Nicolle Cunningham from Oakley CA |
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How may years have you raised Dutch? |
4 to 8 years |
What recognized varieties do you raise? |
Black, Blue, Tortoise |
What non-recognized varieties do you own? |
Gold |
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. |
I think a Lilac Dutch would be WONDERFUL!!! Chocolate is not a popular color, I think, because all you can breed it to is chocolate, and guess what you get, chocolate kits. I think many breeders are tinkers at heart, we like to see what you get when you cross this with that. If Lilac were accepted all the self colors could be bred together, this would only help improve type on the weaker self colors. |
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? |
I really don't get this attitude, but I've seen it in many breeders. What is so bad about having lots of colors!?! The breeds with lots of the pretty colors are the most popular breeds. More breeders means more competition at the shows, and more people to sell rabbits too. I fail to see how that could be a bad thing. Besides even if Dutch did have a bunch of "pretty colors", our rabbits would still be very unique due to their markings. |
Will the Chinchilla Dutch complement the Gray and/or Steel varieties? This would still need to be proven. |
I think Chin would spark interest in steels, if it could help produce a steel more consistently. Many smaller breeders don't/won't raise steel because of the hodgepodge of animals they must have to produce the color. Then throw the markings in on top of that. That's tough! |
Would the Red Dutch complement any other colors? |
Don't know enough about it's genotype to comment. |
Instead of adding more classes of Dutch to be judged, would it be better to have an agouti class in place of the Gray? |
I don't think we should have an agouti class. I think we should have grey class were all grey (black, blue, choc, lilac) are shown, and a chin class were all shades could be shown, and then a separate steel class. I think having more options would spark interest in these varieties. |
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 don't think so. Chin will make it easier to produce steels, therefore more will be shown. This question has to do with my above answer. If we don't add a bunch of new varieties, but instead open things up to all the other shades possible in grays, chin and steel we should see more shown in variety. Torts could be included in this by allowing black, blue, choc and lilac tort. Our standard is confusing on tort anyway, most people raise black torts because that is what is available. But our standard says we want smokey blue shadings. To me that means we should be raising blue torts. However, in the SOP it says that if a shade of tort is not specified in a standard to assume it means black tort. |
Having more colors of Dutch may just add interest from people who haven't raised Dutch before. |
I completely agree with statement. Just look at the popularity of breeds with lots of colors. More colors options would make breeding Dutch easier, as people wouldn't have to have a pair for every color. They could be breed different but compatible colors and not have to worry about a bunch of DQ kits. I think Chin will spark more interest in Dutch. I've seen it and it's beautiful!! |
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