Northern California Angora Guild

Saturday, January 29, 2022

English Angora First Coat? Second Coat?




There is a fallacy in understanding the English Angora coat.  Some insisted that the English Angora could be shown only in the first coat thus a "one coat wonder".  WRONG!   English Angora can be shown in more than the first coat and could win in shows.   As an interesting exercise, I cut a tort doe around the same time when a litter of tort babies were born.   I groomed the cut down tort doe Susanna and groomed the baby doe Augustina the same way in the next 8 months.   At the end of 8 months, I took photos of the two does together and one of the photos is posted here.   Can you tell which is which?  



In this photo, one tort doe is in her first coat at 8 months old and the other tort doe is in her second coat 8 months after her first coat was cut down.    Can you tell which is in her first coat and which is in her second coat?    And what's the reason for you to make such a decision?  



One of the two tort does being blow groomed.

 

The other one being blow groomed.



One won the BOB in show A at Dixon. 




The other one won BOB in show B at Dixon.




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