Survey

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How long have you raised Dutch: :

Less than 1 year

1 to 3 years

4 to 8 years

8 to 15 years

Over 15 years

What recognized varieties do you raise?	Black	Blue	Chocolate	Gray	Steel	Tortoise

What non-recognized varieties do you own?	Chinchilla	Red	Blue Steel	Blue Gray	Gold
	Harlequin	Lilac	Chocolate Agouti		Other

If you check "other", what other color do you own?

The following are comments and thoughts from the Standards Committee, they are not the opinion of any one person or of the entire Dutch Standards Committee. These are concerns that will come up and need to be discussed. Please add your thoughts concerning the statements below, you do not need to answer all.


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.

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?

Will the Chinchilla Dutch complement the Gray and/or Steel varieties? This would still need to be proven.

Would the Red Dutch complement any other colors?

Instead of adding more classes of Dutch to be judged, would it be better to have an agouti class in place of the Gray?

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?

Having more colors of Dutch may just add interest from people who haven't raised Dutch before.