CIRCUS LIONS RABBITRY

There's a very interesting thread going on on Showbunny on yahoo! groups about what breeders sell to other breeders.  What got it all started was someone posting that they are careful about what they sell to someone else because they wouldn't want to be beaten at a show by the other person, especially because they sold their competition rabbits that were too good.

To the rabbit community's credit, many people commented that they don't sell anything as show quality that they wouldn't show themselves.  And many folks also said they'd be thrilled if a rabbit they sold beat them at a show.  It ends up being a credit to the breeder, anyway, and is great advertising in the long run.  A breeder will get a reputation for selling good quality rabbits, which will lead to more sales.  Or not.

I have only sold a couple of rabbits as show quality so far in my short time as a breeder and those rabbits had gotten best of variety when I showed them myself.  I've also given away two different rabbits to youth breeders - one was a rabbit I'd been planning to keep for myself to show....the youth that got this bunny had some very poor quality stock from other sources and I wanted her to have something decent to work with to help her get a good start.  The other rabbit was a nice quality buck that I'd kept several offspring from and had used him as much as I could here.  I hoped the youth would be able to get some nice stock from him, too, to help her with her herd.

I have no problem with selling the best I have to someone else and hope that they have great success with it.  I can always make more!  And the breed improves and everyone wins in the long run.