Angora Thread

[Fluffybunz]

The darker eared one, lol

He's the more outgoing of the two so far and loves checking out the boys toys, lol....

 

[Fluffybunz]

And one last picture, which shows the color the best.... (he loves the boys tunnel/cubes)

 

[Haazegirl]

He's beautiful, and huge!! I thought my rabbit was big, or going to be big.... He's got nothing on you! Is it an actual giant angora, or just really big? Or is your child really small? J/K! Gorgeous bunn you have there! I'm a rabbit newbie too, and there's an angora show towards the end of the month about an hour away. I'm hoping it will clear some things up for me, as well as taking in some rabbit eye candy. I may not be able to handle the extreme cuteness overload!

 

[Fluffybunz]

He is beautiful They're both french angoras and I think the breeder said they'd be 8-10lbs when full grown, 'course a lot of that is just fluff I wanted a *bigger* type rabbit than the little netherland dwarfs we had as a kid so they wouldn't get squashed my my 1 and 3 year old sons when they went to lovin' on them, lol. So far they've worked out great!

 

[Haazegirl]

Can anyone on here confirm about angora rabbit litter sizes? I just looked it up and the interweb seems to think 3-5. I received Loki's pedigree and just got a message saying we can go see his babies today. One of the does had her litter and another one, she was hoping, would by today.

Loki has 9 babies!!! Just from one doe! We don't know about the other one yet. Is this awesome or what?

So do I keep him for breeding, or should I neuter him? He's 5 months old now and I wanted to neuter him because we have him inside as a pet. We're hoping that it would make him less messy and a little calmer. He's quite a live wire! I guess the doe would maybe be the exceptional breeder since the genes would come from her.

How do I possibly resist taking one of those babies home?!? Man am I in trouble...

Oh and we're going to an angora rabbit show in Austin today. (Austin, MN) Any of you going to be there? I will be the only female in the extremely tall and willowy family with two young boys. Trust me you'll be able to tell. I apparently can't add an avatar on here until I post 10 times. This might be seven. Time to hit the shower and throw the boys in the car! We're excited to learn all about angoras today and nab a bunch of hints on how to take care of our guy!

 

[DianeS]

Congrats on the litter! Litter size has almost nothing to do with the male, it has to do with how many eggs the female releases when she ovulates. So I don't think the size of these litters should have any impact on your decision to neuter him or not. Now, the *quality* of the kits might since that comes from the buck and doe both, and your breeder friend ought to have some good insight into that.

I've had two Angora litters. One of eight and one of four.

One thing to remember is that neutering will only affect those things caused by the testicles and the hormones produced by the testicles. So it will eliminate his physical desire to mate, eliminate his testosterone-driven desire to mark territory, and the like. It will not, however, have an effect on his energy level, his mischeviousness, things like that. And if he has any habits that were created by hormones, it will take a while for those habits to die - like if he habitually marks his territory, he won't have the desire to mark it anymore but he may still do it out of habit.

Enjoy the rabbit show!

 

[Haazegirl]

So the other doe is hopefully done. She had 13! I can't believe it! We did lose 2 so far from crowded nest and one fell out onto the hardware cloth. When I asked her about neutering she didn't think we should do it, but she would if I really wanted to. I guess he's not marking anything and pees in his litter box so we don't really have a problem yet. And she did manage to groom him with out too much trouble for 1.5 hours that first time. I think I just need to get used to the grooming process. Are there any angora handling lessons? Next time I'll get a bunny that gets handled a lot more, but until then we like our Loki.

Loki is mostly german and a little french. My friend uses them just for wool production so she doesn't really mind and was after more color variety. Which she got! But my son was thinking about using Loki for 4-H, and she said we might not be able to since he's a mix. The show was fun, and all too tempting. We made it out without buying a single thing! (amazing for me) And now that I've seen some fully grown and fairly large angoras I'm pretty sure my little pet carrier might not be big enough for adult Loki. Uh oh! And now I have a love for the lilac color... If only there were some in there.

 

[craftymama86]

Fluffybunz - Your Angoras are beautiful!!! How old are they?

Haazegirl - Congrats on getting your Loki (love the name btw) and the litters!


....I need to get more pics of my Lola and Bugsy. I can't wait to breed them, I think they'll have gorgeous babies!

 

[craftymama86]

The darker eared one, lol

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/6261_img_5669.jpg

He's the more outgoing of the two so far and loves checking out the boys toys, lol....

Love this pic, it's like he got caught playing with the toys, LOL.

 

[crazyturkeydesigns]

So I was wondering...one of my 4-H kiddos is getting an english angora doe on monday and she has no clue about how to take care of it, and neither do I. So what sort of maintenance do you guys do on coats? How often do you brush/groom, any special techniques or products, tips/tricks, etc etc.
Also...the breeder said she wasn't going to get bigger than 7 pounds...I thought they got a little bigger than that? Could just be a smaller rabbit, but I was just wondering.
Thanks in advance! Sorry about the thread hijack!