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!