Pictures & Descriptions of My Herd Bucks

My Otter program Bucks:

Blue Diamond's Wild Thing D86 purchased at '06 ANDRC nationals from Elaine Lewis. He has 11 BOB wins and an all breed BIS & RIS. 2007 ANDRC Top Dwarf. Wild Thing is just a great all around buck, he has outstanding head and ears, and nice type. His sire is BD's Magnitude and you can see the stamp Mag has put on Wild Thing and it continues on into Wild Thing's offspring.

Let's start with Bucky's ExL out of Wild Thing and Bucky's Otter One. I have 3 pictures, first one is a jr which really shows off his great color-yes his rufus factor is that dark! The next he is a senior buck. May 08 ExL wins Reserve in Show VT.

Bucky's Stunning & his brother Bucky's Premium are the same breeding as ExL, in this picture Stunning is 6 1/2 mos old. Premium is 1 1/4 yrs. Both also have very rich dark rufus factoring like ExL.

3 pictures of Bucky's Bad Credit (BD Wild Thing to a daughter Bucky's Jester)

Bucky's No Credit is Bad Credit's brother. I think he's better than No Credit in an all around sense, Bad Credit has really narrow shoulders, No Credit's are better, not perfect but better, he also has a better hind end, his head lacks the roundness in forehead that Bad Credit has. Both had promise from day one.In the last picture he's 8 1/2 mos, the first one is a junior and the middle one was sometime earlier this summer.

Bucky's Coupe Black Otter Buck, he has an all breed show BIS win in 2007. Coupe is out of my existing otter lines, his Sire Bucky's Dean was 8th at the 2006 ANDRC Nationals. Coupe is a small sized buck but has great type and is nicely balanced. He lacks the massiveness of a Wild Thing so he often gets overlooked by judges but he is a grand champion (4 GC legs 2 BOG, 1 BOSG).

Bucky's Riverside is the Grandsire of Bucky's Coupe, I sold him a few years ago but he was a great show buck for me, winning BOBs as well as a RIS. Next to him is his son Bucky's Dean (8th ANDRC 2006 Nationals).

Last Fall I decided to get into Opals. Well, after getting two expensive rabbits with incorrect undercolor and then finding out so many breeders have problems with undercolor, I think the Opal experiment will be short lived! However, Opal is compatible with Otters and I have no qualms about using a good one with my otters. Above is Adirondack's Hardware, he has correct undercolor and did well on the show table Spring 09. I already have a litter out of him to Bucky's In Stock who was not producing when line bred to BD's Wild Thing. If a correctly under colored Opal comes out I'll keep and show it, if not, whatever I like this little guy and feel he will bring good things to my Otters.

My Shaded Breeding Program:

New in Late 2008 is Adirondack's DJ a black Himmie buck purchased from Carlene Wheeler. The neat ting about DJ is he goes back to Bucky's bunnies and all the way back to AGR's Heavy Hitter. The Siamese Smoke Pearl pictured is Covert's ML1 and I purchased him at the ARBA Convention. He had qualities I liked and as he is maturing is just getting better.

Bucky's Ouija Board a Seal buck out of Cowan's Lincoln & Bucky's Smoker. Yeah he's a seal but he is very balanced, has a nice head, nice body, and coat. This picture doesn't do him justice, but if he was a correctly shaded sable I bet he'd have a list of wins. His mom, Smoker's bloodline goes back to Amazing Grace Rabbitry (Alan McGarry)'s Heavy Hitter pictured below.6/09 OB was sold to a youth breeder.

AMG's Heavy Hitter Alan was generous enough to offer me HH as he had sired champions for Alan and had something like 16 GC legs when I got him. I continued to show him and he ended up with 37 GC legs and several breed wins. He was the sire of my shadeds and himmies. I'm very proud that my lines can still be traced back to Heavy Hitter. Not only was he pretty he had a great personality and loved to get pets.

The two siamese sable bucks pictured below are a father/son, Bucky's Teddy Graham & Bucky's Grand Slam, both of course are Heavy Hitter Descendants, both also had a number of GC legs as well as breed wins. They were sold to help other breeders out in my region. Funny story, I sold Teddy G when he was young to Wendy Martin (Adirondack), I liked his brother better. A while later I ended up buying him from Aldon Trimble who purchased him from Wendy. The funny part is at that point I needed the qualities Teddy had so he came back to Bucky's. Also a good reason why breeders should share their good rabbits with other breeders.

Bucky's Harvest (Harvest's dam goes back to Heavy Hitter & his sister Gourd is on the Doe page).

Bucky's Sheffield is a black Himmie buck, he placed well at shows to and is now living as a beloved pet in NYC (Yup goes back to HH).

Bucky's Cash Included, a nicely typed sable buck, best he did was a BOSB win in Frankfort NY, he also had several GC legs and was sold to help another breeder.

Above is Bucky's Element, why is he, a black otter, listed under the shaded bucks? Because he is an experiment. I wanted to see if I could mix the best of my otters with my shadeds so I bred Bucky's Light to BD's Wild Thing and got Element. I then linebred him back to Light and got Bucky's Resurgence. I guess the experiment worked because Resurgence, a Sable Marten doe won BOV at the 2008 ARBA Convention in KY.