Theresa Schwandt from Reeseville, WI |
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How may years have you raised Dutch? |
Over 15 years |
What recognized varieties do you raise? |
Black, Blue, Chocolate, Gray, Steel, Tortoise |
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. |
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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? |
Although there are many improvements that could be made within the varieties that are currenly recognized, I think that adding additional colors will only increase the interest in our breed. With more colors to choose from there is something for everyone. There are colors that pop out of litters now like Lilac that it only makes sense to recognize. |
Will the Chinchilla Dutch complement the Gray and/or Steel varieties? This would still need to be proven. |
The chin dutch would improve steel ticking color, however they need to change the eyecolor requiment of the chins to brown eyes only or gettting marbled eyes in our dutch will be a huge problem that I am concerned with.
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Would the Red Dutch complement any other colors? |
NO |
Instead of adding more classes of Dutch to be judged, would it be better to have an agouti class in place of the Gray? |
NO |
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? |
No, I believe there will be more interest in steels because the chins would help improve the color, makeing them easier to produce, with correct color. No, here in WI there are decent numbers in all colors for the most part. Number in certain colors changes too. A few years ago, gray were poor in numbers here in WI, now they are one of the biggest varieties at our shows.
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Having more colors of Dutch may just add interest from people who haven't raised Dutch before. |
Possibly |
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