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It may very well be related to the season and waning daylight. There's more information on the other thread about lighting https://rabbittalk.com/threads/artificial-light.37687/ It wouldn't surprise me to hear your does are raring to go come late January/February.

I think it comes from picking louse eggs, called "nits," out of someone's hair. 🤢 :ROFLMAO:

Well, the silvering is important, but there are four other silvered breeds recognized in the U.S. (Silver, Champagne D'Argent, Argente Brun and Creme D'Argent) and another on the way to recognition, the Argente St Hubert. What really makes the Silver Fox unique is its coat type. There is no...

I used to breed year-round, and supplemental lighting definitely helped with that. So did warming the does up for a bit - I used to bring them into the mudroom, where it was warmer than in the rabbit shed but not as warm as in the house; or I'd take them on a car ride in a carrier for a few...

A breed called the Miniature Lion Lop is recognized by the British Rabbit Council; you can see more information here: https://lionlopsuk.co.uk/ However, lion lops are not officially recognized in the U.S., where shows are run by the ARBA's standards, which as @judymac points out, you can find...

I saw your post and have been mulling it since my original response, but I've not replied again because I am a bit mystified as well! :unsure: Off the top, two comments. This is the first I'd ever heard of the Fauve de Burgogne breed - thanks for expanding my world! Beautiful rabbit. So, I...

Ah, all those reds... With that information and the new photos, I'm wondering if those off-blacks, which in these pictures again look like they have ticking reminiscent of steel, are like the mystery color I found in a litter fairly recently. That was in early 2023, when I discovered steel in...

Yes, after thinking about it, I agree it is a bit of a mess. KITS Looking at the mystery kits, that chocolatey color with a faint ticking that looks shimmery looks like a phase that sables go through. Did those kits look like pale blues as newborns? That's been my experience of sable. I...

Frosties, being agouti (whether chinchilla- or sable-based), will have white bellies...however, it seems to me that they should still have a darker undercolor there. Here's the belly of a blue chinchilla, which shows the undercolor of an agouti: However... I don't know if the non-extension...

On my screen, the whole the ear does look blue-ish, but if I look only at the tip, it looks sepia...but as you point out, screens each can have their own versions of colors. :ROFLMAO: The fur tipping on the forehead has that not-quite-black color as well, which could make you think chocolate -...

Thanks for the call-out, @Mckatie 😁 She's pretty. Yeah, I like calling her sable frosty aka sable ermine. You can definitely have both - the sable <c(chl)> is on the C locus, and the ermine/frosty is non-extension <ee> coming from alleles at the E locus. So if she's a sable frosty, she...

The first photo looks like a chinchilla but maybe with wideband <ww> influence, which makes the color look lighter overall and in my experience also increases the extent of the trim. <A_B_c(chd)_D_E_ww> A fur shot to take a look at the ring pattern in the coat would be interesting; also check...

Yes! (Or maybe himi SF...) I like very sleek rabbits, myself, but I was thinking that a white SF might actually be pretty cool, like an arctic fox. 😁 I have a long background in genetics, but a lot of what I've learned about rabbit coat colors, specifically, has been breeding experimentation...

Usually whites pop out of colored lines when both parents carry a copy of the most recessive allele on the C locus, REW <c>. Those alleles, when paired, prevent any color from being produced anywhere on the rabbit, including the eyes. Some people call it albino, and many people who are...

In the first photo he looks like a sable, in the second he looks like a blue sable, aka smoke pearl. What seems to be pale eye color in the second photo inclines me toward smoke pearl, but the exposures on the two photos are so different that it'll have to be your call as to whether he's...

That's great news!!! She was probably just so miserable with that nasty mite load that she couldn't help having an attitude. And, I have noticed that very often when a rabbit needs and is given TLC, they end up pretty sweet, even if the TLC includes things that are uncomfortable. I won't go...

This is the one I have: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PVMRZQH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 The stand was cheap and broke right away, but the scope itself is serviceable. It goes to 1000x but I haven't needed it at that power so I don't know how the resolution would be...

Ah, yes... steel! Especially that part about "mystery" colors popping up! :ROFLMAO: Until you've spent some time looking, silver-tipped steels can easily be assumed to be "dark chinchillas"...which I guess they are, really, since that <E(S)> pushes all the color up to the tips of the hair...

This is also super interesting!!! I have never seen or heard of this! The rabbit in your photos really does look, at first glance, like a steel. I have seen steels, especially silver-tipped steels, with extremely pale bellies, though not as bright as normal agoutis. It has always seemed to...

So, pedigrees are on the honor system, and everyone really appreciates it when breeders make their best effort to be accurate...but the reality is, rabbits are shown according to their phenotype (what they look like), regardless of their genetic make-up. That's not cheating or dishonest at all...