Booted Rabbit Questions? : Rabbit Colours and Genetics

I've had solids to booteds consistently produce too much white. A solid is a mystery and could have the genes for booted or the genes to be nearly white. It just doesn't show with no broken gene so what you get when crossing solid x broken is quite random no matter what the broken is.

It's desirable to breed rabbits with known good pattern or solids from brokens that were show quality because of how variable it can be. Breeding booted brokens or unknown solids might produce some that can be shown but you'll have a bunch that are equivalent to an unrecognized color. How many depends on the exact modifiers in the pairs you breed. The more you keep booted offspring for your own preferences the less likely you will get show quality brokens of any breed that recognizes the pattern.

My favorite mini rex was a booted broken castor that may not have been show quality type but I kind of preferred her look. She had a really cute head and refined look for producing pets.


Crossing her to different solids I got everything from near solid white to these things I was referring to as dalmation mini rex. Her kits had a tendency to get snotty noses with rapid weather changes their first few months though so while they always recovered without intervention and nothing else ever got sick around them I did not really keep anything from her and didn't want to establish a line around her offspring. She could foster anything though and had 3 ages including large meat rabbit offspring in the box one time.