Chicks On The Wall

Monterey Fair has interesting art work. There were curved animal and people statues that we featured on

http://ncag.blogspot.com/2006/08/animal-statues-at-monterey-fairgrounds.html and http://ncag.blogspot.com/2006/08/more-statues-at-monterey-fairgrounds.html

Then there is this poultry barn. There are so many happy chickens from one end of the barn to the other end.

Gabrielle and her two little angels Dominique and Elsa happened to walk by and they are in the picture with the happy chicks.

Gabrielle And Her Two Angels

Gabrielle with Dominique (l.) and Elsa(r.)

Big sister Dominique.

Little sister Elsa.

Rabbit shows are a chance for quality time for Gabrielle and her girls. They came down to Monterey on Friday night and stayed over at the fairgrounds.

Dominique and Elsa both earned a lot of ribbons and legs for their rabbits. They certainly did a great job.

Lindsay Goes White

Two white senior does won BOB French Angora in show A and show B.

Lindsay with her Giant Angora.

Lindsay did very well in the California Rabbit and Cavy Shows in Monterey. She won Best of Breed French Angora and Giant Angora.

Two different white senior does won the BOB French Angora and needless to say BOB Giant Angora has to be a white.

Lindsay goes white all the way!!!

The Future "Keelyns"

Judge Randy with youth Best In Show winner Maddy and her Dutch.

Judge Randy with RIS winner Lena (l.) and BIS winner Maddy (r.)

In the California Rabbit and Cavy Shows youth show A, little Maddy took Best In Show with her Dutch. She is a new comer to the Best In Show ring. Her older sister Eleanor, however, is no stranger to winning Best In Show.

Youth Reserve In Show in show A went to Lena's Himalayan. Lena's mom is judge Melissa who also started raising rabbits as a youth.

Both girls are following their family traditions of being rabbit breeders.

Judge Randy comments that these are the two future "Keelyns". As we all know that Keelyn was one of the most frequent winner of Best In Show in youth shows. Keelyn is also the youngest judge; she has became old enough to be an open exhibitor a little over a month ago.

The same Dutch also won Best In Show in youth show B; the Reserve In Show was a Californian.

Marie Wins All Breed Best In Show

Marie sitting pretty in the sunset.

Judge Chris Z with Betty and Marie.

Judge Chris Z examines the BOB rabbits during the BIS judging. Marie and Lindsay's Giant Angora are on the back table.

California Rabbit and Cavy Shows held double open and double youth shows at the Monterey Fairgrounds on Saturday. It's summer, warm in most places but Monterey was totally fogged in when the show started in the morning. It was cold and windy until in the afternoon when the sun came out.

For most breeds, this is the first show for the new sweepstakes year. It's a great beginning for English Angora, Betty's tort senior doe Marie won all breed Best In Show in show A. Reserve In Show was a Dutch.

Chris Z's Holland Lop took Reserve In Show in show B under judge Allen and the Best In Show was a Dutch.

Sheep To Shawl

At Lambtown, there were teams competing in the "Sheep to Shawl" contest going on from 9:30 am to 2 pm.

Each team had designated people spinning the raw fiber into yarn, and then weaving the yarn into a shawl within the time period specified.

These photos were taken around 1 pm; the shawl was close to be completed. The team members were putting on the final touch in these photos.

It takes dedication, skill and team effort to make such a beautiful shawl in a very limited period of time.

Wool Harvest of Gretchen, A Black German Angora

German Angora is not an accepted breed of Angora under ARBA; the German Angora has its own club called International Association of German Angora Rabbit Breeders (IAGARB). The only color recognized used to be just REW only; about a year or so ago, colored German Angora was accepted into the IAGARB.

Lindsay purchased a black German Angora for wool purpose, she name the rabbit Gretchen. The top two pictures show Gretchen in full coat and the last picture shows Gretchen after her wool was harvested. Lindsay says, "Here are some before and after photos of shearing my black German Angora Gretchen. I think that she felt a lot cooler, but I got the impression that she was really embarrassed...."