Casco's 9th litter is now 5 weeks old. When newborn I thought we had 5 black, 2 grey(which I guess you call blue) and 2 white. By the time they opened their eyes and left the nest box I noticed that a couple of the blacks looked sort of rusty--more dark almost reddish brown than black. I've been told that black goats look that color when they have certain mineral deficiencies and now wonder if that can be true of rabbits. A couple of the black kits have steel and so look speckled but by now I'm used to that--Casco has it and so have some of her other kits. But I haven't seen this other thing before. One of the greys has some sort of brown going too but not so dark, maybe just steel although before that has mostly shown up on the blacks. Not breeding for pets or pelts so color doesn't matter to me. As long as it doesn't indicate something I should be doing something about. I tried to get photos of 3 "black" kits today--one with steel, one plain, and one rusty? Hoping someone can explain what I'm seeing and tell me if I need to worry--or not.
