WEST COAST DWARFS Top Quality Netherland Dwarfs in Northern California

West Coast Dwarfs consists of Sally (Mom) and Nathan (12).   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, orange & 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!

"Pursuing Perfection"

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July 13 - Watsonville, CA Aug 10 - San Mateo, CA Aug 15 - Monterey, CA Sept 20 - Stockton, CA Sept 27 - Watsonville, CA Please stop by and say hello!

West Coast Robbie Chestnut Sr. Buck Reserve in Show San Francisco, CA April 13, 2008

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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!  Our primary chestnut herd sire, Robbie, continues to do well on the show table with 10 GC legs to his name so far.  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 thes 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.  We have a couple of very nice opal sr. does that just started into the breeding program, and some juniors coming up who have nice show potential.  We also have Turbo, our super broken opal buck! ORANGES/FAWNS -  Our oranges/fawns are coming along well, and we are starting to see some real improvement in type from using our chestnuts & opals that carry the non-extension gene.  So far, we have a very nice sr. broken orange buck and a senior doe that we are currently showing & breeding.  We also have two great little does, an orange and fawn that we're pretty excited about, and three more orange/fawn coming up.  It's a long process getting that clean color and nice type to go with it, but we're getting there!  It's a challenge, but a beautiful orange or fawn is so striking!  We're hoping to see more youth get interested in oranges! BROKENS - Broken NDs were approved for showing as a recognized variety as of February 2007.  We've been working on our brokens for about two years now.  In April 2007, Nathan won Youth BOG-Group 5 at the ND Nationals in Ventura with Turbo, his 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!

This page was last updated on: May 4, 2008

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SWEEPSTAKES NEWS FLASH!! - Nathan is pretty excited about making it to #14 in the ANDRC Youth National Sweepstakes, #20 in Youth National Quality Points, and #5 in Youth Region 9 Sweepstakes & Quality events!!  His chestnut sr. buck, Robbie, ranked #1 in Top Dwarfs for Youth.