Fawnessa Ready for Night Night

Fawnessa lives a princess's life with Carolyn.  

Fawnessa yawns, she is ready for bed.

Night, night, sleep tight.  See you bright and early tomorrow morning.

 

Susanna Gets Another Hair Cut

Susanna has a gorgeous second coat that won 6 legs from November 2021 to January 2022.   Pretty flowers eventually wilt, pretty Angora coats eventually need to be cut down.   

Ready for cut.

Decision made, point of no return. 

More exposed body.

More cuts.

Forming a wool-fall.   

The wool-fall is getting more impressive. 

Is the wool on Susanna or off Susanna? 

The wool-fall is now a fleece that is way bigger than Susanna's body.
Will Susanna come back to shows with her third coat?  Only time will tell. 


  

 

Debbie's English Angora Clarice Wins Best In Show at GA State Convention

Debbie drove from North Carolina to Georgia for the Georgia State Convention on Saturday, January 29, 2022.   It's totally worth the drive, Clarice was awarded the Best In Show by our favorite judge Allen Mesick. 

Judge Jim Rowland is very familiar to us too, he is in Florida but he judges in the west coast quite often, a regular at WCC.   Debbie's two English Angora in her arms are the two BOVs and black doe Clarice went on to win BOB under judge Rowland. 

   

The Georgia State Convention has three all breed shows, judge Amy Zittal awards Clarice the BOB.  If Amy looks familiar, yes, she was one of our judges in California, used to live in Bakersfield, now she resides in North Carolina.

Debbie's friend Sarah also did well at the Georgia State Convention, her Giant Angora won a Reserve In Show from judge Ryan Harrah of Indiana.

 

 

Same Hot Pink Dye on Tort and White

Here are two bobbins of lump spun one ply yarn, ready to be plied.   On the left is from tort English Angora wool and the right is from white English Angora wool.



  

I have some leftover Easter egg dyes, decided to do a fun experiment.
I dissolved some pink and red tablets in white vinegar, divvy up the mixture and dye the tort yarn and white yarn.... 

The left is the muted hot pink yarn from the tort and the right is the bright hot pink yarn from the white.

Here is a side-by-side comparison, the left is dyed on the tort and the right is dyed on the white.

 

Happy Lunar New Year 2022

Happy Lunar New Year from Alba.

Augustina also says Happy Lunar New Year.



Northern California Angora Guild

wishes everyone a

Happy Lunar New Year 2022

The Year of the Tiger.

 

Welcome the Year of Tiger, Good Bye the Year of Ox

February 1, 2022 is the first day of the Year of the Tiger.  

Good Bye the Year of Ox.   Today is your last day.

 

Mini Vaccination Clinic at Aptos

There are 30 English and French Angoras in Betty's van, stacked all the way to the top.  Why?

Carol and Casey are also there, busy taking the rabbits in and out of Carol's van.   Same reason why Betty is there.

Our wonderful judge Chris Zemny is organizing another RHDV clinic at the parking lot of Del Mar Veterinary Hospital at Aptos on Saturday, January 19, 2022.   Chris is seem here filling the syringes with the vaccines.  

Dr. Jeanne Koploy is injecting the vaccine into one of Casey's Satin Angora.  Tessa helps to check ear tattoos and run the rabbits from the coops.   In the coops are Casey's English Angora and Satin Angora.

Lipton is a big boy but very squeamish in taking the shot, Tessa has to help holding him down for Dr. Koploy to do the injection.   Casey is holding Monique in the background waiting to put her in a coop.

This clinic is still using the imported vaccine that requires only one shot and protection starts 7 days after the shot.   Most of the rabbits in this clinic had been vaccinated in 2021 so the protection is continuous.   In addition to the one-shot regimen and quick protection, the imported vaccines are in small vials thus easy for veterinarians to administrate to individual clients.   Unfortunately, imports are no longer allowed since the domestically produced Medgene vaccine received emergency authorization in early October, 2021.    The Medgene requires two shots with 3 weeks in between and another week or more to effectively offer protection, and all the vials are in larger quantity.  It would be good for a vaccination clinic with numerous rabbits showing up but hard for veterinarians to carter to individual clients as the vaccine requires to be stored in very low temperature and as soon as it's open, it has a very short shelf life. 

 

From left to right are Tessa, Casey, Dr. Jeanne Koploy, Betty, Carol, Chris and Carolyn.   The wool breeders are in the first group of the clinic that started at 11 am.  By noon, over 50 rabbits were done with the vaccination.  We are very grateful to Chris, Tessa and Dr. Koploy for their help.   There will be another mini clinic in April to finish using all the imported vials.