Youth Angora Top Winners at the Reno ARBA Convention 2022

 

English Angora judge: Johnny Haussener 
 Youth BOB: colored senior doe, Livia Delattre

English Angora judge: Johnny Haussener
Youth BOSB: colored junior buck, Kendall Frost

French Angora judge: Travis Finkle
Youth BOB: white junior doe, Will Ashton

French Angora judge: Travis Finkle
Youth BOSB: colored senior buck, Morgan Oestering

Giant Angora BOB and BOSB: Liam White

Satin Angora judge: Travis Finkle
Youth BOB: white senior doe, Angela Close
 BOSB: colored senior buck, Angela Close

 

Antique Car Display at the Reno ARBA Convention 2022

At the showroom close to the ARBA booth, there is the display of the 2022 convention banner and slogan "Luck Be a Cavy".    Casey says, "Luck Come to Me Please".  

Carol likes the antique car displayed, it'd be nice to take it home.   

This looks like the 30s gangster car, does Betty look like an appropriate passenger?  

Betty rather be a lady!

Pattee likes the antique car too.  

 

Chestnut Giant Angora Presentation at the Reno ARBA Convention

The Angora people are very supportive of each other.  Promptly at 8 am, people carried their chairs, knitting, spinning wheels, ... to the presentation area waiting for the chestnut Giant Angora to be presented.

Eight chestnut Giant Angoras are on the judging coops waiting to be examined by the ARBA Standard Committee.  There are two senior bucks, two senior does, two junior bucks and two junior does.  

Kevin and Tammy are the two COD holders, they are nervous of course, Tammy is using knitting to calm her mind.    Deidre and Casey help to chat down their nervousness.  

There are 9 judges examining the presentation rabbits in groups of 3.  The first group is led by the chair Briony Smith who is recording the weights of each presentation rabbit.   From left to right are Briony Smith, Bruce Ormsby, Andy High.

Here is a close up of the first group of the Standard committee members.   It is posted that video or sound recording of the process is disallowed.  Photo taking is OK, all these photos are taken by me, Betty. 

The second group of the Standard committee members examining the chestnut Giants are Chris Zemny, Alan Rafferty, Erik Bengtson.

 

The third group examining the chestnut Giants are Tiffany Wayne, Mike Avesing, Rob Frizzell.   

Tammy is called into the judges' table to hear comments and the verdict.

As we have learned from yesterday's post that the news was GREAT!!!  The chestnut Giant Angora passes the first showing in flying colors.    Tammy and Kevin put their life on hold to work on this project for the last several years.  Take a look at our previous posts about Tammy and Kevin's work on the chestnut Giant Angora:

Northern California Angora Guild (ncag.blogspot.com)

 

Chestnut Giant Angora Passed the First Showing

Great news!!! 

Tammy and Kevin Vaughn’s Chestnut Giant Angora passed the first showing at the ARBA convention in Reno. 

Due to difficulty in uploading and arranging photos during travel, our blog is sharing the great news and two of their photos. 

When I return home, there will be more photos detailing the process of presentation. 

 

Britannia Petite Wins Convention Best In Show at Reno

The 99th ARBA convention Bin In Show is the Britannia Petite shown by Randy Shumaker and Maddie Pratt. 

 

Chestnut Giant Angora Examination

At the ARBA convention in Reno, NARBC standard committee examined the chestnut Giant Angora presentation animals. The COD holders are Tammy and Kevin Vaughn.  The committee members are chair Eric Stewart with members: Robin Olson, Adam Schuller, Betty Chu, Matt Bishop, Sandra Wright.  

The official presentation happens on Tuesday morning, November 1.  Stay tuned for the results.  

 

ARBA Convention at Reno

 It’s the 99th ARBA convention time.   It’s going on at the Reno Sparks Convention Center.   Over 10,000 rabbits and cavies.  Exciting.  More reports coming up.