Hamburg, PA Show

Yesterday was a long drive to a v-e-r-y long show in Hamburg, PA. Though it was fabulous to see good friends again after a long winter, it will be nice to veg. a little this week and begin getting spring chores done (like garden stuff and bunny-cleaning stuff) around the house.

I stuffed about 12 rabbits into my station wagon for the long haul, 8 of whom were entered in the show. This time I not only brought a few FA/NZ F4 juniors with me, but also two F4 Seniors to see how they would hold up in an FA Senior class. There was a HUGE amount of general entries in this show and the hall was mobbed with rabbits of every breed, but the FA entries held steady at about 25 with 3 exhibitors.

Our judge for the first show was Paul Kyle, and the judge for the second was George Long. In the first show the BOB and BOS went to Spang's Juno and Spang's Giacomo with a BOV White going to Spang's Diana (an F4 cross doe). In the second show, the BOB went to Spang's Bijou and BOS to Spang's Felix (an F4 Cross buck).

These first two pictures are of the show hall first thing in the morning. It was very large and already very crowded:):








These are my rabbits stowed on a table in the corner in their carriers.





This is Paul Kyle judging one of the White Classes in Show A:





This is Aileen Brown holding one of her Tort bunnies. Aileen is a fantastic person from PA who shows FAs and Rex, while her husband shows Holland Lops!





These are Pam Barnes' bunnies hanging out near the table waiting for Show B:)





And this is Bijou sitting on her carpet waiting for the Show B BIS judging to start, and below her is Dru Shepherd's English Angora, who went on to win BIS a few minutes later:).






So anyway, that was the story for this week and this show. I am debating now whether I should bite the bullet and take another 4 hour drive up to Fulton, NY next week since everyone is still in coat and looks good, but we'll see how it goes and how much other stuff I can manage to accomplish during the week, LOL! After next weekend there will be a number of does getting clipped and bred as I am eager to get started with the Spring breedings. A week or so after that the first April litters should start coming in:).

Have a great week and enjoy this warm spring weather!