Satin for Sale

I have 1 Satin for sale.  Spot is a beautful broken black doe with nice sheen.  She will make a flashy pet!  I am asking $20 without a pedigree, which is less than I paid for her.   

Please call (517) 589-5888 or email finnishfiberfarm@gmail.com if interested. 

This will be our last rabbit for sale until June!  Please contact us to reserve her today! 

French Angoras for Sale

We only have a few rabbits available for reservation/purchase!  These rabbits come from excellent show lines and are very nice quality.  They are available with 3 generation pedigrees.      

Blossom Acres’ Thumper- Sr. Tort Buck- DOB:  4/6/2011.  His mom is red and his dad is a registered REW with 2 GC Legs.  Thumper has a nice body and wool.  He has done well on the show table. He’d be a very nice addition to a breeding program and will contribute his nice body and quality wool to his offspring. 

SOLD

Blossom Acres’ Larry- Jr. Chinchilla Buck.  This buck is very sweet and has nice, easy maintenance wool.  He is a very pretty color.  I will offer him with a pedigree as a breeder buck for an angora hybrid program or without as a pet/wooler.        

SOLD

Special thanks to our customers!   

 

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A Note to Broken Patterned French Angora Breeders

I have had many people ask me about broken patterned French Angoras.  This information goes for the English and Satin Angoras as well (not yet recognized colors). 

The broken variety is to be shown under “Colored” as oppose to “White”.  There is no special section retained for the brokens.  They are judged with the selfs, agoutis, steels, torts, wide bands…  If you have a broken and were unsure as to where to enter it, colored is the answer. 

It also says in the standard that the rabbit is disqualified if it has less than 10% body color and more than 50%.  Alot of people, including myself, were unsure as to what counted as the body color.  Alot of people had thought that it just counted the top of the body and chest.  Actually, it counts the whole body- head, ears, feet, tail, back, and stomach.  So look over your rabbit and make sure that you have at least 10% body color and not over 50%. 

 I will be breeding broken patterned French Angoras soon.  They are a very beautiful pattern and are a lot of fun to exhibit. 

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Edited 1/6/14:  I have been raising and breeding the beautiful broken pattern since August 2014.  Here are a few pictures of broken French Angoras.  

 

Rabbits for Sale!!!

We have French Angoras, Lionheads, and a New Zealand Whites for sale!  Here is a general list of what we have: 

French Angoras-

Blossom Acres’ Smokey- Jr. Purebred Smoke Pearl Buck- $75 with pedigree

Blossom Acres’ Midnight Storm- Jr. Purebred Black Doe- $75 with pedigree

Blossom Acres’ Thumper- Sr. Tort Buck- $75 with pedigree

Blossom Acres’ Cabachon- Jr. Opal Buck- $75 with pedigree

Lionheads-

Blossom Acres’ Seashore- Jr. Purebred Blue Tort Buck- $25 as pet

Wee One’s Shadow- Sr. Purebred Proven Black Buck- $50 with pedigree

 

New Zealands-

Blossom Acres’ Marshmallow- Jr.  Purebred New Zealand White Buck- $20 with partial pedigree


If interested in any of the above rabbits please email me finnishfiberfarm@gmail.com  or call me at (517) 589-5888.  More information and picturescan be seen on our website:  www.blossomacresrabbitry.webs.com.  We also have babies in the nursery and upcoming ones as well!  Feel free to go on the waiting list for a kit! 

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New Winnings, Litters, & Rabbits for Sale!

We have begun our show season yet again!  On January 28^th, Circle 6’s Frederick, took 1^st in class colored Jr. Buck!  Our REW senior doe, White Out, received 2^nd in class.  She was competing with rabbits in full show coat, which she wasn’t in… She did come home with great comments though.    

We also showed our bunnies at the Michigan Convention Spring show which took place March 3^{rd and 4th}, 2012.  We took BOB Lionhead on the 3^rd with Blossom Acres’ Frostbite, with around 25 in competition.  Blossom Acres’ Stainless Steel, a siamese sable Lion, took BOV at that show.  We also showed Blossom Acres’ Tangerine, who was awarded BOB & BOG, and Bonnie’s B15 “Nathaniel”, received BOS & BOG.  We also got Nathaniel registered at that show.  This buck has 2 legs towards his grand championship.  We are hoping to get his third on soon so that he can be granded! 

We also showed on the 4^th and received BOV Lionhead with Frostbite, and BOS & BOV Lionhead with Stainless Steel.  Tangerine took BOB and BOG French Angora, with her dad, Nathaniel, taking BOS and BOG French Angora.  All in all it was a great show. 

We also got a few new acquaintances to our rabbitry:  Butter Brickle, a sr. chocolate agouti French Angora buck; Mr. Truffle, a chocolate Lionhead buck; Burnt Sienna, a chocolate Lionhead doe; Whiskey, a chocolate Lionhead doe; and La Petit Prince, a sable point Lionhead buck.  Pictures of our new stock can be seen on our website:  www.blossomcresrabbitry.webs.com. 
  
We have litters in the nursery!!!  Right now we have 3 beautiful kits from Frederick to Lily of the Valley- 1 smoke pearl buck (FOR SALE), 1 smoke pearl doe, and 1 black doe.  We also bred Frederick to Missy and have 3 kits in this litter left as well- 1 opal buck, 1 blue buck (FOR SALE), and 1 chestnut doe.  White Out also has a litter of 1 blue, 1 REW, 1 chinchilla, and 1 squirrel- all bucks.  This whole litter is spoken for. 

