harlequin/new zealand

[ladysown]

actually... that's only 1/2 pound different (if she would be 7.6). there are 16 oz in a pound. So she's just shy of 7 lbs. I've bred her to jack this morning. Hoping against hope to get magpies from her though Jack throws LOTS of jap and jap and more jap. AND he survived, I wasn't planning on using Old Jack on her but I had a loppy looking for a boy this morning and since I breed in pairs she was the only girlie up for it. And Jack hasn't stroked out on me though he slept ALL DAY LONG.

 

[moonkitten]

actually... that's only 1/2 pound different (if she would be 7.6).

Ahh, I write my weights the way my scale spits them out where behind the decimal is in tenths of a pound, not as pounds.ounces On my pedigrees, I usually put "#" and "oz", just to be clear since it's hard to tell immediately if you mean .5 as in 1/2 pound (as I do) or 5 ounces (as you do).


Best of luck with the magpies!

 

[ladysown]

okay trying NOT to be confused here....

I do pounds/ounces...BUT many people don't. so when you wrote 7.6 I assumed you meant 7 lbs, 6 oz and not 7 lbs and 6 tenths of a pound which would be... 7 lbs, 9 1/2 oz (see I had to do the math!). So yeah, that's getting close to a lb difference....

Makes me wonder what the difference is in management.....

 

[moonkitten]

Makes me wonder what the difference is in management.....

Possibly you feed more fresh food/hay/grass/etc? Most of mine get just pellets. "Special" rabbits get treats and weanlings get hay, but everyone else, and especially sale rabbits (these does were for Crystal) get just pellets because I don't know what the new owners will be feeding.

 

[jamesdenish]

if you want to sell harlequin pedigree and show from time to time, the fastest way to get your herd until the weight standard is to buy a pair of harlequins, good size. If you try to exploit the intersection, you just set up at least three generations of non-presentable, without control of sales. I know Kevin, are pushing the upper end of the standard, the mines are in the range of 8 pounds and I can not imagine Sheelagh are very small and that all trading back and forth, so it is about Harlequins .