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stud history
After keeping pet rabbits since childhood, I began my interest in breeding and showing dwarfs in 1995 and bought stock from Nigel Atkinson in October that year. I began breeding from the trio of rews I got, who were closely related to Harold of Haywood - a buck who did extremely well at Netherland Dwarf shows at all levels.
After about a year or so I got a marten sable buck from Mike McDermott to add some colour to the stud, and a couple of years after that I obtained a trio of Sealpoints and ran the two separate bloodlines. I had a fantastically typed sealpoint buck (above) who was too dark to show but who I carefully bred into the original line, and the combination has given me smaller rabbits with a fuller shape.
My interest in rare colours increased, and I've slowly developed a stud where at least the rabbit will carry the non extension gene (for orange, tort and sealpoint) if not display the colour.
I was challenged by Jane Bramley to breed broken pattern dwarfs, so in 2007 I duly took the first step in working on this very rare pattern. I was pleased enough with the outcome of the first matings as the type isn't too bad in the buck, Simon. The coverage of colour needs a lot of work though.
Rhys, Peter's grandfather Agatha, an orange bred agouti doe
Patrick, left, a stud buck born in 2003, and Rose, a tort doe born in 2008
