Cinnamons

I hope everyone had a great holiday and is preparing for the new year. As I previously posted we have been doing serious culling and planning for 2008. After going through our Cinnamon rabbits several time, Emily has decided to cut back even more and has put a very nice trio up For Sale.

We are hoping someone wants to get into this great breed and this would be a fanstastic way to get started. Fred is our initial buck from Nationals 2005. He has consistently produced nice litters. He has excellent coloring. He is registered also.

Along with Fred, we are putting up for sale two of his daughters -- Pebbles and Ivory. Both are registered and proven does. Pebbles has consistently had large litters (10+) and has raised them all. Ivory has had 2 litters and we have kept her daughter Sonya. Sonya has held incredible color and has extremely nice commercial type.

We have one unrelated buck, Benton's Desmond, and will breed one of the does as well.

Working with a Rare Breed is both a joy and a frustration. We are truly using the 4-H motto of Making the Best Better and our competition is really with the standard as opposed to other rabbits. Most shows we find we are the only ones showing Cinnamons. :-(

Initially, we often took 5-7 to each show. However, with the higher costs of gas and entry fees, we have recently only taken 2-3 to each show. We have done this to save cost but to still keep the breed out in front of the judges and other breeders.

Our 2008 Goal with the Cinnamons will be to produce Cinnamons for competition for ARBA Nationals and hopefully a Cinnamon National Speciality.