Molt Blues

[Muchelle]

Oh people of Bunland that in these days are facing the umpteenth sudden and disastrous molt! Whine and complain with me!
How many bags of rabbit fur have you plucked this week? Does your bun look like a leper or a hula dancer? How much does your bun  hate you from 1 to 100000 after the last time you had to grab him and strip him before he coated every inch of the floor with a volatile layer of fluff?

Go forth, let it all out! I sure need to ahahaha

[Dface]

I thought Yumi (double maned lion head-maybe has angorra) was fluffy.
Then I brought home Peep, who was at the start of a moult- he’s predominantly angorra. His fur is EVERYWHERE.
I live on the 3rd floor of my house, the rabbits are confined to my room.
I have found his fur in the kitchen.
I brush him(which is hard cause he does not trust me at all), I hoover the floor, and I lint roll all my clothes. It doesn’t help.

I leave the house and no matter what, a friend will be able to note the white fur stuck to some part of my clothing.

It’s an actual nightmare.

[Azerane]

Admittedly I’ve been slack with grooming, but I have piles of fur everywhere in the bunny pen. Today was supposed to be grooming day, but that’s tomorrow now so the foot flicking will begin then 

[Bam]

Bam decided to do this particular molt in patches. It’s not pretty. I’ve got two bags of fur off of him this week, but he’s just started this molt. Picture is from yesterday. The skin on the bald spot is perfectly smooth. 

[Muchelle]

@Dface: I am more and more convinced that my rat is a crossbreed with angora or other wooly breeds… when i pluck him I practically take out an endless thread of wool =.= and yeah I have the same problem with hair sticking to stuff and coming out in the weirdest places. As for clothes, I barely wet my hand and rub it over my clothes to take off the fine hair… doesn’t work 100% but it’s better than what the brush can take off.

@bam: also K used to do that when he was younger, then he probably ‘learned’ that it’s better to shed when you have new fur already poking out

@Azerane: good luck ahahaha

[Dface]

Az- I feel that. Yumi has an easy enough top coat to brush, but her undercarriage is a lovely thick wooly coat that needs to be stripped out…She loathes it. Sometimes she lets me, and grunts and stamps when Im done, some days she tries to shred my hands with her backfeet…

For a rabbit that doesnt know or trust me much, I have to say Peep Handles it like a champion.

As for the fur problem, my boyfriend stood in my room, while I was sorting some things out before we went out once, and needed to have his clothes de-furred…without touching anything.
It’s just a room of floof. Its smoothering!

[Bam]

Muchelle, that’s how Bam sheds, an endless thread of wool. You can just pull and pull and pull.

[ThorBunny]

Sooo Thor was just finally finishing up her last molt, and has started right away on a new one 

On the plus side, her head fur started molting first in this beautiful heart shape 

[Bam]

That is a beautiful molt-mark, Thor! Amazing!

[Muchelle]

I wish K molted with such grace

[Bam]

I wish Bam did too. Instead he’s developed a corresponding bald spot on the other side of his back ?

[Q8bunny]

I thought we were the only ones! I was so relieved (for about… three days!) that Chewie’s second monster moult was over. And now this week he’s started another. WTF??? He’s never had a bald spot, but now I’m starting to suspect there’s some angora in my floof as well because his undercoat is pure long fine strands of wool – which I should be knitting into scarves but instead am using to supplement my diet. Blech! Blech! Ptoo! It doesn’t help that he will NOT be picked up to be groomed. I must (as usual this year) pluck him with one hand as I give him a headrub with the other. ???

[Muchelle]

I am saving most of the discarded wool to one day make a felt plushie of the Little Lord

[Theodorusrex]

I feel all your pain… Theo had a moult in february time this year and when it was done in March I was like great it’s over nice and early!!

But alas it was not over nice and early. He started again in April and this time literally all his hair fell out has regrown only shorter. I was brushing/plucking him several times a day for up to half an hour and more and more fur just kept coming out. Theo’s pen is in our kitchen too so all my meals have had a little extra seasoning of fur this last few months!! As have all my clothes, and furniture. It’s a nightmare when we have guests I’m having to clean like a maniac to make sure they don’t find Theo fur in their food! On top of this Theo is super sensitive to fur ingestion so this moult has seen us in stasis once with a £200 bill from the emergency vet, and also several times where simethicone and syringe feeding have been required.

BUT I think it’s finally finished for another year *does ecstatically happy dance*

Who am I kidding he’ll probably start moulting again tomorrow.

[BunnyFriends]

Winter hasn’t really molted whatsoever…. All I do is the regular weekly brush and she’s fine. She’s a pure Himalayan so fur isn’t quite so thick, but I’m honestly very surprised.

Licorice I’m scared about. He’s molting very gradually so it only requires grooming every four days. His last spring molt was very heavy (he did have mites at the time) so I’m not sure if I should be happy or if the worst is yet to come.

Either way, I got off really easy compared to some of you. 

[Muchelle]

Guess who decided to have a molt on top of a molt! (hey I heard u like molts so i put molts on yer molts bro!)

[Q8bunny]

He’s not LORD Kuro for nothing – all mere mortal buns must be outdone.

[Muchelle]

He’s still not done molting!!! URGHHHH

[Q8bunny]

Neither is the wookie.

[Bam]

Bam paused his molt, probably because it got very cold here. But he’ll take it up again, he’s just waiting for the perfect moment. I think he likes it best when he and Effi are shedding at the same time, because two shedding individuals can fill an apt with fluff much more efficiently than just one.

[Q8bunny]

There’s a reason I always picture buns as ‘crafty’ individuals.

[jerseygirl]

This off Mishy Moosh last night.  And you can’t even tell I’d brushed her. Her fur is so dense.

Muchelle, I tried some needle felting of bunny fur just last week! This is some of Gooseman’s fur.

[Azerane]

I’m trying to remember who Mishy Moosh is I’m guessing Potamus, not white enough for Ailis and she’s you’re only other girl

[jerseygirl]

Lol, yes Potamus.

[Q8bunny]

Yowzers! What I wouldn’t give to be able to card the wookie like that
But that’s ok. One small and sneaky plucked handful at a time.

[Muchelle]

Oh wow! I need to buy me some felting needles asap

[jerseygirl]

Haha, Id had mine for a few years and never really used them. Id bought wool rovings to make mini needle felted versions of my bunnies. But never got around to it… Id always wanted to do some using their actual fur too.
So when I got a good bunch from Gooseman’s chest last week, I gave it a go. As you can see, I didn’t really make it into anything. Plenty more fur on supply though!

I was playing around with the idea of a hock sock (toe-less) for extra padding if hocks are getting a bit bare. Or using as a pad if I ever had to wrap the hocks. 

[Muchelle]

Oh I love the hock sock idea in case I get another sore hock situation. I’l have to order the needles online cause Italy isn’t big about felting stuff and it’s a pain to find those things I wish we had big hobby supply stores like in every other freaking country ahaha

[Q8bunny]

Aah… but you have gorgeous food produced among gorgeous scenery by gorgeous men descended from Roman gods

[Bam]

Bamdelion fluff! To think he’s a black rabbit. 

[Q8bunny]

Chewie’s long-lost cousin!

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