Show B Satin Angora Judging at Cloverdale

Show B judge for Angoras is Cathy Szychulda.

Here is Charlie!  Charlie is the president of NCAG.  Though he no longer shows rabbits, he is still very much in contact with us and attends shows if the show is within a couple hours of his.   He has lots of catching up to do with judge Cathy who is a top breeder of Rex; believe it or not, Charlie had a Rex in the past.

Here is the nice Satin Angora junior buck.  If you recall, he was a tiny newborn when he became a foster child of the first place English Angora Rabbit of the Year Chu's Raeberta.   Look at him, he is growing well.  


For a list of winners, go to:


NCAG Show Results: September 13, 2026 Angora Showing at Cloverdale

 

Show A English Angora Judging at Cloverdale

English Angoras are sitting in coops waiting for judge Stephany to complete Satin Angora judging.

It is very unusual that both the English Angora and the Satin Angora have more white than colored shown.

Casey is clerking for judge Stephany when she is working on the Satin Angoras.

Next to be judged are the white English Angoras.  Betty is the clerk.

Judge Stephany is happy to see white English Angoras on the table.   Stephany dabbles on white English Angora as well, except that hers have baby blue eyes while those on the table are all ruby eye whites.

Judge Stephany likes the white senior doe, ...

... and places the senior doe the first place, but ...

.... she likes the senior buck even better, so the white senior buck is the BOV white.

The next class is the colored senior buck, this buck gets the second place.

The first place colored senior buck is also the BOSB, over the BOV white buck.

Then there is the colored senior doe.

The English Angora BOB is the colored senior doe.

For a list of winners, go to:

NCAG Show Results: September 13, 2026 Angora Showing at Cloverdale

 

Show A Satin Angora Judging at Cloverdale

The judge for Angoras is Stephany Brundage. 

Judge Stephany's first Angora breed on the table is the Satin Angora.

There are 4 beautiful white and one black Satin Angoras. 

The BOB and BOSB go to the white senior doe and white senior buck.

For a list of winners, go to:

NCAG Show Results: September 13, 2026 Angora Showing at Cloverdale

 

Open Top Winners at Cloverdale

Mendo-Lake RBA sponsors triple breast cancer benefit shows at Cloverdale, Ca. on Sunday, September 13. 2026.

Show A Best In Show judge: Ted Deloyola, OR.
Assist: Juliet Hamak.
Best In Show rabbit: Jan Skerik's American Fuzzy Lop.

Show A Reserve In Show is Beth Nelson's Tan.

Show B Best In Show judge: Kathi Groves, CA.
Best In Show rabbit: Mini Rex shown by Lillian and Airi Bearden.
Reserve In Show rabbit: Californian shown by Theresa Gowen.

Show C judge: Jordan Miner, CA.
Best In Show rabbit: Betty Chu's English Angora.

 

Show C Reserve In Show is Theresa Gowen's Californian.

 

English Angora Autumn Beauty Wins Open Best In Show at Cloverdale

Autumn Beauty gets her wish to go to the Beast Cancer Benefit show at Cloverdale. 

 

Judge Jordan awards Autumn Beauty the open Best In Show in show C!

Autumn Beauty examines her prize, a nice chair.

Autumn Beauty says it's a nice chair, I am out of here now.

Mama Betty tells Autumn Beauty not to be silly, let's have a nice picture taken with judge Jordan.

Seven Judges Donate Services at Cloverdale

At the Beast Cancer Benefit Show in Cloverdale, 7 judges donated their service to make the show a success. 

Ted DeLoyola from Oregon, with assist Julie Hamak. 

Cathy Szychulda, CA. 

Jordan Miner, CA. 

Kathi Groves, CA. 

Ray Stacy, CA. 

Lauralee Erbe, CA. 

Stephany Brundage, CA.  

 

Showroom Scenes at Cloverdle

Pink bracelets.

Pink bracelet says strength.

Pink table clothe with prizes in red and pink.

These are reserve prizes for cavy and rabbit shows.  With the pink color, pink ribbon graphics, pink braclets, you probably can guess the theme of this show is for breast cancer benefit.   A group of breeders/volunteers are raising money to join the Susan Komen 60-mile walk at San Diego in November 2026,

These are donations for silent auctions.

Happy exhibitors gather at the Citrus Fair fairgrounds at Cloverdale on Sunday, September 13, 2026 for the triple open triple youth benefit shows.

View from another side of the showroom.

The wool corner with the English Angoras at the front and the Satin Angoras next to the wall.

From this vantage point, the Satin Angoras are on the left and the English Angoras on the right.

 

Autumn Beauty is Excited Going to Shows

It has been a few weeks since the last show.  Autumn Beauty is all dressed up but no where to go. 

Autumn Beauty is excited that today is a show day, she’s ready. 

What do you think her chance is to do well?    

 

Alfie is A Senior Buck Now

Chu's Alfie is an English Angora chocolate tort colored buck that made senior in August.  
Here a is a collage of his photos celebrating his becoming a colored senior buck!

 

Black English Angora and Black Yarn

Yesterday these black English Angora handspun yarns were featured.

Here is a close up of the these art yarns.   If you wonder whether the saved black wool was smooth enough to spin lace weight yarns, yes, the wool was prime wool.  I could have spin fine but my taste is closer to art yarns for hat making.  

Isn't Betty known for having torts and REWs?  Where did these black English Angora wool come from?  The black wool has be in my storage for quite a while.  Since I have made the decision of focusing on torts and REW, I thought I'd never have black wool again so I treausred them.   Recently I thought it's not making any sense to store bags and bags of the pretty wool but not use them so I sat down and spun them all. 

 I have had black as well as most colors in my English Angora herd for at least 25 years before I made the decision to streamline to torts and REW.  This photo was taken in 2004.  Her name is Chu's LaNelle, the BOV colored at the 2004 ARBA convention at Providence, RI.    This photo is quite often-used in various places including but not limited to the WCC catalog from the early years to the current.   This photo also attracted attention from a game show called "I've Got a Secret" in 2006 and as a result I was invited to be a contestant at that show.  See: English Angora On TV   The video of the entire segment is at the end of the post.  However, the video does not show up if you are using a mobile device.  You need a regular computer to watch the program.

  This is Chu's Malania.  She was the BOV colored at the 2005 Angora National.   Malania was the "Model" of the Dust Bunny Araminta for the Ghost Hunter book series Silver Master.  See:
English Angora as Dust Bunnies: 2008  

 

This is Chu's Tamyra.  She has one of the darkest black among the English Angora blacks.


These three are just samples of my previous black English Angoras.   I have had many more than these three.  From the photos, you can see the different shades of black.  All wool animals tend to have different shades of color even with the same color genetics due to modifiers.  Also the longer the wool, the less the color near the skin of the rabbit.    As a result the yarns spun from their wool are not a consistent black or gray.  The yarns tend to look varigated even though the wool could be from the same rabbit.

Do I miss the black English Angoras?  Yes and no.  They are very pretty.  However, I found it harder to keep as their texture tends to be softer than the torts and REW that I specialized in.  Due to the lighter color under the tips, any little chewing shows up like a light bulb, thus harder to maintain a finish look.    Though I do a good amount of fiber work,  I consider myself mainly a show person.   I find it's more efficient to focus on the type, density, texture and non-molting easy care characteristics than having many different colors in my herd.