FOR SALE !

The following angoras are for sale from my rabbitry.
50 % deposit required to hold each rabbit for a max. of 14 days for pick up. Deposit can be mailed or made through paypal.
Paypal charges me a fee for incoming money, so a paypal payment for a bunny will have 5 % added to the purchase price to cover the fee. I can send you an invoice for a order total and you can pay through the invoice.
All Money's paid are none refundable if customer doesn't show up at the arranged time and day for pick up or delivery.
Next delivery to a show would be 1-12-08 in Perry GA. ( rabbit show at the Fair Grounds ).
Rabbits ordered now to be held for longer then 14 days will occur a boarding fee of $ 10.00 per extra month till the animal is picked up or delivered at a show. For example, Rabbits paid for now for delivery to the Dalton show will occur $20.00 in boarding fees for January and February. This fee will pay for added feed costs and will help me hold on to a sold animal for such a long time.

Giant Angora Doe : AA's Streusel, REW, DOB June 10 2007. Purebred , show quality, has been shown recently as a junior and received nice comments. good density, nice type, very nice ear tassels and facial furnishings. Sweet temperament, outgoing. Selling to make room for Giant litter coming next month. Bloodlines : AA's, Starwist, $125.00 firm

French Angoras :
7AK34
7AK49
Two pointed white French doe's for sale , sisters, DOB June 6 08. Both show quality, good size ( both senior weight and still growing ), one was recently clipped and one is already growing in a second baby coat, will be entered in shows next month. One is a lilac himi, the other is darker, might be chocolate or black himi, hard to tell.
VERY nice density on both does, very nice crimp.
Dam : Grand Champion AA's Calypso, pointed white, Sire: AA's Joshua, pointed white. bloodlines : AA's and Elm Grove.
$90.00 each incl. pedigree

6AK40 AA's Lucie
Sable pearl Doe, DOB 12-20-06, registered, show quality, one GC leg.
Dam : Grand Champion AA's Kate, sable, Sire: Grand Champion AA's Luke, sable pearl. Registration form has red/ white seal of excellence for having 2 generations registered in her pedigree.
Bloodlines include AA's and Glenn's.
$90.00 discounted price due to needing her cage for babies !!!! well worth more, 10.00 LB at time of registration, very large type , large solid bone , nice texture to wool, nice density, very nice color ( color tint to wool, not white).
Clipped down, ivomeced, healthy and ready to breed, can be sold bred to one of my registered bucks for an additional fee of $ 50.00
This doe has great potential to produce a very nice show litter.

Grand Champion SH Halo , 3 year old pointed white doe is ready for retirement at a fiber farm or a loving household looking to adopt a sweet , mellow angora pet bunny. Halo still produces huge amounts of fine quality French Angora wool, she's sweet, very healthy,had a very successful show carrier and produced 3 very nice litters for me. I own her daughter and grand babies, time for Halo to retire in a good home where there is more time for her and I need her cage for babies.
Halo MIGHT still produce a litter, her last litter had 6 babies in it 6 months ago, she's acting like she'd like to be bred again. But, I will not guarantee that she's going to produce more babies for anyone.
Halo is $ 25.00 adoption fee to a pet home without pedigree and all papers..... if you'd like to buy her with papers for possible breeding, she'll be $ 90.00

Still pretty enough to show, Halo is not showing her age at all .... but, I need the cage space :(

End of list till further notice, might have one buck to add by tomorrow, have to check something first before I list him.

Contact me via e-mail , akolifrath@gmail.com

Angie K:)

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

Happy New Year wishes for a prosperous and healthy 2008 from the Kolifrath family to all of our friends !!

What's new ?? finished my last day of work in my old job and am officially unemployed for the remainder of the time it takes to get my certification to be a Phlebotomy Technician. I am starting my Internship at the Upson Medical Center in Thomaston GA on 1-7-08, will be a 1 hour drive each way 3 days a week to work 3 shifts per week. Am registered for my last two classes as well for the srping semester. Received my final grades on bannerweb 3 days before x-mas, 3 A's with a 4.0 GPA.
My 2 year old Dell PC broke down for the second time, decided to upgrade to a laptop instead of having the tower fixed again, Monitor on the PC is flickering and causing migraines, will be the next thing to go :( So, all of my files, docs and pics as well as articles for the club newsletter and my website are locked away in my hard drive and I am STILL trying to locate someone OTHER then Geek Squad ( too much money) to rescue the info out of my computer, place it on a flash drive and allow me to upload all the goodies into my new laptop. Once that is done I should be back to full operation mode. While shopping for computer supplies before x-mas, I picked up two flash drives to use from now on to save all info that is vital for hobbies and my personal life, no more locked up info should the laptop break down !!

