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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

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Open Convention

Results

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General Membership

Meeting Report

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Members Article

—Dean Castillo

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Spring National Info 9

Sanctioned shows

Board/Committees

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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

Volume 2, Issue 4

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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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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

Date SM Open SM Youth Club City St Secretary Email

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SM15-181A SM15-056Y Golden Prairie RBA Lafayette IN Carl Broady broady@purdue.edu

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11/05/16 SM16-011A

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bit Club Arendtsville PA Anne Copenhaver acopenhaver26@gmail.com

Director Lowell Trausch (2014-2016) Paulding, OH 419-399-4256

trausch2@windstream.net

Director Tricia Goforth (2014-2016)

Pilesgrove, NJ 856-628-6460

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Director Stephanie Myers (2014-2016)

Echo, OR 541-289-2444

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Awards & Show Fund

Melissa Carlson Palmyra, WI

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Constitution & Bylaws

*** Vacant ***

Domestic Rabbit Reporter

Jessica Hoopfer Highland, MI

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Elections

Barb Semb Whitehall, WI

President Connie Burant (2014-2016)

Pittsville, WI 715-207-8485

smrcpresident@tds.net

Vice President Daniel Saunier (2015-2017)

East Canton, OH 330-309-5317

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Sec/Treasurer Katie Peltier (2015-2017)

Poplar, WI 218-343-7460

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Director Ron Riddle (2015-2017)

Rochester, IN 574-223-4849

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Director Stephanie Keranen (2015-2017)

Frazee, MN 218-841-1837

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Director Jessica Hoopfer (2015-2017)

Highland, MI 313-244-4975

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Director Tex Thomas (2014-2016)

Marionville, MO 417-463-7146

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Finance Committee

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Bonnie Saunier Louisville, OH

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Standards Committee

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Sweepstakes

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Jessica Hoopfer

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Garrett Sanders

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Louisville, Ohio 44641

Phone 330-871-8715

Email bonniesaunier@gmail.com

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.

Silver Marten Rabbit

Club

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