WEST COAST DWARFS Top Quality Netherland Dwarfs in Northern California |
West Coast Dwarfs consists of Sally (Mom) and Nathan (13). We started raising Netherland Dwarfs in the year 2000 with one chestnut dwarf named Sonny, and we fell in love with the little guy! With a beautiful array of 24 recognized ND varieties, it's difficult to choose just a few to focus on, but we are a small rabbitry and have found that working primarily on one or two color families is the best way to produce top-quality dwarfs with the space we have to work with. We have a small rabbitry of 32 holes. About 50% of those holes are for does, 25% for bucks, and 25% open holding cages for juniors that we may want to show or just keep a bit longer to watch them mature more. The varieties we focus on are chestnut, opal, chinchilla & broken in those colors. We only keep the "best of the best" for showing and breeding. You can see the varieties by going to our PHOTO page. We breed for good temperament as well as standard conformation. Our bunnies get lots of TLC and handling which helps to produce good-natured rabbits! |
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CHESTNUTS - Anyone who knows us well knows that we have a passion for chestnuts! They were our first variety and continue to be the most popular bunch in the barn! We recently lost our top chestnut, Robbie, but we have children & grandchildren from him in the barn who we have high hopes for. We also have a couple of other fantastic chestnut herd sires who are producing well. We have several very nice chestnut does, many that are young seniors recently started into the breeding program. We also have a few promising juniors coming up who will be hitting the show tables soon! OPALS - There's just nothing like a beautiful opal that has great type and nice opal coloring, including that hard-to-achieve gorgeous opal ring color and dark nails. We've had opals since the beginning and they are always a challenge. When you get one like our Yin, it just makes you want to keep working on them! Yin is our beautiful opal sr. buck who earned 16 GC legs in his show career, and now resides in Japan where he is helping a great Japanese breeder. Turbo, our cute little broken opal buck, is one of Yin's descendents! CHINCHILLAS - Our newest variety in the barn is chinchilla. We're just getting started, so we haven't had any to show yet, but hopefully by Fall 2009 you might see something on the show table from our chin program. We recently acquired PAC's Blue Moon (above) to be the herd sire for our chins, so we're excited about getting him to work! BROKENS - Broken NDs were approved for showing as a recognized variety as of February 2007. We've been working on our brokens for about three years now. In April 2007, Nathan won Youth BOG-Group 5 at the ND Nationals in Ventura with Turbo, his GC broken opal buck. An exciting accomplishment for the first national showing of broken NDs! Brokens are a real challenge because you're striving not only for excellent type (as always!), but a nicely patterned rabbit with correct, clean color in the colored areas. They are quite beautiful and always attract attention when Group 5 is up for judging! Our broken program is coming along nicely, and we are starting to get more nice show-quality brokens to put on the show table. |
This page was last updated on: July 2, 2009
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West Coast Debbie Broken Chestnut Sr. Doe takes BOSB at BVRA Youth Show B on May 2, 2009! |
