slavetoabunny wrote:
One thing you have to consider with a Jersey Wooley are the grooming requirements. You'll need to groom the coat a couple of time a week to keep up on it. If you don't, you'll get some bad matting. I fostered an American Fuzzy Lop once and groomed him 2-3x per week. It's not bad as long as you maintain it.
This depends largely on the rabbit and breed. I have a duo of show Woolies and they require
no grooming at all. They were and continue to be bred as a low-maintenance wool breed, and have guard hair that keeps their coat nice and untangled. The only thing most Wooly breeders do as far as grooming is blow out the coats with a blower before a show, which just pronounces the density a bit more.
American Fuzzy Lops are a bit different in their coats than Woolies. I don't think their wool is quite as easy-care as the woolies, I'm not sure if they have the guard hairs. But on a well-bred fuzzy lop, the fur is to be pretty low maintenane other than grooming maybe once a week or so as an adult.
The only problems you'll have with a well-bred wooly or fuzzyis sometimes when they have their baby coat, they'll mat a bit because they don't have the guard hairs in yet.
So if you're getting your rabbit from a reputable breeder, you won't have an issue since they're bred for easy care. Now, if by "Jersey Wooly", you mean a small, wooled rabbit with straight-up ears...that's probably not a Jersey Wooly and is probably just a mixed breed that ended up with wool. This could go either way, it may have the easy-care coat of a wooly, complete with guard hairs. Or it could be some sort of Angora mix, with soft, cottony fluff. If it ends up soft, cottony fluff, it will mat so easily that you won't be able to keep up with it with a brush!I'd suggest learning to clip the rabbit and keeping it clipped. Otherwise, the matting will be tough to keep up on, even with regular grooming. Or, if you choose to, you could actually buya blower and use that on the rabbit daily which also helps. But you have to be very dedicated to daily grooming on a rabbit like that, or it will mat and mats close to the skin are tough to get out!
Hope that helps!