Angora mix????

[Kyle@theWintertime]

I've been offered an Angora that is, to the best of their knowledge, 75% French Angora, and 25% English Angora. I like the color of the rabbit and the wool on both parents looks nice and dense (I'll be able to touch it before I decide for sure) but I was wondering...is there anything negative in regards to wool from crossing the Angora breeds?

I'm looking at this mixed bunny as a purely wool animal, not for breeding purposes.

I was also wondering...would yarn made from a French Angora be significantly different than an English?

 

[-HRanchito]

There are more guard hairs in french angora wool, so you might get a yarn that is slightly less soft, has more depth of color color, but would be easier to spin.(meaning less likely to float away and land in your mouth. But it would perhaps be shorter than the english, so "easy to spin" could be a tradeoff) I don't know if I would call the differences significant, though.

 

[LindseysWoolies]

English wool is softer and has less intense color because there is much less guard hair than the French. Good luck with the rabbit. Woolers cross breeds all the time to get that "perfect" animal for wool. Purebreds are mostly just for show breeders.

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

The more I think about it and the more I research, the more I kinda wanna get that little mixed baby.

 

[lonelyfarmgirl]

Get it if the price is right, angora spinners cross breed all the time. If you hate it, there's always dinner. Win-win either way.

 

[arachyd]

English tends to be a lot more wool than guard hair which makes it more prone to matting in a lot of EA. A good cross might have very nice wool that doesn't matt as much as an EA if you're lucky but we can't always tell which rabbits will get all the good genes and which won't. I'd give it a try.