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Frumpy lol
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Ugh, the lean...
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Hops looking a little wonky bc of the pulled fur.
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Typical SF potato...
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Opal is fattening back up.
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Alright, back to the realization!
Bone structure, no, not the spine. The legs!
I already talked about knees being forward n down vs up n in will change how depth looks.
I don't think I mentioned the loin hollows. I believe these are a result of knee placement and leg bone size. Not being "filled in" with mystery product...

Opal is a good visual, since her old coat is nicely showing the hind leg.
Her leg is in while up or forward, making her have no loin hollows.
Middle row, right pic, shows top of knee. Next pic is if her knee stuck out, there'd be a hollow, but you can see she's smooth.
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Back to weird Mallow...
Middle row, first 2 pics are him. He's got tiny hind legs!! And he is good at dropping them down, forward and in to the body.
Next, Puff has a larger hind leg. Opal, her huge hinds. And top, also decently sized thighs. Kept high, has shallow depth, which makes little to no hollows.
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High vs low
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High vs low
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Both down n out
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left knee up. Right knee down.
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It looks like I don't really pose the offside leg, that shows how much a small adjustment can change looks.

So, what does any of this mean?
Well, mostly that how you pose changes looks, whice I've said before. But also, that there's a heck of a lot of pieces to the perfect bun puzzle working together!
If we want meaty "drumsticks", do we really need to be focusing on the mailbox shape? Knees out, knees up or down, but with a wide loin and with or without hollows, you can still have a perfect carcass. I think we need to change to functional breeding, not pretty show breeding. They claim it's also their goal, but it's muddling the end product and producing too many unnecessary culls.
Knees in will also squish guts upwards to fill loin hollows out.


I feel like I'm uncovering some odd mystery. Lol
 

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Since the cull buyer seems to of decided to stop buying, I'll be going back to culling as early as possible. No point in wasting feed and money for big buns when no one is buying.
Will start early by culling some out today and listing a bunch today vs Sunday.
Got 12 listed. Will be culled Sunday night.
 

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The Jet×Lefty buck. Living outside until I make room in the bun barn.
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40 bags of feed-
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Oh! Hello!?! Chocolates! I just now realized, I've got more chocolate like I've been wanting! Just in the wrong type, I wanted selfs. 😅

Steely × Mr Rew
Chocolate steel & chocolate chinchilla, both does. Chin is 0.40 heavier. Both are the largest in the litter, too.
I've been attached to both since birth, hoping the steel finds a home, when I eventually give up holding on to her for her chin sister. Lol.
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A Rex nearly 5# at 9 weeks, and I'm pretty sure it's that REW kit I posted before of the wide legs.
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Went backwards with my fast line...But there's a couple decent to watch.
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A couple to watch.
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Sucks doe was lost, but I like that Mr Rew is helping and not downgrading the lines he's bred to.
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