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Tort is a self color (non-agouti) with the yellowish non-extension gene. The main color shows on the face, ears, feet and tail. Reds and chestnuts are agouti patterns. Chestnut is the most dominant of color genes, with dominant agouti, black, full color, dense (not dilute) and full extension of...

I'm having a hard time with your VM sable point. She looks more harlequin to me. The side seems to be mottled, as opposed to shaded. The face and ears appear to be mottled as well, see the dark spidery mottling going up from the eye to the white forehead spot. It's not shaded, it is more like...

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Rabbit colors is a great resource for seeing how the different rabbit genes interplay. The link is to the website, http://rabbitcolors.info/ I didn't see a specific entry for a tricolor Lionhead, but the site can be helpful when looking for particular color patterns. You can look on the...

Our biggest problem with willow here is the local deer population. They think that willow is candy--young plants may need protected from them until they get a good headstart.

That surely is a heavily silvered coat all right. I always find it surprising when things like this crop up in a breed where it is not a normal color.

No, not a stupid question at all. Hay is indeed dried vegetation that has been baled for convenience of storage, but it can be a complicated issue. Hay can be made of many different plants--unimproved meadow hay may have a wide variety of "weeds", such as yarrow, goldenrod, or various daisy...

Agreed--brown dead vegetation may have some fiber value, but not nutrition. For sheep, farmers sometimes 'stockpile' grass, choosing varieties that stay green and palatable through the winter (not Zoysia type that goes brown until next spring, or Holcus velvet grass that livestock won't eat...

Here, 'pink' newborns usually grow white coats (ermine, Himi, REW or BEW) or they have the orange/fawn non-extension gene (tort, orange/fawn). Looking at your photo, the unknown kit is not as clear pink at the broken kit below it. That would suggest to me a non-extension orange/fawn-based...

Glad you mentioned it, I was thinking the same thing. I was looking at HEIF photo: Generally, torts have all dark points, not dark interspersed with orange patches. I've marked a few with arrows here. Also, can you take a closer look at mom? Is her coat just mottled because she is molting, or...

Chestnut agouti has a slate gray undercolor, yellow/fawn middle band, black tips. The black tips overlaying the fawn produces an optical illusion, the rabbit looks chestnut brown. Some rabbits tend more to the lighter side, being more golden brown; others have tiny fawn bands, making them look...

Red is a combination of Agouti dominant A, could be dominant B black or recessive bb chocolate (many breeders find that chocolate makes a better overall red color, as it masks the smut better), full color dominant C, dense color dominant D, and recessive non-extension ee that removes the dark...

Heat sterility can occur with three days over 90F, or five days over 85F. Here it may take as long as six weeks after the end of the excess heat for the bucks to be fertile again. Since I breed for calm temperaments, I find a bred doe becoming difficult is often a good sign of pregnancy...

A brown eyed white means that the rabbit is an ermine (aka frostie, frosty). Ermines are generally chinchilla patterned rabbits with the fawn gene (called non-extension, coded ee). The chinchilla gene removes all yellowish tones from the hairshaft, leaving pearly white. Fawn (orange/red/cream)...

If you are interested in showing, the place I would start would be the American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) website: https://arba.net/ They have a list of upcoming shows across the nation, just click on the 'Member Resources' tab at the top of the page, and then click on 'Shows'. When you...

Great thought, but No, chocolate agouti rabbits are born chocolate and develop the banding later. These kits were born pink, and developed black hair tips as well, definitely a black-based agouti.

She appears to have eye rings, and dark tipping on the hair, which would seem to suggest an agouti pattern. She looks non-extension (fawn/orange) at this point, although she still seems to have the silvering as well, and the neck hairs seem more chocolate than fawn. I'm not seeing orange bands...

My ermines/frosties have white undercolor, as do my other non-extension red/fawn rabbits. Here is a black pointed white (aka Himalayan or Californian) on the left and a frostie on the right. My ermines mainly get color on the nose and a little on the rest of the face and ears. No dark...

Fabulous! I totally missed the link. Thank you so much, until I find the newest research, all I have to go by are the old standby ideas, I so appreciate this.

Thank you so much for posting this. I am fascinated by this. I would love to read the research, is it available anywhere?