Laurel Ehnstrom from College City CA |
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How may years have you raised Dutch? |
1 to 3 years |
What recognized varieties do you raise? |
Black, Blue, Gray, Steel |
What non-recognized varieties do you own? |
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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. |
It depends. |
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? |
We may, but I hope not! |
Will the Chinchilla Dutch complement the Gray and/or Steel varieties? This would still need to be proven. |
It may, I am willing to try, but the question is:will it breed true or is it a "man-made" color, like the steel. |
Would the Red Dutch complement any other colors? |
Not really, it may breed with black, like a lot of things, but it would not benefit any other color that I could see. Although it would be pretty! |
Instead of adding more classes of Dutch to be judged, would it be better to have an agouti class in place of the Gray? |
Not really, because if we have an agouti class then we have more colors to go over board with! |
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? |
They will most likely hurt the steels, and if the variety is a hard color to raise then people will not want to raise that color (like steels). |
Having more colors of Dutch may just add interest from people who haven't raised Dutch before. |
It may, but it would also make it longer showing them! I know it already takes a really long time to show the varieties that we have, because there are usually 40-50 bunnies being shown and takes 2+ hours. |
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