I started with just French Angora and there have only ever two rabbits in my herd safe from the freezer. They're my preferred breed in that respect because they are the easiest to maintain Angora breed (heavy guard hair in comparison to the other breeds that mean less matting in the coat, though they definitely still can mat, and no wool on the head, ears, feet) and are built on a commercial body type with a breed standard of 7-10 pounds. I'm working off an old SOP book though and need to update, so if that weight is incorrect someone feel free to correct me. I do know they've been leaning towards making them smaller in recent years, but still most of the good show lines around me show them young when they make weight and then the rabbits continue to mature to 11-13 pounds.
The down side to angoras for meat is that if you want to keep and tan the pelt you might want to wait until they've got a good coat on them, and getting through al that wool for skinning and gutting can tend to be a pain compared to the short hair breeds, also, since they do put a lot of effort into growing all that wool, they do tend to grow slower than your standard meat breeds, but my old lines and definitely the new ones I just picked up still grow way faster than some other breeds out there, like Rex. <br /><br /> -- Sat Dec 24, 2016 5:57 am -- <br /><br /> Oh, and some of the largest kits I've ever seen in my Rabbitry have been Champagne x FA kits. 4.5-5 pounds at 8 weeks. And the coat was the texture of Silver Fox. (I'm sure you know this but the angora gene is recessive, crossed with short hair breeds you get more short hair, just less guard hair in the coat and it might be a tad longer than normal)