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Did you know . . . . . .
Silver Marten Rabbit Club since 1927
Silver Marten
Rabbit Club
INSIDE:
President Report 2
V-P and Director 3
Director Report
Youth Convention
Results
4
Open Convention
Results
5
General Membership
Meeting Report
6
Members Article
—Dean Castillo
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Spring National Info 9
Sanctioned shows
Board/Committees
10
Expiring Membership
Membership info
Advertising info
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October—December 2015 Volume 2, Issue 4
Special points of
interest:
Spring National
show is April
16,2016
Canton, OHIO
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That Melissa and Tom Carlson
won Best of Breed at the ARBA
Convention this year with a black
junior doe.
Or
That Connie Burant won Best
Opposite of Breed at the ARBA
Convention with a black junior
buck.
Well they did and congratulations
to them both. I personally know
that they compete against each
other at many shows through out
the year and always are helping
each other doing shows. It is
great to see that they are sharing
the spotlight at an ARBA Con-
vention with such great accom-
plishments.
Or
Did you know that Garrett Sanders
won both Best of Breed and Best Op-
posite of Breed of Breed in the youth
competition? Garrett in also our
youth chairperson for the club. He is
out there doing a great job of present-
ing the breed.
Garrett has been to other conventions
and he is a great person to talk with.
He will and has represented our breed
and our youth very well.
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Silver Marten Rabbit Club
SEASONS GREETINGS FROM WISCONSIN!!!!
I would like to extend warmest wishes for a happy and joyous
holiday sea-
son to all our members. This has been a very peculiar winter
season so far,
the middle of December and NO snow on the ground… overnight
tempera-
tures have been in the mid 30’s, no frozen water bottles or
crocks. Unheard
of for me in central Wisconsin. The does should have been
receptive, (they weren’t) should
have been smart with their litters, (they weren’t) the unusual
weather has thrown them for
loop. Unfortunately my choice of juniors for the spring shows
will be very limited. Speaking
of spring shows I hope everyone is making plans to attend the
Spring Nationals in Ohio this
April. The Ohio group has always had a spectacular show and I
expect this show to be no dif-
ferent. I’m sure more information will be in this
newsletter.
The ARBA convention in Portland is now over, and what a
spectacular show it was. The show-
room was spacious and well ventilated and the crew did an
outstanding job. If you didn’t mind
a little rain the weather was great. I want to congratulate
Garrett Sanders from Indiana on his
accomplishments and success in Portland, not only did he win
Best and Best Opposite of
Breed (Youth) he went on to win his group for a shot at Best in
Show!!! Kudos, young man,
Kudos. For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity to meet
him or his rabbits, look him
up at the next show, maybe national’s….he’s a well-spoken bright
young man and will soon be
giving all of us open breeders a run for the money on the show
table in open. Thank you Mom
and Dad for supporting him and his hobby.
Melissa Carlson of Wisconsin won Best of Breed in Open with a
Beautiful black doe.
Melissa’s first intentions were just to send her rabbits and not
attend, but about two weeks be-
fore the show she found an amazing deal on airfare and decided
to make the trip. We are glad
she did! Her very first BOB at ARBA Nationals with a Marten and
she was able to walk her
across the stage. Congratulations!!!
Congratulations to all the winners in Open and Youth, some
amazing animals crossed the table
and our judge, Brad Boyce was very pleased with the quality
throughout.
The mystery of the red vest---- Hmmmm I’m still perplexed. If
anyone has any knowledge of a
red polar fleece vest with my name and Silver Marten embroidered
on it please share it with
me. When I first saw it in the booth (laying out in the open) I
had assumed my daughter had
purchased a Christmas gift, when I saw her I scolded her and
told her to go clean up her gar-
bage in the booth…long story short, no one has claimed the
generous deed…..Thank you little
red vest fairy! Happy Holidays Everyone
Connie
Connie Burant, President Wisconsin
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Volume 2, Issue 4
Did you know:
The
newsletter
is open to
any member
to place an
article
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and committee
members.
