Hi, from Scotland, :D : Welcome to RabbitTalk

Hi

My name is Vivien, I am from Scotland

Well, I 5 rabbits at the moment. 3 orange netherland dwarfs (which I used to breed from) and 2 crosses (who live together ).

The 3 nethies are Rowan (who does rabbit jumping http://www.youtube.com/user/Elmbankrabb ... Mx--ZNGDKw)
Harriet, and Fiver (who is actually a girl lol). I used to breed these lovelys until out popped little baby Shaun, who unfortunatly had many problems which sadly caused his recent death

I hope to be able to restart up the breeding side eventually, but need to find some more rabbits.

The 2 crosses live together in a converted wendy house. Ebony I suspect is a giant cross and is steel in colour. Poppy I got from the local rescue, she is a dwarf lop cross with lovely magpie colour/ markings.

Anyway, I look forward to having a wee look round this place

Hey Vivien :D I love Rowan <3

Thank you

Well, there are a few of us over here who are trying to promote it. We have a wee club going at the moment ( http://www.rabbitjumpinguk.moonfruit.com/ ) which is doing quite well, we gained quite a few new members last year

I think there is some rabbit jumping over in the US, more than in the UK but I suppose you guys must be so spaced out its hard to meet with everyone which has really helped our group.

heyy Charlotte

hi vivien it's me :L

welcome. I think rabbit jumping looks like an interesting sport.

what type of rabbit does well at it?

Do you give them a wee dram before they do the jumping? Single malt, I trust.

Welcome Welcome!

Hi Vivien, welcome to rabbit talk !

I'm Devon I raise Argente Bruns and Mini Rex in Ontario Canada. I'm currently working with a couple of my rabbits for rabbit jumping, it's pretty huge in 4H here.

thanks guys

hey Emma

ladysown, I think any rabbit that is confident and active would be good at it. We have found that our Dutch breed of rabbit tends to be quite good. I know a few people in the US who use tans and rhinelanders. In sweden they have a lot of the smaller lops. (some of the bigger/ giant rabbits I would not think it be advisable to do it very high lol)

Half Caper Farm, ovcourse how else do you think we get them over the higher ones

Devon, ah yes, in Canada they have that club that I think I have seen videos of on youtube.
It should be good to talk to other people who are doing this. We only have a small group of about 8 who actually go out to shows to do jumping displays/ comps. We are hoping after the next big show we will gain more publicity.

Welcome Elmbankrabbits.

I will have to look into rabbit jumping, and try it with my Dutch.

I think Rabbit Jumping is more popular on the West Coast of the Americas, at the moment. I've seen a couple of adverts for shows her in the Midwest..but nothing really big yet, I think. I have enough trouble keeping the rabbits from jumping OUT of my pens...no way I'm training them to leap tall fences just yet!

Howdy, Vivien, from the forum's resident Texan (or one of them, anyway). Welcome to RabbitTalk! Hope you enjoy it here!

Hi Vivien, it is great to meet you.

This is terrific for the forum, as we have acquired 2 new foreign members in the same day! I should not say "foreign" but "international" as this is a website for the world. (actually, since the website is in Canada, I am a foreigner )

We hope you will post often and tell us about the way rabbits are raised and housed in your area.