Northern Lites Rabbit
Club Publisher: Casey Mouthorp
Issue No. 24
Date:
Welcome
to the official newsletter of the Northern Lites
Rabbit Breeders Association. We hope that everyone is doing well and that your
rabbits are flourishing. This month’s issue includes:
- President’s Report
- Last Meeting News
- Rabbit Fun Fact
- Upcoming Shows
- Show Results
- Classifieds
Next Meeting: July 1 @
Meeting Place:
President’s Report
We
wish to announce that our first show put on by NLRBA was a success. For the
members who participated in this event please know that your individual efforts
helped with a productive, efficient fun day for all. We learned a lot and we
can look forward to bettering a few small things for the next year. Our
appreciation goes out to the Marchione family for
their part in forming the show from the get-go. Every member who donated their
time and effort can feel a sense of accomplishment. There were so many doing so
much.
At
our last meeting a show report was given including our expenses and our
profits. We covered several topics at that meeting which you will find in
Tammy’s report to follow.
Some
of our club participated in the Canton Dairy Days. The weather was beautiful
and the crowd kept us busy throughout the day. We had a very nice selection of
rabbit breeds and the crowd seemed fascinated by the breed differences. We used
our new canopy which came in handy as it turned out to be quite warm. Vera had
her spinning wheel and spent the day spinning and educating people on wool
uses. There was an abundance of food so we certainly didn’t go hungry.
For
those who went to the show (
Nominations
will be held this year for our board of directors, also president and
treasurer. Please give some thought to this subject.
Hopefully
the zoo run will take off this week. Need information, please call me.
All
candy bar money needs to be turned in. If it needs to be picked up call and
someone will get it picked up and delivered to Cindy.
We
welcome Tina Cantwell to our club. She lives in the
If
any of you youth members have any ideas that you would like to share, please
call me. You are an important part of this club and we want to do the best we
can for you. So, we need to help you build a good rabbit foundation.
I’ll
close now. Hope you all stay well. The best to all of you.
“My
world is neither black nor white, but various shades of gray.”
“A
kind word goes a long way.”
“One
hand washes the other.”
Hot
weather is here (at times) so please make sure your rabbits are not in direct
sunlight. They need to have fresh water in front of them. If your rabbits are
showing signs of heat stress you can place a frozen soda bottle in their cage.
Often the rabbits will lay beside them to cool off.
Rabbits can take the cold weather better than the hot weather. Proper
ventilation will also help relieve heat stress.
Last Meeting News
By: Tammy Cook
Meeting
was called to order at
Last
months minutes were read and a motion was made to accept the minutes as read
and was carried.
Committee
Reports:
Show
Committee: Penny started off by thanking everyone that helped with the show for
all their hard work to make the show a success. Penny gave a detailed expense
report for the show which proved to be profitable for the club. The report gave
actual breakdowns of what was spent and what was taken in for income. Copies of
this were made available at the meeting. There are a few ribbons leftover from
the show, some trophies, and any stamps that are left over after the mailing of
the reports will be returned to the club. There were 788 entries for the show
this year. Also there are comment cards left over. A motion was made to accept
the report as read and was carried.
By
Laws and Constitution Committee: All suggestions for any changes need to be
handed in by the July meeting so that the changes can be ready by the second
July meeting. Let’s also remember the upcoming elections for president and
treasurer’s positions. It has been brought up that there has been no activity
from the vice presidents position and Gerry will be contacting Gena to take care of this matter.
Education
Committee:
Fundraising
Committee: There have been 13 boxes of candy bars sold and the money turned in.
8 more boxes need to be turned in so we can get these cleaned up. At this time
we feel that there is no need to do any further fundraisers at this time. If we
need to do any in the future it
was suggested that we do the candles at that time as there have
been requests for them.
Youth
Committee: We haven’t had much luck getting the youth together; however, we
will be trying to work on this. Bruce Stewart will be getting in touch with
Medline Pennington at the cooperative extension office to see what we can do
about getting together with the 4-H youth. Hopefully we can work something out
to get the youth together and get working on some youth projects.
New
Business: It was brought up that a certain amount of money be earmarked for the
show next year but after some discussion it was decided that it was not needed.
