Recent content by almiraj

I'm hoping for you too. I've been though a messy birth before, thankfully mama did her job and we had two very healthy babies. I don't know where you are located but I would consider getting mama some dandelion greens. I've had to buy human grade dandelion greens at a health food section of the...

English Angoras are a ton of fun but they can be a headache for showing. First off there are three types of bloodlines: Wool, Show and Mixed. Wool focused bloodlines create an animal that sheds out well and produces good wool. A Show line should focus on animals that grow long dense coats that...

Those little calicos are cute! Generally I try to breed either 'pets' or 'meat' and only sell as they are bred. Good on you for culling the buck for personality issues. If it's a pet breed then it needs to be a good pet. I can't stand to hear from breeders that have 'pet' breeds that have bad...

I'm not much help for advice for the doe, if she has breech birth. I would try the calcium since I know it helps in cattle. After wards if she is ok I would get her some dandylions(greens and stems). It's an 'old wives tale' but with all my does that have had trouble births it seem to help them...

He does have another 10 offspring but they were with a BEW doe. I never intended to use him for breeding anything other than BEW, so his 'color' didn't matter. However someone wanted a baby from my blue doe's bloodline(it is an awesome wool bloodline), and he was the only buck I had. As for the...

I use a rabbit wringer and have had a 99.8% fast and humane kill rate on it. I've also had to use it to cull breeding defects in my angoras. At the class I took on how to process the guy wacked the rabbits in the back of the head with a wood baseball bat. It sounded horrible to me at first, but...

I have a BEW English Angora buck I'm trying to figure out his 'color'. In his pedigree his great grandparents have a Lynx, a Lilac, and a Black. All three are VM and bred to BEW. The rest of his pedigree is all BEW. When he was bred to a Blue-self English Angora they produced 2 Blues and a Opal...