Once again we will be holding two contests for our youth:

Pal News February 2016 The Official Publication of the Palomino Rabbit Co-Breeders Association Hosted by the Hall Of Fame Classic Show Saturday April 16, 2016 Stark County Fairgrounds Canton, Ohio Palomino Specialty Show on Saturday after National Show Double Show on Sunday April 17, 2016 PRCBA Youth Contests Once again we will be holding two contests for our youth: Achievement Contest & Management Contest Please go to the PRCBA webpage to download the application and project guidelines. All paperwork is due by April 1, 2016. There are three divisions for the youth contests: Junior, Intermediate, & Senior Please encourage our youth members to participate. Winners will be announced at the banquet at Nationals in Ohio. 9 rd Annual ARBA Convention October 9-12, 2016 Del Mar, California www.fibbercupinvitational.com

Palomino Co-Breeders Association Officers and Directors President Jim Hunter Scott City, KS Vice- President Zora Brewer Vincennes, IN Secretary Cathy Dunkle Latah, WA Treasurer Terri King Cheyenne, WY 2 District 1 AK, ID, OR MT, WAY, WY Cliff King Cheyenne, WY District AR, CO, NM, OK, TX Latosha Lucas Bells, TX District 7 CT, ME, MA, NH, NY, RI, VT Quebec, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia Shannon Whitney Adams Center, NY Sweepstakes Chair Carolyn Wright Smithville, TX Website www.palominorabbit.org District 2 AZ, CA, HI, NV, UT, Mexico Jay Horn Arroyo Grande, CA District 5 IL, KS, MO Beth Thurn Everest, KS District 8 IN, KY, MI, OH Manitoba, Ontario Mike Raab Milan, IN Pals News Editor Jim Brown Bath, PA District IA, MN, NE, ND, SD, WI Tom Lowin Pierre, SD District 6 AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, TN, Puerto Rico Joe Donato St Cloud, FL District 9 DE, MD, NJ, NC, PA, SC, VA, WV Washington DC & All Other Foreign Jim Brown Bath, PA Webmaster Charlcie Fowler Iowa Park, TX Pal News Dates to Remember: Submission Month Publication Month Winter Edition: January 10 for February Spring Edition: April 10 for May Summer Edition: August 10 for September Fall Edition: November 10 for October OPEN PALOMINO of the YEAR (July 1 June 0) 1st. Sharon Pellham 2nd. Mike & Ryan Raab rd. Sharon Pellham th. Sharon Pellham 5th. Clifford King 6th. Jim Brown 6th. Tony Schwartzmiller 7th. Cheryl Williams 8th. Jim Brown G.D. # RB5 with 22 points G.D. # D1 with 25 points G.D. # MA9 with 216 points G.B. # MA2 with 162 points L.B. # KL5 with 116 points G.B. # BRC with 106 points L.D. # T7 with 106 points G.B. # DCP1 with 10 points G.D. # WW6 with 90 points

