HAPPY EASTER!

Happy Easter to all our customers, readers, and friends!  

French Angora Fleeces for Sale

 ONLY 1 FLEECE REMAINING FOR SALE!

I currently have some beautiful angora fleeces from my French Angora rabbits that I am offering for sale.  All the fleeces were heavily sorted (unless specified otherwise) and should be very clean with minimal webbing, second cuts, or felting.  The fleeces are very suitable for spinning as is, blending with other fibers, or using for wet or needle felting projects.  Angora fiber is very lightweight compared to other animal fibers and it goes a long way in a project.  The fibers spin well in a variety of yarn weights and can be spun on a drop spindle or wheel with ease.  Please consider all weights approximate as we do not have a certified scale.  I did my best to try to match the colors in the photos to the true colors of the fleeces but there may be slight variances.  All prices include shipping within the United States.   

Blue Fleece - 2 ounces, Price:  $20 shipped - SOLD

Fleece color:  Blue (dark bluish gray tips fading to a lighter gray-blue)

Type:  Clipped

Staple Length:  approximately 2-3”

Weight:  approx. 2 ounces/57 grams

This fleece is the baby coat of my current buck, Campanula.  The fleece is heavily crimped and silky smooth with minimal guard hairs as it is a baby coat.  Good length and color for a baby fleece.  I am offering the fleece as is so there may be some shorter staple length of wool in it but most averages 2-3”.  Although this fleece could be spun by itself, I would recommend blending it since it is shorter length (unless you have previous experience spinning shorter fleeces). 

Chestnut Fleece – 0.9 ounces, Price:  $11 shipped - SOLD

Fleece color:  Chestnut (brownish blue tips fading to a grayish-white)

Type:  Clipped

Staple Length:  approximately 2.5-3.5”

Weight:  0.9 ounces/26 grams

This fleece is a younger coat from my French Angora doe, Mouse.  It is silky soft, well crimped, and spins beautifully.  There are minimal guard hairs in it so if you prefer less guard hairs then this fleece would be ideal for you.  Heavily sorted and any seconds are removed.  Would be wonderful spun as is or blended with another fiber. 

Broken Black Fleece – 1.7 ounces, Price:  $19 shipped

Fleece color:  black and white (pure white sections of fleece and black tipped sections fading to dark gray)

Type:  Clipped

Staple Length:  approximately 3-4”

Weight:  1.7 ounces/49 grams

This fleece came from Reflection, a gorgeous black and white (spotted) angora doe I had.  The color and texture of this fleece is amazing.  There are “black” and white sections to the coat which could be separated and spun separately or both colors could be blended for a lovely variegated yarn.  There are more guard hairs in this fleece but if desired, they could easily be removed by grasping the guard hairs and pulling them out gently while holding onto the bottom portion of the fleece staple.  Heavily sorted so there are minimal seconds in it.  This fleece would be very nice spun as is or blended with another fiber.  

If you have any questions or are interested in a fleece please send me an email.  At this point I can only accept checks or money order on fleeces that require shipping.  Thank you for your interest!   

http://blossomacresrabbitry.webs.com/angorafleecesforsale.htm

New Facebook Page

Remember my previous post where I mentioned that there was a surprise which I was going to announce?  This is it!  

Earlier this month we created a Facebook page for our rabbitry.  We have been raising rabbits for quite a few years now but it was only this year that we decided to try something new and create a social media outlet for our rabbitry.  We have previously been using our website and this blog as the primary means of keeping people up to date on farm occurrences but we realized that Facebook is the place where many people come to follow and connect with little businesses like ours.  And besides, who doesn’t like seeing adorable pictures of baby bunnies in their news feed?   

Our website will continue to remain as the main source of information for breeding stock, sale rabbits, and growing litters.  We will be using our Facebook page to post occasional updates, pictures of our rabbits, and anything that doesn’t quite fit in our website formatting (like all those funny rabbit pictures that don’t have a place!).  We hope this addition to our business will help past, present, and future customers better connect with us as we work to promote and better our breeds.   

I invite anyone interested in our rabbitry to stop by and “like” our page!  Thank you all for your support over the years and for making our hobby a success!  We appreciate your enthusiasm, dedication, and interest in our breeds and hope to continue helping others establish their own line of winners.      

-Stephanie

Happy 2016!

I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas and a happy New Year!  It is hard to believe that the year 2016 is already here; last year just seemed to have flown by.  I hope the 2016 season is even better than last year!

Things are swinging into full gear here at the rabbitry.  We have had quite a few litters of Lionheads born as well as mothers expecting so we should have a variety of show prospects for the year.  I also have begun breeding my French Angoras again so I am looking forward to having some fresh litters born on the farm. 

We will have an exciting announcement to make in a few days!  Please check out the blog soon to read about the addition we decided to pursue for the 2016 season.  Here are a few photos we captured from a photoshoot we did in preparation for the surprise.  Pictured are Blossom Acres' Midnight Mystique (broken black French Angora), Blossom Acres' Silhouette (black Lionhead), and one of our tort Lionhead babies.  

 

 I hope you all have a wonderful show season this year and get rewarded with some beautiful litters!  Please stay tuned for our announcement!