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Say I was to take 2 completely unrelated rabbits from 2 genetically distant breeds, and crossed them. If I take that F1 outcrossed offspring and breed it to a littermate, what are my chances of them suffering from inbreeding depression? I imagine the odds would be more in my favor than if I...

When I get rabbits in the distant future, I plan on starting with cages, but will eventually shift to rabbit tractors, then maybe to colonies, then eventually to free-ranged. The rabbits I breed will be large/giant, so raptors are less of a fear for breeding-aged adults, and they will be white...

I thought about lilac, but decided against it since both chocolate and blue impact eye color. I want the eyes to be as dark as possible in these rabbits so they don't have any vision problems related to pigment. I'll think on it further.

Thank you, the reason I am asking is because when I get rabbits in the distant future, I would like to produce a large/giant type white rabbit with dark eyes. I didn't want to use any albino, BEW, or heterozygous rabbits because of either health/eye problems, or inconsistency of type. I...

Thank you for the very informative reply! Can you recommend any links where I can read about this further? Cremes have surely piqued my interest!

I know they have the silvering gene, but I came across a web page that said they have the wideband gene as well. Here it is: https://minifluffsrabbitry.weebly.com/rabbit-colors-across-breeds.html

Don't have any rabbits yet, but plan on breeding in the distant future.