Antlerhill Rabbitry / French Lops / About Us

Welcome to my French Lop site.
My name is Suzan De Leeuw and I'm married to Jan De Leeuw. We have two beautiful sons named Justin and Dylan. We live
in Innisfail, in central Alberta, roughly 1.5 hours north of Calgary and 2 hours south of Edmonton. We live on a big farm and
have all kinds of animals around us. We have two dogs, a cat, horses, donkeys, llamas, and cows. We are very busy people
but we love it.

We started roughly three years ago when my husband saw an add in the paper for four young French Lop crosses for free,
and we responded. We got three bucks and one doe. These were my first big rabbits as I had only had a dwarf when I was
younger (and I can hardly remember anything about it). My hubby on the other hand had lots of rabbits when he was
younger, so he was more familiar with it. We soon got very attached to two, Zoe, a doe, and Elmo, a buck.

Then we got the chance in buying a pedigreed broken chestnut agouti doe (from Lingle's Next) and a solid chestnut agouti
buck (from the Mairs). Of course we came home with both of them and the mania started. They were very nice in my eyes as
I was still clueless about what to look for, the only thing I cared for at the time was that I liked the bucks to have nice big
heads. We now have had the chance in showing some offspring from this pair and they scored amazingly high. We have had
some great comments on the offspring, so we know we are on the right track with this pair.

In April we bought three rabbits from Manitoba and our barn got bigger yet again. We got a broken black buck, a solid
chestnut agouti doe, and a broken chestnut agouti doe.

We got the chance to buy 6 frenchies from different breeders in BC and now we have a whole herd to build on with
awesome lines like Lingle's, Mair's, Eden's, Rainstar's, Cutie Patootie's, S&K's, etc. We are slowly starting and trying to
establish a healthy herd. We have the following colours in solid and broken patterns; chestnut agoutis, blacks, gold tipped
steels, silver tipped steels, opals, and chinchillas. We are not a big rabbitry and we are not planning on being huge. We try
to give all our rabbits the individual attention that they need and we think that's the only possible way to manage a herd, to
keep your numbers low.

As members of ARBA we strive to breed according to the standard of perfection, and we breed healthy and friendly rabbits.
Our rabbits need to have show type but they also need to have loving personalities for pets.