Show Quality Babies for sale FA & GA

Hi Folks,
today I will post all show quality babies and juniors for sale.
Due to very cloudy weather and intermittent rain on and off all weekend and again today, no pictures of the babies. However, I have pictures of most of the parents on my website, so, please go to http://www.angiesangoras.com/ and click on the specific picture albums to see pictures of all parents. If you want to estimate what a baby will look like when 8-12 months old, just look at the parents, it will be a copy of them.
GIANT ANGORAS :
I have a 6 week old litter of REW Giant Angora babies. 3 bucks, 1 doe. all free of DQ's, all well furnished already for their age, ear tassels growing in nicely. Good solid body type and nice density and texture at this age.
Dam : AA's Monique, 1 BIS / BOB junior leg, 9.12 #
Sire : AA's Morris, 10.04 #
These two are brother/ sister. For lack of having an unrelated buck to breed to, I tried this sibling breeding, no bad side effects visible.
Each buck $ 120.00 , the Doe $ 150.00 incl. pedigree
Update: one buck sold to Lauren Waters , 2 bucks &1 doe left

FRENCH ANGORAS :

1 SABLE Doe $100.00 7AK38 SOLD to Mary Jo Lewis in CT
1 SABLE Buck $100.00 7AK39 SOLD to Julia George in VA
9 weeks old, VERY nice type, broad high shoulders, round HQ , nice width . Excellent color , excellent texture and density.
Dam : Grand Champion AA's Q-tip ( sable pearl , 2 BIS )
Sire: AA's Gideon , self black, needs to be registered.
( pics of Q-tip on my website)
Pedigree info : Once Gideon is registered, all 3 generations in the baby's pedigree are registered. at least 6 Grand Champions in pedigree that I know of.
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1 BLUE Buck $ 80.00 7AK21 SOLD to Lauren Waters
2 BLACK Does $80.00 7AK18 & 7AK19 BOTH SOLD

11 weeks old, VERY nice type and size on these babies, very promising. Excellent texture, color and density already.
Dam : AA's Meghann, black, 2 legs, to be registered after her wool grows back.
Sire : AA's Gideon, self back.
Pedigree info : good solid bloodlines in the pedigree, many registered and G.C. ancestors. Meghann will hopefully get her last leg this fall to become a champion.
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2 POINTED WHITE DOES 7AK34 7AK35 $ 100.00 each ONE DOE SOLD to Julia George
7 weeks old now, ready for deposit.
These girls come out of my himi development line, I breed them separate from all other colors.
This breeding was my first himi to himi breeding, to improve on point color. Even so these babies where born in summer and points ARE faded out somewhat, they are an improvement in point color and intensity over my himis that only have one himi parent.
Dam : AA's Calypso , black pointed white, 4 BOB legs, will be registered and championed. Her Dam is SH Halo, also a Grand Champion.
Sire : AA's Joshua, lilac Pointed white, 2 BOS, will be registered, his Dam is also SH Halo.
Pedigree info : this was a half sibling breeding, 2 generations registered in the pedigree ( once Calypso is registered ).
These babies are still young, but they show good potential to become nice show bunnies. Looking at mom and grandma, I do expect great things from this litter.
Both parents and the grand parents live here with me and all have excellent density and texture, as well as nice type with broad shoulders, good midsection and nice HQ.
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1 CHOCOLATE GOLDEN STEEL Buck $ 90.00 SOLD to Charlotte Patrick
17 weeks old, excellent type and density, very nice wool color. STEEL ticking all over his body, including head, ears and feet. Would make an EXCELLENT wooler bunny due to very sweet temperament, one of my favorite babies. Should only be used for breeding to make steels, if you are aware what steel can do to your colors in your herd if you breed steel to everything.
Price does not reflect quality.
Dam : Grand Champion Spang's Denise , REW, 5 BOB legs.
Sire: AA's Gideon, black
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end of list of juniors, next post : Herd reduction sale, many seniors, all Giant and German Angoras for sale, 1/2 of my senior herd in FA for sale.
Got to cut back due to going back to college to retrain for a new carrier, while working, taking care of all animals PLUS home, something has to give. NOT closing down the barn but cutting back at least by half. Have to cut feed and upkeep costs in half for at least 1 year.

E-mail me asap at akolifrath@gmail.com if interested in any of the above bunnies as well as the bunnies in my previous post, please specify the dam's name or ear number of any bunny you are interested in.
Rides / transport available with Lauren Waters on Aug. 17 & 18, from south east GA to west PA.
See Lauren's post on many angora lists. You will be responsible to contact Lauren for the details, I can transport bunnies from my barn to her barn free of charge 1-2 days prior to her leaving GA. Lauren Waters : Lcody121@aol.com

Pet quality French Angora babies for Sale

Hello friends,

today I'll post my list of all pet quality/ wooler quality French Angora babies for sale .

Tomorrow I'll list all show quality French and Giant angora babies that I have for sale at this time.

I am not sure at all if I will be able to attend or deliver buns to ARBA Convention this year, I am trying to start college for the October semester and if I get all the paperwork accepted in time, I will be attending classes daily plus working and will not be able to go to a 6 day long bunny show.

These babies can be picked up at my home in central GA, or I can try to find a ride for them via transport to a show, or transport with a traveling Breeder . My friend Lauren Waters is planning a trip from east GA to west PA on August 18, maybe you can meet her en route to pick up a bunny she can transport.