The club voted to have another show next year. I will be receiving an
application that needs to be filled our and returned quickly as to our choices
of dates for the next four years as the dates are being taken fast. The
suggested dates are:
There
is new information on a meat run called a zoo run. They will take any color and
any breed and also dead kits but they must be frozen. It will pay $0.90 per
pound live weight. The first one will be June 10th and would like to
ship every two weeks. If you have any to go please contact
Gerry as soon as possible. They would like to be able to have 220 pounds
every two weeks.
Treasurer’s
Report: The treasurer’s report was read and a motion was made to accept the
report as read and was carried.
It
has been suggested that the club make a donation to the NY state Youth
Scholarship Fund. We are going to try and get something together for the youth
this month. Meeting was adjourned at
Penny
Marchione was the winner of the bottle of wine that
was raffled off.
Just a reminder about the state picnic that everyone is invited
to on June 27th at
Rabbit Fun
You
Know You Are A Rabbit Breeder When...
1. You
spend more money on your rabbits than on yourself.
2. You
can remember the names of all of your rabbits, but you have a hard time
remembering the names of your friends and co-workers.
3. You
would rather go to National Convention than take a normal vacation.
4. You
willingly wake up early on weekends to haul yourself and your rabbits to a
rabbit show, yet you have trouble getting up in time for work or school on
weekdays.
5. You
have apples (or other treats) for your rabbits, yet you usually do not have
much in the house for yourself to eat.
6. You
do not mind cleaning rabbit cages.
7. You
are always making a fashion statement with the rabbit fur that is clinging to
your clothing.
8. You
will wait to purchase something that you want if it means you can afford that
really nice new rabbit that will be SURE to improve your herd.
9. If
your family cannot find you, they always know where to look: Where ever the
rabbits are.
10. You
can recite rabbit genetics until you are hoarse, yet you cannot do simple
algebra without thinking very hard on it.
11. You
spend more time grooming your rabbits than yourself. (Hopefully you just spend
EXTRA time grooming your rabbits, not less time grooming yourself!)
12. Your
house, yard, and/or garage are littered with rabbit equipment and supplies;
cages, grooming tools, rabbit books, etc.
13. You
belong to more than one online rabbit group.
14. You
check out other people's rabbits just to check them out, not to consider buying
them or anything of the sort.
15. You
find yourself posing mixed breed or pet rabbits and rambling off their faults
and disqualifications.
Upcoming Shows
These are upcoming shows that I am aware of. If you know of any that
are not listed please let me know so that they can be included in the next
newsletter. Also, if you have show results please get them to me for the next
newsletter.
June 12th----Broome
June 20th---TARBA (
July 14th---
July 17th---NYS Mini Rex Club (
August 8th---
August 26th---NYS Fair (
September 11th---Cobleskill
September 12th---Eastern States Flemish (
September 18th---
September 25th---North Country R&CBA (Morrisville)
September 25th---Spencerville
October 2nd & 3rd---Grand Finals (
(Photo courtesy of Janis
Brown)
Club members chat while at the show in
Show Results
Show season is well underway and what a lovely addition to the
newsletter our clubs winnings would be. Just let me know at the meeting how
your bunnies have done and where they did it.
Billy Brown (Waterloo & NLRBA)
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3 first
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2 second
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1 third
Classifieds
Have something for sale or are you looking for something, place
your own ad in the newsletter. Simply write down who you are and what you have
for sale or are looking for and give it to me (Casey) at the club meeting. This
helps when a member receives a call and you have something they are looking for
or what you are looking for.
For
Billy’s Bunny
Barn (393-9476)
Billy & Janis Brown
Show
Quality Rabbits!
Netherland Dwarfs
Mini Rex
Sweet Comfort
Rabbitry (386-2044)
Cindy & Casey Mouthorp
Flemish Giants
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Blue 6/8 Buck (BOV at NLRBA) $30
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Sandy Jr. Bucks: $20+
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Fawn Jr. Bucks: $20+
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White Bucks and Does: $20+
Hay-Mou Rabbitry (386-4182 or 386-2044)
Corey Hayes & Casey Mouthorp
Fuzzy Lops
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Broken Blue Sr. Buck $20
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Broken Black Sr. Buck $20
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Broken Chocolate Sr. Buck $30
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More…..
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Tort Sr. Bucks $30+
Destiny Acres
Rabbitry (386-2097)
Gerry Mitchell
Mini Rex—Show Quality
Netherland Dwarfs—BEW
Val Wilson (347-1561)
Polish Juniors ready to go July 3rd
Satins born