Phoenix Farm welcomes a new baby buck to the rabbitry. Agate has been here about a week. He’s 14 weeks old, a chocolate colored French/German cross angora. What a cute, snuggly little bundle of fur! Agate settled in quickly to his new home and has already made friends with his does, although he’s more interested in trying to nurse rather than mate!
His mother is a pure French angora fawn colored doe named Maple. His father, Samwise, is a black French/German angora cross.
Agate replaces the buck named Garnet I acquired last year. Unfortunately, I discovered that Garnet was closely related to my does, even though I drove two hours east to buy him. He was at grandson level to my senior doe and cousin to the younger one. The breeder is located in southern Maine, two hours drive south of us. Her rabbits get around! So I sold Garnet last fall and have been looking for a replacement. It was great to find Agate. He was also a two hour drive east, but he definitely is unrelated to my does.
There are a lot of different colors in Agate’s background. Fingers crossed I get some nice colored babies from him and not just bunches of albinos, also called red-eyed whites. Albinos are lovely with their pure white fiber, but it gets kind of boring after a while. My senior doe, Moonstone, threw pearl colored babies with my old albino buck. That color is creamy all over the body with colored ears and face. I would love to have a pearl doe. Agate should be ready to be a father by May, so I hope he’s paying attention to my requests!
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