Recent content by cindys6436

Me too, Brody! Cindy

After much agonizing, I have decided to try to find homes for two of my English Angoras. They are both males and both have pedigrees but they are also both neutered, so they won't fit into a breeding or showing home. One is a fawn, born 5/21/09. One is a tortoiseshell, born 12/6/08. I have...

I find drop spindles much less intimidating than wheels! Not that I'm much good at the drop spindle, but I'm not giving up. Not with four Angoras! I took a private lesson and didn't really learn anything that I hadn't already learned from a book (guess I was hoping the instructor would be a...

Thanks Maggie - I have checked online - I find things saying they are fed to rabbits, and nothing saying they are unsafe, but the ones saying people give citrus branches to their rabbits don't seem to be "expert" sites but rather just rabbit owners. Not that they might not be experts or at...

Are twigs from my orange tree (more like a bush, not even close to a tree, actually) as well as the leaves safe for my rabbits to chew on? The info I find on internet searches is so confusing. I would really like to give my rabbits some twigs/branches, but I don't know what kind of trees I...

Ha ha, Brody, I don't quite get that all either - I'm a neophyte spinner too. I only plan on spinning with a drop spindle, and I've already spun some Angora but not taken it off the spindle so who knows if it will turn into usable yarn. Cindy

Do you spin the JW fiber, Brody? Cindy

Ann, Thanks for the info. Maybe I should have got a couple JWs and a couple Angoras instead of four Angoras! Actually, if they were all like Winter, I'd be happy with four Angoras, but their cages do take up a lot of room since they are bigger than the JWs. Ah, hindsight. I do love all the...

Thanks Brody - I don't THINK it's the way I'm keeping them that causes the matting - three of them are n the exact same type of cage - wire bottom. The other cage is also a wire bottom, but a different brand and a little bigger. When they are out of the cage, they don't have a whole lot of...

Before I got my angoras, I thought I did a lot of research - I don't know why, since it seems I am quite wrong about this, but I thought English Angoras were the only pluckable type, and that the French and Satin required shearing. I really wanted pluckable since I thought it would be easier...

Ann - I'd like to pluck my bunnies but they are "non-pluckable" types - at least that's what the breeder of two of them told me. I don't show so I don't worry about over-grooming, and I do get a lot of wool just from grooming. I'm hoping my new baby will be pluckable. I have done a little...