I have 5 adult angoras and 4 kids, both colored and white. They're crazy and way more work than my sheep but I love them anyway and my mohair sells really well.
The kids:
Heath, the chocolate buckling
Heath naked testing out my homemade olor. I'm doing preg tests next month so we'll see how it worked.
As a bitty baby
Ginger, the red doeling
The white twins, Pearl and Opal. They carry spots!
Heath's sire was a gorgeous solid copper even as an adult so I hope I get some nice red kids next year.
Tootsie and the big white girls should be bred this month (if they weren't already :/) and then Ginger and the white doelings will hopefully bred in the spring for fall kids next year. I just want them to grow a bit more first. Heath might carry spots too so I could have spotty kids next fall to go with all my spotty lambs.
I am trying to get my daughter to trade her Jacobs sheep for Angora Goats. I'm a "goatie". She's not going for it!
The lice on the angoras and the parasite problems are a real challenge though.
@Roving Jacobs- all your sheep and goats are beautiful! Such wonderful stock!
Lice are awful and super common in the angoras. I tried all sorts of stuff to get rid of them but I finally gave frontline spray a shot this year and they're completely gone finally! Parasites haven't been too bad since I started giving them copper boluses either. I think angora folks need to start treating them more like dairy/meat goats and less like sheep and they'd do a lot better.
They're a lot easier to shear with the dog clippers than the sheep!