These are English angora bunnies.
If you don't have any plans to use their wool, due to the coat maintenance, they're way too much work to have around so we do NOT recommend them as purely pets.
By their temperament, they do make lovely pets, but the coat maintenance overshadows that, so they're not recommended as a pet bunny, especially for children due to the dexterity necessary for coat maintenance.
Their coat needs maintenance, generally a weekly 'brushing' with a long toothed steel comb to keep any mats from forming. Their coat also needs to be "harvested" (get a haircut) every three to four months and that wool harvest takes over an hour per bunny.
Even though these English angora molt their coats (not all EAs do anymore, it's been bred out of the English angora show bunnies), they need help to do that or the molting fiber gets tangled with the incoming fiber and becomes a mess. However, for several months after they get a haircut they don't need any coat maintenance, so if they're kept as a fiber provider they are only high maintenance for part of the time.
An angora show coat - where the intent is to keep the fiber on the bunny, is much more maintenance than a fiber bunny's coat. Usually a show coat is kept in order with specialty strong, heatless blowers.
All of the available young bunnies here at Hillside Farm Hawaii are purebred and pedigreed English angoras. They are all bred to ARBA standards (American Rabbit Breeders Association) and are show quality. The ones who have a dropped ear will lose points on the show table, but can still be shown.
They are bred for the quality of their "wool", temperament and conformation to ARBA standards. They are also bred for "easy care" coats, but that it no the same as "no care" coats so they will still need coat maintenance and several haircuts per year.
Temperament does change from bunny to bunny since they are all individuals, however, overall they are friendly little fuzzballs. Some are more shy than others, but generally they are docile and friendly.
There are several babies from Camilla & Dandelion's litter who are available. There is a fawn doe, a tortoiseshell doe and two tortoiseshell bucks. So one fawn, three tortoiseshells and all blondes.
Tortoiseshell and fawn bunnies are both blond colors. The tortoiseshell ones have slightly gray ears, the fawn ones have white inside the ears and around their eyes and nose.
The tortoiseshell with the dropped ear is a buck. Of the other two tortoiseshells, one is a doe, one is a buck. Even though there's a lot of pictues, there's only three tortoiseshells in Camilla and Dandelion's litter.
There's three white females, a white buck and a fawn buck available from Dorothea & Dandelion's litter.
I should try to get a picture of each individual rabbit, but at the moment just getting general pictures online is all that can be managed without going to take more pictures and taking notes while taking the pictures.
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