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This is the official Home of
The National French & Dwarf Lop Club
Est. January 1977
President Mrs M Cawdron
Chairman Mrs H Elliott
Secretary Mrs Paula Atkinson
Treasurer Mrs Paula Atkinson
Site updated 18th October 2020
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01942 493658
Members Points 2019
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Members Name | Points Awarded |
Paula Atkinson
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18
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S&H Elliott
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8
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Bill Parish
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8
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Lucy Appleton
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5
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Firtree Stud |
5
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Rossendale Stud |
5
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Bluezac Stud |
4
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Will Braney |
4
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Forever & Solo
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4
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Skipps Stud
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4
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Esther Ferro
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3
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Cole Sargant
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3
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Jack Albans- Marriot
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2
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Ruugal- Ace Stud
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2
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Lorraine Dobson
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1
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Lily- Bee- Stud
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1
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Maggie Smith
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1
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Jasmine Theobold
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1
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New for 2019 Junior Points
well Done Cole
Junior Points | 2019 |
Cole Sargant
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14
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Lucy Appleton
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5
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Jasmin Theobold
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5
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Dylan Every
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4
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We are based in the United Kingdom. Although the French Lop & it's counterpart the Dwarf Lop have been popular on the continent for many years it was not until the 1970s that they really gained recognition in Britain.
Both Breeds are catered for by one club The National French & Dwarf Lop Club It is the National Club that controls the destiny of both Breeds, being responsible for the Breed Standards, & compiling a list of judges qualified to judge to those standards. In addition to the National Club there are also Regional Specialist Clubs / Circles namely the Northern Lop Club. Also the following are Lop Circles. Midland, Southern, Scottish, Welsh, Yorkshire, East Anglia, Devon & Cornwall Lop Circles, who run shows for all the Lop Breeds.
Whilst the two breeds in Britain have one parent club to control their destinies their histories are very different.
News July 2020
Never in a million years could any of us have predicted the situation we have all found our self's in.
Things are not looking good for the remainder of 2020. with the sad news that The London has now been cancelled. All we can do is hope that 2021 will bring good news.
I would like to just point out that this is the official web site for the National French & Dwarf Lop club.
We do have a Breeders directory, where members can advertise there Stud, what they Breed in what colours etc. (not individual stock they have for sale.)
We will do our best to direct any enquiries to registered Breeders in your area, who may be able to help. In general members breed to improve on there lines with regard to showing. Breeders are allowed to sell any excess Rabbits for pets. Most do not breed just for pets. Anyone wanting to place an advert on this site,please read the information on the
Please take care of yourselves & stay safe.
French Lop
White Ad (1) L Dobson
AOC Self Ad (1) W Branney
AOC Self Ad (1) W Braney
B/F Ad (6) 1st Rossendale Stud
2nd L Dobson
3rd W Branney
B/F U/5 (1) W Branney
Ag Ad (7) 1st M Mansfield
2nd Rossendale Stud
3rd L Dobson
Ag U/5 (4) 1st L Dobson
2nd L Dobson
3rd Belanevaeh Stud
AOC n/s Ad 1st THE PROS
(7) 2nd M Mansfield
3rd L Dobson
AOC n/s U/5 (1) W Branney
French Lop Ad Chall.
Rossendale Stud
L Dobson
THE PROS
French LopU/5 Chall
L Dobson
W Branney
W Branney
AA AV Challenge
Paula Atkinson
Dwarf
Forever Solo
Dwarf
Rossendale Stud
French
Dwarf Lop
Rew Ad (10) 1st P Atkinson
2nd P Atkinson
3rd P Atkinson
Rew U/5 (3) 1st L Peck
2nd N Jeffries
3rd L Peck
S/Fwn Ad (2) 1st Forever Solo Stud
2nd Chrysalis Stud
S/Fwn U/5 (2) 1st Firtrees Stud
2nd Firtrees Stud
Ag Ad (3) 1st H Childs
2nd H Every
3rd S Mead
Ag U/5 (1) H Every
Aoc Ag patt Ad (4) 1st A Shahzud
2nd H Every
3rd S Mead
Sab/S/Pt Ad (3) 1st L Peck
2nd L Peck
3rd N Jeffries
Sab S/Pt U/5 (4) 1st L Peck
2nd N Jeffries
3rd N Jeffries
Or/ Fwn Ad (1) Chrysalis Stud
AOS N/S Ad (3)1st Chrysalis Stud
2nd Forever Solo Stud
3rd Springwood Stud
Aoc N/S U/5 (1) Bluezak Stud
Dwarf Lop Chall Ad
Paula Atkinson
Forever - Solo Stud
A Sahazad
Dwarf Lop U/5 Chall
Firtrees Stud
Bluezak Stud
L Peck
Best Dwarf Lop Rew
Runner up Best Lop
Paula Atkinson
"Arran"
On the left. Best Junior Cole Sargent
Ag French
Above Best Novice Lilly Jones Junior
St French
Hi Everyone
Had a great weekend at The Bradford again, hope everyone else also enjoyed it, thanks as always to Laura & the committee for all your hard work.
