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Yes, that's what we've found - the quail most often raised for meat and eggs, coturnix (coturnix is Latin for quail, so I don't call them coturnix quail :ROFLMAO: ) do not go broody, even when given nest boxes, brush and grass to hide in, etc. However...many years ago we had a few coturnix...

They look like they are probably a mixed breed, possibly with Flemish Giant in the mix given the particularly long ears on some of the babies, though that can also indicate Rex in the background. I agree with @RabbitsOfTheCreek and @tambayo that Lola is probably a magpie (which is a harlequin...

Rabbit's hormones can work in either direction. We've had uppity does become sweetness itself once bred; others were psycho until they have the babies, then they pushed the babies aside for attention from us. Other does are puppy dogs until bred, then you need to tread carefully around them...

Flemish Giants are big, but they don't stand 2-3 ft tall at the shoulder!!! Unless, I suppose, they were standing on their hind legs with their front feet on your knees. :ROFLMAO: In the U.S., a Flemish Giant ideally has what's called a mandolin or semi-arch body type, meaning a relatively...

Great! So I don't see anything there that makes me think blue. I'd call the babies: 2 VM torts <aa B_ C_ D_ ee vv> 2 sable points, on which it might be hard to spot a VM but check the nose for a white spot in the dark shaded area, so <aa B_c(chl)_ D_ ee V_> or <aa B_c(chl)_ D_ ee Vv> The two...

At six months old, Hollands are considered seniors, so you should have the type and weight you want by then. In our experience, good Holland Lops just get better as they age. The best ones are already built like little tanks by weaning age, or even earlier, but most well-bred Hollands' bodies...

What a sweet face!!! Hard to believe that's not a nice bunny. It might settle down once it gets used to where it is and learns that you are not a threat. I'd start by choosing a particular cage, hutch or some other kind of home and keeping the rabbit there consistently; rabbits don't like...

Those are great photos of really cute bunnies. 😁 Yes, I believe that's a tort, possibly blue tort given the smokey color of the lacing on its ears and muzzle, although photos on a computer screen can be misleading. If the ear lacing is black it's a tort, if it's blue-gray it's a blue tort...

The lighter one looks like a sable point; that color is not considered white in the rabbit world. Sable point means it has an allele, the sable or shaded allele <c(chl)>, that turns off yellow pigment, leaving dark and sepia tones in the coat; it also has two copies of a recessive allele called...

Congratulations!!! Best in Show is a pretty incredible way to start winning. 😁 That's one leg of Grand Champion. When a rabbit earns three of those, under at least two different judges and with at least one of the legs won as an intermediate or senior, it qualifies to be recognized as a...

I think @Bekah-n-Tennessee does a great job of running through the experience! While we usually use either a hopper popper or a blunt object, the aim described by @Bekah-n-Tennessee, "point blank more from the top, front edge of ears, centered, pointed slightly towards their mouths (they were...

That's really exciting! Congratulations on finding a solution. We love our quail for meat and eggs! Allergies are such a weird thing. I imagine you've asked what the quail are being fed and can stick with that, as sometimes it's not the birds themselves but something in their environment or...

Well, that's quite interesting. The bunny on the right is harder to judge, but it may have "stray white hairs," which are not always associated with steeling or silvering. However, the first black bunny, the one on the left in the photo of two, surely looks like a steel to me. You can pretty...

That's the rub - as far as I know you can't, unless you know for sure that the rabbit did NOT have a broken parent. Brokens tend to have spots/blankets, and magpies tend to have color running in longer patches/stripes, but when you combine them, those already iffy distinctions break down. If I...

It's a little tricky judging rabbits from single photos, taken from different angles and in different poses, so please take the following comments with that in mind. None of them seem to be posed correctly except your doe (who has her head up but otherwise seems set up right) and maybe #2, but...

The genotype your calculator gave you for the Creme D'Argent is an ideal, except that the <SiSi> is not right. As I'm sure you know, a Creme is a silvered rabbit, and silvered rabbits are typically <sisi>, or at the very least <Sisi>. (The silvering allele is partially dominant, but it's still...

That makes it more likely that she's a broken sable magpie. As far as I know, you can't get both black and gray on the same rabbit; gray (aka blue) is a dilute black, and barring some weird situations like chimerism, a rabbit is either dilute <dd> or not <D_>. So it makes sense that what...

Welcome to RT and to raising meat rabbits! Rabbits are a great, sustainable resource in Alaska - one of the best, IMO! They are a naturally cold-hardy species, and can produce a lot of meat in a short time. They are also a wonderful introduction for kids (of all ages ;)) to animal husbandry...

All breeds can be entered in their respective Breed Fur class. Polish have commercial type fur, so your buck could also be entered in the Commercial Fur class. Fur classes are divided into Colored (which refers to any rabbit with color other than white on the usable parts of the pelt...

If that's the sire, I'd call the color red, which is what he'd be called as a New Zealand. Red is a wide-band non-extension chestnut with extra rufus factors, typically written <A_B_C_D_ee ww +++>. Fawn means slightly different colors in different breeds, but it often refers to either a...