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9/10/05-9/11/05 |
Highlights and Notes: |
| WSRBA
60th Annual Convention Show
Weyauwega, WI |
Show Secretary:
Dennis Roloff
E1198 Haase
Rd
Waupaca, WI
54981
email
rexrbest@hotmail.com
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What a time! The highlight of this year's State Convention was definitely
the cavy show! There were a lot of cavy entries - more that I
thought we would have. Kelly won BIS youth with her Abyssinian boar -
against some awesome cavies! Kelly also did well with her French Lops,
Thunder won BOV and his third leg - no other wins with her other French Lops but
she had consistently high placings against a line up of top-notch lops!
Jody's Hollands didn't do as well as we wanted - but he had high placings with
Domino, and 2 others. We were at a disadvantage with the Hollands from the
get-go, with most just turning senior this month. Huge, huge classes as
usual.
Besides the showing, we sure had some challenges - we got up at 3 am Saturday to
drive up to the show - after we left and were already on the interstate, we
noticed that we forgot the cavies! Had to turn around and go back to get
them..... The banquet, well, anyone that attended, already knows - and I
am certain we won't be there next year! We also decided to camp out of the
van, to save money, but I tell you - sleeping on the floor in the back of my van
without an air mattress was like sleeping on a bed of rock - I tossed and turned
all night and felt like a wreck in the morning which made for a long day Sunday.
The kids had fun camping though - we parked next to the Keiser clan, and the
kids made s'mores and ate lots of cheese products (Brenda Keiser is a dairy cow
nutritionalist). I knew I was tired when I bought $5 worth of raffle
tickets then proceeded to put both sides of each ticket into the tins - dah!
click here to see some pictures from State
Convention
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9/17/05 |
Highlights and Notes: |
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Winnebago Forest RC
Belividere, IL
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Just as I figured would happen - Kelly had too much
homework to be able to attend this show.... : ( |
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9/18/05 |
Highlights and Notes: |
| Misty Hills RC
Dodgeville, WI |
Show
Secretary:
Theresa Christen
6189 Barman Rd
Waunakee, WI 53597
email
tachrist@wisc.edu |
Kelly did well with her French Lops - Thunder won BOV again, Raven and Diamond
won their classes, and her others placed well also. It is hard to beat
some of the French Lops that Patrick Reilly owns!
Jody did nicely with his Hollands - Domino placed 3d in a very large broken
senior buck class and he just turned senior! A few other Hollands of
Jody's placed nicely though, but no class wins again.....
It was fun to see Curt Olson - bring Opie and Teddy to show for the first time
at an ARBA show - Opie placed 2/4 in her open class! Way to go Curt!
A few snapshots of this show are here
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9/24/05 |
Highlights and Notes: |
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Fox Valley Youth Show Weyauwega, WI |
Show
Secretary:
Tanya
Zimmerman
N9487 Walnut
St
Clintonville, WI 54929
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Kelly did great with her French Lops - Thunder won BOS, her junior doe,
Diamond won her large class and a leg and she had high class placing with
the rest. Jody's Hollands didn't do well; mid-class if that - but we
didn't expect his young seniors to compete well yet.
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9/25/05 |
Highlights and Notes: |
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Fox Valley Fall Show
Weyauwega, WI |
Show Secretary:
Dennis Roloff
E1198 Haase
Rd
Waupaca, WI
54981
email
rexrbest@hotmail.com
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Again, Kelly won BOS with Thunder, Raven won her
class, Diamond won her jr. class and the rest placed very high!
Jody did better with his Hollands - YRA's Last Call
took BOV, and his young seniors placed higher than yesterday's show.
click here
for pictures of this show!
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10/8/05 & 10/9/05 |
Highlights and Notes: |
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Tri County RC
Jefferson, WI |
Show Secretary:
Melissa Carlson
W8779 Advent Rd
Fort Atkinson, WI 53538
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We did not make it to the Saturday show - too much
to do! On Sunday, Kelly only brought 4 French Lops to show - ones
she hasn't shown much - she wanted to give her top show string a rest
before convention. We were surprised when the one we thought would
do well was first off the table, and the one we didn't think the judge
would like, won his first junior leg!
Jody only brought a couple Hollands as well, and
placed nicely with Doubles and Domino.
I got my first Champagne D' Argents from Ron and
Sheila Jonesy at this show - they are so beautiful!
No pictures, I brought my camera but forgot to take
pictures.... |
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10/23/05 to 10/27/05 |
Highlights and Notes: |
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82nd ARBA National Convention Indianapolis,
Indiana |
Visit the
Race To Indy Website for more information. |
Well, we made it through the big one! What a memorable event our
first convention was....read more about it here |
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2/12/06 |
Highlights and Notes: |
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Lakeland Rabbit Breeders Association
Elkhorn, WI |
Show Secretary:
Cindy
Stelloh
W274 S8425
Beaver Trail
Mukwonago,
WI 53149 |
A very crowded and cold show, but
the first of the year here in Wisconsin so always a big turnout!
Kelly won BOS with her French Lop
Jody place mid-class with his few Hollands he brought.
See pictures here. |
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3/11-3/12/06 |
Highlights and Notes: |
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Badger Rabbit Breeders Jefferson, WI |
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I worked at this show so I didn't get
to watch much of my kids' rabbit showing, but Kelly sure had a good day!
She won Reserve In Show with 'Star" a
beautiful broken chinchilla French Lop doe she bought from Gary Garrett at
the 2005 ARBA Convention!
We bred Star about a week before this
show, so her show career will be on hold now - and are we excited to see
what she produces!
Jody's Hollands came in mid class again
- the one that we took that is not a very good Holland placed higher than
our 'good' Hollands...so go figure.......
Jody will most likely be taking a break
from showing this spring - he has an intense competitive soccer tournament
schedule which will prevent him from getting to shows. That's
allright though - all his does are bred and he only has 2 or 3 bucks that
he shows now anyways.
You can
see some pictures here.
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4/1-4/2/06 |
Highlights and Notes: |
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Tri-County Jefferson, WI |
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We only attended the Saturday show this
time - just too busy to attend both days.
Jody was excited when Doubles finally
won his large SSB class! I was a little surprised Jody even decided
to come since he had soccer practice on Saturday.
Kelly's rabbit, Moon (JB One Choice) won BOV - this is
huge French Lop doe she got from Jeanne Thomas as Convention - to add
these bloodlines to our French lops, so this was nice to see.
click here to see a few pictures
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5/14/06 |
Highlights and Notes: |
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Southwest WI RC Dodgeville, WI |
Show Secretary:
Deanna
MacMillan
6320 80th St
WI Rapids,
WI 54494
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Kelly won Best of Breed
with her large opal senior French Lop doe, JB One Choice. She
purchased this doe from Jean Thomas at 2005 ARBA Convention!
Jody did so-so with his Hollands
but sure got his fill of pie!
read more and see pictures..... |
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5/21/06 |
Highlights and Notes: |
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Southern Lakes RC Union Grove, WI |
Show Secretary:
Lisa
Woelbing
2689
Waukesha Rd
Franksville,
WI 53126
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Looks like we will be at a huge soccer
tournament in Lake Geneva this entire weekend so this will be the first
time we have to miss this show - really bummed out- one of our favorites
to attend! : (
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