Anchor Lops

06/20/2024

Anchor’s Thunder Thighs
Anchor’s Sequoia x TF Cutter

The bone and body on this doe are🤘 Excited to see her all filled-out, she’s a stumpy beefcake

06/13/2024

So much for avoiding another color project… I sold my chestnut buck who placed 7th at Nationals, but I bred him to two does before he left—hoping for a black or tort baby—but one doe missed and the other had a singleton. So I only have 1 baby out of him, and of course he’s chestnut (just like his dad who I sold to avoid starting an agouti project 😆). But type over color, and this guy is very promising, so he stays!

Glad his daddy is still close by to make some nice babies for Hocus Pocus Hollands

06/09/2024

Nantucket took BOSB in the first SWRRBA show today, to Queens of Camelot’s awesome SSB who won BOB; and she won BOSV in the second show to a massive Swade BSB owned by Spruce Hills who took the second BOB. Congrats to Tammy & Ashley on those well-deserved wins with two beautiful bucks!

Lochness won BOSV solid (at 7.5 months old—woot!)… when she wasn’t launching off the table 🤦‍♂️ Might be prego w/ her 1st litter… hormonal problems?

My BJB won his class too, so I’ll have to make room to hold on to him a bit longer…

06/08/2024

Pudgy broken sable point, living his best baby life

06/07/2024

Found new hay

05/26/2024

Some itty-bitties out for the first time

05/19/2024

Singleton out of Rock the Lops Abby and TF Cutter who I’m liking. Need to get updated pics, but I plucked her forehead… so… not for a while now... 😅

05/18/2024

When this beefy baby boy turned broody (say that 5x fast) it was a huge disappointed, but thankfully “he” turned out to be a she. I kept her, and I’m so glad! Normals always have longer ears (which she’ll grow into more with age), but otherwise this girl is very balanced and hecka muscular. She’ll make some slammin’ little babies next month! And like all of “Visi” (Invisibility Cloak’s) kits, she’s a possible REW & dilute carrier!

Anchor’s Bangarang
Anchor’s Visi x Quietcreek’s BossMakingBossMoves

05/04/2024

Have you ever kept a fuzzy? Many Holland breeders steer clear of wooly babies, but there can be a time and a place for normals AND fuzzies—even in space constrained rabbitries! This is Anchor’s Electra, she was probably my favorite junior out of all of my litters that round. Even though she was fuzzy, I loved her mass, width & type, so I knew she’d produce well.

She won Best of Breed for me at the first fuzzy show I ever attended, and the judge told me she had the best fur quality on the table (in spite of being out of two Hollands)! Beyond that, she has produced beautiful babies for me. In fact, her daughter just placed 12th BSD for me at Holland Nationals as a brand new senior! Just something to think about—nice type sometimes comes in fuzzy packages.

04/27/2024

Trailblaze is filling out nicely. About a year old now, and he just keeps getting better!

04/22/2024

These boys have left for new digs

Anchor’s Hondo
Anchor’s Ziptie
Anchor’s Bamboo

04/21/2024

Holland Lop Nationals 2024 was a blast!

9th SJD: Lochness
7th SSB: DTL's DB
12th BSD: Nantucket (just turned senior!)
23rd BSB: TF Cutter

I've been in Hollands for many years, but grad school/hospital shifts have kept my numbers small and prevented me from going to many shows. The past couple years I've finally been able to "up my game" and make it to my first Nationals! My herd is small (12-18) due to serious space constraints, which adds a bit of an extra challenge, so it’s an honor to earn these placements among so many awesome rabbits!

Brent Johnson, Dyan Murphy and I spent 8+ hours running rabbits to/from tables, so we didnt see much judging…🤷‍♂️ But we met the rabbits up-close-and-personal, and kept ourselves pretty entertained!

04/21/2024

04/16/2024

The roundest little gal

04/14/2024

I do not need another color project…
But he might change my mind…

Update: new barn found
Updated update: he was 7th SSB at Nationals!

