TinysMom
Well-Known Member
Last weekend - one of the main reasons I made the decision at 3:30 am to go to the show - was I knew it would be my only chance in a while to see a variety of rabbit that is "still in progress" and doesn't yet have a COD pulled on it.
The variety?
Broken Flemish.
Anyone who knows me - knows I LOVE LOVE LOVE brokens. I worked with them a lot when I bred lionheads and I'm working with them now in the holland lops.
Here are the photos:
[align=center]
[align=left]Now some of you may be saying, "Why not breed them?" After all - the COD holder (soon-to-be) for the variety will hopefully be presenting his COD in the next few months.
But....as you can see from those photos...the rabbits have great color patterns....but their type SUCKS...big time. They're three generations in already and they obviously have a long way to go.
Many long-time breeders of flemish (in the National club) do not like the idea of broken flemish. They feel it can mess up color and type, etc. in the years to come. Some of them have put 15-20 years or more into perfecting their lines for the ring color, etc. - and now this throws something else into the pot.
I'm not sure exactly how it works - but if the flemish pass their first presentation in a few years and the club says "no" they won't accept them....the variety goes on hold for something like 5 years I think?
This has the potential to split the flemish giant club according to some I've talked to.
So I find myself going back and forth on this issue. I'd love to work with broken steels and broken light gray but I would have to keep my brokens completely separate from the line I want to develop (I could use Mercury to start the broken lines and work in those lines - but I wouldn't want to cross the broken offspring into my solid program).
Its a tough decision.
When I don't look at those photos - I say to myself, "I can wait until they present in a few years and see if the club accepts them..".
But then I look at the photos...and think about it some more.
Anyway - I just thought I'd share - if only so folks could see pictures of broken flemish (that the club will not recognize as flemish because they are broken and not accepted by ARBA).
[/align][/align]
The variety?
Broken Flemish.
Anyone who knows me - knows I LOVE LOVE LOVE brokens. I worked with them a lot when I bred lionheads and I'm working with them now in the holland lops.
Here are the photos:
[align=center]
[align=left]Now some of you may be saying, "Why not breed them?" After all - the COD holder (soon-to-be) for the variety will hopefully be presenting his COD in the next few months.
But....as you can see from those photos...the rabbits have great color patterns....but their type SUCKS...big time. They're three generations in already and they obviously have a long way to go.
Many long-time breeders of flemish (in the National club) do not like the idea of broken flemish. They feel it can mess up color and type, etc. in the years to come. Some of them have put 15-20 years or more into perfecting their lines for the ring color, etc. - and now this throws something else into the pot.
I'm not sure exactly how it works - but if the flemish pass their first presentation in a few years and the club says "no" they won't accept them....the variety goes on hold for something like 5 years I think?
This has the potential to split the flemish giant club according to some I've talked to.
So I find myself going back and forth on this issue. I'd love to work with broken steels and broken light gray but I would have to keep my brokens completely separate from the line I want to develop (I could use Mercury to start the broken lines and work in those lines - but I wouldn't want to cross the broken offspring into my solid program).
Its a tough decision.
When I don't look at those photos - I say to myself, "I can wait until they present in a few years and see if the club accepts them..".
But then I look at the photos...and think about it some more.
Anyway - I just thought I'd share - if only so folks could see pictures of broken flemish (that the club will not recognize as flemish because they are broken and not accepted by ARBA).
[/align][/align]