The last update was made on February 09/ 2007

Previously I raised chocolate, red, and black satin rabbits for about 9 years. I am a member of A.R.B.A, (American Rabbit Breeders Association) and A.S.R.B.A (American Satin Rabbit Breeders Association) and have been for 17 years. My original stock was acquired from Brian Sawchuk. When I started out I bought some red satins from Brian, a well-known satin breeder in my area. In 1990 I stopped concentrating on red satins and turned to chocolates, I developed some very fine Choc-Satins. I started raising reds again in 2000 and have had some success with them. At that time I had a line of red, black and chocolate Satins. I have since 2007 cut my red satins to just a few, which I use in my Otter breeding program on occasion.

If you are going to breed for Chocolates: Black satins are good to have because you can breed them with your chocolates to darken the color. When you breed a black to a chocolate, you will get black offspring, but they will carry the chocolate gene.

Breed those black offspring and you will get chocolate. You can never get black from breeding two chocolates together. If you do and you get a black, someone must have bred a black satin to that chocolate.

I acquired my original chocolates from Marlene Hayward, at the time they were a great help to me and the development of my Chocolate satins. I no longer breed for Chocolates, I am breeding for chocolate Otters satins. Working now on ALL the Otter varieties in Satins.

I breed my reds to reds. My reds are coming along fairly well though I only maintain a few.

I do have a few Coppers which came out of breeding Copper to Otter. These are used in my Otter breeding program. You can get Otter Satins From Coppers with Otter in the background. This gives them the needed [at] gene.

My Otter Satins I have developed what I believe to be some very good representatives of their breed and color. I now have; Black, Blue,Chocolate and Lilac Otter satins as the mainstay of my barn. My herd is constantly improving through strict culling and insightful breeding. I suppose only time will tell. At this point I am continually striving to improve.