Show Couple Turns Hobby Into Productive Business pregnancy can cause abortion later cause the mother to reject her babies The Frandsens do their own butchering and actually keep a domestic kinds of challlenges to be met in few of the rabbits as Their “very special proper breeding — proper diet pets from friends” protected and care handling sale or slaughter temperature and sound Rex breed rabbits are usually Also the market has changed raised in a warren where they Rabbits can be a good cheap to tunneling in the revert in is which source of meat high The Rex can be raised They are very good ground protein both for its plush pelts and for eating after two to four months The (Mini and French Lops) and extremely good eating five to six months (Rex) when Frandsens currently have 80 to 90 Rex rabbits in their back size medium about they are — that is they had The decline in the wild fur yard warren 80 to 90 this morning when they market has also made breeding rabbits for pelts very last counted The rabbit population can swell quickly and desireable were expected at newcomers French Lops can weigh up to any moment (Continued from Page I) or point had almost 400 rabbits Presently they have about 200 Their reasons for raising rabbits are varied and there are all £ pounds and nine pounds for Rex and they can have pelts that vary into about 15 different colors and textures with some 20 Items made from the fur of the Rex are highly in demand and vary from purses gloves and hats as well as pelts resembling sheared slippers beaver in color with a very coats and jackets Coats and sold at convention and jackets texture velvety fair booths would average betrabbits spook easiween $125 and $900 but placed to know and and must get ly in retail outlets could go as trust their keepers They are high as $2000 for the most exvery nervous and feel stress pensive plush garment easily The impact of a strange It is important to buy quality handler especially during line bred stock when beginning rabbits herd starting with a select few Purchasing some here and some there will result in problems with offspring because of too much genetic variety e One of the major setback penses in raising Rex for pelts In order to raise is caging quality pelts the animals should be caged individually until their coats are in prime condition — anywhere from 16 to 24 weeks for each rabbit a Rex Most does should average about 25 offspring a year but many produce upwards of 35 to 40 Pelts vary in price but the average is about $8 per pelt Breeders have found that once word gets around about the good eating rabbit meat makes the market is established and sales are made to many Each doe averages seven to eight offspring so that many individual cages are needed initially for each doe purchased The offspring are placed in individual cages at about eight to nine weeks of age and at that point any animals that would not make good pelts are but- repeat customers One aspect of the Rex breed is that they can be butchered at an older age than most other breeds from five to six months old and still be very lean and tender fryers r originally coined as Klein while in Germany but when the breed transferred to the states it was renamed the Mini Lop by the promoter of the new breed Only in January of this year was the breed officia-laccepted by the American Rabbit Breeder Association There is a Mini Lop specialty club formed now with already over 500 members It has been discovered by many breeders that the best way to raise the Rex is in individual housing units That way their growth is faster resulting in denser fur watch for what they term a “prime” time for their Rex pelts which comes bet- ween 16 and 24 weeks Rabbits raised separately “prime” as they don’t have the warmth of BUY SELL TRADE OR RENT THROUGH THE Richfield Reaper 43 South Main Phone ft (IE® Assume 896-443- for - 3 Panguitch brick Phone ED (SB® Utah For Sale 7 in all Sale bdrm fireplace attached garage covered other patio landscaped Call unique features (ll)PTFC Home in Marysvale on corner lot 38500 $2000 down owner will fiance balance on 12 percent contract Call Paul 510 South Main Richfield 1 4® Housing Loan in Monroe 3 bdrms full basement stove dishwoodbuming washer disposal irrig water Vi yrs old after 5:00 pm Home - Gunnison Valley News - Phone top "UujuLiii' 11 by Owner Older bdrm home in Richfield Double car garage Lg fenced yd 269 So 2nd E To see call For Sale Hamper Single Lost: Gold Scarf Clip Like Lost between Christen- - Row Com Chopper sens & Doves Call if new Will sale or trade Cal1 found (21)39 (ll)39pd Found: Around the 17th or 18th of August - One Found up pair of glasses at Gooseberry when the YCC group cut Senior Citizens wood Call the 2 Q& Three Selected Summer Home Sites for Suitable Not a subPeople All necessities division avail Call Hatchienda Hill Box 516 Hatch Ut 84735 STEEL Reaper CMCTftlElE' GOOD DEDAR POSTS FOR SALE! 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Salina 529-783- (38)s39pd & days FOR RENT: 4000 sq ft metal bldg w security fence partially finished office and storage shop space overhead door S Hwy 89 Richfield or customers among Garfield County residents They would like to start a Southern Utah rabbits raisers association and will be happy to talk to anyone interested in raising rabbits They can be reached at in Panguitch or by writing “Rabbit Lady Enterprises” in Panguitch 60 East Main Panguitch call For Lease: Kitchen apair coolers fireplace dition The Frandsens sell their rabbit meat and find many regular Salina Sun - ‘I (34)23 tfc 1971 FOR SALE Broadmore mobile home 12 x 65 with 8 x 10 S73 Van Buren Midvale Utah S4047 676-270- Nice and clean mobile Has some home courts FHA apspaces avail proved close to schools shopping and church 1979 - (IB® L for sale cond Call (31)34tfc 250 BUILDINGS GRAIN FACTORY WHOLESALE For b 115 North Main 528-311- 1 C3"t j4 ing well L Garfield County News - Gunnison - The French Lop is one of the largest breeds in size that growers produce The Frandsens currently have five older rabbits and newest of litter of Vquf A°l 7 The p BirScdcj fJ3(oSBr As Roberta Draper who specializes in raising Mini it “its easy to use a Lops puts Mini Lop doe as a foster mother for other breeds but comical to see a Rex French Lop or other large baby nursing their very small foster mother” The price of the Mini Lop can seven new babies range anywhere from $5 to $100 depending on the source The “Charlie” is their favorite often higher price should relate buck and weighs French to quality but does not close to Lop Charlie’s 20 pounds necessarily Mini Lops average first offspring by his female between five and eight offsprproduced two counterpart ing per litter and have a high babies that subsequently died success rate in raising that but just recently he fathered many bunnies to maturity another batch of seven all do- Currently the Frandsens Unlike many smaller breeds have only two Mini Lops a doe of rabbit the Mini Lop is big and a buck but that’s a good enough to both carry and start The breed is known for its deliver this larger number of droopy ears and they have offspring The Mini Lop is very named their two Squirrel and similar to the French Lop in Opal This breed is great for many ways being quite affecchildren’s pets as they have a tionate and easy to work with but much smaller than the very stable disposition French Lop The Mini Lop originated in Mini Lops make good Germany as a cross between a and little mothers and have very rich the German Big Lop Chinchilla rabbit Its name was milk for nursing their young chered Breeders together huddling Many breeders have learned that the sale of rabbit meat will cover the feeding and related costs in raising the animals Teton Trailer - 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