Candy's Trip to the United Kingdom, Part 2

 

 

Judy and Candy drove to Yorkshire, in
the NE part of England, and met with
Judy's friends Karen and Roy. Karen is
Secretary of the Rare Breeds Club, a
club that handles less popular breeds
that wouldn't have enough breeders to
have their own specialty club. Karen's
husband, Roy, drove us to the port of
Hull, where we took a ferry across the
North Sea, to Rotterdam, Holland, then
drove on to Leipzig, Germany.

In Leipzig, we attended the Europa Show,
the largest small animal show in the
world. Check out their website:
http://www.europaschau-leipzig.de/en
Click on "Impressionen" in the green bar
across the top to see photos. What a
facility for a rabbit show! Entries
included 25,810 rabbits, but there were
35,030 pigeons! Also thousands of cage
birds, large chickens, bantams and
ducks, and hundreds of cavies, turkeys,
guinefowl, and geese.



Like at an ARBA Convention, there were
lots of vendor booths. Here's a rabbit
hutch made from formed concrete slabs.
You can see a slot on the back side for
urine to drain. I've seen pictures of
these being used for Angoras in other
countries, but seeing them in person,
I'll keep my wire cages.
 



I did find one spinner, and she even had
some Angora products on display. Her
name is Ilona and she is from Latvia.
She spoke enough English that we could
communicate in our common language of
Angora and spinning. She made her
beautiful shawl from dog hair. All of
the European countries had a booth, very
similar to our breed booths at
Conventions.