This is a video made this winter at a press conference for the Great Lakes Fair. My girls were featured in it. So proud!

Spring

Here we are and it is Spring finally. Although it doesn't seem like it today with the cold rain. It has been some time since we have been to a rabbit show. We are all looking forward to our next show. We miss our friends that we see there. We finally have some juniors to show. Alli will be bringing her broken blue satin doe and blue satin buck to the next show. Sammy has a really nice silver fox doe to show as well. Thanks to Henry Carpenter Sammy also has 4 chocolate Dutch thanks to show.

My little entrepreneurs are trying their hand at selling under the name of Bellairs Critters and More in the new Stockbridge Open Air Market. Samantha is in charge of marketing her homegrown eggs and her composting worms. Alli brings along her Angora wool, handspun angora yarn and knitted and crocheted craft items. Here is a picture of our first week. Alli made a lot of improvements since our first week but we haven't taken an updated photo.

I contribute the Crocheted Market Bags to the booth. They are crocheted using yarn made from the Bellairs Fiber Farm sheep. They are a natural color gray and very pretty with a lacy pattern. They sell for $20 unlined and $25 lined.

Stop by and see us at the market or give us a call and set up an appt to come to the house.

Long wait

Hey everybody that reads this blog. We have not been keeping up with this blog so I thought I would finely start posting on this again. Well to fill you in we are raising Blue, Chocolate, and Gray Dutch this is our main breed. We also have Blue and Broken Blue Satins. We have Black Silver Fox, a few diffrent colors in the Angoras, We are raiseing Giant/Germans and English/Germans. The last breed is Giant Chinchillas. I think that fills up what breeds we are currently raising. We also have Cavies they are Americans, Peruvians, and a couple Abbysinians. We will try to post more. So keep watching the blog. We always like your comments please leave some.

MSRBA Fall show

The last show of the year is now over. It was wonderful to spend time with bunny friends. The girls had a good show. Saturday results (best I can remember) best variety Gray Dutch, Best opposite Variety Blue Dutch, Best Variety Broken Satin, and Best opposite Variety Broken Satin. Alli showed her Cavies Saturday as well and had good results and a lot of fun. We went back Sunday for the third show where Allison won Best Opposite Breed with her Satin doe and Sammy won Best and Best Opposite with her Silver Foxes. We also won Best opposite variety Gray Dutch and Best and best opposite variety blue.

We sold a few Dutch and acquired a new breed - Giant Chinchilla. Giant Chin's are a rare breed and we are excited to start raising them.

We have several rabbits expecting including 2 angoras. One is a purebred German angora and one is a german/english hybrid. We are really looking forward to seeing the new babies.

Fair Results

Well the fair is over for another year! We had a great week and the girls had a lot of fun. Alli is a 4-H ambassador this year so she was very busy during the fair. Not only did she have her own shows to do but she was assisting all over the fair grounds during the week.

So the final results are:

• Alli - Best in Show Pocket Pets (Cavy Project)
• Alli - Honors on her Angora wool
• Alli - Honors on her tye dye shirt
• Alli - Honors "Lead with Fiber"
• Sammy - 1st place Jr. Showmanship Poultry
• Sammy - Reserve Grand Champion Bantam Pair
• Sammy - 1st Place Jr. Showmanship Rabbits
• Sammy - Best and Best Opposite Breed Silver Fox
• Alli- Best of Breed Dutch and Best 4 Class
• Alli- Best of Breed Giant Angora and Best Opposite 6 Class
• Alli - 6th place Sr. Showmanship

Nice job girls! It was a lot of hard work but it was worth it.

Barn is full

Well here we are almost to June and our barn is bursting with new babies. We finally have a litter of Harliquin Dutch. Their momma didn't care for them so we fostered them with another Dutch doe that had a single kit. They are almost 2 weeks old now. They are all marked well with Dutch markings and with nice color.

The other litter we are excited about is a english/german angora hybrid litter. They are vienna marked, carrying the blue eyed white gene. They are chocolates with one chocolate chinchilla. The chocolate chin has the markings of a Dutch. They are all very pretty. We will get pictures of both litters soon.

Ann Arbor Rabbit Breeders

Today was our Ann Arbor Rabbit breeders meeting. It was fun to see everyone again. We put the final plans in place for the September show. This years show is back in Saline, yeah! Alli is taking pictures for the youth trophies and showing her buns. It will be a good time. The meeting was at Lone Star steak house. Ohhh my tummy............. we all ate too much and came home sleepy but content. Happy to support our local rabbit club.

Sheri