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That's the Lychee - I don't know if you're familiar with the fruit, but we get them here in the UK, imported (not sure where from*). It originated in China and is grown in South Asia, India and the Caribbean. Apparently there are cultivars which will grow in the USA...

It doesn't freeze here often but I keep some small stainless steel bowls in case it does. It's easy to bash the ice out of them. In the past when we've had snow on the ground and freezing temperatures for days, I've made a warm mash for the rabbits in order to get some moisture into them -...

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.

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

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 :(

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.

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...

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...

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.

Or you could call them Polar Fox.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

I will add to that, the boys will be incapable of siring a litter before their testicles drop, which is usually 12-14 weeks.