President s Message Greetings from Western Kansas to all members of the PRCBA I hope this newsletter finds you all in good health and spirits with several new litters of golden and lynx palominos Personally, I only have a few does with babies at this time, but I m excited about the prospects as those kits are only 16 days old and the few that are venturing out of the nest box are looking so very nice. The spring national show in Canton, Ohio is rapidly approaching and I really hope many of you will be able to attend. I know Mike Raab and others have put a lot of time and effort into this year s spring show and it should be a really great time for showing your pals and socializing with your friends from near and far. Although I haven t made any reservations yet, I am planning to go if at all possible. (James :1-1 has something to say about making plans for the future.) I want to help you with something you may be experiencing with your golden pals. Some of you may be having white kits show up in your golden litters. Whether or not this is a problem for you is really up to you. If it is a problem for you and you d rather have your herd of golden pals producing only golden pals, then I will give you the solution in this report. This situation arises due to the fact that some breeders have crossed white New Zealand rabbits into their golden pals. I want to state right off that I do not participate in that practice. I m a purist when it comes to breeding. I see nothing wrong with it other than the fact that it may lead to some problems down the line a few generations. One such problem is the production of white kits from golden stock. If you are having that problem here is what you need to do to solve it. If you are interested in refining your golden herd so that it produces only golden palominos, the first thing you need to do is keep a few white does and at least one white buck. These animals will be used to breed back to any goldens that you want to keep for the future of your breeding program. You won t get any white kits if the two golden pals you mate are pure for gold color. The process is quite simple, but it will take some time. Take a golden doe that you want to keep for breeding and breed her to the white buck you kept. If all of the kits are golden, she is pure for gold so keep her. If you get any white kits from that mating, she is not pure so do NOT keep her. Most of the kits in the two possible litters mentioned will not be pure so you should not keep any of them. Breeders with integrity will not sell any of those animals to other breeders without mentioning the ancestry. Those breeders will also show the variety white on the pedigree of those rabbits. I only mention this because it happened to me at the Fort Worth ARBA convention 2 years ago. I was interested in purchasing a golden pal from a breeder, but the breeder told me that it had white New Zealand in its ancestry. I didn t purchase the animal from the breeder. Some wouldn t pass up a sale, but that breeder did. That, folks, is what it means to have integrity

President s Message continued If you have a golden buck that you are interested in keeping for your herd you follow the same process, as explained above, and mate it to a white doe. No white kits in the litter means the buck is pure so you should keep it for your breeding program. White kits in the litter means the buck is not pure so do NOT keep him. None of the kits produced from this mating should be kept for breeding. There is something I should mention at this point. In order for the outcome of those two test crosses (white x golden) mentioned above to be as predicted (the golden being pure), the litters must be fairly large in number. The results in a litter of 8 will have a more accurate prediction about the golden than the results in a litter of 1 to. Just to error on the side of safety with your prediction you may want to test that same cross a second time. As I said, this process takes some time in order to get acceptable results to base a prediction on. I ve only heard of a white kit showing up in a lynx litter one time, but that doesn t mean it hasn t happened more than that. How that happens is a different story for a different time, but I do have the answer and it is simpler than you may imagine. In the meantime, I want to thank all of my officers and district directors for the great job they do in the promotion of our wonderful breed. Thanks for being a Pal to the Pals Jim District 5 Report Beth Thurn Cold temperatures have hit Kansas. It is definitely not as enjoyable to feed and water rabbits in below freezing temperatures. Rabbit shows are about to get going again in our area: Abilene - February 1, Gardner - March 5 Garden City - March 19, and Lawrence - March 26. Congratulations to Sharon Pelham for her Palomino receiving 2nd Reserve in Show and Reserve in Show in the November 21 shows in Wichita. District Report - Latosha Lucas Hello, Ya ll from Texas I hope everyone had a great Holiday Season. Congratulations to Elizabeth Hines on winning Grand Champion rabbit at the Jack County Youth Fair and Congratulations to Teryn Halliburton for winning Best of Breed and Best Opposite of breed at the Cleburne Ribbit Show on December the 11 th and 12 th. Also, congratulations to all the winners at other show as well. Hope everyone bred for Spring National and good luck to the ones going. I will not be going since I will have classes of college. Please if you have a Best of Breed or Best Opposite of Breed email me at sawb@texoma.net and tell me about.

