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Yes, homozygous self alleles <aa> completely block expression of the agouti and tan patterns. So any alleles that interact with those features, like chinchilla changing the middle ring and trim to pearl, or steel extending the undercolor up the hairshaft and changing the placement of the rings...

Yeah, and if you start out trying to understand genetics with a tricky steel in the mix (actually several of the E series alleles are tricky), you may end up in a semi-permanent state of confusion! :ROFLMAO: The big question in my mind is whether both her sire and dam were/looked like...

That is really interesting coming from purebred Americans; to me these look like blue silver martens (a dilute otter with a dominant chinchilla allele) with silvering. I do not see obvious banding, though I wonder a little bit about Chamomile..see below. All of that white ticking in the blue...

I'd call all of those rabbits steel, the chinchilla version, aka silver-tipped steel (STS). It's not surprising given a NZ/Flemish ancestor, since Flemish are shown in steel (called steel gray) and NZ Whites often carry steel. What is surprising is that, since the steel allele combines with an...

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Yes, that's what we've found here. I have my dream barn for my rabbits now, but we take the heavy-duty plastic off our greenhouse each fall so we we don't have to keep buying more every year or two (plus it's easier to just take it off and on than it is to try to repair the plastic). It's...

It can be easy to confuse these colors because they are visually pretty similar (they all look basically like blue-gray rabbits), and because there are different common names for the colors. In spite of it being tedious for some readers to encounter a series of letters <A_B_C_dd_E_> in the...

Yes, blue agouti, sometimes called opal, has the normal agouti 'trim" around the eyes and jaw, inside the ears, inside the feet and under the tail and belly, as well as the normal banding on the fur; the difference is that anywhere there would have been black tipping, it is diluted to blue...

Cracked Pepper - I'm assuming he's the broken one looking into the camera - looks like a broken sable point, which would be <aaB_c(chl)_D_eeEnen>. (Sable point is sometimes called siamese sable, but I prefer sable point because it helps indicate that it's a non-extension color.) The term tri...

It's great that you are looking for input before you spend time and money on your set-up...we spent years learning the hard way! :ROFLMAO: We started out with free-standing wood hutches in the yard, but things got immeasurably better once we moved the all rabbits into hanging wire cages in a...

The pattern I use is similar to the one you were using, modified for the reasons you are doing so (duplication), as well as being an indication of which litter of a given set of parents, an indication of sex, and ranking of the bunnies in a litter. The tattoos are: (litter number if it's the...

I agree, that current color looks pretty sable-y, except that from what I've seen in my stock, sable doesn't start dark and become lighter, rather it starts pale and gets darker as the rabbit ages. There is a series of photos showing the development of sable color from kit to about 6 months of...

That's really interesting. In my experience, our rabbits' skin color has always matched coat color, though I admit that I have never tanned hides without fur so I may have missed it. I know our goats have colored spots on their skin that are concealed by completely white fur, but I've never...

My first thought when I see blue eyes in a solid black is self chinchilla. That's what you get when a chinchilla allele <c(chd)> in the dominant position, which suppresses yellow pigment to produce a chinchilla agouti (agouti A_) or silver marten (tan a(t)_), combines with self alleles <aa>...

Yes, I've had that happen. It could have been a miss, or an early miscarriage... But I would NOT take the box out yet!!! I've been burned by that. I've had live kits born as late as 36/37 days, and lost some of them because I'd pulled the box, or never put it in because the doe wasn't...

I'd call it a medium amount, kind of salt-and-pepper, evenly distributed over the body. It shouldn't be heavily silvered like a Champagne D'Argent, which looks silvery blue-gray from a distance. Nor should it be so lightly silvered that it looks like it just has stray white hairs. Below is...

That's a good question! :) The sections I believe would be applicable are in the "General" and "Structural" disqualification sections of the SOP, though there is not any verbiage specifically addressing drooping ear tips. Due to copyright restrictions I can't reproduce the whole text here...

Handling animals is definitely a learned skill. Part of it is a back-and-forth of establishing confidence on your part and trust on the animal's part. My daughter and I have been able to handle many people's "uncontrollable" animals because of our confidence, which comes from experience and...

I agree with @TamiPac about the rat and snake risk. I also want to suggest that you keep an eye on the birds' feet. Giving them a sandbox should help them maintain their feathers, but when we kept coturnix on wire, their feet suffered terribly. They can't keep themselves from scratching while...

I don't have anything to offer regarding InstaPot; I'm old school and use a pressure cooker or slow cooker. But we love canned rabbit. I've not had any problem with mushiness, though I have not canned whole rabbits or quarters. For our family, I bone the meat first, then hot pack it; all the...