The Bunny Brothel and Bunnies

In the fall of 2008, while we were at the annual Dutchess County Fairgrounds to attend the New York sheep and wool festival in Rhinebeck, both Vick and I happened upon the stand being run by the members of the National Angora Rabbit Breeders Club in one of the buildings. We instantly fell in love with the two German Angora rabbits they we displaying to the public. We were amazed at the docile nature of these gentle giants of the rabbit world. We marveled at the softness and density of their fiber and instantly decided to add these cuties to our farm, along with some Alpacas.
In the next several weeks we dug up information and found "Country Wool", in the Hudson area to be our closest breeder of German Angoras, so we found Claudia's shop and visited. We saw her beautiful rabbits and commissioned her to breed a doe for us to have a litter we could raise for the farm. She did and four were born which we were able to pick up this past May. Since then we've traveled to Taunton, MA and purchased two Giant Angoras from Evergreen Farms. Now we have six beautiful Angora bunnies and Wuzzy, a red eyed, white, short haired Neatherland Dwarf.

Since our first bout with the bunnies several years ago, we've won a few and lost a few. We lost Andria to a heat wave that blasted us one afternoon...faster than we could react to saving the bunnies from the extreme rise in temperature. We did an emergency shear on all the bunnies and moved them to the basement where it was a constant 55 degrees. Andria didn't make it. Next, we lost Ethel another of our Germans to a sore and maggot infestation under the fur...When we sheared her, we found the condition, treated it, but she died of some kind of infection. We lost our first Walsh giant Angora one winter day. Bunny Girl One, died of a heart attack. I found her sitting upright, as if she were sleeping.