Bunny Pictures- grooming day

Hi Folks,
this morning was spent grooming two junior doe's that I have kept out of my spring litters, time to introduce new members of my French Angora herd.
The first bunny is AA's Madison, a black doe out G.C. AA's Kate and AA's Gideon.




This is the first picture I have of Madison, at 6-7 weeks of age. I evaluated her at that age and started to train her for grooming and posing. I liked her texture at that time, as well as her type. Her temperament was very sweet even at that early age, we seemed to get along well:)


















These pictures where taken today, Madison is now 4 1/2 months old. 7 1/2 pounds on the scale, still in first baby coat and needing a LOT of grooming at this stage in life. Due to 5 days of rain last week, her soft baby coat matted rather badly, so it took 2 hours of careful brushing with the slicker brush to remove mats and tangles, and get the coat nice looking again. The color of her wool has faded with length, her next coat should have more guard hair and more pigment, better color.
Her type is REAL nice, wide & high shoulders, very broad body and hind quarters, smooth and solid. She has a real nice rise to her body and very smooth hips.
The last picture shows her body in profile, a natural born poser :) Madison didn't mind my grooming for two solid hours, and after receiving her first toenail clipping and a dose of Ivomec she was VERY happy to return to a cleaned cage and to receive a hay cube as a treat. Madison will hopefully keep her coat for ONE show this fall, due to her weight she'll have to go into senior class and compete with true seniors, but, maybe her body will give her some extra points with the judge. Sadly she'll be clipped down and growing a new coat in time for the Conyers show, do NOT think that she can keep a baby coat till 7 months old, plus, I do not think that I can maintain this coat for too much longer.



These are sweet baby pictures of AA's Seneca, she was 24 hours old when I took the pictures. Born to G.C. Spang's Denise (REW) bred to AA's Gideon(black). I had 2 babies in the litter, a blue and a chocolate. Seneca is the blue baby.





This is AA's Seneca now, at 4 1/2 months old. Her color is a clear steel blue, her eyes are a medium gray. Again, this baby coat has faded in color, but, the senior coat will contain so much guard hair that the overall coat color will improve. Seneca also needed a lot of grooming to get her to this stage, I had my doubts and thought about clipping all of the baby wool mess :( A lot of corn starch and gentleness, combined with a patient baby girl saved the day (and the coat). Seneca's wool is very dense, not as dense as Madison's, but close second. Her type is developing nicely, like Madison, she's very wide throughout the entire length of the body, nice high shoulders, wide mid section, smooth Hind quarters, just a lot of body under all of that wool. Currently 8 pounds, Seneca will have to be shown in senior class already while she's holding this baby coat, her real true show value will come to play in spring shows next year, after she's grown in her next coat and can compete with true seniors.

Last but not least, a new picture of my AA's Cinnamon, second generation red French Angora from my red breeding program. Cinnamon had a litter a few months ago, today she received a health check up, toenail clipping and Ivomec.
She's growing in her first, true senior coat, and I love her dark red color. I checked her belly wool color as well, it is a orange fawn, sign of being a true red.
Her eyes are so dark brown that you can not see the black pupil. Her type is awesome, solid, bold and wide with a good rise and very smooth HQ. Her wool is rather short in this picture, but, I hope that it will get longer with time. Got to love the color :) I kept a red son out of her last litter, to breed back to Cinnamon, for my first red to red litter.

I hope you enjoyed the new pictures and introductions, more to come in future issues as time allows.

Angie K:)

My favorite Angora Club

Hi Folks,

I want to take a minute to introduce my favorite Angora Club , the United Angora Rabbit Club (UARC) to those of you that might be looking for real information and help on the issue of angora rabbits and owning them.

Our Club was formed by some dedicated Angora Rabbit Breeders that felt the need for a Club nation wide that would cater to all aspects of angora ownership; the pet owner, the spinner, the show -person and the breeder. One aspect doesn't exclude all others, many owners combine several reasons for owning one or several angoras, but, some clubs do only seem to cater to the show person.

The first anniversary of the UARC is coming up shortly, and our membership is still small, but, it ranges from one coast to the other, from members from New York to Georgia to Nebraska and in between. We are ARBA chartered and cater to all aspects of showing Angoras, we host our own ARBA and NARBC sanctioned angora shows. Our membership consists of 90 % spinners, most spinning questions can be answered. Our members share ideas and issues on a newly formed Yahoo list ( for club members only) and the files on the list are used to archive articles, newsletters and photos. Our Editor issues a bi monthly newsletter via e-mail to all of our members, full of pictures, articles and news.

Our website, at http://www.unitedangoras.com/ is full of great information on angora breeds, angora care and show info, we are currently moving the website from one host to another and hope that the move will help with getting more updates loaded more quickly to help our visitors that are looking for more current information.

We are planning for our second, HUGE Angora specialty show on Nov. 17 2007 in CONYERS GA, a show for all ARBA breeds along with a double open show hosted by the DRBA. All angoras entered can be shown for ARBA legs 3 times in one day. UARC is also sponsoring a WOOLER show, for all pet angoras, crossbred angoras, German Angoras , angoras with DQ's and unrecognized colors, all angoras that could not be shown in a ARBA show. Last but not least, we plan on angora related demos all day long; grooming demos, blowing ( with a blower to groom a show coat ) demo, hair cut demos, spinning and carding angora on a drum carder demos.

In all we plan for a full, fun filled day and I hope to see a lot of visitors coming to participate in what UARC has to offer to angora owners. WE already have promises of entries from PA, TN, WV, GA, AL:) A link to our show catalog and all info will be posted on our UARC website shortly.

OUR club has something to offer to anyone, and every angora owner , pet owner or spinner or breeder should consider going to our website, clicking on the application, filling it out and mailing it to the Secretary :) Our help on the Yahoo list with daily questions and answers, as well as our 6 newsletters will be of great help to ANY angora owner. Combine that with your membership dues allowing us to continue our website hosting to bring great, free info to the public, you can't go wrong by joining our club for a year and evaluate what you get for your money.



Anyone with more questions and concerns can contact me privately at my e-mail address, akolifrath@gmail.com, I'll gladly discuss any issues you might have.



Have a great weekend,



Angie K:)