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This morning I went out to feed, and both does who delivered Thursday had smashed their kits. 15 total. So sad. The only thing I can figure is our dog is in a kennel out there, and has been since last year. This past Monday she was injured and has a cast to heal her broken leg. That means she...

So this reddish cast on a chinchilla is resulting from a R modifier, not from a brown(bb) on the B locus? How would one distinguish a brown based chinchilla then, or rather is there such a thing? Would it be from the color of the basehairs? For example, this buck: His guard hairs and ears...

Hah, I think people are trying to recreate this in hair salons now too!

So, it's actually only her guard hairs that are tipped/banded. The majority of her hair is only a light band and a darker top, which was in the discussion about depth of color on the hair shaft. Which is what I though extension was on the E allele. Extension of the color at all on the actual...

Remember that frosted kit we assumed was frosted on the rump because of the cold temperature? Mom had her second litter yesterday and there are 4 pinkie kits, but only one with a darker purplish bum like the first kit. It was in the 60s on birthday but did get down to the 40s last night. Mom...

Ok, I cannot keep up with the genetic allele naming yet, but I do have ticking/silvering/agouting banding in my herd to share. I have attached the fiber photo to the photo of each rabbit in hopes of keeping them straight. This is my previous black doe with ticking I was told was silver fox...

So far this fun little kit is 24 days old. There is a distinct white coat under all those dark tips. We call it Siam for the siamese cat like coloring, and is farm favorite so far.

Sorry, I now recognize this is possibly not in line with the conversation you were having as it's about what to call the colors, not necessarily photographing them.

My head is spinning from regular color genetics usually, but this is a topic I was going to raise here soon, so I'll think hard and try to sound like I understand a bit. I have a Himalayan(Californian?) Dam and an steel tipped agouti( dark chinchilla?) Sire that produced this interesting...

Wow! I've never considered depth of hair craft coloring as a separate issue! But now I want to go and take photos of all my agouti and steels I know I have to see what is under there. I currently only have 4 does, and three are white bases. A californian, a broken NZ and a broken lop. My Foxy...

Thank you. I have read enough here that I knew that some of the babies were steels and some were agouti, based on the absence or presence of hair shaft rings, but I was confused by the stand up fur and white undercoat of mom. Only my chinchilla and chestnut agouti colored bunnies have white...

I was given this doe, told she was a silver fox, by a homesteading friend who was closing their rabbit operation down. She has standup fur, but she otter markings and her undercoat is white. The litter with her was bred with a chestnut agouti, her son. Some have stand up fur, some have fluffy...

We have a 55 gallon drum auto waterer, and as long as there aren't any growouts, my feeders will keep enough for 5 days per cage. We usually have my neighbor or my son's friend check in mid week if we are gone for longer than 3 days, just refill everything and make sure nothing happened to the...

This is my first time processing. These rabbits were given to me as growouts but were all pretty underweight. Under 3 pounds at almost 16 weeks. I got their weight up with consistent water from an auto system and 18% protein pellets free feed with some hay each day as well. They are now 20 weeks...

Just built my first doe hutch! It will be stored under a shed so no solid roof for now, but I left posts high in case I needed to angle it an put a roof later. It's really basic, one solid side and a solid back, but I think it will work for my purposes.

I had 3 tomato plants volunteer in my sweet potato bed this year. 1 cherry tomato and 2 beefsteak plants. We assume they were csrryover seeds from last summer when the raised bed was solely tomatoes. They have all done very well, although my tomato plants grew laying over instead of standing up...

Thank you, everyone for the advice. I know all rabbitry experiences/philosophies are different and tailored to each rabbitry and breed. My 4 week wean is based mostly on the experience of the breeder I'll be getting them from and how long before the kits have been self switching to solid food in...

Hey Mama, Just wondering how the auto feeder has worked thus far. We are interested in building one for our short term travel, as well as having a neighbor 4H-er look in on them daily just to be sure all is well. Thansk so much for the photo your set up looks great!

Hi everyone! I am still in the planning stages of adding some meat rabbits to our place in S. Mississippi. My dad ran a successful small scale meat/commercial rabbitry when I was very young. So far he's been a great source of information. This site is amazing and I am grateful for all the...