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Wool shows 2019

Wool at Junction 13. Lower Drayton Farm, Penkridge, right next to the M6 motorway, Junction 13 on 18thand 19thMay 2019

Woolfest, Friday 28thand Sat 29thJune 2019. Mitchells Lakeland Livestock Centre, Cockermouth, Cumbria, CA13 0QQ

Fibre East.27th/28thJuly 2019. Redbone Upper School and Community College, Flitwick Road, Ampthill, Bedford, MK45 2NU.

British Wool Show, Friday 9thand Saturday 10thAugust 2019. York Auction Centre, Murton Lane, Murton, York, YO19 5GF

National Angora Stock Show 2019

National Angora Stock Show to be held on Sunday 26th May 2019, at the usual venue: Wyken Community Centre, Westmorland Road, off Belgrave Road, Wyken, Coventry,CV2 5PY.

  • Judge Mr Alan Cargo.
  • The AGM will be held at 1pm lunchtime at this stock show on 26thMay.
  • All proposals to be sent to myself or Lesley Hordon.
  • My contact details are angora.bunnies@btopenworld.com.Tel 01233 732194.
  • Address: 19, Farm Road, Hamstreet,  Ashford, Kent. TN26 2JA.
  • Lesley Hordon’s contact details are : 37 Harrowby Road, Leeds,West Yorks. LS16HX
  • e mail: skyrackangoras@hotmail.co.uk, tel : 01132 304400.
  • The next dates and stock show venues/judges will then be decided at the AGM so please put in your proposals and preferences.
  • Remember the venue is to be within 70 mile radius of Coventry.
  • The club stand should also be at the following Fibre Festivals, dependant on being accepted by the festival organisers.
  • You are welcome to join us for a chat and to do some crafts at the club stand.
  • Volunteers to help man the stand are also needed. Please let Lesley know if you can help.

Bradford Show 2019 -Show Angoras competition

Ru, the Best Angora going to Foxwood Stud and winner of Best Overall St Ledger stakes

Bradford small livestock show held 20/21 January at Doncaster racecourse

Although there were six adults and one U/5 rabbit were entered only two adults and one U/5 were at the show.

Due to the gap between entering and the show date, it is not always possible to predict what a rabbit might do in that time, some chew, some get stained through excess wetting, and if you feel your rabbit is not up to scratch you dont take it.

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Breed standard for Angora stud buck and brood doe

The breed standard of the national club.

Body Coat

  • Clipped down to a maximum of one inch, pure colour, fine texture, even and dense all over
  • A coat of 1 – 2 inches is permissible in the case of coloured Angoras
  • 15 points

Furnishings

  • Head, feet, legs, face, ears and tail
  • 15 points

Head

  • Broad, short skull, broad flat nose, large eyes of correct colour, dense crest, long fringe, thickly wooled along line of jaw
  • 10 points

Ears

  • Erect, short, tapered, well wooled, fringed and tufted
  • 10 points

Body

  • Short coupled, back arched, chest deep, broad and prominent, powerful shoulders and loins a good size
  • 25 points

Legs and Feet

  • Straight, good but not coarse boned, heavily wooled with short nails
  • 10 points

Condition

  • Firm flesh, clean well nourished and well groomed
  • 10 points

Carriage

  • Alert and upstanding, masculine in appearance in the case of a buck
  • 5 points

Total Points 100

Weight

  • Ideally not to be more than 7½lbs.

Serious Faults

  • Narrow wedge head, low head or ear carriage, plain long ears, no furnishings, bad condition

Subscription renewals

Subscriptions are now due for 2019. New members are £7, existing renewals, juniors and seniors are £5. Anyone is welcome to join the National Angora Club who is interested in angora rabbits.

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The Show Groomers Armoury

You might think that I should be the last person advising “show” people on grooming ideas, but the top exhibitors have kindly shared some very surprising ideas with me which you might find interesting. When embarking on a new hobby, career, or interest the thing to do is go to the top, and thats what I have done. Club members have been very generous in sharing their secrets for the benefit of all who read this article. To begin at the beginning, the question put was “ what is the tool most important to you for grooming?”

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Grooming for the show bench

I’m going to try and take you through the grooming until they are adults. I personally start grooming my babies about 6 weeks old,where I take them out and sort out the knots behind their necks. Then at 8 week to 9 weeks I take them out regularly, which is normally every other day, and I check behind their ears and at the back of their tails, this should normally only take you about 10 minutes.

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