New Addition to White Mountain Llamas

Today I traveled through wind and rain and snow (for real!) to pick out our new angora bunny. In September I brought WML's fawn buck, Ethan Allen, to visit Autumn, a tort doe at the Smith Family Farm. Autumn had a litter of 8 bunnies, all torts and fawns. My sister and I love this beautiful golden-red color and have picked out a bunny donned "Birch" as our newest addition. You can see Birch and her siblings at Katie Smith's website. We are so excited about our new baby bunny! We will pick her up around Thanksgiving.

Rabbits in the Classroom - yes please!


This past Friday I took our buck, Ethan, into school for a presentation in experiential learning. I showed a slide that said the following:

•Angora rabbits are soft
•Adult Angora rabbits are a large breed of rabbit
•Angora rabbits have a friendly disposition
•Angora rabbits produce fiber that can be spun into yarn

I said each one out loud and asked everyone to repeat what I had said. Then I took Ethan out (all 9 pounds plus fiber) and said the same things again. I showed them how to spin his fiber and everyone saw how friendly he was.

I asked everyone if I would have taught them with the slide if they would have remembered the information tomorrow? How about a week from now? I then asked if they would remember the same things through the encounter with Ethan tomorrow or a week from now. They all said that feeling how soft Ethan was experiencing him in the classroom would help them remember information about angora rabbits in the future. I also pointed out that many more questions were generated when I took Ethan out to show people. With the slide I had to stimulate questions and I only received one. What an exciting experience! More on experiential learning later!