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for those
needed.
Dan Saunier, Vice-President Ohio
Wow, hard to imagine another convention
has already come and gone; now it's time to
gear up for spring nationals! Before we get into
that I would just like to say I had a great time
in Portland and would like to say congratula-
tions to all the winners. Now on to spring na-
tionals! I'm especially excited to be hosting it
in Canton, Ohio on April 16th. Our national will be judged
by
Josh Humphries with a specialty show followed directly
after,
we are hoping for a fabulous turn out! We've put together a
great show; there are 8 nationals in, numerous specialties
on
Saturday and then an all breed double show on Sunday. All
breeds with nationals will be hitting the tables first on
Sunday
so all the far drivers that want to show Sunday can hit the
road
early. We have 3 host hotels that are giving us discount
rates
and for anyone that wants to do some site seeing the Pro
Foot-
ball Hall of Fame is 5 minutes down the street and the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame is roughly and hour north in
Cleveland.
For any of you on Facebook you can get updates by like our
page, Hall of Fame Classic Rabbit Show. Hope to see you all
there!
Lowell Trausch, Director Ohio
From the old geezer from Ohio. Someone called me an “old geezer”
and someone agreed – not naming any names. Starting to slow down.
Went convention but didn’t show rab-bits. Quality of the Martens
that were there were very good and con-grats to Melissa and Connie
on their wins. They also beat up on Ron a few weeks after that at
his show. Hope to see everyone in the spring in Canton. Lowell
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Tex Thomas, Director Missouri
MISSOURI HAPPENINGS
By
TEX THOMAS
Bonnie e-mailed a request for an article for the newsletter.
Even though I am no longer an
officer, I usually have some off the wall opinion to offer.
Don’t think because I decided to
not run in the past elections that my heart is still not with
Silver Martens. I just feel at my
age and time of involvement in the club that younger and newer
blood is needed to move
our breed forward.
Speaking of lack of respect for their elders—those two young
upstarts from Wisconsin pro-
ceeded to put it on the old man at Portland. My most hearty
congratulations to Melissa and Connie for their out-
standing job of exhibiting at the convention. These two gals
kind of left crumbs for the rest of us to pick up.
Now that I have finished crying in my beer, let me say the
people at Portland put on one first class convention. This
was the epitome of a convention not having to be the biggest to
be the best. The showroom was spacious, the judging
was completed in a very expeditious fashion, and only a couple
of exhibitor threatened to kill each other. The trip out
was long with a head wind all the way, but once you arrived, you
remembered why you get so much joy in going to
conventions and renewing old friendships and meeting new
people.
Now for the sad part. It is disheartening to see the dwindling
number of Martens being shown. I know it was a west
coast show and the club lacks membership in this area, but we
seem to be falling behind other breeds. Our entry at
Portland was smaller than a couple of the breeds that just a few
years ago were listed on the “Rare and Endangered
breeds list”. It gets kind of sad when I think of when I first
started attending ARBA conventions and Silver Martens
were always in the top 6 or 7 breeds exhibited. I don’t pretend
to know all the answers, but somehow we need to turn
this decline around and get back on top. We have a breed that
almost anyone walking through a showroom will com-
ment on the beauty—we just somehow need to turn this admiration
into new Marten breeders.
