This blog will focus on my two girls, Layla and Whisp. They're English Angora sisters who were handraised and are about a year old now.
A couple other bunnies will also be in this blog because my roommate has buns too, and we dabble in showing and quality breeding sometimes (I used to have a rabbitry before I moved out on my own).
I bought/adopted these two from a woman on Craigslist on September 20, 2013, after a long search for English Angoras, as I used to have English Angoras years ago and kept having dreams about missing them.
Here's Whisp the day I got her, who is larger, dominant, and was in better condition.
Here's Layla the same day. She has an ear that lops and looks a little raggedy compared to her sister.
Whisp and Layla spent a few hours in the pen every day. They were stressed from the move and being in the pen perked them up a bit. They started eating their hay. I also got to know them a little better.
Layla had the runs the first two days, but it's cleared up.
Both had a really ugly hair cut. When I first saw pictures of them, I was concerned about the bald spot near their eyes, but the previous owner assured me that she had trimmed that area. Still waiting for it to grow back.
Both have had occasional stringed poop lately that worries me. I'm feeding them papaya enzyme tablets and unlimited hay to help with wool block.
They were also missing fur on the bottoms of their feet from wear being in wire-bottom cages. I tried putting Whisp (who's feet were worse) in a solid floor cage, but after only three hours she was soaked with urine and moist droppings. I had to put her back in the wire floor cage, but the next morning her feet were bleeding and she had a torn nail. Me and my roommate cleaned and disinfected the wounds and put her back in the solid cage, this time with a cushy bunched up blanket. She looked much better the next morning, and hadn't been laying in her own urine.
I've trimmed Layla as far down as possible. Would have trimmed Whisp too, but she's been having foot pain so I haven't messed with her.
Sorry for poor quality pictures. I'm going to get my camera back from my mom soon, so I'll be able to take some better ones in the future.
A couple other bunnies will also be in this blog because my roommate has buns too, and we dabble in showing and quality breeding sometimes (I used to have a rabbitry before I moved out on my own).
I bought/adopted these two from a woman on Craigslist on September 20, 2013, after a long search for English Angoras, as I used to have English Angoras years ago and kept having dreams about missing them.
Here's Whisp the day I got her, who is larger, dominant, and was in better condition.
Here's Layla the same day. She has an ear that lops and looks a little raggedy compared to her sister.
Whisp and Layla spent a few hours in the pen every day. They were stressed from the move and being in the pen perked them up a bit. They started eating their hay. I also got to know them a little better.
Layla had the runs the first two days, but it's cleared up.
Both had a really ugly hair cut. When I first saw pictures of them, I was concerned about the bald spot near their eyes, but the previous owner assured me that she had trimmed that area. Still waiting for it to grow back.
Both have had occasional stringed poop lately that worries me. I'm feeding them papaya enzyme tablets and unlimited hay to help with wool block.
They were also missing fur on the bottoms of their feet from wear being in wire-bottom cages. I tried putting Whisp (who's feet were worse) in a solid floor cage, but after only three hours she was soaked with urine and moist droppings. I had to put her back in the wire floor cage, but the next morning her feet were bleeding and she had a torn nail. Me and my roommate cleaned and disinfected the wounds and put her back in the solid cage, this time with a cushy bunched up blanket. She looked much better the next morning, and hadn't been laying in her own urine.
I've trimmed Layla as far down as possible. Would have trimmed Whisp too, but she's been having foot pain so I haven't messed with her.
Sorry for poor quality pictures. I'm going to get my camera back from my mom soon, so I'll be able to take some better ones in the future.