Sweepstakes Chair s Report: 5 Greetings everyone, I know some of you have been chomping at the bit to know the results We had a few snags this year getting show reports turned in, but I think we have the bugs worked out and new procedures for Club Secretaries that I believe will make next year a little smoother. If you re not on the list and want to know where you ended up, just zap me an email. I ll be mailing out the awards here soon as they are ready. Thank you for being patient. Carolyn OPEN SWEEPSTAKES 1st. Jim Brown 25 shows 770 points 2nd. Kenneth & Imogene Drews 19 shows 76 points rd. Sharon Pellham 10 shows 2792 points th. Clifford King 15 shows 2202 points 5th. Mike & Ryan Raab 12 shows 207 points 6th. Tony Schwartzmiller 16 shows 1908 points 7th. Aileen Brown 2 shows 1517 points 8th. Jim Hunter 12 shows 1511 points 9th. Cathy & Harold Dunkle 16 shows 118 points 10th. Cathy Dunkle 10 shows 898 points 11th. Jeff Lewis 5 shows 770 points 12th. Jeff Emerson 7 shows 681 points 1th. Joy Lucas 20 shows 576 points 1th. Wayne & Carolyn Wright shows 57 points 15th. Herman Young 7 shows 55 points 16th. Aileen & Jim Brown 21 shows 59 points 17th. Cheryl Williams 6 shows 512 points 18th. Terri King 7 shows 511 points 19th. Ben & Beth Thurn 5 shows 508 points 20th. Heather Lucas 11 shows points OPEN FUR 1st. Kenneth & Imogene Drews 2nd. Wayne & Carolyn Wright rd. Bob Sorrels th. Sharon Pellham 5th. Aileen Brown 6th. Cathy & Harold Dunkle 7th. Herman Young 626 points 27 points 112 points 90 points 70 points 8 points 0 points

6 District 8 Report Mike Raab I am looking forward to meeting many friends and making new ones at the Palomino National convention in Canton, OH this spring. We will have a raffle and booth at the nationals. If you have have some items that you would like to donate for the raffle, please contact me. Elizabeth Hines Grand Champion Rabbit Jack County Youth Fair Location: Bell County Expo Center, Belton, TX Presented by: Jason Platt jplattcals@yahoo.com & Don Mersiovsky lepus@hot.rr.com May 1, 2016 Entry Fees: $20 per Meat Pen; $10 per Single Fryer Entries: Unlimited Weight Limits: to 5 Pounds Judges: Mikey Franke, Dave Cardinal, Cheryl Blackman, & Mary Jo Terry Youth Clinics During Day Youth Meat Pens: All will show in breed separately Californians, New Zealand, & All Other Breeds (AOB) Breed Champions & Reserves will show for Overall Grand & Reserve Prizes: Overall Grand Champion - $2,000 and Buckle Overall Reserve Grand Champion - $1,500 and Buckle Breed 1st through rd - Carriers Youth Single Fryer: All will show in breed separately Californians, New Zealand, & All Other Breeds (AOB) Breed Champions & Reserves will show for Overall Grand & Reserve Prizes: Grand, Reserve, rd, th, 5th (Percentage TBD) BREED DATE: February 5, 2016 ENTRY DEADLINE: May 7, 2016 Open Meat Pens Only: All will show in breed separately Californians, New Zealand, & All Other Breeds (AOB) Breed Champions & Reserves will show for Overall Grand & Reserve Prizes: Overall Grand Champion - $500 Overall Reserve Grand Champion - $00 More Info at: http://scmeatpen.wix.com/rabbitshow https://www.facebook.com/events/9020887918 District 9 Report Jim Brown The weekend of February 5-7 we had our annual Pennsylvania State Rabbit Breeders Association Convention. The turn out this year was outstanding. The event organizers predict that 17,00 animals crossed the tables over the weekend. PaSRBA is the official kick- off to the spring showing season. Pictured form PaSRBA is: Patrick Rush BOB Golden Sr Buck Jim Brown BOSB Lynx Intermediate Doe

