Bunnylady
Herd Master
they showed them as a pair
I've never heard of a pair class. Meat pens, yes, but that's 3 fryers, not 2. So the brother was the one lacking quality, and dragged the pair down?
I've had little exposure to 4H; I suspect a lot of 4H groups may write their own rules when it comes to showing. The ones around here only do"showmanship" classes, which means they don't really evaluate the rabbit, other than to see that it is clean and healthy. They quiz the owner on rabbit basics. The only time my daughter got talked into entering a 4H class, she blew away the competition, having had rabbits around all of her life, she'd absorbed most of it by osmosis. It wasn't really fair to the other kids, who were actually trying.