Check it Out!

The first of many:

Believe it or not, we already have much more angora on its way! This first bag is already spoken for, and will be sold for $6 to a local spinner, but there is so much more! We have currently available:

0.9 oz. tort
0.8 oz. broken tort (tort mixed with white)
0.2 oz. black
0.7 oz. felting fiber (from the face and belly, rather than the back, mixed colors)

The hand-plucked, premium spinning fiber is $6 per ounce, and the felting fiber is $4 per ounce. Please email seedorff.family.farms@gmail.com to place your order.


This past week I got to visit two new yarn shops up near my parents' house, and I noticed something very exciting. One of the shops had yarn for sale from a local alpaca farm- the shop sells local fibers!! I am hoping that after we get some of the angora spun we could sell it at that shop, as well as some other shops closer to where I live.

On the bunny front, the black buck is adorable as ever, loving to have his ears scratched and to be held. The tort doe, who used to be rather skittish, has started coming over to have her nose rubbed when I feed her, which is exciting for me. I can tell that they are getting used to me. The broken tort doe, who has been really skittish in the past and has even tried to bite me, seems to be calming down a bit. She is still wary of my hands in her cage, but she has been letting me put the food in her dish without jumping at me, and when I got her out of her cage to brush her on Sunday she came fairly quietly, although I still had to catch her off-guard to get her without a fight. I'm sure as our routine continues that we will get used to each other.

I also went to the local farm store to buy another bag of rabbit feed and some barn lime yesterday. It is the first time that I have bought food for them since the day we got them, so you know they don't eat too much.

Anyway, my real life job is getting really busy in these next few weeks, so please don't stop checking back for updates if I don't update regularly! We're still here, and we still want your business!! If you ever have any questions about anything involving the business or our fibers, please email me at seedorff.family.farms@gmail.com any time.

Tip of the Week: When the litter pans seem to get messiest in the same places week after week, try using some barn lime to help dry out the heavily soiled spots. It will be less nasty to clean up and it will cut down on the smell.

Our First Official Sale!

It's official, we have enough fiber to sell! Yesterday my mother and I bagged the first ounce of tort fleece that I will be selling to someone on our waiting list. We have a few things to do first, however.

This weekend my mother came to visit, bringing six bags of shredded newspapers, plus more shreddable paper! Our other business partner came to visit as well, bringing armloads of old newspapers, as she works for a newspaper about 3.5 hours away. I will not have a bedding shortage again for some time!

Yesterday my mother and I got some rabbit chores done. We shredded some of the newspapers our other business partner brought, we cleaned the cages, and we brushed and plucked the rabbits. The black buck is getting to the point where he has harvestable fiber, so we are starting to collect his fleece. The broken tort doe is coming along, with a fleece that is nearing the high point of harvesting. The tort doe, which was so full fleeced when we got her, is coming down from her high point now. We have harvested nearly all the fiber from her back, and one plucking session brings us two or three handfuls of fiber. Her sides and hips still have a good amount of fleece on them, so we will still be getting fiber off her for a while yet.

The most exciting part of the week was that we weighed the fiber yesterday and we had 1.5 ounces of tort fiber! That means that I can sell to the woman that is on our waiting list! I bagged one ounce and labeled it, now we just need to get ourselves in gear when it comes to business cards and colorway labels so I can send cards out with the product. As for the other counts, we now have .5 ounces of broken tort and .1 ounces of black. Don't forget, we're taking orders!!! Please feel free to email us or leave a comment on the blog if you're interested in our angora fiber!

Tip of the Week: We've continued working with our broken tort doe to work on her aggression issue. She's only aggressive when I try to take her out of her cage, so I've been opening her cage door all the way and putting food just inside the door. I remain standing by the door, and eventually she comes forward to eat and I try to pet her gently while she's eating. She's still jumpy, but it seems to be helping a bit. However, gloves are still a must, as she latched on to my mother's finger yesterday when we were trying to get her out to brush her. Thankfully the leather work gloves my mother were wearing prevented her from feeling a thing. I'm sure that if I keep working with the broken tort slowly but surely I can get her to the point where I can take her out of her cage freely.