Woolie Creations Angora Rabbits

I will be so glad when I get an internet connection at my house again! I just can't get anything done that I need to!

All the bunnies are doing well. I still have several for sale. There is a Copper Satin Angora buck and doe and a Chestnut Satin doe that are all litter mates that need new homes. Their mom is a BEAUTIFUL Copper and dad is a Chocolate Agouti. I also have a pretty Chocolate Chin French Buck, a French Chestnut Agouti doe, several blacks, whites and a Blue or two! These are all from different litters. I have a couple stunning Blue Eyed White French Angoras ready along with several Vienna Marks that will make nice pairs for someone to start with. :)

Convention plans are coming along nicely. I am starting to set aside several Satin Angoras and a couple of extremely nice French. I hope to have some NICE Blue Eyed White French to compete with at Convention. I know not everyone wants to work with the BEW's but I think they are so stunning that they are worth the extra effort to develop. :)
Well back to work for me.......Till later

My garden was needing rain very badly. The corn was in pretty bad shape. It finally rained Saturday and Sunday!! Yippeeee. It has not rained in weeks and I am afraid to run the water for fear of the well going dry. We are still way in the minus side of the rain fall needed for the year and our ground water is way down!
The blueberries are slowly getting ripe and I am trying to stay ahead of the apples getting rise, but slowly loosing the battle I think!

I had a beautiful litter of Satin Angoras born over the weekend. They are another of the crosses I am doing with the BEW French. For the life of me I can not get use to babies being born from these crossed litters with no Vienna marks on them!!  This litter is lilacs, blues and probably lynx's and so on and not one has that trade mark cute white blaze!!  They will be Blue Eyed White carriers though and will give me another bloodline to cross back with. My first of the BEW Satin crosses are just about ready to start breeding. They should start giving my BEW Satin's this next go around. Keep your fingers crosses! :)

I had a little disagreement with my ISP yesterday WildBlue and fired them. I am without internet at my house until August so I may be a little slow posting here and answering emails. :) It is really a funny feeling being without something you have come to depend on! I will survive though, and maybe I will get a lot more done around the house!
I had a new litter of Satin Hybrids born yesterday. There are all kinds of different colors in there! It is really strange having Blue Eyed White crosses and they not be Vienna Marked! They are all solid colors.
Above is a picture of 2 Golden Steel French Angoras. The beautiful solid buck is spoken for but the Vienna Marked Doe is available. She is the one with the white nose. :) She will carry the Vienna (Blue Eyed White) gene. Just look at that precious face!! You just want to squeeze her!!! LOL The mom is a stunning golden steel doe and dad is Sinclair my BEW french buck. (see below) Sinclair has been clipped in this picture so please overlook that. He is a beautiful boy when he has his show coat!

When we got out place here in North Georgia 14 or so years ago, I wanted to be able to go out in the yard and graze during the summer. There were almost no trees in the back yard and seeing as I really don't like to mow grass all the time it was perfect for me to plant everything! I planted 15 or so apple trees, 8 plumb trees, grape vines, cherry bushes, pear trees, mulberry trees, raspberry bushes, a dozen or so blueberry bushes, and so on. Now that we had such a nice spring we have tons of things getting ripe! The cherry bushes were the first to produce and now the mulberry trees are just loaded! I have 1 white mulberry and several black ones. They are so fat and big this year! The plumbs are slowly getting eaten as they get ripe and I am waiting on the blueberries! I have a big yellow delicious apple that the poor thing just looks pitiful it is so loaded down! I put up 14 quarts of applesauce over the weekend and didn't make a dent in them! That's a LOT of work!

The bunnies have been bountiful this spring also, The Blue Eyed Whites are just beautiful! I will have several available for new homes now. Above is a picture of a couple of Fallon's babies. I also have a couple of french bew/satin hybrids available that are Vienna marked. They would do nicely in a BEW satin breeding program or as nice woolers.

I am slowly picking out bunnies that will be put into my Convention choices for this Fall. I have some exquisite REW Satins coming along. So far I have 2 doe's and 1 buck that are really outstanding! I have a Red Satin Angora baby buck that has NO smut on him at all and has a body that won't quite!!! He is only about 5 weeks old right now so should be a nice junior for Convention. >:)  I have several nice Satins available now if you are looking for some nice ones. If you are interested please email me at wooliecreations@gmail.com .

We went to the Atlanta Farmers Marked this weekend and got a few things to put up for the winter. I put up tomato's, bell peppers and sweet corn. Geesh what a work out! It has been so dry here lately that the garden in not growing very fast. I don't dare water much because the well may go dry.

Primas babies are growing very well! They are looking very promising right now and should make great additions to the BEW's.

I lost Fallon my BEW doe from DiAnn Boehm when her babies were just 3 weeks old. :( I managed to keep them going by rotating different mothers that had litters and they have all pulled through with flying colors! So far all are fat and sassy! I believe there are 7 so I will have a couple more Blue Eyed White babies available for news homes. They were born 5-9-08 so they will be available in a couple of weeks. Even though they are weened now I want to keep an eye on them for awhile more just to be safe. So far no dropped ears even with this horrible heat!! Speaking of heat....it is time for me to post my mister article again come to think of it!

