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Monday, January 20, 2020

Meet "the girls"

We finally came up with names for our English Angora does that were born here late July of 2019! Sometimes names come at once and other times it takes a while. These two were born from separate litters making them half sisters. Their coloring is superb! On the left is "Coco" who is a beautiful chocolate with an open face. As I posted about her earlier she is the spitting image of her grandmother "Tawny". 

On the right is a beautiful blue doe, our first one ever, "Azure Blue". She is a lot smaller than her half sister, much like her mother "Ginger". She is an amazing wool producer too and even off her body her wool is a beautiful blue color. They both have the sweetest personalities but I am sure that will change after they are a year old. After all their grandmother is Tawny, the biggest attitude in the land!

A days worth of grooming! (Ignore the dated bags). I wish the camera could pick up the colors better. These girls are molting so fast I can barely keep up! This is good because it forces me to handle them a lot. 

"Azure's" amazing crimp! Her sister doesn't quite possess this quality in her wool, so what she losses in size she makes up in crimp and wool! I am so looking forward to these two being part of our rabbitry and farm. 

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Gettting back to work...

After one of the most memorable holiday seasons we have ever had, so much fun and great things happened, it's time to get back to work. Packaging and weighing up fiber for our Drop Spindle kits. Drop Spindles are a great way to spin when you are on the go! They are far more portable than a spinning wheel can be sometimes. I have seen people walking and spinning at the same time which to me is a talent in itself!
 Over the next few weeks we will be getting ready for some upcoming fiber festivals listed on our side bar of events.

These kits are complete with all you will need to learn how to drop spindle. The Drop Spindle, lead line, instructions and fiber too. Alpaca fiber from our very own boys is an easy fiber to learn with as well as soft and plies easy too!

Sunday, January 12, 2020

A Chip off the old block!

As we get rolling into the New Year and get back to normal around here. This beautiful English Angora doe, born here to our Peachy and London (Dorothy DeBisshop's buck) last July, is the Granddaughter to our Tawny. Everything about her is her grandmother. She is stunning and at not quite 6 months old, is already sporting a 6 inch staple length and her wool production is off the charts! 

The crimp on her wool is so amazing. This doe was bred for her color, wool and she has not disappointed! She is molting her baby coat and it is just beautiful.

This is her outer coat as you see it on her side, not yet parted which has even more variation. The awesome thing is she has her mother, Peachy's attitude and her grandmothers amazing wool.

This is her wool parted. The camera didn't pick up the chocolate tones throughout her coat.

This is her sister a blue EA. Her wool is stunning and I have never produced a blue before so this is a wonderful treat to have these two stunning does! Now to name them!