I have been meaning to do an NDS blog for a long time, but it just hasn’t happened. So here’s the recap:
We hosted NDS at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson. We had a great turnout and everyone enjoyed the show and our facility! I had been worried about being able to enjoy it, since I had knee surgery (with complications) on March 31. I had told the doctor that I HAD to be up and around and off crutches for this show, and got a prescription for steroids just in time. It swelled and was uncomfortable, but I managed with some help from my friends!
Friday night was the big night for the rabbits. I hadn’t had a good fall and didn’t have much that I was really excited about. The blue doe I had planned to enter in fur blew her coat, so at the last minute I threw in a little blue buck named Storm. The fur class was going on at the same time as Midnight was competing in the Ladies Choice class, a fun class where any girl or woman enters a favorite rabbit and a winner is chosen by another breeder. I kept going back and forth, and they both stayed on the tables. Storm was sitting in the first place coop on the fur table, and Midnight was a favorite on the Ladies Choice table. At the same time Midnight was picked Ladies Choice winner, his son Storm won Best Fur! I was pretty happy with my little guys.
Saturday rolled around and nothing much interesting happened until the Blue Sr. Buck class. Midnight had been feeling his oats (spraying Ronda across the face when she leaned down to say, “Hi, handsome!”) but behaved well on the judging table until he got put in the second place coop. Sometimes I wonder how much they know what is going on! Storm took 9th of 33 Blue Jr. Bucks. I was pleased with this, he has a very obvious jagged saddle so it was an acknowledgement of his many other good traits.
Fast forward to this weekend…I have not been able to attend many shows this year due to my judging schedule and surgery, so was looking forward to our club’s show this weekend. Most of my does are with litters and my juniors are too young to show, so I am low on show rabbits, but it went well. Factory Girl was looking pretty nice after coming off a litter, so I decided to try for her 3rd leg. She ended up taking BOB in the A show and BOS went to a steel buck of mine, Hooper’s KS19.
In the B show, I took BOS with Peter’s Morgan, a cute black doe out of a buck I sold, and Storm took BOV Blue.
I’m getting ready for the Duncan show this weekend, and again lamenting my lack of show rabbits. But there are a couple of brood does who are looking good after weaning litters…
