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I had a lovely black English Angora pull a huge amount of fiber for her nest a number of years back. When the coat grew back in, it had those same all-white guard hairs throughout the coat. I'd never seen that happen before, but she kept those white hairs the rest of her life. There was nothing...

I have several rabbits that chewed through the zip ties as well. I love the convenience of the plastic ties, but they just don't work for all the rabbits. I've worked with pens at a friend's house that needed sticks to round up the bunnies due to the depth. It made the bunnies afraid of being...

Confusing, isn't it? Yes, pearl sounds right to me.

One caveat of a deep pen--trying to reach rabbits hiding in the back. I'd rather have a longer pen with several access doors, than a deep pen I can't reach all the way into.

Chinchilla plus non-extension agouti has a vast array of names, depending on the breed. In Angoras, we call them 'ermine'. A good fawn/red with little smut will simply look like a creamy white rabbit with brown/gray eyes, once called 'steel-eyed white' in the past. If there is smut, it's usually...

It turns out the dad is the second mystery kit in the thread https://rabbittalk.com/threads/color-conundrums.36389/ and his parents are listed as self blue and high rufus chocolate agouti.

Can you snip a few hairs and lay them on a contrasting color background? That will tell if it is a all-white hair (as in silvering or the mysterious stray white hairs), or a silver tipped hair (as in silver-tipped steel, although to be honest, steel does seem to have a tiny chocolate tip above...

I asked: "Mum is light sable/pearl. Dad is the tricky one we thought was a silver ticked blue steel but maybe he wasn't"

A friend has sable-line rabbits. Since I've never raised sables, I still have trouble figuring out their colors. She sent me photos of the kit in question, and the parents. Have any clues as to what to call these colors? Here's the litter: In the nestbox: This is mom: This is dad:

I have chickens in my rabbit barn, and have done so for more than forty years. BUT, chickens do love to roost on the chicken pens. I used plywood to cover the tops of all the bunny pens so the chickens couldn't poop on the rabbits. Also, poultry carry diseases like coccidiosis which the rabbits...

Whole black oil sunflower seeds are part of my regular whole-grain feed mix. Many breeders put a teaspoonful of sunflower seeds (in the shell) on top of their pellets.

Same thing fur/wool mites, (Cheyletiella parasitovorax).

Angora is a recessive gene, so usually you would expect a first generation cross to have normal fur, but be a carrier of long hair. The code is L for normal coat, and l for angora. However, it has taken many generations to get a good quality, nicely crimped, dense angora coat of good length...

I would say a chocolate/orange tri.

Technically, a tri is a broken harlequin. So, any of the harlequin patterns (black/orange, chocolate/orange, blue/fawn, lilac/fawn) can be broken, adding white as the third 'color' (even though it is an absence of color in reality). The more I look at the rabbit, the more the color seems...

While I don't think there's a rule you need to elaborate, I think it's important to give more information on the pedigree--chocolate tort instead of just tort, blue/fawn harlequin instead of just harlie, black/orange tri instead of just tri. This is important information to help determine...

English Angoras come in two main varieties: the original version that goes through a molt every 3-4 months (12-16 weeks), and the Betty Chu show lines that were bred from a non-molting doe, which molt either much later, like 7 months, only during pregnancy, or not at all. Generally, the...

The nose does look suspicious. If he has Vienna BEW (which often causes white mismarks when it is a recessive gene combined with the more dominant not-Vienna) in his background, there may be other white spots. Check the toenails, especially the front toes. Torts should have colored toenails He...

Every rabbit has two copies of each gene, one copy from each parent. Each of the main color genes has a scale of dominance. A dominant gene only needs one copy to show that color. With more recessive color options, you either need two of the same recessive gene, or a copy of a more recessive...

Well, blue eyes is usually either caused by a chin cross or Vienna blue eyed white cross (and sometimes Dutch cross). A self chin usually looks like any other self, and can have normal brown, blue or marbled eyes. But these rabbits are not normal all-black, they seem to have shading of some ilk...