Anchor Lops

04/25/2025

All dressed up with no where to go…

Anchor’s Opulence is a snazzy little sable point junior doe with many of the attributes I’ve been breeding for in my color project. A Frostbite granddaughter (out of Ceasefire’s sister) with a muscular body, beautiful crown, nice clean color, and very chill personality.

She’s just finishing her molt and is in awesome condition right now—but of course my next show here in TX isn’t until mid June so she might not ever see the tables… she’ll definitely be utilized in my sable breeding program as soon as she’s ready for babies!

Anchor’s Opulence
Anchor’s Reconcile x Bastet’s BICE1

04/25/2025

You’ve probably seen the trend asking AI to turn your pets into humans? So, just as a PSA, it may not work as well for Hollands… Apparently the algorithm doesnt look very fondly on their big fluffy heads 🥴

04/22/2025

Fiddlesticks recently turned senior, and I was hoping to show her before she goes into full-time mamma mode, but with several months between shows here, she’s likely gonna get herself a boyfriend soon… This was just a quick barn pic last night, nothing fancy, but she has one of the best bodies/HQ in my herd, so I’m excited for some babies out of her!

04/20/2025

Happy Easter! While bunnies and chocolate, painting eggs and candy hunts are tons of fun, I cannot help but reflect on the infinite gift of life that was given to each of us two millenia ago when the Savior of the world accomplished the unthinkable. No grave in history had ever been defeated. To escape to icy grip of death was unfathomable! But then there was Jesus. His extraorinary mission was to voluntarily give His life, and then take it up again, so that each of us may have the chance to live eternally. His empty tomb changed everything—it was literally earthshaking!

Whether or not you believe in Him, I hope that we can all feel a little bit more sense of purpose and peace today as we reflect on the things that matter most to us. Life is a beautiful gift with so much to celebrate!

04/13/2025

Little Siamese Sable baby with swagger

Out of my favorite sable point show doe, Shipwreck, and a new normal buck, L&R Joseph. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again—genetic normals (does AND bucks) can be invaluable when paired with the right rabbit! Thank you to Linda Jinings for his sire!

04/05/2025

This little fella is my favorite jr buck right now. He had a BJB class win at the SWRRBA show last weekend, and he’s got a 50% chance to carry REW, so I’m excited to see him in a couple more months!

04/02/2025

SIAMESE SABLE vs SEAL: a continued comparison of sable colors. The top 2 pics show a sable point, a siamese sable (in middle) and a seal at 1 week old. Bottom 2 pics show siamese sable vs seal at 1.5 then 2.5 weeks old. You can see the siamese sable baby has a distinctive “silvery sheen” to his coat.

Seals erroneously get called siamese sables on ocassion, which is understandable because—as I’m constantly saying—there can be significant variation in any color (lighter vs darker shades of the same color just like people can have lighter/darker shades of brunette or blonde hair etc). So a dark siamese sable can be difficult to distinguish from a lighter seal—but thats why I want to share these baby pics: siamese sable is a color that may be EASIER TO DISTINGUISH AS A BABY than as an adult (which is fairly unique). Siamese babies are much lighter than seals and go through distinctive color changes, transitioning from a newborn with blue-ish looking skin to a beige-ish baby with that “silvery sheen,” then darkening significantly as their coat grows out. If you note these color changes as a baby, then you have a siamese sable. Note in these pics how much darker the siamese has become in just 10 days!

On the other hand, seals are consistently dark brown all the way through development, and they don’t exhibit the “silvery sheen” that’s unique to siamese sables. I bought a dark siamese buck years ago who was sold to me as a seal, but he produced REW which proved that he was actually a very dark siamese sable. With adults—especially when they’re molting—the distinction can sometime be tricky, but in my experience it’s easier their first few weeks of life!

03/30/2025

Marauder took Best Opposite of Breed yesterday under Todd Naragon at the SWRRBA specialty show. So fun to win with Jade-Ann and her crew of very well behaved kiddos + rabbits! Also, look at what a great sport Todd is, he’s over there trying to get my rabbit to pose for the pic while I’m just chilling on the other side of the table doing nothing… oops. Thanks Todd.

