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Because your jrs can usually not be shown. If it's a DQ it's a DQ no matter if it gets hidden by adult fur or not. Why keep it around?

They are not magpies then, they are Japanese. Harlequin breed comes in two groups - Magpie (white and color) and Japanese (orange/fawn and color). Both groups can be black, blue, chocolate or lilac. Sounds like you have a Lilac Japanese and a Chocolate Japanese. If you bred these to NZs you...

AA eje = harlequin Aa eje = harlequin aa eje = torted harlequin __ ejej = much better harlequins :D However there are lots of A_eje ones out there you'd never know they weren't A_ejej. That's how we end up with torted harlequins out of great marked harlequins, these are the aaeje ones - one of...

Check her chin and belly - a lot of reds can hide harlequin if they are super faintly marked. Also look on the ears for traces of brindling. Agree with Dood though if she's not harlequin chances are extremely slim she'd throw harlequin (not impossible though - as she could be so extremely light...

"my two does are a lavender and a chocolate harlequin instead of the Japanese harlequin color" ... a bit confused by this? Do you mean you have a chocolate japanese and a lavender japanese, and you're wanting black japanese? If that's the case don't worry you'll probably get black japs from a...

I disconnect the nipples from the cages (put water in crocks - I already have ez crocks in the cages anyway) and fill the system with bleach water and let soak for about an hour or so, then drain all the bleach water into a bucket, rinse rinse rinse. I taste the water until it does not taste...

I have never seen a black like that but a friend fights this in her blue Havanas. They fur in normal colored, but you don't want to breed them into your herd it will bite you in the butt. Sadly a very nice buck she purchased at convention is a carrier of this trait. He is now my pet actually so...

I have a litter of little harlequins and a litter of harlequin x chinchilla crosses (a few chestnuts and a few chins - their jap mother was a magpie (chin) carrier :D ) ... and a broken camera!!

I would -not- feed wheat, would feed whole oats (you can use "kitchen oats" but I like the whole oats better myself). Wheat can form gluten in the GI and stop them up even more.

And how would you propose we prove that? Recessive genes can hide for at least 20 generations that we know of, even with linebreeding. And that would also require test mating every single rabbit that is breeding right now - to several rabbits. Even then there is no guarantee. I can say that I...

No. If DooDads come in black blue and chocolate (and fourteen others) and Hooplahs only come in let's say lilac and chocolate, you can breed out the other colors from a DooDad to get a nice chocolate Hooplah, and you've hopefully improved type and other traits along the way. I am saying if it...

Agree 100%, that's why when it does happen there are not all these rules and subrules - if you trust a person enough to expose your prize buck to their doe, you trust them with just about anything ;D

I agree recessives are a pain, but it's not just crossbreeders that need to be checking for them and breeding against them. We get REW, torted, californian, dutch belted, etc. kits in purebred Harlequin litters across the country. There aren't many faults that don't pop up, just because people...

Those do not sound like common rules at all. Few breeders offer outside stud service and those that do usually offer at least one re-breed, and are much more relaxed about the whole affair (though I do agree with the health inspections). It sounds like they're regulating themselves out of...

I just tare the scale with the basket on it.

If your chocolate carries a dilute gene as well, you could get black, blue, chocolate and lilac all in one litter ;) whoops - and your blue would have to carry a chocolate gene as well to get the chocolate and lilac.

I bred a 4 month old buck (on his 4mo birthday) and got 11 and 9 (second and first time mothers). He was an outcross so I wanted to breed him then resell him while he was still young and desirable. I did make sure both does were receptive before putting them in with him (run your hand on their...

Lift the feeder up so it's at the kit's top of their heads (so they can still reach it but have to get up on their hind legs to do so). When your doe is on her own lift it up so she has to reach for it as well this will stop the digging in 90% of cases.

You can breed to blacks. Your first generation kits will only carry blue (unless the black you used happened to carry a dilute gene itself). As far as the reds being in there, I would suggest getting a tort or red and test mating at least your herd bucks - if they have any torted kits show up...

Yucca makes a good deal of difference too, I think. I didn't realize that the new feed I started buying about six months back had yucca in it, but I did realize after a few weeks that it seemed like the smell was better... Then someone told me it's because of the yucca, I did some googling and...