It has been a couple of days since I posted here. I have been trying to get rid of ants out of my rabbit barn. I HATE ANTS!!! They are a real pain! I have lost litters of babies to them before so I am always looking for ways to kill them. I cut down all the bamboo around the barn because they were using it to get by all the poison I put on the ground. Grrrrrrrrrr

They are still getting in so I looked upward. I cut down all the branches that touched the roof and low and behold they have a nice comfy nest on the roof!! There is a very thick layer, about 6 inches, of pine straw the whole top of the barn. I have spent a good part of the day scraping it off so they have nowhere to stay now!!!!!  YIPPEE !!

The babies above are just about ready to fine new homes. They are French Angoras......mom is a Chocolate Pearl (OM's Suzuki) and dad is a Black (Gay's Black Magic). There is a sable in there and the rest are blacks. Email me if you want more info. They have Gay's (me), Elm Grove, Bev's Buns, Outback Menagerie, Somerhills,  and Vahalla lines behind them. :)

I have been working on my Shopping Cart today. I have put up lots of Angora wool for sale so if you are looking for any very nice spinning wool go take a look!
http://wooliecreations.net/buncart/
There is also some extremely nice Kid Mohair yarn that is available. I will have some Angora Rabbit yarn soon available.

I have been cleaning out the barn today and fixing up pens. After many years they need a little work on them :) I have been putting rabbit poop on the garden and it is coming along nicely! There are baby squash the size of my thumb on some of the plants! Yippee. I hope to do a lot of canning this season, and will give making pickles a try also. If anyone has a good recipe let me know. I may even try pickling green tomato's this year. There are several of the tiny tomato plants coming on. Hopefully we will have plenty of vegie's and meat to last awhile.

Above is the first picture of Prima's babies. She was bred to Sinclair my big Blue Eyed White buck so they should be nice sized. I will keep the Blue girl and place the others. They will be great woolers as Prima gave me 8.3 oz. of wool this clipping! That is a lot of wool for a French Angora!

I went out yesterday to feed the bunnies and found a new pet hanging out! I looked down and there was a strange stick laying by the door. Normally I would not think much of it but it is getting that time of year again..... It was a pretty, 4' long King Snake. He was half under the door of the old chicken pen. I had a pan laying beside where he was, grabbed that and pinned his head down. To my surprise he didn't struggle or try to get away. I reached down and gently picked him up behind his head. I went walking to the house and called for my daughter. She came out and said "Oh BOY"!  She has small pens to keep lizards and critters and got one of those. We took him up on the mountain a few miles away and turned him loose in the woods. I don't mind King Snakes around just not in my rabbit barn! He was hunting mice I am sure. :)

This is a pretty up coming litter. Mom is a Himi and dad is a Red. There is tort, a red, a copper, a blue and a black in the picture. There are a couple more in the litter. These guys are about 3 weeks old now. I have not checked the plumbing so I don't know how many boys & girls there are yet. :)



 

Just weaned this is a pretty Vienna Marked French Doe ready for a new home. Her mom is CDA's Zinger and dad is EH's Sinclair. She shows a lot of promise in wool and size! Poppa is over 9 pounds so she should be a big girl. If you are interested in her please email me at wooliecreations@gmail.com

The garden is up and doing very well. The corn popped through the ground a couple of days ago and made it through the storm nicely! If you are planting a garden for you don't forget to plant a little for the bunnies also. :)  They love cucumbers in the heat of the sumer. Cucumbers are very cooling to them and when it gets hot anything cooling is good!!!

All my litters are doing well. I have some VERY pretty Satin Angoras and also some very stunning French progressing. Prima's litter is about 3 weeks old now and there is 1 chestnut, 2 blacks, and a blue. I will be posting their pictures tomorrow. :)
More later....

I finally got my garden in all the way. I planted the last of the tomato plants and squash. I gave my tiller quite a work out the past few days! The beans and peas are popping up along with lots of corn! Looks like I will be doing a lot of canning this year!

I got my horses feet trimmed too. Geesh I am getting way to old to do that! He is such a sweetie and just stands there for me to trim him up. My back is not in any shape to work that hard!

I got a good start on " The Comprehensive Angora Color Guide " today also. I have tons of pictures to add to it. I am putting pictures and descriptions Of Angoras from the nest box to adult. There will also be a section on sexing your babies and so on. I will be offering it in .pdf format as a download on my website for $9.95. I am also excepting sponsor advertising to be added in the sponsor section. If you are interested in advertising email me at wooliecreations@gmail.com

These Broken Red Satin Angoras will be ready for new homes in 2-3 weeks. They were born on 4-3-08. Mom is a very pretty red and dad is a beautiful Broken Red I got from Sue Duncan in Tn. His name is RC's Double Take.

