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If you can really find Champagnes with type as good as Californians (?), I'd probably use one of those rather than a Cal to improve Bruns. Chocolate (Brun) is only a step or two away from black (Champagne). They are both silvered, and they're also both full-color selfs, and once you get that...

With all of that background information, it starts to sound like it could well be the buck, especially if the does are unrelated. Even if the two new does and the buck are related, your third doe from an original doe you had would likely be less related, if I'm reading your reply correctly. If...

In my experience, litter size does tend to run in genetic lines, but not always due to the buck. Although it certainly could be your buck if all three does are having the same problem, I've never culled a buck for litter size issues. In my experience, my bucks' production varies from doe to...

The National Angora breed club has a number of contacts for Angora breeders, including a listing for an English Angora breeder in Colorado called Pinewood Mountain Rabbitry. See here for more contact info: (https://nationalangorarabbitbreeders.com/club-breeders-list.php) Angelas Angoras in...

While fur mites can be more challenging, for ear mites I've always had good results from using oil: almond, olive, mineral, or sweet oil all work. Just drip a little in each ear, then massage it gently and thoroughly, getting it down into the ear where the mites will hide. The oil suffocates...

Yes, taken together (white markings plus blue/marbled/unmatched eyes), the most likely cause is vienna. You can get white markings and/or blue eyes from other sources but I think that's the most likely conclusion.

Yes, I'd call that an opal. A chocolate agouti (aka amber) doesn't usually have that nice slate undercolor - it's more of a dove gray. A lilac agouti (aka lynx) has even paler undercolor. I'm guessing that the picture of the ring color is from the belly, so the blue ticking color is missing...

I agree with @ladysown in the other thread https://rabbittalk.com/threads/new-to-rabbits-and-rabbit-talk-for-color-re.37443/#post-363701 about crossing breeds (in this case Mini Rex x Rex) not being a great idea. Sometimes it's helpful in pursuit of improvements in a particular breed, but just...

He's neither a blue nor a chocolate, which are self varieties (all one color, over and under). He's got a different color around his eyes, along his jaw, on his belly and under his tail, so he's either an agouti or an otter. He looks blue-based to me, but since computer screens are unreliable...

Wry neck can result from several different causes, including injury, but the one that I've personally encountered is the microorganism Encephalitazoon cunuiculi. E. cuniculi has been identified as a protozoan, but it has fungal qualities including transmission by spores, among other other...

Maybe @judymac wants EE and DD so she doesn't keep getting dilutes and torts popping up among her blacks... But I'd be interested to learn if homozygous D and E make better black, too. There's an interesting idea I'm trying to ferret out about steel E(S). Several old breeders have told me they...

IMHO, raising livestock is the art of the possible. ;) I myself have had cages that were filled past technical capacity when the options available for moving the rabbits were less attractive than leaving them crowded, which sounds like your situation. Since the litter is used to each other...

Most of these pairings will depend heavily on what the individuals carry behind their dominant alleles. Any of the pairings could produce BEWs or REWs if both parents carry vienna or REW. Chocolate magpie x chocolate harlequin will probably make more chocolate harlequins, but they may also...

It may be vienna, or it may be the dreaded "stray white hairs/white spot in colored area" which can occur without either broken or vienna genes (due some other genetic detail, or to injury). It would be surprising to have anyone add anything with vienna to purebred NZs, but as @MsTemeraire...

I'd call the brokens either chestnut or harlequinized chestnut (also see broken oranges in the group photo). Watch how they develop. Agoutis take a while to develop the proper banding etc., so what looks like stripes and patches could be just the newborn coat giving way to the first junior...

Blue ("china eyes"), marbled or mismatched eyes in Dutch are not entirely uncommon and do not necessarily mean there is a vienna allele in play. I have yet to read a consise and convincing explanation for it, but it seems to involve multiple polygenes and modfiers affecting the distribution of...

I agree with @judymac, that is a cool collection of colors! I also agree with you both about the blue, opal and black tort. The first broken chestnut seems fine at first glance, but that second one has some suspicious patchiness to its color. Especially note the distinct patch of dark on its...

I have never seen or heard of a broken that did not have white feet. I am not saying it couldn't happen, just that it's pretty rare. Breed her to a solid and see (and let us know)! ;) I'd lean more toward damage. Colored rabbits that get injured often re-grow white hair over the scar, and...

The argentes are really catching on in the U.S. these days. The trend in names is moving back toward the original French construction, as well: the two newest argentes in the US are the Argente Brun and the Argente St Hubert (not fully recognized but one step shy). They're all firmly in the...

I don't raise Tamuks, but all of the normally-sized meat breeds I've raised (Satin, Californian, New Zealand, Champagne D'Argent) do fine at roughly 6mos for does and 5-6 months for bucks. They don't need to be senior weight, but they should be nearing that weight; if does are noticeably small...