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I took a sample of full coat about the width of your thumb, put it in a snack size ziploc bag with a tag with the rabbit's name and any other ID info I would want to identify the sample. Then put the samples into a box/shipping bag along with an information sheet...

They're set up for alpaca, but do a great job on angora as well, https://www.alpacaconsultingusa.com/ The simple test is only a few dollars per sample, so very affordable, and it gives very useful information.

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing.

You can see the bright yellow shades better on the English Angora rabbits on https://www.runningbugfarm.com/runningbugrabbitry.html#/ Regular tortoiseshell tends to have a brighter gold shade, while the more muted dilute colors have more of a creamy yellow with the blue/lilac.

Without photos, it's hard to tell for sure, but tortoiseshell would meet that description. See the colors by scrolling down https://www.gbfarm.org/rabbit/holland-colors-shaded.shtml Regular tortoiseshell does look like a dark blue, the blue tortoiseshell is a paler blue. Tortoiseshell is a...

Chocolate is a non-agouti aa, recessive chocolate bb, full color C_, dense color D_, normal extension E_. To know what possible offspring you might get, just think about what you might breed him to. For example, if bred to a castor/chestnut, which is agouti A_, black B_, full color C_, dense...

I picked up a roll of bright pink duct tape at the dollar store. I tear off a strip, write the breeding date and buck with a permanent marker (Sharpie), and tape it to the hopper feeder. (If there isn't a hopper, I save the pull-ring aluminum lids found on cans of nuts. I use a piece of wire or...

Thanks so much for posting, there's just so much about colors I don't know yet. I appreciate your input.

Chocolate magpie is generally an agouti A_, recessive brown bb, chinchilla c(chd)_, dense color D_, and harlequin e(j)_. Chocolate agouti is generally agouti A_, recessive brown bb, full color C_, dense color D_, normal extension E_. Those dashes are for unknown genes that may be behind the...

Absolutely fascinating.

I'd love to see a photo of the samples.

Beautiful! Such lovely golden tones on the dilute torts, instead of the usual pale cream shade. Wonderful! Looks like the color goes fairly well down the hairshaft, too. Very nice.

Wonderful! What a beautiful boy. I can see the golden tips of the next coat coming in at the base. Now here's the question--If you were to snip a few hairs at the base, or pull out a few hairs when he molts, and put them on a blank piece of paper, would there be a second band of gold on the base...

Agreed, I'd love to know. My mentor was careful to breed for homozygous, and her colors were amazing. The blacks were black to the skin, the blues were darker than most blacks when spun, just lovely. The fawns a rich deep gold like I've never seen since I fell in love with the very pale pastel...

You'd be surprised what recessives can pop up when you cross outside of a rabbit's normal lines. Like generations of black x black breeding that suddenly throws white or chinchilla or tort when crossed out to a new line. You can't tell a full color black from a chinchilla self black by looking...

Thank you! I've sent them a message.

I don't want to have to cut enough wire to redo all my rabbit pens (hands are getting older), but I need predator proof wire pens, with 1/2" x 1/2", 1/2" x 1", or at most 1" x 1" side walls and roof, preferably 30" x 36". Does anyone know of a company that makes these?

Wonderful litter. Do you know anything about the parents' colors? Is there a reason you assume the orange and cream are otters and not regular orange? Orange/cream has the usual agouti markings just like otter does (white inside the ear, on the belly, eye rings, under the chin), but...

I agree, the ones with blue are tortoiseshell, 'tort' for short. Non-extension is the double recessive gene that prints the orange/fawn tones on the main body hair instead of the usual dark colors. When paired with the agouti gene it produces red/orange/fawn with light bellies and light inside...

I also fell in love with Champagnes, great size, superb temperament. My trouble was that my bucks were all so laid back, they had no interest in the ladies. Can't tell you about litter size, neither of my bucks ever bred anyone. It wasn't that they were sterile due to heat, they never bothered...