7 Sweepstakes Report Continued: YOUTH SWEEPSTAKES 1 Latosha Lucas 22 2 Seth Whitney Wekar 15 Jackson Armstrong 27 Tanner Litts 29 5 Patrick Rush 12 6 Luke Teaford 1 7 llyson Fisher 6 8 Brooke King 7 9 Casey Cailin 10 Carlton Grant 2 11 Ashlyn & Zac Reynolds 2 12 Tammy Wilcox 1 1 Ashlyn Reynolds 1 Ben Terry 15 Zora Brewer 16 Courtney Hall 17 Megan Tassin Palomino Of The Year 1 2 5 6 7 8 Jackson Armstrong Tammy Wilcox Luke Teaford Patrick Rush Patrick Rush Latosha Lucas Brooke King Tanner Litts YOUTH Fur 2018 1518 887 658 88 78 5 2 11 261 20 21 198 196 160 159 11 1 Jackson Armstrong 2 Tanner Litts 79 66 PaSRBA Youth Palomino Show Luke Teaford BOB Golden Sr Buck Johnson BOSB Golden Sr Doe Lynx/Doe/PBA 76 Golden/Doe/70B 76 Golden/Doe/BRD1 Golden/Doe/BRE1 2 Golden/Buck/BRB1 1 Lynx/Buck/TL2 21 Lynx/Doe/KL2 20 Lynx/Doe/PTB 20 Advertising in the Pal News: Advertising in the Pal News is available to any member in good standing. Ad Size Breeder Rate Commercial Rate Full Page $75.00 $90.00 Half Page $0.00 $50.00 ¼ Page $25.00 $5.00 Business Card $15.00 $20.00 Please mail ad and payment to: Jim Brown 2177 West End Road Bath, PA 1801 Advertising Details: All rates are for FOUR issues. For a single issue the rate is ¼ the listed price. Rate includes one original photo. Additional photos are $.00 per photo. Editor can assist in creating an ad. Make checks payable to: PRCBA

8 Hosted by the Hall of Fame Classic Rabbit Show Saturday April 16, 2016 Facebook:HallofFameRabbitShoworWebsite:www.HOFCLASSIC.WEEBLY.com Stark)County)Fairgrounds) 05WertzAvenueNW,Canton,OH708 [Buildingopenuntil11PMFridaynight.Opensat6AMSaturday.ShowStartsat9AM] ) ) Judge:RyanFedele,NY Judge:PiperSmith,PA EntriesPostmarkedby:WednesdayApril6,2016Hostedby:TuscarawasCountyRBA Emailedby:MondayApril11,2016by11PMEntriesdueSaturdaymorning EntryFees:$6.00perrabbit EntryFee:$.50perRabbit Fur:$2.00perrabbit Fur:$1.00perrabbit EarChangesONLY:$2.00DayofShow Entryincludescooping Size:21x21inches National)Show)Superintendent:)MikeRaab_(812)528_9,MikeJRaab@yahoo.com, ) National)Show)Secretary: Palomino)Specialty)Show)Secretary: JimBrown BonnieSaunier 2177WestEndRoad,Bath,PA1801 5690Easton,Street,Louisville,OH61 Palominoshowsec@gmail.com BonnieSaunier@gmail.com (610)77_998_pleaseleaveamessage (0)871_8715 Banquet:LouisvilleEagles_108W.MainStreet,Louisville,OH61 $17.00/person_$10.00forchildrenand10andunder Need$a$headcount$by:$April$1,$2016$ Host)Hotel)Information:MentionHallofFameRabbitShowforadiscountedrate. Comfort)Inn)Canton) )Hall)of)Fame)Hotel) 55BroadmoorCircleNW,Canton,OH709 Attention)Members:) StandardRoom$85.00/night (0)92_11 Theclubwillhaveabooth Best)Western)Plus)North)Canton)Inn)&)Suites) withraffleitemsat 6889SunsetStripAveNW,NorthCanton,OH720 SpringNationals StandardRoom$89.99/night hasshuttletotheairport Donationstowardstheraffle (0)97_8799 aregreatlyappreciated. La)Quinta)Inn)&)Suites)Canton) Theclubwillalsohavesome 55BroadmoorCircleNW,Canton,OH709 newprcbalogoitems StandardRoom$89.00/night petfriendly Forsale. (0)92_0151 Additional)Nationals Havana,SilverMarten,FloridaWhite,Tan,Himalayan,SilverFox,GiantChinchilla,Silver

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