04/12/2024

The look

04/07/2024

Took these intro pics last week after Lochness won BOSB at the TX State show, but I never posted them. She’s a thick girl with big bone and a fat “buck” head. I wish she wouldn’t pull her ears…but that’s a trademark from her daddy. Praying she holds off on any awkward growth phases for a few weeks… 🤞🏼

Anchor’s Lochness
Anchor’s Matanuska x TF Cutter

04/05/2024

Like what I’m seeing so far!

03/31/2024

Happy Easter! As cute as my little sable point baby is in this staged backdrop (that’s beyond anything I could put together myself) the real reason for celebrating is the promise that we have of life after death through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He is our deepest friend, our safe place, our brighter tomorrow, and the true anchor behind “Anchor Lops”.

03/30/2024

03/23/2024

Anchor’s Lochness (SJD) won BOSB at the Texas RBA state show this morning! She won BOSV last night under Scott Rodriguez as well. She’s the doe I posted about as a fav from my nationals litters 3 months ago (last 2 pics are her baby shots from that post). She’s come a long way, excited to see her in a month!

Congrats to Kozy Lanes Lops on their BOB win with the unstoppable Monty, so fun to win with Jade-Ann. And congrats last night to Spruce Hills Rabbitry on their awesome opal doe who took BOSB in show A!

03/21/2024

Simple as black & white

03/17/2024

Shipwreck’s first litter included one sable point. Of course she has to be the one to turn fuzzy... She’s freaking adorable, with nice type & a giant noggin!
**Update: she is spoken for

Anchor’s Shipwreck x Anchor’s Solaris

03/17/2024

Excited to have a buck out of Sundance who seems to have inherited her HEC, bone, & front end. Still just 15 weeks old but has more mass than many juniors who are much older. Gonna be watching him!

03/16/2024

Don’t know where those milk-tipped ears came from? They’ve never popped up in my lines before, and none of his siblings or relatives have them… kind of fun though. Still in the uglies, but he’ll stick around!

03/10/2024

Trailblaze is molty, but oh so solid, with heavyweight muscling and a body that rounds seamlessly over the hips. His hindquarters rival any that I’ve ever felt, especially considering how young he still is.

He won his class and received glowing comments as a 15 week old; however, he chew voraciously on his cage and eventually pulled his teeth out of alignment and I’ve never been able to curb that habit or to realign his teeth (bunny braces?) so his gnawing antics have benched his show career…

Excited to get that body & ears on some babies!

03/02/2024

Update: he is, in fact, very much broody. 🤦‍♂️

Someone should do a study into why the favorites always seem to be the ones who turn fuzzy/normal?

03/01/2024

Little guy I’m loving so far. Just wish he wasn’t a “little” guy… Very balanced, typey, and wide but of course he’s the smallest one in his litter 😑 !

02/28/2024

He had no crown yet and was in a serious funky stage when I took this pic, but just found out that he won Best of Breed for his new youth owner!

Hollands are challenging because juniors rarely seem to be in “prime” coat or condition when someone tells you that they need a rabbit asap, but luckily his new owner believed me when I told her that he had definite potential. It may take a bit of imagination to picture them with a finished crown/coat/head, but it’s always exciting when they mature and pull through!

02/25/2024

Fun day at the SWRRBA show! Especially proud of my broken junior doe, Nantucket, who won BOSB (Best Opposite S*x of Breed), and Solaris who won his SJB class and then surprised me by going on to win BOV, against some very nice seniors.

My other juniors are young, bred for Nationals, but several held their own, winning classes throughout the day (BJD, BJB, SJB, & SSB) and then 3 Best of Varieties, in addition to Nantucket’s BOSB. Had a few lower placings too, of course, and one junior doe who turned out to be a buck…which is always fun 🙄.

Congrats to Jade-Ann Kelley on her Breed win! I’m terrible at taking show pics, but Jade-Ann snapped a shot with her BOB buck and my BOSB doe, which I was grateful for. Congrats to the other winners (I don’t recall who won what though? Sorry) including Austin, Hannah, Linda, Julie, Tonya, and Sarah who won SSD at her first show! Fun group of Hollanders!