An Impressive French Coat

While in the Fort Worth convention, Casey and Betty had stopped quite a few times at the youth Angora cooping area. The major attraction was a broken chestnut agouti French Angora. The rabbit had a very impressive coat. The wool was long, dense looking, bright colored and well cared for.

Later we found out that this impressive looking French Angora won the Best of Breed in the youth competition. The owner was Brianna of Colorado and the rabbit was a junior doe. A very impressive junior doe indeed. The three pictures here do not do the rabbit justice.

We were very curious as why this beautiful rabbit did not go any further in the Best In Show competition. At the Heinold booth Brianna happened to be there with that rabbit to have pictures taken. We got a chance to feel the rabbit. Unfortunately the body was not a match for that gorgeous coat.

The next day Brianna with her father came to the open cooping area asking Betty to let her touch a rabbit to get an idea about what to look for. Though English Angora and French Angora are not the same type, it is the same principle that a good rabbit should have a deep body, a smooth butt and a broad shoulder. Betty let Brianna and her dad feel her rabbits' bodies and drew pictures to show what to look for. They were happy to learn and promised to come back with a better body structure next year.

Visually there wasn't any other French Angora, open or youth, that was up to par with that rabbit. If Brianna could put a smooth and deep body under that impressive coat, her French Angora would be very hard to beat.