http://www.fws.gov/news/historic/1944/19440602a.pdf
As most people know by now, the US Angora industry pretty much petered out after this memo was written, and was replaced in time by the Chinese market which currently supplies and dominates world commercial production of Angora. France, which has managed to remain viable longer than other European industries because of the way it retains control of it's product from the raw through to the yarn stage, is nonetheless declining as well with the number of national wool operations dwindling. The French Angora of France is a different animal from the 'American' French Angora, of course, but it's loss is equally disturbing, and the Angora industry will hopefully invigorate itself at some point in favor of the superior product that these animals were capable of producing vs. the poor quality imitation being sold in stores now.
In other news, there is not much happening here other than the fact that cages are filling, babies are growing, and I am going through feed and hay like nobody's business:). I have pictures of 2 more bunnies to post too that were never mentioned before. One is out of Pascha and Dijon and started out as something of an ugly duckling that I had an inexplicable urge to keep (LOL), and the other was actually set aside as a cull until I checked her at the last minute and saw that she had an (extremely) late bloom, and is now a magnificent rabbit, LOL.
Below is the newly named Spang's Zaidy (the Black doe out of Pascha), and below her are two pictures of the newly added REW, Spang's Yvonne (out of Echo and Pierre):
More again next time and have a great week!:^)
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