| Pierce County Pocket Pets 4H Club 2005 |
| Over the last ten years, Debbi Needham and her two daughters raised a variety of small animals at their city residence. They named their urban mini-farm Odd Fellows. As customary when people breed show animals, the Needham's sold animals with the intitials OFR placed in front of the name of the animal. That way breeders and hobbyists all over the world would know where the animal came from. The Needham family bred their animals to show standards. That means they used the breed standards (found in the show club's standards books) as a guide to breed their animals. They kept the best animals that conformed to those standards and bred them and sold offspring that did not conform as well. They showed their animals in national and local clubs and the 4H to see how close they'd come to meeting the standard. Judges in each show club know the standards so well, they can look at an animal to see if it conforms. Their experiences are documented in pictures and writing on the following links. The Needham family no longer keeps or breeds Pocket Pets, but they still do keep a small flock of poultry. |
Pocket Pets by Debbi J. Needham
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| Contents English Angora Rabbits Guinea Pigs Skinny Pigs or Hairless Guinea Pigs Breeding Skinny Pigs Domesticated Fancy Rats History & Varieties EMAIL Debbi J. Needham |
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