Best of Breed Garrett Sanders - Black Junior Buck
Best Opposite of Sex Garrett Sanders - Black Junior Doe
FUR Garrett Sanders
Black Senior Buck Blue Senior Buck
1 Non-Member 1 Non-Member - BOV
2 Garrett Sanders
Blue Senior Doe
Black Senior Doe 1 Garrett Sanders - BOSV
1 Garrett Sanders 2 Non-Member
Black Junior Buck Blue Junior Buck
1
Garrett Sanders - BOV,
BOB 1 Non-Member
Black Junior Doe
1
Garrett Sanders -
BOSV, BOS
2 Non-Member
YOUTH CONVENTION RESULTS
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Best of Breed Melissa & Tom Carlson Black Junior Doe
Best Opposite of Sex Connie Burant Black Junior Buck
FUR Connie Burant
Black Senior Buck Blue Senior Buck Chocolate Senior Buck
1 Roy & Barb Semb 1 Tex Thomas 1 Bill Estes
2 Stephanie Myers 2 Tex Thomas
3 Tex Thomas Chocolate Senior Doe
4 Robert Newell Blue Senior Doe 1 Stephanie Keranen
5 Tex Thomas 1 Tex Thomas
6 Connie Burant Chocolate Junior Buck
7 Robert Newell Blue Junior Buck 1 Connie Burant - BOV
8 Robert Newell 1 Connie Burant - BOV 2 Melissa & Tom
Carlson
9 Tex Thomas 2 Connie Burant 3 Stephanie Keranen
10 Robert Newell 3 Tex Thomas
11 Robert Newell 4 Tex Thomas Chocolate Junior Doe
12 Robert Newell 5 Tex Thomas 1 Stephanie Keranen - BOSV
13 Stephanie Keranen 2 Connie Burant
Blue Junior Doe 3 Melissa & Tom Carlson
Black Senior Doe 1 Tex Thomas - BOSV 4 Stephanie Keranen
1 Rebecca Kite 2 Connie Burant 5 Bill Estes
2 Tex Thomas 3 Tex Thomas
3 Connie Burant 4 Connie Burant
4 Tex Thomas 5 Connie Burant
5 Lauralee Erbe 6 Tex Thomas Sable Senior Buck
6 Lauralee Erbe 1 Melissa & Tom Carlson
7 Tex Thomas
8 Robert Newell Sable Senior Doe
1 Connie Burant - BOSV
Black Junior Buck Black Junior Doe 2 Connie Burant
1
Connie Burant - BOSV,
BOS 1
Melissa & Tom Carlson -
BOV, BOB
2 Tex Thomas 2 Tex Thomas Sable Junior Buck
3 Melissa & Tom Carlson 3 Tex Thomas 1 Connie Burant -
BOV
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E/B/D Saunier & R Hoh-
man 4 Stephanie Keranen
5 Tex Thomas 5 Melissa & Tom Carlson Sable Junior Doe
6 Tex Thomas 6 Roy & Barb Semb 1 Melissa & Tom
Carlson
7 Katie & Keith Peltier 7 Stephanie Keranen
8 Tex Thomas 8 Tex Thomas
9 Connie Burant
10 Tex Thomas
11 Tex Thomas
OPEN CONVENTION RESULTS
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SILVER MARTEN RABBIT CLUB
General Membership Meeting
11/2/15
In Attendance: President, Connie Burant Vice President, Dan
Saunier Secretary/Treasurer, Katie Peltier Directors: Lowell
Trausch, Members: Melissa Carlson, Haley Innes, Jessica Hoopfer,
Barb & Roy Semb
Meeting was called to order at 11am by President Connie
Burant.
