is this a good deal?

[happy acres]

The man that sold me my lambs also had some rabbits for sale. Bunnies and lionheads were $10.00, and Angoras (which is what I want) are $25.00. He didn't have a buck, only two does. Is that a decent price? And also, if I bought an Angora doe, can I breed her to a meat buck? Would the resulting kits be dual purpose?

 

[Bunnylady]

I'm not sure which angora breed you are looking at (there are several), but you seldom find them so cheap. Whether this is a good deal or not depends on what you want them for, and why he's letting them go at that price. If you want to spin the wool, for example, and they have thin, fine, short wool, they may not work out for you.

As to breeding to a meat buck - since the gene causing the angora coat is recessive, all of the bunnies that have one angora parent and one normal-coated meat-breed parent will have normal coats. If you took one of those normal-coated offspring and bred it back to its angora-coated parent, some of the babies from that breeding will have normal coats, and some will have angora coats.

Size also should be considered when you talk about breeding to a meat rabbit. Wool can be deceptive, making a rabbit seem larger than it is. The English Angora, for example, has a huge, poofy coat, but there is only about 6 pounds of rabbit under all that hair. A 5 pound Florida White buck wouldn't be a problem, but a 10 pound New Zealand buck would be.

 

[happy acres]

I found someone advertising new Zealand whites for 15.00 each. Is that a good price?

 

[GLENMAR]

That's a fair price. I paid $25 each for mine. They also came with pedigrees.

 

[aksrabbitgirl]

That's a great price for angores I would not breed angore to a meat buck though.

 

[aksrabbitgirl]

That's a great price for angores I would not breed angore to a meat buck though.