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[coffeenutdesigns]

So my black buck is neither black, nor a buck. I haven't used it for breeding so I haven't bothered to check until I saw my "blue" buck sniffing her up and down through the cage wire.

Anyway, my "black" now looks more orangey brown on his body. He is still black, just the tips of the hairs have turned. I know nothing about this girl other than that.

My "blue" came from 2 broken blacks. Now he looks gray with a cream colored overcoat.

What are these 2 colors officially called?

I can try to get pictures but I only have my phone for uploading so its kind.d of a pain.

 

[grumpy]

Could he/err she, be getting exposed to direct sunlight.

Might be...the sun's bleaching her a bit.

grumpy.

 

[coffeenutdesigns]

Not much in the way of direct sunlight. The rabbit shed is enclosed with lattice and the only direct sunlight that would hit either of them through the lattice would be in the early morning right after sunrise. Even then, feeders and water bottles also block part of the front of the cage. Would that be enough to bleach them?<br /><br />__________ Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:02 am __________<br /><br />I do live in west Texas in the desert where the sun is brutal and bleaches or destroys everything very quickly, so even the early morning light in summer is hot and bright.

 

[Secuono]

Possible.
Share pics and it'll be easier to tell.

 

[grumpy]

Not much in the way of direct sunlight. The rabbit shed is enclosed with lattice and the only direct sunlight that would hit either of them through the lattice would be in the early morning right after sunrise. Even then, feeders and water bottles also block part of the front of the cage. Would that be enough to bleach them?

__________ Thu Aug 01, 2013 8:02 am __________

I do live in west Texas in the desert where the sun is brutal and bleaches or destroys everything very quickly, so even the early morning light in summer is hot and bright.

Dunno if would or not....I raise all white ones and they're in the barn.
Just a thought I was throwing out there as a possibility.

I know the sun would bleach my pinto miniature stallion in the summer.
He'd be copper and white instead of black and white.

grumpy.

 

[WildWolf]

My rabbits only get direct sunlight for a few hours each day, but my doe is sunbleached.

 

[skysthelimit]

All my blacks fade as they age, lost of brown, and blues do this too, fading to gray, coats are no good after senior prime. There is no direct sunlight in my barn either, and blacks are in the bottom cages.

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

My black buck doesn't get ANY direct sunlight of any kind and EVEN HE is sunbleached. Irks the heck out of me. I'm on the verge of draping an old feed bag over his cage so he stays black, LOL.

Pictures would help us figure out what is going on.

 

[ckcs]

My black buck doesn't get ANY direct sunlight of any kind and EVEN HE is sunbleached. Irks the heck out of me. I'm on the verge of draping an old feed bag over his cage so he stays black, LOL.

Pictures would help us figure out what is going on.

Get some "Just For Rabbits" hair dye :lol:

 

[squidpop]

If your black isn't sunbleached and its kind of brownish- it could be a seal- which is like a very very dark sable shaded color. To tell if its a seal you are supposed to look at the hocks and the genital region and see if it looks like sepia brown- or if it looks bluish blackish. But its still hard to tell a seal from self black- feet can get stained from orange urine or the ground and look orangey even thought they are black. I have a self black, and as his coat is only really black after he sheds and the new coat grows in really black- but it only stays really black during the winter months then it fades.

 

[skysthelimit]

Seals would look sepia brown all the way down to the skin, not just the genital region. The undercoat is not the same color either, there's a faint dustiness that Seals have. In the light, Seals and the faded blacks look very different.

However, the Self chin and Seal look identical.