BOB Dwarf lop was my REW & BOB French was Maggie Smith’s Steel Butterfly, they came overall 2nd & 3rd respectively in the Lop Challenge, beaten by the Mini Lop of Forever & Solo Stud, well done to Susan & Jenny, who where also best lop in the 3* young show with a REW dwarf Lop which went on to win overall BIS Huge Well Done, what a weekend they had!!. A mention also to the orange dwarf lop of Elegante Stud, on the Sunday was Best lop in the International Stakes, eventually ending up 2nd overall, great to see an orange do so well, congratulations to the 3 girls, Jen, Julie & Nat.
AGM was held at Bradford as usual, main issues to come out of the meeting was that we are no longer paying out prize money at our stock shows & we are changing the wording for the steel colour in our breed standard, to allow the light steel colour to be included.
Stock shows all sorted for this year, first one is at Carlisle, Sunday, 8th March, Andrew Beasley judging. Then we have the Spring Stock show at the Southern Champs, Sunday 3rd May, Bill Brake judging.
Young stock show with adult support show as usual at the West Midlands Champs, Sunday 30th August, Jenny Carlile judging, London stock show, Saturday 10th October, Hazel Elliott judging. Last show of the year, the 3 age group Adult Stock show, will be held in conjunction with the Nat Mini 25th Anniversary show, Coventry, Sat 28th November & Garry Richardson will be our judge.
If you didn’t manage to catch me to pay subs at Bradford, you can contact me to pay by bank transfer or send a cheque, unfortunately I don’t do Paypal.
Hope to see some of you at Carlisle, Nat Mini & Northern lop also there, so a good show for the loppers!
Paula Atkinson, Secretary. Tel 07762 668829 or 01942 493658, email paula@sprma.com
Best Ladies Lop Paula Atkinson
3rd Ladies Grand Challenge
Best in Show 3* Show Forever & Solo Stud
Secretaries Report October 2019
Hi Everyone
By the time you read these notes, London will be forgotten & we will all be looking forward to Bradford in the New Year, just around the corner. London was a fantastic show as always, I judged our stock show with 25 dwarfs & 26 Frenchies, entries down again, but quality in both breeds was there to see. My BOB French & BIS went to a lovely young steel adult, belonging to Sarah & Hazel Elliott, my BOB dwarf & RUBIS went to Forever & Solo stud’s u/5 REW Doe, another lovely youngster from Susan & Jenny. Well done to both mother & daughter teams & also to Cole Sargent once again BIS Junior, this time with a promising young agouti.
Look out for the AGM announcement in the next F&F it will be held at Bradford, as usual on the Sunday morning, all welcome, this is the place to bring up any issues or suggestions you may have re the club. The club stand will be at Bradford as usual, where you can pay subs for 2020.
Our 3 age group ASS will have taken place at Worcester by the time you read this, results in next month.
Hope you all have a great Christmas, see you around the shows.
Paula. Contact me on mobile 07762 668829 (landline 01942 493658) email paula@sprma.com
Secretaries Report September 2019
Hi All
We held our Young SS with Adult support as usual at the West Midlands Champ show at Coventry on 25th August, thank you to Sarah for judging the 2 shows for us, & to Chris Baker with his Coventry team for staging the whole event.
Sadly entries dropping again, a total of 22 in each breed entered with quite a few absent on the day, last year there were 35 French & 27 dwarfs entered, again with some absent on the day. Good to see an even spread of REW/agouti/sooties in the dwarfs!
In the YSS BIS & best dwarf went to Bill Parish, with a sooty, RUBIS was my chin dwarf & BOB French went to a new club member, Ruth Sneath, who shows as RugelAce stud, with a REW. That’s a nice first club show for Ruth, well done & well done to Bill, who was also best lop on the 4* show with his other sooty youngster.
