BEW Genetics
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You have to watch the eye color of BEW but I don't think dilute would be any problem. The shaded colors can tint the eyes ruby and rew is the only thing that will hide bew. You want to avoid everything on the C locus. Other than that the BEW should cover any other coat color with fewer problems than breeding most colors.
It would depend on whether I was aiming for show or pet stock.
If your focus is showing then I personally would not use a VM or VC with recessive chocolate, chin, shaded, himi, REW or dilute genes as I would be passing the problem on to other show breeders.
Id try crossing her parents again, and hope for a black based VM instead if a VC (although there is a 50% chance they carry dilute
) or if the doe was truy a stellar specimen, keep her and replace her with the best black based daughter she produces and then focus on ridding my stock of dilute.
Unfortunately black is not a popular colour with pet buyers so if my focus was more towards pets then I would just keep the best BEW for show (and hope the possible Grand Champion kit has a good eye as well as conformation, although "Murphys Law" might be against you :mrgreen: ) warn show buyers of possible recessives, and sell the more popular coloured kits off as pets.
If your focus is showing then I personally would not use a VM or VC with recessive chocolate, chin, shaded, himi, REW or dilute genes as I would be passing the problem on to other show breeders.
Id try crossing her parents again, and hope for a black based VM instead if a VC (although there is a 50% chance they carry dilute
) or if the doe was truy a stellar specimen, keep her and replace her with the best black based daughter she produces and then focus on ridding my stock of dilute. Unfortunately black is not a popular colour with pet buyers so if my focus was more towards pets then I would just keep the best BEW for show (and hope the possible Grand Champion kit has a good eye as well as conformation, although "Murphys Law" might be against you :mrgreen: ) warn show buyers of possible recessives, and sell the more popular coloured kits off as pets.
Ideally I want show stock.
As of right now, I have a BEW doe, and 2 tort bucks to work with. The doe has a great body, but is single maned. Of the 4 double maned kits I got, I had a blue, 2 blue torts and a black. The black is a doe, and I was going to keep her, but her mane is awful. The blue and one of the blue torts went as pets(they were both bucks). I have one blue tort buck left, and I am on the fence about him. He's nicely wooled, has a good build(a little long on body, but that can be fixed, I have a nice and compact buck to breed to the BEW doe for 1/2 sibling does that will be nicely built).
The BEW doe, when bred to a black tort, produced orange, cream(x2), blue, blue tort(x2) and black(obviously all vienna).
Her entire pedigree is BEW, except one chestnut vienna great grand parent.
The breeder I bought the BEW doe from said that they use dilute no problem. I've been told in the past that dilute is something you want to avoid, but many others are saying dilute is fine, sable and chocolate are bad.
As of right now, I have a BEW doe, and 2 tort bucks to work with. The doe has a great body, but is single maned. Of the 4 double maned kits I got, I had a blue, 2 blue torts and a black. The black is a doe, and I was going to keep her, but her mane is awful. The blue and one of the blue torts went as pets(they were both bucks). I have one blue tort buck left, and I am on the fence about him. He's nicely wooled, has a good build(a little long on body, but that can be fixed, I have a nice and compact buck to breed to the BEW doe for 1/2 sibling does that will be nicely built).
The BEW doe, when bred to a black tort, produced orange, cream(x2), blue, blue tort(x2) and black(obviously all vienna).
Her entire pedigree is BEW, except one chestnut vienna great grand parent.
The breeder I bought the BEW doe from said that they use dilute no problem. I've been told in the past that dilute is something you want to avoid, but many others are saying dilute is fine, sable and chocolate are bad.
Genetically it sounds like your BEW doe is a cream (agouti, dilute, non extension) and if her blue eyes look fine then go for it
I had a black VC with two blue eyes - they were a crazy sapphire blue that was crystal clear and impossible to confuse with any other gene (ie - dilute or chin) - google some images or compare her eyes to genetically black BEW to see if you notice a difference and if not then keep the doe.
I had a black VC with two blue eyes - they were a crazy sapphire blue that was crystal clear and impossible to confuse with any other gene (ie - dilute or chin) - google some images or compare her eyes to genetically black BEW to see if you notice a difference and if not then keep the doe.
She can't be cream, she produced self rabbits(E_) when bred to a tort (ee).
I think she's an Opal, myself. Aa dd Ee. Or possibly chestnut. I'd have to breed her to a dilute buck to be sure, and I don't have dilute, lol.
I think she's an Opal, myself. Aa dd Ee. Or possibly chestnut. I'd have to breed her to a dilute buck to be sure, and I don't have dilute, lol.
Oops
So opal makes sense - Aa __ __ dd Ee
If she is chesnut that carries dilute then you should only be getting 25% blues but she is producing over 50% which is why I think she has two of the genes.
