Convention Pictures any one? Warning Pic heavy...

[Prisma]

I wasn't there for long, but did get to stop in the show room and look around. Lots of rabbits, and lots of very good looking ones...just WOW! Not all the pictures I took, but few of my favs

 

[DogCatMom]

Wow! That's HUGE! Of course, I hadn't realized that the rabbits would all be left in one huge room for passersby to look at. How are they judged? Are the judging tables put in the aisles? Or are the rabbits taken to another large room for judging?

(Comparing to large dog show; brain failure. :lol: )

 

[Prisma]

No worries, the public is allowed in on certain days, there's different activities (Rabbit Con, Youth things..exact what don't know with out looking lol). It is a huge room, there's several smaller rooms/areas for grooming/check in/etc. It doesn't have all the breeds in it, least I don't think so as I only counted half recognized breeds in the section I was in. There's a long isle in the center of coops and tables for judging, they have runners that run the rabbits back and forth I believe. The rabbits stay until Wednesday evening and then are released. Different days, different breeds. I don't think judging starts until tomorrow or Monday. I could be wrong, but that's the way I understood it went.

 

[luvabunny]

Judging begins Sunday morning at 8 am and the Best In Show for Open is expected around 3 pm Monday. Possibly the building is bigger, but the walkways are much wider than the convention I attended in Wichita Kansas. Many of those walkways were only wide enough for 2 people to get by, and it still took up several rooms.

Stop by the English Lops and give PCR 213 a nose rub for me. He doesn't know me yet, but I'm really looking forward to getting him home. He is a blue jr. buck.

As far as numbers, ARBA set up over 20,000 coops....1 rabbit per coop.

Unlike most shows, exhibitors do not show their rabbits. Runners for each breed go to the coop and show the rabbit when it is time, then return them to their coop after showing. I so wish I was there, but I'm already gearing up for the 2014 convention to be held in Ft. Worth Texas.

 

[beckyhuff314]

So love the ND in the first pic.

 

[Prisma]

I saw some juniors together, so not all coops have just 1 rabbit in them. If I found the right one, he looked very happy There were several juniors Not sure what was up with that, but no one seemed to care (bunny wise I mean). Surprisingly when I walked through, every thing was soo clean. I figured clean but figured there'd also be at least 1 or 2 bucks in each of the buck rows that were sprayers or trouble makers...not a one. There was a lot of walking room, the main walk way is big enough to take a golf cart like riding cart down it and still have room for walkers going by.

 

[luvabunny]

I think they may allow for meat pens, etc, to be cooped together.
If I remember correctly, the 2011 show had something like 23,000 rabbits exhibited. I couldn't find the number for last years shows.
Thanks for looking. I haven't even seen him in person yet.