Introductions of incoming board members: Dan Saunier, VP Katie
Peltier, Secretary/Treasurer Ron Riddle, Director Jessica Hoopfer,
Director Stephanie Keranen, Director
Report of Officers/Directors: President
In need of a webmaster – Jessica Hoopfer In need of a sweeps
person – Haley Innes Convention recap
Vice President 2016 Nationals – Canton Ohio National to be
judged by Josh Humphries, Specialty Don Sheets Pre-entry only (no
day of show entries) Booth for SMRC – silent auction raffle Banquet
will be held, more details to follow
Secretary/Treasurer Treasurers Report - $6737.70 with only 1
check outstanding of $100.00 (Approval Barb, Seconded Lowell) 2016
Convention judge – Randy Shumaker (Monday judging) 2017-2020
Convention judges – letters sent out to all on list to confirm
dates
Directors No reports
New Business: 2017 Spring National Proposal
Wisconsin Silver Marten Club – Date not decided, either April in
Jefferson or May in Dodgeville Approval Barb, Seconded Lowell
2016 Convention – Booth – Approval for single booth Lowell,
Seconded Roy Formation of a Youth Scholarship Committee – Dan,
Jessica, Katie – information gathering to be presented at next
board meeting
Motion to adjourn – Barb, seconded by Jessica at 11:47am
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Will new varieties increase interest in our breed? There have
been several articles in our club’s recent newsletters emphasizing
how current members should take on active roles to
increase our efforts to recruit new breeders. There are many
ways we can encourage and recruit new breeders both as individuals
and
as part of a club/organization. One idea that I have heard (and
comes up in several breeds) is whether establishing new varieties
will
help the breed as a whole.
I recognize there are differing and conflicting opinions on this
subject, but since new varieties require cooperation of both
individu-
als and the organization to support their efforts I wanted to
answer the following questions from a genetic standpoint: How
would
proposed new varieties be created?, how might they impact the
breed?, and would breeding them be sustainable? (Here borrowing
on
knowledge form other breeds and talking with other people who
breed these varieties).
The three varieties that I will discuss are lilacs, smoke
pearls, and seals. The similarities between lilacs and smoke pearls
are that
some breeders believe that recognizing these varieties will
allow smaller breeders to raise more varieties, because they can
cross
more freely between varieties (see below). Not many people
discuss the possibility of a seal variety, but I personally believe
this op-
tion is the most sustainable and fruitful.
Lilac
Lilacs are basically dilute chocolates, just like blues are
dilute blacks. It is commonly thought that lilacs will occur when
inter-
breeding blues and chocolates. While continued crossing of blues
and chocolates will produce lilacs eventually, this will not
happen
in the first generation. The kits from a blue x chocolate cross
will actually all be black (as long as chocolates are not carrying
dilute
and blues are not carrying chocolate). It will take
back-crossing into chocolates to steadily produce lilacs. You have
to work to pro-
duce lilacs. By taking genetics into account can breeders
produce good lilacs that will benefit our breed? Or increase
interest?
Arguments for Lilac: These are not necessarily my arguments, but
arguments I have heard form various members. Some believe a
COD should be developed for lilacs so that breeders can freely
interbred blacks, blues, and chocolates (and subsequently lilacs)
with-
out worrying about producing un-showable colors. This is part of
the logic behind the lilac Havana, which is currently
undergoing
the COD process. In most breeds that have a “Silver Marten” or
“Tan” variety (i.e. Netherland Dwarfs, Mini Rex, etc) all four
colors
are recognized so therefore it is practical to create lilac
Silver Martens.
Arguments against Lilac: Breeding lilacs will hurt both blue and
chocolate varieties by creating washed out blues and chocolates
and will not help our breed.
I think there are valid points to both of these arguments, and
my goal will be to look at these arguments from a genetic
viewpoint. To
start I will review genetics that are pertinent for Silver
Martens. Most black Silver Martens will have the following
genotype:
atatBBcchdcchdDD. The “at” allele indicates that these rabbits
have the tan pattern (rather than agouti “A” or self “a”). The B
allele
means it carries the dominant Black color (two copies of “b”
will give chocolates). The “cchd” is light chinchilla. This allele
removes
the yellow color from the ticking (otters will have “C”, sables
are a combination of “cchl” and “ch” and REW have two copies of
“c”).
Lastly, the “D” allele controls dilution of color. Blacks that
do not carry blue have two copies of “D” whereas blues would have
two
copies of “d”. With these allele definitions we can write down
genotypes for blues atatBBcchdcchddd and chocolate
atatbbcchdcchdDD. If
you want to practice genetics try writing down the genotype that
would result form crossing blue with chocolate and convince
your-
self why these rabbits would be black. A lilac would be
atatbbcchdcchddd.