On the topic of French Angoras… we bred Missy to a Grand Champion Farfelu’s Cirrus, a chocolate buck.  This litter is due April 4^th- we are expecting some promising bunnies!  I am going to grow this litter out before selling them, and hopefully get some winnings on them as well.  Thank you again Shannon Carter for providing me this opportunity. I also bred Blossom Acres’ Lily of the Valley to Farfelu’s Butter Brickle; she is due the 15^th of April.  I also bred Blossom Acres’ Tangerine to Butter Brickle; she is due a little later than her sister.  .          

We also have 2 litters of Lionheads in the nursery, and several more on the way.  Our upcoming litters are going to be exciting.  We are expecting chestnuts, chocolates, possibly oranges, and many more colors from our does that are bred!  Please visit our website for more information. 

We currently have 3 French Angoras for sale- 1 smoke pearl buck, 1 blue buck, and 1 tort buck.  We have 1 blue-tort Lionhead buck for sale as pet.  We also have 1 junior New Zealand White buck for sale- with partial pedigree.  www.blossomacresrabbitry.webs.com  

That wraps everything up for now.  I will update everyone as more happens. 

Rabbitry Update

We have had some new happenings here at Blossom Acres.  We have decided to sell out of our Californians in order to better focus on our other breeds.  We currently have 2 rabbits for sale- a doe and a buck.  I am charging $30 for the buck and $40 for the doe.  Both are proven and come with pedigrees.  More information can be seen on our website:  blossomacresrabbitry.webs.com. 

Recently we bred Tracey, our New Zealand White doe to Baby Boy, our NZW buck.  This was his first time breeding so we will have to see how everything turns out!  Baby Boy to Tracey is a very nice breeding, so I am expecting some promising rabbits in the litter.  If Tracey takes, these kits will be available for sale around March 18^th.  They will be available with partial pedigrees- they will just be missing two generations on the mom’s side.   

We have had several nice litters from Wee One’s Cocoa and Blossom Acres’ Frostbite.  These kits were born December 27^th and December 29^th.  We are also expecting a litter from Blossom Acres’ Little White Lie on the 11^th of January.  These kits should be available for purchase beginning of March to mid March 2012.   All of the show and brood quality Lionheads will come with 3 generation pedigrees.  We are expecting black, blue, blue tort, black tort, REW, and shaded kits born, and will hopefully have some nice blue and blue-tort babies available for sale.  Some of these Lionhead kits will be chocolate carriers!!!       

The French Angoras are going well too.  I am expecting a litter mid January from Blossom Acres Lily of the Valley who is bred to Circle 6’s Fredrick.  Lily is one of my favorite does in the rabbitry- she has VERY good type and a lovely, dense fleece.  This breeding should produce some outstanding purebred kits with HUGE potential.  It will also be second generation of Blossom Acres!!!  This is going to be Lily’s first litter!  Farfelu’s Missy is also due with a litter a little later than her daughter; she too is bred to Fredrick.  All of these kits will come with 3 generation pedigrees and will be available for purchase beginning to mid March.  Once I finish showing some of my other seniors, I will be breeding them to Fredrick. 

Here are some pictures of Tangerine I got in full fleece:

I will update everyone as things happen. 

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Last Show and New Arrivals

The last show of the year is finally over.  We didn’t show much of our stock- most of them have been recently bred so they are still a bit out of condition.  Some of our bucks are getting older, so those older guys are pretty much done with their show career.  We did put a few Lionheads on the show table, and they did pretty well.  We ended up taking 1^st and 2^nd in class awards, BOV REW, BOV Blue-Tort, and BOV Chocolate on both shows, and on Show A Cocoa took BOS. 

We have been very busy lately with our rabbitry.  Recently we purchased two new additions to our rabbitry- a sable-point Lionhead doe and a blue French Angora buck.  The Lionhead doe is very beautiful and has great overall type- she was purchased from Leo 9 Rabbitry. She was shown at the last show we exhibited at, and this girl took BOV on both Show A and Show B, and was even awarded BOB on Show B.  The French Angora buck is also very nice- excellent body with a gorgeous, dense wooly coat.  He is from Circle 6 Farm.  We haven’t put him on the show table yet, but plan to this coming year.    

Our breeding plans didn’t go as I had expected- we weren’t able to breed our French does to those stud bucks.  I will try to arrange the breedings again.  Anyway, I bred Blossom Acres’ Lily of the Valley, a stunning REW doe and Farfelu’s Missy, a beautiful red doe to Circle 6’s Fredrick, a blue buck.  I am not sure if he is fertile yet, being around 4 months old, but I guess we’ll find out!  I also bred Tracey, my NZW doe to Nox, a black satin buck.  If all goes as planned, then Tracy, Missy, and Lily are due on the 13^th of January.   We also bred 3 of our Lionhead does so we are expecting kits born December 27^th , 2011and January 11^th, 2012.  We bred two of our own lines and one other line to different bucks.  We are expecting blacks, blues, seals, REWs, blue- and black-torts from these breedings.  If interested please get on the waiting list for Lionheads, French Angoras, or NZW/Satin Hybrids.       

I have been spinning up most of my freshly clipped or plucked angora fleeces from my French Angora stock.  It is fun playing around with the different fleeces from the different rabbits.  Missy’s fleece is one of my favorites- it spins like butter.  I still have a lot of the other French’s fleeces to try out, but most of them were already spoken for.  Currently I am working on a nice super fine yarn made from Missy’s wool.  I plan on making this skein one ply French Angora (Missy) and one ply lambs wool.  I am still debating whether I should use Finn wool or a Romney for the other ply. 

We have sold Leo 9’s Nolla and Blossom Acres’ Mickey so we only have one Lionhead rabbit left.  She currently has 2 inquiries so if the sales don’t go through then she will be available for purchase.  More information can be found on our website:  blossomacresrabbitry.webs.com.