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I have a citizen-science request. Does anyone here have a rabbit with multiple agouti bands in the fiber? This chocolate agouti has chocolate/fawn/dove gray bands. The ARBA Standard of Perfection calls for 'one or more' bands. Here's the request: if you have a rabbit with multiple bands like...

@reh I have tried to do as you asked, and take photos of the banded/ticked hair. I raise English & Satin Angoras, with fine static-charged fiber, and this has proved to be quite a challenge. Once I finally would get a few hairs pulled free to put on the white paper, they would either fly away...

I'm trying to finish up some last details on the Angora color section, and I've found that some of my photos weren't suitable, or I just didn't have a good photo to illustrate the text. American Fuzzy Lop, English, French, German, Giant, Jersey Wooly or Satin Angora all will work. Does anyone...

I've been working on a chart of what colors you get when various color genes interact. I realize that what looks like a self black could be any one of a number of genetic makeups, it could be a non-agouti full color black, self chinchilla, supersteel, non-agouti steel or a dark seal, so not...

I have been working on an article illustrating the different harlequin patterns in angora (could be any Angora breed: French, English, Satin, Giant, German, Fuzzy Lop, Jersey Wooly). I have photos of some of them, but am missing quite a few. Might anyone have harlequin angora photos they would...

Two questions: 1) I know that quite a while back, the colors 'Wild Gray' and Castor were merged into one color, since they have the same A-B-C-D-E- genetic code. The colors look very different on the rabbits, though. I have mostly Wild Gray, the kits are born black (with white inside the ears)...

A friend sent me photos of two mystery kits. I have never raised sable or steel rabbits, so if those genetics are involved, I have no idea how the colors develop from birth. Can you help us identify these colors please? The first one has chocolate as the base color, but is this steel ticking...

Does anyone have a photo of a wide band chinchilla they could share? I am beginning to have the suspicion that my chins are wide-band, with a much lighter than normal coat. I'd love to see what a wide-band chin looks like.

I have been searching for a copy of Glenna Huffmon's book on Rabbit Coat Color Genetics, but with no success. It was apparently self-published, and she is now deceased. I've heard references given to the book, but have never read it. Does anyone here have a copy for sale, a copy they would lend...

I am working on an article about 'impossible' genetics, those times when the kits just don't fit the genetic ABCs, and how it can happen. Like when you breed two self-colored rabbits (recessive) and get an agouti kit. Or two white rabbits have a colored litter. Do you have an experience with an...

I have a problem in my herd that I need help with. A number of rabbits are developing great color, but only on the outer inch or so, the rest of the fiber is plain white. It's not because they are angoras, I have plenty of rabbits with correct color down to the skin. I've seen it in self black...

I've read about "snowball" rabbits, with color only on the tips, but most posts say the kits will grow out of it. What about those adult rabbits that start off with fabulous color, but it only extends for half an inch to an inch at the tips, and then all of the rest of the fiber (which can be...