SLR begin twelve years ago now - isn't it funny how quickly time passes! It all started out with one homeless Holland Lop being found outside in the middle of a Calgary winter and of course we had to take him in and give him a home! A little while later we decided he was lonely and needed a friend so got another "male" to be friends with, thirty days later "he" had a litter of eight kits. In the process of finding new homes for these new little ones a lady had asked us if we could supply pedigrees for them which until then I did not even know was possible. I looked into it and found out you could not only purchase pedigreed Hollands but you could show them too!! We got in touch with a breeder in Lethbridge and took a road trip to come home with five new beautiful bunnies since then we haven't really looked back.
We started showing in 2002 and took our first BOB with a homebred animal, SLR's Jake at the Calgary show in 2003. A year later we came home with a BOB and our first RIS under Allan Ormond for SLR's Max a beautiful broken senior buck. Even though we haven't been very active in the show world these last two years the bunnies at home are still doing well. Most of the bunnies we have are solid SLR pedigree's and we haven't really purchased much for new stock in a couple of years.
The big plans for the future are to move have the herd up to Beaverlodge year round after we build a enclosed heated barn for them. After that we'll probably jump back into showing and travelling more with the bunnies again! We do have animas for sale in the spring summer fall months so feel free to contact us for something. If we don't have anything available we'll give you some contact information for someone who does!
Here's a photo of GC SLR's Max.
