What are your rabbit breeds

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I was not seeing a recent thread that had this info so I thought I would start one!

I currently have Silver Foxes, New Zealand Whites, and SF/NZW crosses, but by the end of spring I hope to have Silver Foxes only. (Although I am seriously considering making an exception for a chinchilla cross.)

I mostly raise rabbits for meat for all the carnivores in my family, including the furry ones for now, but I have plans to work on show quality SF rabbits eventually.
 

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We have Harlequin variety and Magpie Harlequins. We breed mostly for our own food purposes and strive to create a breed that better suits our climate. We introduced large English lops for larger ears therefore better heat dispersion, and slower growing, larger bunnies. We pasture raise in tractors as colonies of does, and grow outs with bucks. Many will tell you this will not work but for us it works great! We have minimal problems with disease or worms. We cull and eat any buns that show signs of aggression and or poor keepers and have a very friendly colony of grass fat buns on minimal feed. Hope you do not mind some pictures!:D =D
 

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Dutch(steel and black varieties) and two potential NZs. The NZs were the first rabbits, and i was only supposed to have "two rabbits". Well, you know how that goes. I bought some Dutch from a state fair a couple years ago, and bred them last year. They were supposed to be show rabbits, but there are no shows up here. So they are basically glorified pets.
 

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Right now just a Angora Tort doe named Allie Bun Bun but we are planning on getting some Otter Rexs (standard) and broken colors as well as a White Angora Buck and a couple more Angoras Does for our breeding plan and show. Anyone in the Kansas or Missouri area that has these breeds please feel free to PM me. Thank you
 

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We have a breeding trio of standard rexes, and a French Angora buck. The rexes are for meat and pelts; the angora for fiber.

On to what everyone really wants: pictures!

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This is our rex buck, Cornelius Fudge.

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Broken black doe, Lily.

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Broken black otter doe, Petunia.

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Petunia had eight babies at the end of November; here they are at a few days old.

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And this is Thing 2 during a grooming session.
 

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I raise totally for meat production so I have what are affectionly known as meat mutts. they are a cross of nz, production white and palomino. important part for me is that they are healthy and productive. I do however love standard rex, love the pelts. maybe someday i'll have some of them.
 

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