Rabbitry news include an announcement that JG's Helga did NOT produce babies, a huge case of overactive bowels made me think that I felt babies. I left the nest box with her for 6 extra days, no babies. So, today I bred her to my little baby Giant Buck AA's Verizon, a boy I kept out of my last litter out of AA's Monique and AA's Martin. Helga was very happy to meet up with him for a romp in my master bathroom and Verizon had no problem breeding with her twice. So, I keep my fingers crossed for a Giant litter ( all REW ) to be born third week in January.

Tomorrow I will continue with breeding and AA's Cinnamon, red FA will be bred to her very nice son AA's Aries, red FA, for a 60 %- 70 % red litter. Aries is growing in a nice second baby coat right now and I am trying to keep him in shape for a show coming up down in Perry GA on 1-12-08, I want to get some judge's comments on him and have him registered before his offspring is born and before I have to clip his new coat. Aries is currently in buck row and is an active sprayer due to his age, he's always wet :(....... but, his color helps hide the tint LOL
IF I can keep his coat mat free due to the high humidity here the last few days due to rain every day I can enter him in the show. AA's Stephan, my tort buck is also in full show coat and if he stays nice looking he might come to the show as well, also to be registered and for a good chance to maybe pick up another leg.His coat will be molting come February, so, I hope that I can show him at least once this spring .......
Having huge issues with feed supply, am consdering switching to a different rabbit feed just to be able to get a constant and reliable supply !!!! Here in my neck of the woods most farmer's, hobby and commercial, have sold or culled their live stock due to feed costs. Horse farms are selling out, Llama's can be picked up for free, dairy's are clsoing down and feed lots are closing. So, feed stores are loosing money and business I guess. The ONE feed store within driving distance of my home that was willing to carry Manna Pro pellets for me has done well for me in the last 2 years, but is now lacking business sense and was closed, unannounced and with no warning, all week for x-mas :( I ran low on pellets over the weekend before x-mas, and drove down to Macon to pick up feed on Monday, x-mas eve, main shopping day for many, all stores open as far as I could tell, well, feed store was closed. So, I fed up last crumbs on x-mas day, and drove down again on Wednesday, day after x-mas, to pick up feed, again, all other stores open again, well, feed store still closed, locked up tight and no signs on the gate or door. Phone calls do not help, they NEVER answer their phone, the store help doesn't like to answer phones and just doesn't......so, if I cal the store and no one answers, it could mean that it's still lcosed, or it's open, no way to tell over the phone. Do I feel like dirving down to Macon again to find out when and iF they are open ???? heck no, I already wasted a tank of gas and 3 hours of my time driving there for nothing. I had to pick up a no name brand of overpriced rabbit pellets at my local feed store here in town ( he will " get " me manna pro though a wholesaler for $ 25.00 a bag ROFLOL ) and had to switch my bunnies over to a new feed overnight, to a brand of feed that looks weird, bag has no milling date on it and is very low in protein :( The only ingredients in it are : Alfalfa meal, ground soy bean hulls and molasses plus a few vitamins. very basic :( NO idea how old it is :( BUT, the local feed store is the place to deal with in order to get another name brand rabbit pellet that is advertised in the DR magazine, so, I'll have to talk to the onwer on Monday to see if he'll order the feed for me and how much he'd charge. I did pay $ 12.00 for 50 pounds of the no name brand pellets, I think that my feed store here in town is really overcharging in prices for feed.
I hear of folks being able to buy Purine green bag ( basic rabbit chow ) for $ 9.00 in some states close by, here in town and in my area the same feed sells for $ 15.00 now :(:( WHY is the same feed from the same mill $9.00 in TN and AL and $ 15.00 in GA ???????