RC's Double Take is some of the last of Cheryl Buck's line from years ago. He will carry on Cheryl's line for many years. As you can see in these pictures he produces fantastic Reds! The babies also have great personalities and their wool should be top notch! If you would like to reserve one or you would like more pictures you can email me wooliecreations@gmail.com  

I will be going to the ARBC Convention this year so babies can be delivered there for pick up.

I was looking over one of my Satin / BEW French litters and noticed one of the blue babies has 1 white ear and 1 blue ear! Too cute!

Last night I went out to feed the bunnies and got a big wake up call! Prima the French doe with the 3 BIS's, Grand Champion now, and lots of legs had a pile of wool in the corner of her cage. OPPS! I knew she was getting close to her due date but I didn't realize how close! I fixed her up a nest box and put it in her cage. Within 5 minutes she was delivering babies!!! Boy you talk about a close call! She is a great mom and just licked them for what seemed forever! I wanted to see what she had in there, BUT she wouldn't quite licking on them! I got a quick peek before I came back in the house. I am glad I asked on the Blue Eyed White Angora list what I would get breeding rew to bew. Normally rew to rew is always ruby eyed white...... just about 100% of the time. That is the only genetics rule I have never broken  except when I had a satin doe that was a broken but looked all white. From what I could tell almost all the babies were colored! I bred her to one of my Blue Eyed White bucks - Sinclair. Prima is a BIG girl, and Sinclair is a big boy so these babies should be big! I will check them later today to see what colors I have. :)

I finally got a chance to take a few pictures. Here are a couple of the latest Blue Eyed White babies. They are sooooo cute. There are 2 does and 1 buck that are BEW and an Opal and a couple of Blues that are Vienna marked. Mom is CDA's Zinger  and dad is EH's Sinclair. This litter is about 3 weeks old now and out of the nestbox. They should be very nice and big as poppa is over 9 pounds now and under a year old!

I have several BEW French / Satin crosses to work with now, and all of them have tremendous shine! I am thinking I will have BEW shiny Satin babies by Fall. I have to wait a couple of months for the earliest of the crosses to reach breeding age. Keep your fingers crosses!

I have not sent a post for several days and I apologize. I have been very busy with my sign business - Custom Signs & Designs. Business picked up really fast, and those of you who have your own business know you have to get the work while it is there!

I have had so many litters the past few days I am just amazed. Most of the does have done an excellent job making nests and putting babies where they belong. I will take some pictures the first part of the week and post them for you to see. A pretty red satin doe bred to a broken red buck had 10 babies! All are doing great with no problems so far. A blue French Angora doe bred to Gay's Epic (the son of Prima) had 3 - 2 lilac or blue and a black.

The Blue Eyed White babies are doing well. I have 2 does and 1 buck along with Vienna marked litter mates in Chestnut, Blue and Opal. Their eyes are open and they are out of the nest box now! I will take some pictures of them also.
More later...............

These are 2 babies from the BEW French, Tort Satin litter. The picture was taken a couple of weeks ago and I am just now getting it posted, sorry. Life gets in the way sometimes.....    They are really looking nice with so much shine being exhibited! Their personalities are to die for and bodies are rock solid! I believe they will go a long way to improve the Satin Angoras as well as incorporating the Blue Eyed White Vienna gene in. I will post how many bucks and does there are in the litter. I think there are 9 or so in the litter and mom is way ready to be away from them!!!  :)

I am happy to report the litter of Vienna Marked French babies are doing great! These babies are able to produce Blue Eyed Whites when bred with a BEW or another Vienna Marked bunny. They are sooooo cute!! This litter will be 100% French angora BUT due to their VM faces they will not be showable. Their are bucks and doe's in here so if you are interested in any of these babies let me know. They are about 3 weeks old now and will be ready to go soon. The mom is a black silver steel and dad is a Blue Eyed White.

I attended the Dalton Georgia Triple Show and the Double Angora Specialty Show this past weekend. I guess you could say I still can not believe what happened! I took 5 or so French Angoras and Several Satin Angoras to show for all 5 shows. We had several new breeders come this year and we met others who want to start showing. I think that is fantastic! We need more interest in all breeds of Angora.

As usual everyone wound up getting some award for their hard efforts approaching the show. We always have such a good time talking and trading breeding stock at Dalton. Being it is 5 shows in 2 days you are able to Grand Champion a rabbit if you hit the right rabbit at the right time. I guess I did just that with one of my Ruby Eyed White French Angora doe Prima. She was like the Energizer bunny.....on and on and on!! She got Best Of Breed in the first show and went on to take BOB the other 2 shows! I couldn't believe it! The next day for the 2 Angora Specialty shows she also got Best Of Breed and went on for Best In Show !!!!! I was really speechless by now and to put the icing in the cake both judges that gave her Best In Show said she should be the example for the French Angora in the ARBA Standard Of Perfection! I am honored to have such a beautiful bunny!

I don't usually express to everyone my wins as I think it a little, well tacky to brag about how well you do all the time, BUT I will make an exception to my rule here. Prime got 5 Best Of Breeds and 2 Best in Shows this past weekend to add to the other wins last year of 3 Best Of Breeds, and 1 Best In Show !!!
WOW!