A few years ago when Thrianta was accepted, Betty said to Casey, "If you put together English Angora and Thrianta, you will eventually have beautiful red English Angora". Casey took the challenge, bought a pair of Thrianta and started showing them and breeding them to her English Angora. She won quite a few Best of Breed and Best Opposite Sex with her Thrianta, but most importantly she was able to put the red into the English Angora.
This is a litter of three red English Angora bunnies and a choc tort with reddish wool. Red color in Angora requires it to be wild band agouti pattern, thus the choc tort cannot be considered as a red.
A close-up shot of a junior red English Angora.
Just like any color in Angora, when the wool grows the color becomes less intense but the face is still very evident of being a red rabbit.
Stunning!
ReplyDeleteThey are awesome! For the first time, I am tempted to bring red into our barn.
ReplyDeleteI am VERY new to all of this and have not bred my EA's yet. I want to make sure I get as informed and knowledgeable as possible before doing so. I have a question though, If you bred your English Angoras to a Thrianta Rabbit then those babies would no longer be full English Angoras correct? So how do you then keep the red coloring and get back to 100% pure English Angoras or do you? and are these Red English Angoras showable? They are beautiful I would love to have them just for the wool alone. Do you sell any of your reds if so how much are they going for?
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