They are new zealand rabbits which all have BB shouldn't be chocolate. The doe has Dd for dilute but we aren't sure if the red buck is Dd or DD so I was thinking the dilute might be the difference
These 2 chestnuts are from the same litter. Had a black new zealand doe mother and a red new zealand buck sire. What information about their genotype can we figure out from their phenotype?
I am working towards a breeding pair of reds and blues for new Zealand rabbits. Ultimately I would love to show them at arba and do well. Since these are meat rabbits I have been working on our growth rate, 5 lbs at 10 week. I've never shown at arba so I was wondering if it is absolutely...
Rew stands for red eyed white, rew rabbits are essentially albino and is hard to tell what they can throw genetically because the white masks the underlying genetics.
This will be a little long of a post and a little scattered so I apologize for that.
Quick background, we've been breeding pure bred nz rabbits for almost 2 years now. We've discussed a lot of directions for the rabbitry and the idea for now is to develope a strong line of blues and reds...
You are right about the non extension e. That buck threw torts with another blue doe. I'm just surprised that we didn't get any chestnut. We did get a solid black from that same litter. Genetics are funny. Been researching into them a lot recently. Thanks for your insight
We have a new zealand red doe we bred with a broken blue buck. In theory we should get chestnut babies but we haven't identified any as such. So I'm wondering if I even know what to look for. Is this baby a chestnut