Twinkletoes
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I have 13 angoras, mostly French and a couple German/English. 9 are does and are spilt into 2 colonies which is inside our barn. The 4 bucks are in wire cages. I also have American chinchillas which are used only for meat purposes. Our angoras are only for fiber purposes. Of course both are also for our enjoyment .
I would love to get my meat rabbits outside in pastured pens that I can rotate them through. But if I do this, I'd like the angoras to also be outside for 3 main reasons. 1) our barn is on the opposite side of the property as the space where the pasture would be. It would be inefficient to have half my rabbits on one side of our property and the meat buns on the other side. 2) hubby would really love to turn the barn into something special. Like an outdoor living area. It is a very nice barn with concrete floors, insulated, windows, electric. 3) I feel like the rabbits will be much happier with even more space and we would even have a seperate pen for each buck instead of their wire cages.
My only real concern is the angoras ruining their fiber if they lived on pasture. The other option I am considering is putting down a cement slab and still using shavings and straw as the bedding. But I would really rather them have access to fresh grass if it wasn't going to ruin their fiber!
Has anyone tried angoras on pasture? TIA!
I would love to get my meat rabbits outside in pastured pens that I can rotate them through. But if I do this, I'd like the angoras to also be outside for 3 main reasons. 1) our barn is on the opposite side of the property as the space where the pasture would be. It would be inefficient to have half my rabbits on one side of our property and the meat buns on the other side. 2) hubby would really love to turn the barn into something special. Like an outdoor living area. It is a very nice barn with concrete floors, insulated, windows, electric. 3) I feel like the rabbits will be much happier with even more space and we would even have a seperate pen for each buck instead of their wire cages.
My only real concern is the angoras ruining their fiber if they lived on pasture. The other option I am considering is putting down a cement slab and still using shavings and straw as the bedding. But I would really rather them have access to fresh grass if it wasn't going to ruin their fiber!
Has anyone tried angoras on pasture? TIA!