Missing from these formal genotypes are modifiers. Think about
Tans and Thriantas they have Rufus modifiers that in-
crease color intensity. These factors are called modifiers
rather than genes because the exact nature of modifiers is not
known. All of
the genes mentioned above (A through D) have actually been
studied by geneticists and the exact genes that control these
colors are
actually known (most of the genetic work has been done in mice
but applies to rabbits). It is very likely that there are also
black
modifiers (or at least modifiers that increase intensity of
black rabbits). This is the reason we sometimes breed blues to
blacks (or
chocolates to blacks). The goal is to increase the intensity of
the blue or chocolate color. From a genetic standpoint it is to
maintain
the “modifiers” that create intense color into our blue or
chocolate lines.
You might be thinking to yourself at this point, why are
focusing on modifiers and what does this have to do with
lilacs!
The reason we need to discuss modifiers is that there are also
modifiers for blue and chocolate. Talking to other breeders in
several
different breeds, some would argue from experience that these
modifiers don’t mix. While breeding blacks into blues will help
inten-
sity of color it is essential to carry out blue x blue breedings
to keep good blue color in your barn (intensity is important but
not eve-
rything). This is why good colored blues can be maintained by
blue x blue crosses for many generations (as demonstrated by
Tex).
We are fortunate in the Silver Marten breed that historically,
breeders selected for good intense color, but sometimes you might
pop
a blue from a black x blue cross that is very intense but when
bred to other blues the color is not as rich as could be (by rich I
mean
the color does not extend down the hair shaft as far as it
could). Why does this happen? I hope that after reading about
modifiers
your intuition will be that this rabbit does not have correct
“blue” modifiers! Similar principals apply to chocolates.
So to breed lilacs you have a little bit of a conundrum. You
need to breed blues with chocolates and then keep crossing into
chocolates, but the problem is that blue modifiers wash out the
chocolate color and vice a versa. I do not have any experience
with
chocolate Martens, but talking with other breeders it seems that
this is a common experience. Now, not all the rabbits will have
washed out color, but it will occur frequently enough that
breeders should be careful when producing lilacs. Does this mean
that the
argument against lilacs is strong enough that someone should not
attempt to go for a COD? Not so fast. The majority of breeders
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only occasionally produce lilacs in chance matings. In these
matings they often cross a blue that carries chocolate with a
chocolate.
That means they keep mixing blue and chocolate modifiers which
is creating their washed out problems.
On the other hand there are breeders that have dedicated lilac
lines (there is a whole breed, the “Lilac”, where the rabbits
have great color). After initially crossing blues with chocolate
they have focused their lilac lines by crossing lilac x lilac with
occa-
sional crosses to chocolates. What does this achieve? It means
that over time you lose the blue modifiers and only keep the
chocolate
modifiers, which are good for chocolate and lilac varieties.
Verdict: I do not know whether a COD for lilac will increase
interest in the breed. But hopefully I have convinced you that
accept-
ing lilacs will not allow small breeders to freely breed blues
to chocolates to produce lilacs. Breeding lilacs will require that
you
dedicate a line to lilac x lilac matings with occasional matings
to chocolates otherwise you would run the risk of continually
having
poor colored blues and chocolates. These blue and chocolate
“lilac carriers” should not be used in a pure blue or chocolate
breeding
program and therefore will not help the smaller herds. It will
take several generations to create stable lilacs but the effort
might be
worth it for a group of dedicated breeders.
Smoke Pearl
Smoke pearls are dilute sables. If the sable genotype is
atatBBcchlchDD, then smoke pearls will be atatBBcchlchdd. So to
create smoke
pearls you will have to breed blues into your sables.
Arguments for Smoke Pearl: Similar to the case of lilacs the
logic for smoke pearls is as follows: Not many people breed
sables
because you can not cross freely with blues or with blacks that
carry blue because you will eventually produce un-showable
smoke
pearls. Recognizing smoke pearls will alleviate this
problem.
