Kandy Reif from Clarence IA |
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How may years have you raised Dutch? |
8 to 15 Years |
What recognized varieties do you raise? |
Black, Blue, Chocolate, Gray, Steel, Tortoise |
What non-recognized varieties do you own? |
Gold, Harlequin |
When using other breeds of rabbits in the development of these new colors, it will take many years to get animals that consistently show a good Dutch type. What about the colors we could have just crossing the varieties we already have? Lilac Dutch for example were very popular back in the days of the AOV class. |
You wouth be working with the type, and markings that you already have which would give you a more desirable Dutch type rabbit. |
If we start adding new colors of Dutch to the Standard will we get carried away with the entire thing? for example, the Netherland Dwarfs and Mini-Rex. Will this benefit our club or the Dutch breed? |
It may shy breeders away from raising the breed due to the complex nature of trying to work with keeping good type, markings and all those new varieties, I would be concerned that some of our standard 6 varieties may fade out and type on the Dutch would suffer due to all the crossing of other breeds into the Dutch. |
Will the Chinchilla Dutch complement the Gray and/or Steel varieties? This would still need to be proven. |
Not sure, but why fix something that's not broken? |
Would the Red Dutch complement any other colors? |
Don't know? |
Instead of adding more classes of Dutch to be judged, would it be better to have an agouti class in place of the Gray? |
Yes and no. In our area the gray class lacks entries so it would make more entries, but on the other hand I feel the gray is in a class of it's own. |
At many shows the number of Steels shown is not very good. Will more colors hurt the Steel numbers even more? Plus will it add to having more varieties with poor showings? |
I would like to see more breeders breed for steels, but that is just my opinion. The Chins are a very sharp looking rabbit, but so are the steels. It may hurt the number of steeels shown, but only time will tell. |
Having more colors of Dutch may just add interest from people who haven't raised Dutch before. |
It may, but will they stick with it? There are alot of factors to consider. Getting your good type, the correct markings, good color. Not just the fun of lots of new colors. |
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