Meet Steel Magnolia--the Revealer of Secrets!

[Frecs]

This is my newest pride and joy, Steel Magnolia. She is a purebred Silver Fox. As it turns out, her mom and dad both carry the wool gene (she is the "revealer of secrets") and she inherited it in full! I think she is beautiful and will be a part of developing a line a angora wooled Silver Foxes for my own joy and spinning pleasure.

 

[Marinea]

Oh my. What a beautiful bun! Congrats.

 

[WildWolf]

Gorgeous! OOo, you're making me so jealous... I can't wait to see if my buck has the wool gene.

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

Pretty!!!!

 

[Sinnfox]

hu...I had a little buck that was really wooly..figured he was just taking forever to lose a baby coat or something. Finally did get his standard-ish coat by around four months but he still has little patches of it. I guess he only got it from one parent? He is my little dwarf of a silver fox though, the one I think has silver in him instead of being pure...so who knows ~shrug~ I know when he was all puffy he was almost two cute for words so grats on the adorable little fluff

 

[Frecs]

hu...I had a little buck that was really wooly..figured he was just taking forever to lose a baby coat or something. Finally did get his standard-ish coat by around four months but he still has little patches of it. I guess he only got it from one parent? He is my little dwarf of a silver fox though, the one I think has silver in him instead of being pure...so who knows ~shrug~ I know when he was all puffy he was almost two cute for words so grats on the adorable little fluff

I have a crossbred FAngoraXSilver Fox buck (the silver fox buck is not a wool carrier) from a test breeding of the FAngora doe. This buck is "fuzzy" but not carrying a full-blown angora coat by a long shot. His coat is neither "SF" for "FAngora". But, since he now is a wool gene and SF carrier, he will be used in the line of creating woolie SFs.

For the purists out there -- I'll also be maintaining a Silver Fox line focused on meeting the SOP. Never fear -- I won't be passing my woolie SFs off as Standard SFs.

 

[dangerbunny]

Very cool, what bloodline carries the wool gene?

You are making me want a woolie SF!

 

[MamaSheepdog]

Adorable!

Have fun with your wool project!

 

[Frecs]

Very cool, what bloodline carries the wool gene?

You are making me want a woolie SF!

Summer 4
Starck's Big Jake

If Steel Magnolia develops the wool that Starck's woolies have developed, I will be very happy. (And, for truth in advertising, Starck did not introduce the wool gene. She discovered it during linebreeding....along with a harli gene. She has been fully forthcoming in letting folks know what she has discovered in her SF line.)

 

[Northern Sky]

Keep us posted on the fur quality of the cross bunnies. If their fur is suitable for spinning, I might end up breeding some fuzzy SFs too.

 

[Frecs]

Keep us posted on the fur quality of the cross bunnies. If their fur is suitable for spinning, I might end up breeding some fuzzy SFs too.

Will do! Spinning quality is the one question yet to be answered. Time will tell...it's going to be like waiting for Christmas!

 

[PSFAngoras]

Ooh, I'm so excited for you, I can't wait to hear how it goes, keep us updated!!!