I think it’s the same as the angora but on a smaller scale since they are much smaller than angora’s.

I had a foster that was a Jersey Wooly and I was terrible at grooming and I also had a fuzzy lop who had super silky hair that would knot when you just looked at it – I had a hard time grooming him as well.   Long haired rabbit grooming is just not my thing!

Hi Bunnytowne!

My Tigerlily is a Lionhead / Wooly mix and her fur can get quite tangled she has like patches on her body that have longer hair than others kind of crazy but I just try to brush it out gently because she has gotten knots on those pieces of fur and around her partial mane.

I don’t know how fuzzy your bun is but Ruby does look like a handful with all that beautiful fur i will keep an eye open for any information i find and forward it along to you.

Here are some articles on long hair grooming.

http://www.kindplanet.org/angoragroom.html

http://www.mybunny.org/info/groom_long_haired.htm

My friend has a Jersey Wooly she’s had for about 7 years. She has a whole zoo at home and often has to go a week without grooming her. By the end of the week, she’s covered in mats and things get stuck in the knots, like poos and litter. Sometimes she takes a pair of battery powered puppy trimmers to safely clip off all the mats and the fur that gets too long.

She’s a beautiful bunny though, I wouldn’t mind getting one.

Almost too embarrassed to admit this…when I first got Jersey I began to research breeds on the net.  I had thought at one point she might be a Jersey Wooly !   I mean, just look at her <^____  ! Gotta love internet misdirection.  Don’t know if it was a description or picture that led me there.  She was a babe and very fluffy….well that’s my excuse!  I’d already named her at that point too so it woulda been a neat fit.

I have a 3 year old jersey wooly name Sophie. I’ve only had her just over a month so I can only tell really what I’ve done so far and what I’ve observed. I got her from a breeder and the breeder told me that jersey woolies don’t really require alot of care when it comes to hair and that I would only have to groom her MAYBE once a month. Now that is what the breeder told me and I have to say with just only having Sophie a little over a month that I completely disagree. I personally would say that if you have a jersey wooly that you should at least groom him/her once a week if not more. I’ve read from some people who have them that they only have to groom them every 2 weeks but I would recommend that you check your rabbit at least every other day if not everyday to see if their hair may be starting to knot. I think it can be different for each rabbit. I used equine fresh for litter which is just like wood pellets and they do get stuck in the ends of her hair fur so I mix yesterdays news with it and that seems to have helped. But she also digs in her litterbox and lays in it as well. But she only digs in the corner she likes to pee in. She also sometimes gets hay in her fur as well but I’m able to get them out really easily. I use a furmator to brush Sophie’s fur and a green colored larger dog brush and they seems to help prevent knots.

I’ve have not as of yet had to really give Sophie a good long thorough brushing, BUT that is because her fur is not really soft or in the best condition yet. The breeder who I got her from didn’t really take very good care of her. When I got her she was basically skin and bones. She didn’t have really any muscle at all. I really didn’t know that she was in that bad of condition until I actually picked her up and felt how light she was. And her ribs and hips stuck out and felt VERY pointly. To be completely honest I think she just gave up. When I looked into her eyes that basically looked like the light have went out of them and she had just gave up on life. The breeder I got her from had switched to a new food and some of her rabbits weren’t eating and I think Sophie was one if them and that maybe the breeder didn’t notice really because of her long fur. I got some of the old food she had been feeding and mixed it with oxbow. When I bought Sophie home she basically dove into the food pellets. It took around 2 weeks before she really started to liven up and get that light back into her eyes. Now after a month she still dives into the pellets and is right at the front of her cage for veggies. Her fur is starting to get softer and look healthier so I’ve been keep a good eye on it to make sure that she start getting any matts. The good think about her is that she is the best of my rabbits about being handled and allowing me to groom them, which is good since she requires more grooming that the others. I think it really helps when it comes to grooming your rabbit if their good or at least tolerant of being handled and grooms. 

By the picture of Ruby on your siggy I would have to say that she actually looks to be a jersey wooly. Ruby looks a lot like Sophie except that Ruby does look to have longer fur, but Sophie’s is just starting to get healthy so it may go out some more get poofier. Did who ever you got Ruby from say that she was a teddy lionhead? I ask because the breeder I got Sophie from had some lionheads who had long fur like a jersey wooly but looked like a lionhead in the face that she said were called teddy lionheads because of the longer fur and one of them was a show rabbit. But still in my opinion Ruby looks alot like my Sophie.

This is exciting for me to read, because Honey is at the bonder’s house right this second, and HOPEFULLY.. she will come home with a jersey woolly boyfreind. eeee! <3

I happen to be looking on the bunny breed picture thread and seen another picture of ruby and by that particular picture I have to say that she looks almost identical to teddy lionhead that breeder I got my jersey wooly Sophie had. I personally had never heard of a teddy lionhead before seeing and being told by the breeder that was what breed the rabbit was she had. The rabbit is have different coloring than ruby but looked like a lionhead but with longer and fluffier fur all over. The breeder said that their hard to find and that her rabbit was a show rabbit that she was retiring her from breeding after her last litter since she just turned 5 years old, but she did say that she was going to keep her bring her into her house to live out her live. The rabbit was very pretty.

As for Sophie my jersey wooly, she’s around 3 years old and was used for breeding but wouldn’t breed anymore so the breeder decided to retire her and find her a pet home only. But she had been trying to sell her for about 3-4 months and didn’t having any luck. She said that she’s getting out of jersey woolies because she can’t sell them because people think they regular extra grooming (which they do) but the breeder said they didn’t but I disagree on that. To be completely honest I think that the reason that Sophie wouldn’t breed anymore is because of her not eating because the breeder changed to a different food and did it all of a sudden with slowly transition them. I’m glad that I got her when I did because I don’t think she would have made much longer. And she’s a great rabbit. She loves being petted and will let me brush and comb her fur without protest. Sophie was house in a hutch by herself, but did have other rabbits next to her. All of the sexually mature rabbits the breeder had where housed individually. The only ones housing more than one were the mom’s with babies or weaned siblings.