Saturday, June 28, 2008

Cowards write blogs anonimously

Recently a blog was posted attacking a youth exhibitor of English Angoras....they better hope I never find out thier identity. We have copies of the blog and they are being sent to NARBC and to ARBA, this coward wrote things I could not believe he or she would write.
There has been another storm brewing about BEW and VC ......right here right now I will tell you that I would never sell a rabbit into a program that was trying to develope BEWs.....Any SILVERTONE that has any connection to a BEW program was sold by someone else. No Silvertone Angora has any known connection to BEW in my pedigrees. It is my choice to continue to breed and show English Angoras of the highest quality with superior wool and body type. These animals can and have competed with the best English in the world. I do not raise animals just to sell..I produce the finest quality bunnies possible and let them prove theselves in the show ring against all competition. There are people who just produce more rabbits and more rabbits with no clue as to their ability to meet the standard of the breed. The only concern for these people is to sell thier bunnies by 8 weeks or so.........money money money. Most of these people do not know one thing about wool texture or animal husbandry in general. I frankly dont care what other people do, but I do not want them making it look like I condone what they are producing. So much for the soapbox...................

spend more time taking care of the rabbits and less time on the internet chat......

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

BIS open SILVERTONE LA CONTESSA

This past weekend my closest show (4 miles) was in Frankfort NY, Mohawk Valley hosts a double show with Otsego. The English angoras were represented well Dru Shepherd, Colin Burns, Laurie, and myself had a quality entry. Show A ...BOB Silvertone Countryside Illusion (now granded) BOS GC Silvertone Everest. Show B BOB Silvertone La Contessa BOS GC Silvertone Everest. BIS OPEN Silvertone La Contessa white sr. doe who is only 6 1/2 months old. It was extremely hot with temps in the 90's. We were well prepared with fans and frozen packs. Since I was so close to home I took Dru's rabbits and my rabbits that had no further competition home to the cool garage. Colin pulled a BIS youth in show A congrats to him and his colored sr. doe. I will hope for cooler weather so I can get some pictures of rabbits. We only have 2 more shows this spring season, I doubt I will go to either of them as gas has gone to $4.20 a gallon and both shows are in excess of 2 hours away. If the weather is cool I may try to go to Cortland. Meanwhile Cheryl (Colin's grandmother) is recovering from her operation and was missed by all.