Last but not least, next post will be a list of bunnies for sale from my rabbitry, with details about reservation, pick up, delivery etc. Contact me asap if you see anything you need :)
These bunnies are for sale only because I need to make room in my small rabbitry for litters , every cage is full and I need a few empty cages to be able to wean babies before they sell.

Angie K:)

Waiting for Babies :)

Hi Folks :)
just a quick note to let everyone know that I confirmed pregnancy with my REW Giant Angora Doe Helga :) Helga was honeymooning with an awesome REW Buck owned by Janet Gruber while both attended the Rabbit show in Conyers GA almost a month ago and her due date is 12-18 , in a few days. Helga received a nice clean nesting box today and she's busy checking it out. This will be her first litter and her babies where bred for solid, BIG bodies with excellent type ( both parents have it ! ) and extreme density to the wool ( both parents have it ! ). Helga is currently 11 pounds , 12 months old, and the Sire is at around 11 pounds as well.

Helga is being pampered with daily doses of dandelion, kale and parsley, to stay in top shape and ready for labor. Her appetite is still great :), she hasn't slowed down with pellet consumption, I always start to worry when a pregnant doe wants to go off feed a week to 10 days prior to delivery :(

This is my first litter in 7 months, so I am really looking forward to seeing the babies, I had too many babies to worry about beginning of this last summer and lost the fun in it , one litter at a time is more fun.

If anyone is interested in a baby out of Helga keep an eye on this blog or send me a message , I will keep one maybe ( if they turn out to be of top quality ) and will have to place the rest to stay with the same amount of keepers. I have a very nice Giant Angora doe growing out that I had kept out of my last Giant Angora litter, she will be for sale IF I keep a baby out of Helga's litter, she can be sold along with a buck out of Helga's litter to make a good breeding pair (unrelated animals). The Doe is SQ and has received nice comments at recent shows as a junior.

More news next week after the babies are born .....will post newborn pics
Angie K:)
akolifrath@gmail.com

Sorry !!!

Hi Folks,
big apologies to all friends that are getting worried about my lack of communication via e-mail and lack of participation on lists ....... Live has been one major roller coaster here the last 3 weeks !!!
Instead of answering each e-mail that is waiting in my inbox one and one, I'll post a note here quickly to update everyone, and hope that this will satisfy the hunger for news till x-mas break .

First off, I am attending my LAST class in Intro to Venipuncture TONIGHT- not a day too soon and I will be so glad when I do not have to attend night classes anymore, 5 hours of lecture and lab from 6 pm till 11 pm is just too much for a morning person :( Eating dinner at 11 : 30 pm is not good for someone that goes into hypoglycemia when skipping a meal :(
I had finals in lab and verbal in this class last week, grade was an A, I ended up supervising class mates for the remainder of the lab ( sticking each other with syringes for venipuncture practise, finger sticks with lancets and urine tests ) to give our instructor time to set up the CPR video.
Tonight we'll pass in our " take home " 200 question final written test, practise test for the national certification test we'll have to take in April, we'll take our CPR test, and we'll meet with our clincial Instructor finally to receive our assignments, times, dates & location for 250 hours of clincials starting in the next semester. I finished finals for Medical Terminology , my GPA in that course is a 96.00 :) Monday morning at 10 am I will attend my last class in Anatomy & Physiology , all we'll have is a final tests with 100 questions over everything we have learned in the last 10 weeks ( 10 weeks of hell I might add ). We received a " study guide " yesterday to take home , 300 questions to look up in the book, 100 out of those 300 will be on the final.
Adding up all of the quizzes and tests, my average right now is a 90.00, which counts for 40% of the total, my mid term was a 98 which is 20 % of the grade and the final will add another 20 % to the grade, the remaining 10 % are reserved for attendance and participation . I, I hope and pray and will work towards a good solid A in A & P as well.
Monday will be the end of this fall semester, Jan. 7 is the beginning of my last semester with 10 weeks of 250 hours of working clinicals ( working as a Phlebotomy student , where I'll find out tonight ) , 240 hours average out to 3 full shifts (8 hours) 3 days a week for those 10 weeks.
To finish up in March, I am also taking my last two courses, Interpersonal relations and professional development , as well as Intro to Microcomputers, both courses mandatory for my line of work and both enrolled in on line :) No more having to drive to Macon for classes, able to attend both courses on my own time & schedule ( hopefully ).

