Bunnies for sale

aren't we cute?

last group picture 7 weeks old

I have been slacking on my blog as you can see. Since my bunnies are ready for sale this week I thought this would be a good time to write about them one more time. I have 7 cute fluffy bunnies for sale. Two males and three females. Genevieve has claimed the black female one. On march 30th I will be bringing them to the Wilton tractor supply store and they will be selling them for me. If anyone wants one let me know so I can save it for you. Two of them are over a pound now and the rest are one or two ounces behind. Annabell and Arthur went to a new home yesterday together. They now live in albion with a nice gentleman that has grandkids, so they will get played with.
My angora's are doing real well, i even purchased a new one yesterday from fairfield. My new little guy is 5 months old and a beautiful chocolate tort color. His wool appears more apriocot like but it is gorgeous. I plucked Leroy completely and got close to five ounces of wool which is good for my first time plucking I think. Black beauty is not ready for plucking but I still get a lot with her grooming sessions.
I have taken a back seat with my drop spindle since angora is easier to spin on a spinning wheel. I have found two good priced wheels but they have been both too far away to travel. If anyone knows of a used working one let me know.in the mean time I will continue to stock up on wool.
Goodbye bunnies you will be missed. pictures of the angoras will be coming soon.

new angora rabbits



just some of the angora from leroy



baby eating all by itself

leroy looking shabby, in the middle of plucking him

french angora i may call her black beauty

Well I have my hands full with 12 rabbits now. Last weekend I drove to harrison to purchase my two new angoras. I have a 1.5 year old buck who is german/french cross. He is the best of both worlds. He has the size and white dense coat as the german and the coat of a french angora, which makes grooming a little easier. I do have to say though that it is not easy grooming him. The biggest reason now though is that he is ready to be plucked so his coat is at it's longest right now. I started plucking him last night around 9pm. He sat in my lap and was a real good boy. I tried to find a method of plucking that worked for me. Basically you comb him all out and break up his body in sections (visually, no rabbit slaughtering jokes here), grab a small section of wool from the base of his skin and pull, it comes out real easy so it's not like i am pulling so hard it hurts him. I plucked and plucked and plucked till my fingers and hand starting aching. I managed to do the top of his back and a little on the sides and decided the rest can wait a day or two. When i went back inside the house it was midnight! Plucking apparently is going to be a very long process. I hope that with practice it will happen much faster. Now my other angora is a beautiful black 100% french angora. She is just a baby though at only 11 weeks old. She is a lot more timid then the buck and tends to scratch me more trying to get away. I hope with time and patience she will enjoy being held as much as leroy. I call the buck leroy only because that is the name he had when i got him and i have yet to come up with good names of my own. The baby will be ready to pluck by summer I think and she can breed in august. leroy and her will be mates when she grows up some more. As far as the bunnies go, they are all doing real well. They eat grain and hay on their own and drink out of the water bottle too. They are very curious little puffballs. Annabell is doing a great job with them. She has shown no signs of getting irritated with them. Arthur is a little lonely a think due to the fact that I had to put up a piece of cardboard so he couldn't bother momma and the bunnies. He misses his girlfriend but he is just gonna have to wait because i don't want any more jersey woolies. I have arthur and 7 bunnies for sale. help me spread the word please!