The 2018 National Angora Club Stock Show will be held on Sunday 27th May at Wyken Community Centre, Westmorland Road, off Belgrave Road, Wyken, Coventry, CV2 5PY. The Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at this show at 1pm at the show. Please send proposals or items for agenda to Christine Hamilton or Lesley Hordon.

The autumn stock show will be held at the London Championship Show on Saturday 13th October 2018. Venue East of England Showground, Oundle Road, Peterborough, PE2 6XE.

Judges for stock shows this year are confirmed. Neil Robertson for Coventry 27th May, Geoff Boot for London 13th October.

Please ensure that they have plenty of exhibits folks.

Rabbit terminology

NAC – National Angora Club
BRC- British rabbit Council
CC – Challenge certificate
BIS – Best in Show
BOB – Best of Breed
AOC – any other colour
AA – Any age
Ad – Adult rabbit over five months old
U/5 – Rabbit under five months
U/4 – rabbit under four months old
Brood Doe/Stud Buck – Clipped rabbits that can be judged to the standard at a stock show
coat to be no more than an inch long
YSS- Young Stock Show
GC – Grand Challenge

Rabbit problem explanations

  • Scouring – Diahorrea
  • Bloat – when the stomach is very tight like a drum
  • Putty mouth or nose fault– When the rabbit has light colour round its dark face
  • VM – Vienna marked – when a rabbit has random white patches on it
  • VHD – Viral Haemmorrhagic Disease

If you are wanting to take more of an active role in the showing of angora rabbits then here is a brief guide to becoming a 3* judge. 3* judges fall into four categories, Fancy, Lop, Fur and Rex. The ultimate goal is to become a 3* judge in all four categories but this takes time, a lot of study and research and a great deal of patience.

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The quality of the English Angora wool is second to none. It is silky and soft and has excellent texture and sheen. As the babies grow you should be able to see crinkles (crimp) in the shaft of the wool.

The English Angora has the finest wool of the Angora breeds. It is very clean compared to sheep’s wool, being 98% pure, whilst sheep’s wool consists of 50% grease. It is very warm as it is full of air cells, which increase its insulating properties. The wool grows very fast on the rabbit, at approximately 1 inch per month, and the rabbit is clipped 3 monthly for spinning wool. The best wool for spinning grows on the back and flanks of the rabbit, whilst the coarser chest and tummy wool is excellent for felt. A rabbit’s wool production declines with age.

It is not necessary to wash Angora before spinning. After spinning the yarn can be washed gently in lukewarm water with a suitable wool detergent such as Woolite, or the knitted product can be washed and blocked.

 

 

There are several reasons for runny eyes in a rabbit, and it is important to seek the advice of a vet if the problem persists.

Congenital or hereditary

Occasionally a number of babies in a litter may have runny eyes due to inherited eye lid deformities, where the tears spill over the eyelids instead of draining down the eye ducts to the nose (nasolacrimal ducts). As this may be hereditary, these rabbits should not be bred from.

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As well as supporting the exhibition of the Angora rabbit, the National Angora Club (NAC) also supports those who produce yarn, felt and garments from wool which has been harvested in an ethical and animal friendly way.

For details of our Product Shows, please see further posts in the wool festivals, wool products or rabbit shows category.  For more information on Products Shows, contact our Products secretary (details in Club Officials post).

The Product Competition Rules of the National Angora Club are as follows:

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General health

Keeping your angora rabbits healthy is the key. If you can provide them with the essentials of good welfare this makes for a happy healthy angora rabbit. However, in some circumstances even when they appear to have everything they may need they can become poorly for a range of reasons so here are some general hints and tips on the main health requirements for angora rabbits. 

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