Jocelyn Shows Off Her Scarf

Jocelyn is a new member of NCAG though she has been in the show circuit for a while. She is more well known as a cavy breeder. She is very artistic in creating beautiful craft items. It is a natural progression into Angora rabbits.

She has a pair of Satin Angora and now has three little ones from the pair.

In these two pictures, Jocelyn is showing off a scarf that she is making. The yarn is a blend of Satin Angora and Texel cavy. The spinning is very fine and the scarf is lacey. It's a beautiful piece of work.

In her professional life, Jocelyn is a music teacher in No. CA.

Two Lucky Rescued English Angora

Franco reports:

"We have an English Angora buck that we picked up from a re-home/rescuein Washington State. His name is Eggnog because he was born in the Christmas season. He is Tortoiseshell color.

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But he is such a goofball. Unlike many of our other rabbits who prefer

to sit and be admired, this little one is tearing across the vinyl flooring like a mad wooly ice skater.

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We have a English Angora REW Doe named Lily who is also a re-homebunny. There was a third bunny, a senior buck that went to a friend.

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We haven't had English Angoras before and these two seem to be extremely friendly, curious, and not at all afraid of the dogs. If these are examples of the temperament of the breed, then it is small wonder so many people find these rabbits endearing.

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Have a good day!"

Blizzard Shows Up A Storm

Due to some glitches with the fair rule, Satin Angora was being put into the "Other Four Class" category. There were Netherland Dwarf, Dutch, Rhinelander, Florida White, Polish, ... in the same classes.

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Tracy's Satin Angora certainly was competitive with all the other breeds. Her white junior buck Blizzard stirred up a storm for being the best typed and finished animal and won the Best of All Other Four Class and her red junior doe took the Best Opposite Sex of the All Other Four Class.

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The top photo is Blizzard; the second photo is judge Brooke posing and giving comments on Blizzard; the third photo is pretty little red princess Lacey.

French Angora Winner at the Fair

Carol has been doing really well with her French Angora lately. It was no exception at the Contra Costa Fair on Saturday, her beautiful chestnut doe took Best of Breed again.

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The photo here shows Carol and judge Brooke with the French Angora Best of Breed winner.

Carrie Wins Best In Show at the Fair Show

Summer is the fair season. There are two fairs in this area that hold one day carrying cage shows. Contra Costa Fair at Antioch is one of the two.

The all breed show judge is Brooke, one of our favorite judges. Brooke is very selective of which shows that she accepts because she is very busy in her professional life as a recruiter. We were very happy to see her as the judge at the fair.

The fair was well attended, weather was cool, people were friendly, and the greasy fair foods even tasted good.

Betty's English Angora Chu's Carrie won all breed Best In Show. Carrie is a 6-1/2 months old chocolate tort senior doe; she is as beautiful as her namesake Carrie Underwood.

Carol G.'s broken senior buck took Reserve In Show. Carol G. is in Dominican Republic with her son Adam doing volunteer work. Her buck Purdue is being held by judge Brook in the pictures.

It was a fun day at the fair.

Casey's New Bunny and Yarns

Casey shows off her new yarn and new bunny at the Gridley show.

She has been showing three white junior does. One of the

three is consistently doing better than her sisters and the judges absolutely love this little girl. Casey is showing her off in the top photo.

In the second photo, Casey shows off her new yarns. She has Angora rabbits, Angora goats, and sheep. By putting together these three types of wool, she has a very nice collection of blended yarns in light beige, dark beige, rich brown, and different shades of gray. The Woodland Mills did a wonderful job in blending and spinning. Casey is now offering these yarns for sale at a reasonable price. Contact Casey at angoracj@gmail.com if interested.

The third photo shows the collection of the yarns.

Ann's Wonderful Weekend at the Shows

Our new Oregon member Ann has good news, she says, "Well the biggest rabbit event I have going on is WHITES in the nestbox, finally! I had a litter of seven and three are whites. Attached is a photo. They are now two weeks old and it looks like I have at least one doe in the whites. The colors are going to be very dark chestnuts which I also love. Even as young as they are the satin sheen is very apparent."

Ann received her Satin Angora stock from Tracy a year or so ago. She did well when she came to the Monterey shows in April. She was in the Portland show last Saturday and her red senior doe Marion Jones took Best of Breed, picture at the top. Her buck won the Best Opposite Sex. Same results in both show A and show B. Her American Fuzzy Lop also took the Best of Breed and Best Opposite Sex in the same shows.

It was a wonderful weekend for Ann.