Colored Angora Goats
Breeding angora goats for color is a newer venture in goat keeping. For centuries, goats with colored fleeces were culled, as white was desirable for dyeing. Handspinners like to use the naturally colored fleeces to make beautiful yarns. They are a medium sized goat with docile, friendly personalities.
We have a small flock of colored angoras. We have two gorgeous red bucks to add some red to the flock.
I am a member of Spinners Flock, a fiber and spinning organization in Michigan. We show our angoras at Michigan Fiber Festival in August each year.
Links
American Colored Angora Goat Registry
Nemai 2/8/04
This is our Angora wether. He is a faded red roan, mostly white with a sprinkling of red.
2004 Chelsea fair: 2nd place showmanship & pet wether .
2005 4H 3rd place showmanship & pet wether. Chelsea fair: 1st place showmanship.
2006 MFF: 2nd place showmanship. Chelsea fair: 1st place showmanship, 1st place pet wether.
2007: MFF 1st place showmanship. Chelsea fair 2nd place showmanship.
Nemai
Nemai made the local newspaper in 2006 after winning the pet wether class with my daughter at Chelsea Community Fair.
2008: MFF 1st place showmanship. Chelsea fair 2nd place showmanship. 4H 3rd place pet wether.
2009: Great Lakes 1st place showmanship. 4H 2nd place showmanship & 3rd place wether pet.
2010: 1st place showmanship MFF. 4H 2nd place wether pet.
2011: 4H 1st place showmanship and 1st place wether pet!
MGH Nessie
4/2008 Dam ISF Roni: Sire Hill 5023
Nessie is a CAGBA registered doeling with a gray fleece that is dense, full of luster and nicely curled. She has pretty frosted ears and nose like her dam.
2009: MFF 2nd place colored yearling doe
Nessie had twins 2011!
Hill Shepherd 4115
3/1/2007 Dam Hill Bombay; Sire: Hill 5037
4115 (or Rory as we call him) is a really nice structurally correct buck with a beautiful, tightly curled reddish fleece. He has excellent coverage and is a great choice for our Herdsire. CAGBA registered.
2008: MFF 1st place colored yearling buck
2009: MFF 1st place colored adult buck
MacGregor Hollow Mairead
5/ /07 Dam: ISF Roni Sire: ISF Jabez
Mairead is gray and has frosted ears and nose just like Roni. She has a very lustrous, pretty fleece. CAGBA registered.
2008: MFF 2nd place colored angora yearling doe (behind Keely).
2011: Mairead has twins: a dark gray doeling with frosted ears and nose and a black doeling
MacGregor Hollow Merryn
April 2011
Merryn is a very dark doeling, black with red tips. I'm hoping she will keep the dark color.
Avalon Springs Emily
2010 Sire: Dam:
Emily is a lovely reverse badger doe that came to us from my friend Karen at Avalon Springs farm. She has a very fine fleece with tight ringlettes. I love her coverage and density.
MacGregor Hollow Sinead
5/1/06 Dam: Blackie Sire: CHF Terrance
Sinead is a gray doe with a beautiful, dense fleece. She has marbled blue eyes. She has excellent coverage. CAGBA registered.
2007: MFF Grand Champion Colored Angora Doe and 1st place colored angora yearling doe
2008: MFF Reserve Champion Colored Angora Doe and 1st place adult doe.
2011: Sinead has twin doelings, one is a white doe and the other is a light reddish brown.
MacGregor Hollow Bronwyn
4/10/09 Sire: Hill 4115 Dam: Black Star
Bronwyn is a lovely brown doe with a curly, soft fleece. Great coverage and luster. ACAGR registered.
MacGregor Hollow Lindsay
3/30/09 Sire: Hill 4115 Dam: ISF Roni
Lindsay is a pretty light red doeling with long tight locks and excellent conformation like her parents. ACAGR registered.
MGH Bo-Peep
4/2008 Dam: Raven Sire: Speck Farm Brock
Bo-Peep is a second generation angora/fainter cross 3/4 angora and 1/4 fainter. We are trying to add some of the fainter hardiness into our colored angora line. She has awesome coverage, lock structure and length for an F2. Raven standing with her is her dam. She is a white color factor and we will be evaluating her as she grows for kemp and other fleece factors.
Blackie and Nathaniel the Blue winning Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion at the 4H Fair 2005
This picture of Nathaniel the Blue and Starlette at our 4H fair won Best of Show at Michigan Fiber Fest and 2nd place at Chelsea Community Fair 2005.