Here is a pet cage I'll put up on the For Sale page soon. It measures 26 in. wide 19 in. deep and 18 in. tall. When you count the legs, it is 30 in. tall. It has a hay rack and bottle. It doesn't have a wire floor so either you can add newspaper and shavings or a wire floor. The bottom pan is quite deep. No wire floor makes it good for cavies. Front and top opening doors. Nice condition on wheels. $40.00.
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Gary made these for Best in Show Open, Youth and Cavy awards for the Cumberland Cty night show last month. Who doesn't need one of these? It sure saves on the back from lugging carriers of rabbits We'd seen this type of dolly before at Harbor Freight and planned to modify them by drilling holes to install a tow rope. They are the type of dolly to move furniture or crawl under a car.
We then came across these collapsible handles made just for attaching to these dollies. The handles actually tuck back under the dolly and snap down into place. Worked out great and thought they made neat awards that were useful. Always looking for something to make for exhibitors instead of trophies all the time. The only downside is that these aren't real quiet due to the wheels. You'll also need to solder the rear wheels straight to keep them from turning like you need just the front wheels to do. These would be a great project for 4H'ers. Rabbitry names could be painted or wood-burned on. I use one to keep a big tub of oatmeal tucked under a table in the rabbitry and just pull out as needed. Much better than dragging the tub in and out from underneath. Somebody must know Somebody for this Trivago commercial to have been made. I had DVR'd a TV show and usually skip thru the commercials but noticed a rabbit in one of them. I played it and then had to play it again to believe my ears. Too funny! All I can say is either the person who thought up the commercial, pitched it or wrote it must be an ARBA Rabbit Breeders Convention attendee. There is no other way!
http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7PHL/trivago-jims-hotel-rabbit-breeders-convention Did you know you used to be able to join ARBA AND a breed specialty club at the same time by sending in one payment and application to ARBA? They were called combination memberships (combo).
Even though we have a more automated recordkeeping system today thanks to our wonderful computers, it would near impossible for ARBA and specialty clubs to mirror their membership records and keep them up-to-date. Many specialty club secretaries and sweepstakes keepers work outside the home and have only a certain amount of time they can dedicate to the task of updating club memberships and keeping sweepstakes points straight. Some have dual rabbit duties as judges. Where they find the time, I do not know but bless them for their tireless and often thankless efforts! It's said that 80% of a rabbit's consumption of feed and water is done between 9 pm and 6 am. We feed twice a day and I do notice that more food is cleaned up at night. Especially if the days are hot.
Some rabbit raisers years ago put the mineral Limestone in their rabbit's water for when their rabbits had diarrhea for 3-4 days. More than that was not suggested as it upset the balance of calcium and phosphorus creating poor growth. I wouldn't suggest it now that there are other remedies to use. In a rabbit magazine just last year I read one of the oldest wive's tales around. The woman quoted as saying that she gave her does raw meat (bacon or hamburger) around kindling time so the doe would not eat her young. In my opinion that is one of the biggest myths ever. Occasionally a doe will "remove" a kit in this manner. Almost always the reason goes back to her wild rabbit survival instincts. When a kit is born dead, a wild mother rabbit would never want the smell to attract predators to her nesting area. That is why they may do it. She isn't turning mean, she is trying to protect the surviving kits. Another wive's tale we would hear about at fair displays was someone saying that their neighbor's friend or some other "friend of a friend" had a Cabbit....... a cross between a cat and a rabbit. We'd explain that it is not possible for these two species to conceive. They'd insist that the animal looked like a cat but had a very short tail and would hop. Of course they'd not seen it themselves, it was always a" friend of a friend" kind of story. Yup! I was tempted to try to sell them a Jackalope. Wow, is summer halfway over? This blog has gotten the "although days are longer it doesn't give you more time" treatment. So much to do and catch up on, not so much time to sit inside at the computer.
A couple of shows have gone by. At the EMRBA Brewer show, "BBF's Over the Top" took the senior buck class and Best Solid in Show A. In Show B, "BBF's Thistle" and bro, "BBF's Briar" got up near the top with a 3rd and 4th. The Broken Senior Doe "BBF's Tic Tac" came in 2nd and perhaps missed getting the coveted 3rd grand champ leg. Not going to let her sit and wait for another show, so she is bred. The new show location was nice and big but due to its' more northern location (than Newport) and a show in MA the following day, entries were down. Perhaps if they go back to their April show date, it will help on entries. The club plans its Nov. show at the same location but again a MA show is the next day so that doesn't help. 1978 ARBA fees and info - just for fun In 1978 to register a rabbit with the American Rabbit Breeders Assoc. cost $2.00 and a Standard Book was $3.00. Memberships were $7.00 and a Youth show sanction was $1.50. Charter renewals were $5.00. Most specialty breed clubs required paybacks for Best of Breed and Best Opposite Sex winning rabbits. Most were $2.00 for BOB and $1.00 for BOS. There was a breed of rabbit called "Alaska" which was shown in Senior and Junior classes only. They weighed 6 1/2 to 8 1/2 lbs. full grown. I wonder if anyone is working on these as a heritage breed? |
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