LIONHEADS
Due to the love of Lion Lops it seemed a natural progression to want to have Lionheads!
We found that there were not many breeders of show quality Lionheads and even less that were willing/able to help.
We are currently (2019) on our 4th generation of this lovely breed. Focusing mainly on quality of type, coat, mane etc..
Our aim is to work on orange, chocolate and chocolate torte if possible but other associated colours are not out of the question as we breed to improve (including harli/broken/butterflies for fun) We also have beige/Isabella, lynx and black to name a few.
In breeding these we are learning about what we are producing and which way we want to take our rabbits in this breed. Consequently we are running on youngsters for longer than normal until we understand what we are producing. As a result we often have several older babies and young adults available on the sales page.
We found that there were not many breeders of show quality Lionheads and even less that were willing/able to help.
We are currently (2019) on our 4th generation of this lovely breed. Focusing mainly on quality of type, coat, mane etc..
Our aim is to work on orange, chocolate and chocolate torte if possible but other associated colours are not out of the question as we breed to improve (including harli/broken/butterflies for fun) We also have beige/Isabella, lynx and black to name a few.
In breeding these we are learning about what we are producing and which way we want to take our rabbits in this breed. Consequently we are running on youngsters for longer than normal until we understand what we are producing. As a result we often have several older babies and young adults available on the sales page.
Barrow Bunnies Sassenach
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Barrow Bunnies Sassenach is a lovely little agouti doe pictured here at 10 weeks with a coat that is clearing nicely.
Bred from a BB's agouti (sister to Tiana the cinnamon above) and a BB's cinnamon buck. Hopefully our first Lionhead show rabbit of 2019 - which happened at he Frome Show 22.09.19 Where she earned her first 2*CC and received a good placing of 2nd in the Fancy Challenge U/5. Well done baby girl. Enjoying some nice little results with this wee girl. Another 2nd in the U5 Fancy Challenge as Swindon R.C. Sassenach has 6 CC's (12 stars) & 1 BoBD Nicholson: (U5) Very promising, good type, excels front and bib, coat fair at present. G. Richardson; (U5) Rounded type, short, little on shoulder, good head, ear, lovely balanced bib, c/c to develop. W. Brake: Showing good type with correct coat over back. Well formed mane. D. Medlock: Very promising. Good front, mane. BoB. |
Barrow Bunnies Little Dove
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Barrow Bunnies Little Dove is a beige doe. She is sister to BB's ..... and is the smaller of the two.
They are bred from a chocolate doe x BB's Guildor (choc tort) 24.05.19 Little Dove has 2 CC's (4 stars) & 1 BoBW. Brake: Wins on development. Nice front. D. Medlock: Similar to the agouti, just a little more forward. |
Barrow Bunnies Tyee
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Barrow Bunnies Tyee is a chocolate tort buck. Bred from BB’s Tiana x Pixor Studs REW. Photographed here as a young teen.
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Barrow Bunnies Olive
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Olive is an agouti broken lionhead doe, bred from an Oliver Kelly broken choc and BB’s agouti doe. She's lovely and short and cobby with good front elevation and good/ fair coat. DOB 22/3/19. Needs mating, but to who....?
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Barrow Bunnies Tiana
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BB's Tiana (named by Denise) is a cinnamon. We sold her as a youngster but were offered her back when Denise was cutting back. Tiana was the sister with all the mane/bib but a slightly soft coat. Her sister we kept, an agouti, had the coat but less mane.
(Her sire a BB's cinnamon has produced some lovely offspring and is now enjoying his retirement in a pet home)
Thanks Denise for offering her back to us and mated!
Photo and video of the three Lionhead babies and the foster mini lop at 12 days old. We have decided to run on the chocolate doe from this litter.
(Her sire a BB's cinnamon has produced some lovely offspring and is now enjoying his retirement in a pet home)
Thanks Denise for offering her back to us and mated!
Photo and video of the three Lionhead babies and the foster mini lop at 12 days old. We have decided to run on the chocolate doe from this litter.
Barrow Bunnies Lily
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Barrow Bunnies Lily is a chocolate self doe. She is sister to BB's Little Dove and is the slightly bigger of the two.
They were bred from a chocolate doe x BB's Guildor (choc tort) 24.05.19 |
Tinks bred by Denise Powell
Tinks is a young 2 year old lilac self doe. She has a lovely body, nice moving coat and a good amount of bib/mane. To boot she is a good mother.
She came to us from Denise in West Sussex. Thank you :-)
We look forward to choosing a mate for her.
She came to us from Denise in West Sussex. Thank you :-)
We look forward to choosing a mate for her.
Stan bred by Oliver Kelly
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Stan is a harliequin buck from Oliver Kelly who lives in the Greater Manchester area. Oliver has been extremely helpful and we have had some lovely rabbits from him over the years, many thanks Oli, you're a star :-)
Born 27 June 19. Vaccinated 21 August. Parents were a Harlequin and Agouti mantle. |
Kylie bred by Oliver Kelly
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Kylie is a lynx under marked butterfly from Oliver Kelly
Born 27 June 19. Vaccinated 21 August. Parents were a Harlequin and Agouti mantle. |
Below is a slideshow of some of our rabbits we have bred. We have sold a few as pets and even some have gone to other exhibitors to be used in their breeding programme or shown. Many of these photos are are of our first generation foundation stock, we are now nearer to our 3rd or 4th generation and are gradually reproducing and amalgamating the qualities we desire..... although there's still work to be done.