Arguments against Smoke Pearl: Breeding for smoke pearls will
result in poor colored blues and blacks and overall hurt
breeding
programs.
Similar to lilacs you actually have to work to produce smoke
pearls. When you cross a blue with a sable all of the kits will be
black
(for practice write out the genotypes and convince yourself). So
it will take backcrossing into sables to produce smoke pearls.
Sounds pretty simple, but breeding sables and therefore smoke
pearls is a little more complicated than people think. When two
sables
are bred together you do not produce all sables. In actuality
you produce 25% seal, 50% sable, and 25% Californian marked
babies,
which is completely normal (For more details see future article
on genetics of breeding and improving sables). So when the
dilute
gene is introduced then what you will eventually start breeding
will be 25% blue seal, 50% smoke pearl, and 25% blue point
(blue
Californian). Blue seal is very difficult to tell apart from
blue because any shading is very subtle. So these blue seals are
often miss-
classified as poor colored blues.
What if you take the original blacks from the blue x sable
cross? What will happen if you introduce this to your breeding
program? Some people argue that these blacks that carry sable
have color that is a little off. I personally have several blacks
that
carry sable and I cannot tell them apart from my “pure” blacks
and several have done well on the show table. Maybe these
blacks
that are off are really miss-classified seal? The jury is still
out for these crosses. As a precaution I have been taking care not
to use
these blacks in my black line, but have kept them in my sable
line to improve sables.
Verdict: Breeding for smoke pearls by breeding freely between
blue and sables will not be productive because of the production
of
blue seals which would be another un-showable color. These blue
seals might be mistaken by novice breeders as blues and could
interfere with blue lines. The best practice for breeding for
smoke pearls would be to breed sables that carry dilute to smoke
pearl
(limiting the number of blue seals).
Seal Seal is often a misunderstood variety. Some people call
seals “dark sables” but they actually have their own unique
genotype. Sables
are atatBBcchlchDD and seals are atatBBcchlcchlDD. Sables look
like “dark sables” because they are a much darker sepia shaded
rabbit
and sometimes have less contrast in shading.
Arguments for Seal: I have not heard anyone talk about a COD for
seals, but my opinion is that seals are naturally produced by
eve-
ryone who is currently breeding sables and therefore getting
them recognized would possibly get more people interested in
breeding
sables. Breeding sables to seals would produce 100% kits that
belong to a recognized variety (currently 50% of the kits in a
litter are
unrecognized)
Arguments against Seal? I do not know of any. If you have any
ideas let me know!
As mentioned above when breeding sable x sable 25% of the kits
produced are seal. If you breed seal x sable then 50% of the
kits
will be seal and 50% will be sable. If seal was a recognized
variety all kits will be recognized varieties! There may be issues
if blacks
and sables are intercrossed frequently but that is for another
article
Verdict: Recognizing seals has the potential to increase
interest in the sable variety. It will not allow for free
intercrossing of colors
(see smoke pearl above). Will increase interest in sable
increase interest in the breed overall? I am not sure. The sable
variety has
been historically less common, but I know there is a lot of
interest in sables lately from new breeders.
Dean Castillo
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APRIL 16, 2016
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UPCOMING SANCTIONED SHOWS
May all of your nest boxes be full
The molt be done before the shows
The condition of your herd be outstanding
And may your have
Safe travels at all time
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12/31/15
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Silver Marten Newsletter
Editor
Bonnie Saunier
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Louisville, Ohio 44641
Phone 330-871-8715
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The Silver Marten breed
(named) was started in
1924.
In 1927, the first working
standard was adopted for
the black and chocolate
varieties and the first Sil-
ver Marten Club was
chartered. In 1929 the
blues were accepted, and
in 1933 the sable variety
was approved. These are
the same 4 varieties still
shown today.
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