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  1. M

    English Lop Ear Bleeding *BLOOD*

    Are you in an area where RHDV is present? Outward signs of haemorrhage aren't as common with RHDV2 but can still occur. Lethargy is a symptom, also seizures when they pass.
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    Agouti? Some kind of steel?

    We have a few breeds in the UK where it's still called "Brown Grey" - namely Dutch, British Giant, Angora and Vienna (the breed).
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    Dang. ****. *******.

    Years ago I had a Dwarf Lop doe - an intelligent breed, size between a Holland and a US Mini - who had free run of the garden. The postman left the front gate open and she ran into the road and was hit by a car :(
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    American chinchilla NZ Red Cross

    Broken can't be carried unseen (except under REW), but a pedigree is merely a record of what is kept back in each generation to make the next one. It doesn't record siblings, so there's no way to know if recessives are hiding there.
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    American chinchilla NZ Red Cross

    I guess it depends on what your Chins carry - and the Reds - but I'd expect most offspring from the first crosses to be agouti (chestnut). It's impossible to know what may be hiding; random recessives are not uncommon in any breed. At some point if you're line breeding you may get Ermines...
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    Boarding Rabbits?

    I think you would still have biosecurity issues. If you've been out of rabbits for a while, you may not have heard there's now a major virus present in the USA in many states (and spreading). RHDV is also affecting wild rabbits and hares, and indeed these represent a very high infection risk...
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    Frosty...Sable? Chocolate?

    They are classified as "Wideband" by ARBA, but they don't necessarily have the wideband gene, so that is somewhat misleading. Other rabbit associations don't call them this. A normal orange, without ww, has white belly colour with no slate undercolour.
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    White silver foxes?

    Or you could call them Polar Fox.
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    Colour question update :shades of sable? Agouti sable?

    Sables. Both parents appear to be self-based, which means they can't throw agouti sable. What looks like ticking is the grey tipping which is normal for sables and moults out later on.
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    question about skin color

    It doesn't appear to have a name, and is regarded as being unique to the UK Flemish breed. Some genetic exploration must have taken place in the past, to have excluded Steel as being present. During WW2, the breed was a widely used meat rabbit in the UK, often crossed with other breeds to give...
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    question about skin color

    This interests me a great deal, since it appears to be a modified agouti or steel. What it really reminds me of, is the unusual colour of Flemish Giants in the UK (where I am). A potted history lesson: around the end of the 19th century, a British breeder of Flemish, Christopher Wren, created a...
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    What to do about a late litter?

    I would first make sure she really is pregnant. Carrying two litters at once is possible, but in practice is extremely rare, most breeders never encounter it. If it were more common, it would be happening all the time in cases where "We were told they were both females!" with a buck and doe...
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    Wideband & Steel?

    I'm not sure you would see anything, since Steel doesn't have a yellow band for Wideband to work on, in the same way that Self (aa) also doesn't, and wideband can't be seen there. For others reading, the Wideband gene increases the yellow/red band in the agouti pattern, pushing the...
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    My black kit is turning brown. Could you help me figure out his colour?

    Shaded is dominant to the Himalayan gene, c(h), which is what Calis have, so no, they can't carry it. Seal Point/Sable Point is somewhat different to Siamese Sable; even though it looks like a dark-eyed Himi/Cali, it's actually a combination of the shaded gene c(chl) and black Tort. The shaded...
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    My black kit is turning brown. Could you help me figure out his colour?

    He could be sable, if the red parent carried the shaded gene, c(chl). Sables go through a lot of colour changes as they mature, especially before and during a moult.
  16. M

    Does anyone have pics of an over-fat butchered mature rabbit?

    I once had to cull an older doe, about 4 years old, with a stuck kit (absolutely no way to remove it and vet not an option at the time). I opened her up for a look and was shocked to see how much internal fat she had, although she was in 'normal' fit condition externally. I couldn't help feeling...
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    Need help gendering

    Some pics of what you're looking for (and pics of the models, too.)
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    Need help gendering

    I will add to that, the boys will be incapable of siring a litter before their testicles drop, which is usually 12-14 weeks.
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    What's the dif between red and high rufus chocolate agouti?

    You're welcome! Most if not all the studies are out there. Googling "Fontanesi + rabbit" will bring up some, Luca Fontanesi being one of the principal researchers and having a usefully unusual name, although it mainly brings up links to the book he co-wrote - which contains all the research done...
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    What's the dif between red and high rufus chocolate agouti?

    I attached the link to the paper in my post but in case you missed it, here it is again: A composite six bp in-frame deletion in the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene is associated with the Japanese brindling coat colour in rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) This is the bit - highlighted - where...
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