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Angoras are not bred by breeding an angora male to an angora female, but carriers of the gene, so production will be one or two to a litter carrying the gene. Angora females are excellent mothers, they just can't raise their young once they give birth. The female angoras are poorly endowed by nature to lactate sufficiently to nourish their young, so they must be carefully fostered to a normal coated ferret who has just given birth within an hour after the kits are born. Please note that no regular kits are ever destroyed at our farm when their mom becomes a foster mom. We plan when doing our breeding so as to have some excellent foster moms to have small litters. The temperament of the foster mom affects the temperament of the fostered kits, so we select the best female ferrets to be foster moms well in advance of the breeding cycle. The higher price reflects the scarecity of the angoras, the demand, and the higher production costs.