Sunday, October 17, 2010

New name and site

With all the losses this year and changing our focus more to the rabbits from the goats, we decided to change the name of the rabbitry and farm and get a new website for it.

The new name is AngoraMoon and the website is http://www.angoramoon.com We will be focusing on Jersey Woolies in the tan pattern colors, German Hybrid Angoras in all colors of agoutis and hopefully English Angoras.

The blog will hopefully be kept up to date better with what is happening here.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Farm updates

It has been a long hard year. A lot of animals have been lost this year, to many to count. :( Some of the goats lost will be sorely missed in the breeding program. I'm down to one Shetland Sheep, Thistle the wether. The other two were some of the stock I lost to a sudden, silent form of pneumonia, that has NO symptoms until the animal dies. It was the same thing that took out the goats as well.

The breeding herd for the goats is down to Valentino (Nigora buck), Robin (F1 Nigora buck, Sapphire x Valentino), Lucky Penny (F1 Nigora doe), Mariah (F1 Nigora doe), Sapphire (Nigerian doe) and Ravenwing (angora doe). I have two wethers left, Yazzie (NAG) and Levi (Nigerian).

We have added some breeds to the rabbit herd. We now have Jersey Woolies (mini-angoras), German Angora and German Hybrid Angoras, as well as the English Angoras we first started with. We will be adding a French Angora buck and hopefully a Satin Angora doe this year, as well as more Jersey Woolies.