Maurauder’s sister, Azkaban, took 2nd place right behind her (again). Poor girl, Marauder has earned 4 show legs now and Azkaban has earned 2nd place right behind her sis all four of those times. Shes a nice doe too, just always in her sisters shadow.

My little black & white BJB also had a class win (intro post coming soon), and Lochness took 2nd SSD. Todd said she would have done very well if she wasn’t launching off the table, prohibiting him from adequately evaluating her. She poses beautifully for me, but when anyone else touches her she goes into immediate flight mode… ✈️🤦‍♂️

03/22/2025

We rarely post pics of our juniors in “the uglies” (for obvious reasons…) but I feel like that’s a disservice to those who are just starting out. If people only see pics of our best rabbits in their prime and in perfect condition, then they’ll naturally be frustrated with every single awkward teenage junior they produce!

So I wanted to do a glow-up showing Warpaint during his junior development. There’s one pic taken about every month (1 = 1 month old, 2 = 2 months, etc except for the last pic ~7 months). Warpaint was VERY awkward ~12-15 weeks (look at pic #3!!) and I almost sold him because he was so gangly 🥴 But I really liked him before the uglies, and he seemed to have many of the attributes I was breeding, so I forced myself to wait. Also, get to know your lines, and take lots of pics whenever you breed in new genetics. This is crucial because **different lines experience the uglies in very different ways/times!**

Hollands can go from nice to awful in a few days, but we’ve got to remember, the uglies are a temporary growth phase and we should NOT evaluate partway through their metamorphosis! Hence the importance of growing out juniors before making cuts. Obviously Warpaint has his faults, but he’s a nice example of a cute baby turned “ugly duckling”, who eventually grew into himself again and has done very well for me on the show tables. If you liked a baby before the uglies, give them a chance to come back around!

03/22/2025

Anchor’s Sheriff, promising junior buck who just hopped to his new home. (I couldn’t help but add in a few sheriff-appropriate props… 🤠)

03/21/2025

I don’t get many broken sable points, at least not typey ones who carry REW, but this guy is looking pretty nice coming out of the uglies. He was the runt of his litter, and is quite small, so he’ll be going to a pet home. But I still wanted to share his mugshot 🤓

03/17/2025

Tiny little Warpaint baby, marvelling at the great outdoors (his first time outside). Looks like junior may have inheritted his daddy’s head! 🤞🏼

03/16/2025

New sable litter born this morning! Several fun colors, including: sable point (pink), siamese sable (blue-ish), and seal (nearly black). No dilutes in this pairing, so these three represent the original flavors of sable.

***Update: second pic (at right) added 2 days later to show colors as the fur starts growing in.

03/08/2025

Anchor’s Mariner hopped to his new barn

03/05/2025

03/03/2025

Typey black junior doe who’s already earned 3 show legs including a BOSV at 14 weeks old. Marauder is further proof that normals can produce nice show stock when paired with the right doe, as her sire is a normal buck from Spruce Hills who had some attributes that I knew would balance well with a couple of my does. Uno is from the same breeding as my favorite doe in Ashley’s herd, so I knew he was worth a shot. Bringing in normals (as long as they’re quality normals with valuable parts/genetics) is a great way to save money and still add in some influential genetics! (For more on strategizing with normals—including normal bucks, which many breeders are wary about—feel free to check out my prior post https://www.facebook.com/share/1DVsgeVjdp/?mibextid=wwXIfr. I’m hoping we can alleviate some of the stigma around normals!)

Marauder’s littermate sister is maturing well too, and has placed 2-3rd (just behind Marauder) in almost every show that I have taken them too.

02/20/2025

My iPhone thinks my rabbits are birds… 🐦‍⬛

Don’t mind me over here just trying to improve my “flock” of Hollands! …These other pics must be the birds used in Apple’s rabbit identification algorithms.

02/15/2025

Sister to the broken black who was hamming-it-up at the stockshow. In a junior molt so she’s a bit scruffy, but this girl has really thickened up! Width, depth, front limb, and muscling have me pretty excited!🤞🏼