there is something wrong with it.
Anyway I gave her to a friend who wanted her for a pet. But then she turned around and bred her anyway. To a lovely Flemish buck. The babies were born a ten days ago and two of them have NO EYEBALL. NO EYEBALL. I asked her how the doe appeared now and she said definately not show quality. So I did some research and found out that the father was a fawn flemish but the mother was a black beveran.
I give up. If I buy any outside Flemish Giant rabbit ever again, it will have to come from back east I guess cause who knows what you are going to get out here.
The breeders need to tell people when they cross breed like this. It is not right. And who can tell just from looking at the pedigree?
This is happening all over our state and it is getting really hard to find breeders who have Flemish Giant pedigrees that are actually Flemish Giants. And it is a problem.
Recently. a friend of mine had a blue buck he bought. Paid a fortune for it and it ended up with terrible malocclusion. He called the breeder, said I can't breed this rabbit, and she said I will be happy to take it back- his brother just died and I need that Harlie gene. Harlie gene? My friend had been under the impression that his blue buck he bought was all flemish, not part Harlie.
Another friend of mine called me this morning. From another state altogether. She had taken a doe I bought from someone that was supposed to be a pure bred Flemish, I also thought was pure bred, I paid a fortune for it, and it was an awful rabbit. So bad that when she hit the tables, the judge said, you need to strangle this rabbit there is something wrong with it.
Anyway I gave her to a friend who wanted her for a pet. But then she turned around and bred her anyway. To a lovely Flemish buck. The babies were born a ten days ago and two of them have NO EYEBALL. NO EYEBALL. I asked her how the doe appeared now and she said definately not show quality. So I did some research and found out that the father was a fawn flemish but the mother was a black beveran.
I give up. If I buy any outside Flemish Giant rabbit ever again, it will have to come from back east I guess cause who knows what you are going to get out here.
The breeders need to tell people when they cross breed like this. It is not right. And who can tell just from looking at the pedigree?