MY next planned rabbit show will be the NC Mountain Fair , September 8, in Fletcher NC, I can transport buns there with prior deposit and arrangement . E-mail me for more info at akolifrath@gmail.com

This fuzz ball is a 8 week old SABLE French angora Doe with a tiny white spot under her nose, over her lips. This is a color DQ for showing, so I'll sell her as a pet. Her Mom is Grand Champion AA's Q-tip, a sable pearl. Dad is a black French Angora, AA's Gideon. Gideon must be carrying the gene for spots, or might have a tiny white spot himself to create 3 spotted babies in a litter of 5. He did father several other litters with other does that did not show spots on babies, but, this pairing wasn't the best one.

All of the babies in this litter are of outstanding health and vigor, and have a very nice type ( conformation ) and excellent wool. I can see very nice texture to the wool, nice amount of guard hair and good crimp. Density for bunnies this young is oustanding. Both Parents give me 7 oz. Prime wool every 5 months. Both parents grow wool evenly and can hold a 5 inch coat.

Both parents do not molt easely, and are harvested with scissors, the babies will most likely need scissor harvest as well and will most likely not pluck easy .

As you can see in this picture, SABLE is a nice dark brown color.

This Picture shows the rest of the gang that also has a tiny white spot under the nose, and they are also for sale as pets/ woolers.

To the left you see a CHOCOLATE DOE , in the middle a show quality Sable Buck that will be featured tomorrow, to the right a BLACK DOE also with a tiny white mark under her nose.

Quality of these guys is excellent, as described above. Litter mates to the bunny above, same parents.

Price for each one of Q-tip's wooler babies will be $ 65.00 , including a birth certificate, no pedigrees issued for pets or woolers to prevent using them for breeding. IF you want to breed, you should purchase a show quality angora that is free of DQ's . If you want to breed just for your own wool supply, if you are a spinner, you'll not need a pedigree :) When you e-mail me, please specify which color and sex bunny you are interested in, I have a total of 25 babies for sale and can get confused if you do not specify. These are babies out of Q-TIP.

UPDATE : SABLE DOE sold to Charlotte Patrick

CHOCOLATE Doe still available

BLACK Doe still available

So, this is the list of pet quality bunnies from my barn, e-mail me asap if you are interested in any of them.

Read about the transport possibilties, I can NOT hold on to these guys for very long, I do not have any more cages to seperate pet babies into, these guys have to find a new home soon or will be processed.

NO shipping at this price, since I do not charge for gas etc to get to the Vet and Airport. Pick up or transport via Van only.

CLIP that nest box wool !

Hi Folks,
well, I apologize for not having posted in a few days, things have been real busy in the rabbitry and in my life in the last 2 weeks. A short vacation trip to Tybee Island was on schedule for last Friday, combined with bunny delivery along the I-16 south. I got to visit Lauren Waters new rabbitry and drop off a real nice REW French Angora buck there, and meet a new customer in Savannah to deliver a black and a red buck to her as pets/ woolers. She will use their wool to teach local children in school about fiber arts :)
Friday morning , an hour before leaving my French Doe Halo finally gave birth to a litter 2 days overdue , she had 4 babies, 2 DOA and 2 alive. Since I was in a hurry and she has had a complete haircut at breeding time , I only removed the dead babies and soiled nesting material, and left the two alive babies in her box to care for. Upon returning from my trip late Saturday evening I checked the box again and found one baby with a huge tangle of spun wool wrapped around it's left front paw and leg :( The wool itself was no longer then an inch, but, the baby managed in this short time to make 4 strings, and wrap them tight around the paw and wrist and elbow.
I removed the baby from the nest, took it into the house with a big clump of wool, and started to remove as much wool as I could tease apart gently from the area, one will need a good light, good glasses and a small scissor for this procedure. A helper to hold the baby still and expose the work area would be nice.
Cut as much wool from the area as you can, to expose the string itself, be very careful to not cut skin or needed body parts. tease apart wheat needs to be removed, till you can see the string that is cutting into the flesh and is cutting off circulation. I found that inserting the scissor under the string to cut it is often impossible, due to swelling around the string itself. I generally try to locate where the string meets, and then gently untwist the twist that made the string , twirl it until I find it become looser and fall apart. Then I gently unwrap the string from the affected area. If a Baby is found early with such a string, it can often be saved ........ these strings often happen around the neck, or around one or two legs ......... massage the affected area gently after having removed all wool from it and check daily for dead tissue, all dead tissue will turn black . Bunnies that had circulation cut off too long to the legs will loose that leg if it's black the next day, at that point I find it more humane to euthanize that baby. This is the case with the baby that I have found on Saturday evening, it's front leg was damaged too severe and circulation was cut off too long I guess, Sunday it's lower half of it's front leg was dead.
To try to prevent this from happening with angora litters, ALWAYS take the time to remove the nest of newborn litters, remove all babies, and take a sharp scissor and cut up all of the wool into 1/4 inch bits. Place wool back into the next and replace babies, bring box back to Mom.
Check wool daily, and cut again if it starts to felt from baby movements and moisture in the box, felted wool can form strings as well.
After 9 litters this spring and no problems with strings and nooses at all, it was bound to happen with the ONE litter I didn't think needed wool cutting due to the short wool in the box, and due to being in a hurry to stay on schedule with my trip :(
So, now we are down to one baby in that big nest box, in a huge pile of wool clipped into 1/4 inch bits and pieces.
If you have an angora litter- CLIP that nest box wool first day, when you first check the litter over !!!!!!!!!

Keep your buns cool, next post will be with a long list of juniors for sale ..........

Angie K:)