In the adult support My REW dwarf was BIS, with his litter mate RUBIS, BOB French went to Junior club member Cole Sargent, with his agouti, the now famous General Falcon, big well done to Cole, who stewards enthusiastically all day, he was Best junior & also overall best junior on the 4* champ show!
On behalf of the club & committee, I would like to thank Bill Parish for all his hard work over the many years in his role as Club Chairman. Bill has been very supportive to myself, as secretary & indeed the previous secretaries, Hazel & Sarah Elliott, he will remain on the committee. Bill has had a few health issues in the last couple of years & he has asked me to thank those who helped him carrying his rabbit boxes at Coventry, after his recent surgery, hoping to see him back to his old self again at London Champs.
I would like to welcome Hazel Elliott as our New Chairman.
Hope to see lots of you at Peterborough in a couple of weeks, looking forwards to judging our next stock show there.
Paula (secretary) contact me on 07762 668829, 01942 493658 or paula@sprma.com
Hi Everyone,
Just about recovered from the busy but fantastic weekend at Bradford! Well Done & Thank you to Laura & the team for all your efforts in making it such a wonderful show, it’s very much appreciated. We had 36 adult dwarfs, 18 u/5s compared to 43/22 last year & 34 adult French, 12 u/5s compared to 32/10 last year. French going from strength to strength in numbers & quality at the moment, there were certainly some magnificent exhibits on show, I think Phil really enjoyed judging them. Very well done to Maggie Smith on BOB adult with her REW, who was also best lop on the international stakes class judged on Sunday, RUBOB & RU in international stakes lop was Rossendale Stud’s steel (Anne & Arnold). In the dwarfs REW class winner (18 entries) Forever & Solo Stud (Susan & Jenny) were BOB, Best lop & Best ladies lop, for the 2nd year running, finishing 3rd in overall Grand Challenge, amazing result, well done. RUBOB dwarf was the 2nd REW belonging to me, who ended up 2nd best ladies lop 3rd in lop grand challenge & 3rd behind the two frenchies in the lop international stakes class, on the Sunday, so our two breeds did us proud in the adult show. In the u/5 show BOB French was an agouti belonging to Lilybee Stud (Dominique Sargent) & BOB dwarf a REW belonging to Emsleigh Stud (not sure who you are, apologies, as not club members) Well Done to you both.
The club were awarded a certificate for joint best lop breed of the year, for the dwarf lops, we had 10 BIS at open shows in 2018 between us, not bad eh!
AGM held at Bradford, no major issues to report on, just slightly declining numbers at shows, a current trend sadly throughout the fancy. This year’s show dates were in last month’s F&F notes, so I won’t repeat, they can be found on our Website! Next show Carlisle, this month, Peter Faint is now judging instead of Mona, let’s have a good entry, please, the NLOP, Nat Mini & LLUK also in attendance!
Paula Atkinson (Secretary) tel 01942 493658, mob 07762 668829, email paula@sprma.com
Year Book 2018
Following on from our Anniversary Show held November 2017 celebrating 40 years for the club. Hazel & Sarah have kindly put together a year Book. We hope you all collected yours at the NFDLC Stand. If not please contact our Sec. Paula. I am sure she will post one to you.
Memberships 2018
Just a gentle reminder that all membership are due for renewal every 12 months. I am sure most of you will have taken the opportunity to renew at The Club Stand at The Bradford. Please note all memberships have to be renewed to qualify for points etc. so don't hesitate to contact Paula if you haven't already.
Anniversary Show 2017
The NFDLC held there 40th Anniversary show 19th November 2017
Lots of fantastic Rabbits on display. Champion of Champions was a
Young Butterfly French Lop owned by Kellians Stud
Birthday Show Best in Show Best French, Best Dwarf all CC winners
Membership
All memberships run for 12 months. from January / December.
Any one who pays after November will be covered for the whole of the following year. Any one paying after March of the current year will loose there continuous member ship which applies to anyone wanting to ballot for any Official positions, or to apply to be included in our Ballot for panel Judges. To qualify each member must have been a member for at least 2 years. Breeder Panel 5Yrs.
Also membership needs to be up to date to be included in our yearly points system.
Our stand at the Bradford is a an excellent opportunity to renew each year.
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