French Angora crossed with English Angora?

[GBov]

This might be a moot question as the person with the add hasnt gotten back to me :roll: but it got me wondering about crossing French and English Angora rabbits.

Right now I am working with a half Rex/French Angora doe and her one quarter rex/three quarters FA son by her and her brother. I am adding her daughter this week as well, the owners dont want her anymore. They were the only ones to get the Angora coat when crossing the first pair of siblings.

So anyway, any addition of good Angora genes might be good, right? Or wrong?

The goal is sellable fiber and rabbits that dont mat like crazy. <br /><br /> __________ Sat Jan 16, 2016 10:32 am __________ <br /><br /> Well, she got back to me and its a chocolate doe a year and a half old. FREE to good home! Trying to arrange a time to meet up and get her.

 

[skysthelimit]

Anytime you add EA to the mix, you have a potential for rabbits that mat like crazy. Or really any angora because they are each only as good as their lines You'd have to know what that individual rabbit is like, much more important than the actual breed or mix.

Go get her. Really, at this point, it's a big experiment and you can't go wrong. I'm still breeding from my EA/FA cross buck's son from two years ago. He doesn't molt, my Fa's don't molt, the SF cross doesn't molt. My FA's just have enough guard hair to keep from matting, and I really haven't added anything incompatible from the crosses. And they don't look any different from my pure line of FA's.

 

[GBov]

Picking her up on Thursday! And bringing home the one quarter rex three quarters FA doe on Monday.

Have had to put the half Rex half FA in with her son and leave them together where she shall stay for three weeks. She is a right bugger to get bred but is a great mum once done. At least she gets the mothering part right, I only ever got ONE live litter from her FA mother.

So excited to be getting not only a new rabbit (like I need more ) but a new color as well!