So, I am finishing up with this semester, and I am going back to school and will start to work for my clinical part of my education on Jan.7. 3 weeks of break will go by real quick with all of the house work that is waiting for me :( ( plus got to start writing a resume for job hunt coming up soon ).

In other news, my PC fried again , for the second time this year :( instead of paying more money to have it fixed, I am recovering the data ( have to pay for that ) and have ordered a lap top instead of a PC , it's being mailed to me and I found a good deal on Tiger Direct :)
A lap top will give me a chance to GO to where WiFi is and be able to download stuff much quicker, I'll be able to actually view something on Utube, I'll be able to take my computer with me on a trip ( convention for example ) and still be able to read my e-mail. Since I am on dial up here at home, many things that other's find common to be able to do with their computers I can't do with my PC :(

The second bunny barn, often referred to my " tent barn " was emptied of all woolers and retired buns this week, to cut down further on my feed bill and to lighten the work load for myself. Being the only one that takes care of the animals, I have to do what is right for my schedule and what is fair for the buns. Now I have empty stacking cages and many plastic dropping pans to clean up and decide what to do with. The pans will be scrubbed and put up for sale, some cages need tossing , will cut out good parts of wire to make transport cages and hay racks out of it, some cages look in good condition and might be put up for sale. I will never have the time again to house buns in a second barn, I have 28 cages in the main barn, and that will be the size of my herd, 20 keepers plus 8 cages for weanling's. The tent barn will be turned into a storage shed for garden tools, transport cages, extra feed buckets etc, will be nice to actually have a place to store stuff and keep it out of site and out of the yard :):)
If anyone is interested in plastic dropping pans , 30 x 30 and a few 30 x 36, send me an e-mail, can deliver to some bunny shows coming up in the spring, might be able to attend Perry show in January ??? Will post a list of stuff for sale on the main lists as we get closer to the date.

In bunny news, not much at all to report, I clipped all the remaining show coats after the UARC and DRBA shows , buns enjoy the mild winter weather, have more energy. Still have not bred anyone in the barn, just not enough time, but, I do plan to breed at least two French does maybe this weekend, my REW Grand Champion Denise and my red French Doe Cinnamon ........ Good news is that I do have some babies in the oven :), JG's Helga ( Giant ) was visiting with Samson's Oscar in my van during the Rabbit show in Conyers on 11-17 and I felt babies kicking in her belly ( both sides ) 2 days ago, good, strong kicks !!! Helga is even more loving and relaxed ( if that is even possible ) now and will receive her nest box tomorrow, she's due with babies Monday night, Tuesday morning, Tuesday night ??? Bad news is that temps have been in the upper 50's here at night for the last week and Sunday night and for the nights following that it's supposed to fall below freezing, forecast calls for 25 - 27 degrees for several nights :(, time to maybe pull out the heat lamp and plug it in over her cage, just in case ??? I am NOT going to move her into the house, and I am not going to get up very 30 minutes to run out and check on her, watched water never boils !!!!! , but, in case she doesn't place them in the box or doesn't pull wool, I'd hate to loose this litter due to cold temps :( Will work on making it nice and cozy and comfy for both mom and babies over this weekend.

Well, time to jump into my white scrubs and put up the hair in a bun, time to head out and drive to Macon for my last night class, will post final grades here next week for all 3 courses and info on clinicals, as well as a list of more buns up for adoption ( cut to cut a few seniors to make room for weanling's, every cage in the barn is full at this time :( )

Have a great weekend, hope you all enjoy holiday preparations, I am baking right now ( here and there ) but the decorations haven't left the closet yet, want to clean the house a bit before I pull out the Santa's and the tree. Haven't done and x-mas shopping yet either, but, this year my list is very short and very small due to lack of funds, folks understand ( mainly my daughter ) and we'll go shopping for a few stocking stuffers sometime next week. X-mas is NOT all about spending money one doesn't have for gifts one doesn't really need LOL

Angie K:)