I now have 4 Beverens...2 blue, 2 black. The blues (juniors) both come from blue x chocolate. (which I am EXTREMELY happy with). The blacks are both blue x black..i think. maybe one was blue x blue. (Also brought home 3 lovely Americans)
anyway...The people I was learning from were talking about "blue" (a lighter blue than the American breed blue...it looks like a true bluegrey, where the American seems to be more dark grey/blue) and the possibility of GETTING a lilac.
There was a really pretty doe (already spoken for) that was chocolate. Really lovely color..like looking at a huge milk chocolate truffle..with eyes and ears.
It's going to be an interesting learning experience. I never thought I'd say this again after the years of showing horses, but...I'm actually excited about the possibility of showing again!
I put up a post/pics about them on the blogs we have here on rabbittalk:
http://rabbittalk.com/blogs/anntann/2010/08/05/americans-and-beverens-now/<br /><br />__________ Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:00 am __________<br /><br />About the blue color thing...I thought I'd post two pictures. First is a blue American doe. The two folks who were also looking at the herd for purchases said she had good blue color for American standard. The second picture is of a Beverens..every blue beverens I saw there had this same color, and they said it was "the blue" of the standard.
The pictures were taken one after another. Same lighting, basically the same direction. You can see the color difference. The way the breeders have refined a color over decades is fascinating..and STILL the body type is there...good round butts, long shoulders I guess, which leads to the mandolin shape. And the head with the very strong V shape ear base.