I have 8 day old holland lop kits, sire: a very dark siamese sable point (owned by another breeder) and dam is: solid black. I have mostly only worked with sable points and torts. I only had a few broken black kits both all with one sable point parent and all of them are related to this solid black dam, all the kits where jet black, no brown cast. My question is: All 5 black kits (1 kit is a dark tort) have some brown cast to their fur? It's like the tips of the hair shafts are brown and you can notice it when you just look at them. In low light they do look black but in natural sun light the brown tenting (?) is easy to spot making them look "off" and they seem to be getting lighter or look more "off" if that makes sense. I know it's not the light doing it as you can see the brown in low light but it's just more obvious in natural lighting. I'm wondering if perhaps some other genes are at play such as the shaded gene (if they carry it) messing with black so making it not a "clean" black? Here is one kit with what I'm talking about:
In low light it looks black
With natural light shining on it's face you can really see the brown cast. Some kits have it more than others, I have one you barely see any of the brown cast.
In this pic you can see it on it's hips a little, just enough to throw it off color wise. Kind of like brown ticking?
Here is the bunch at 6 days old. The kit at the bottom of the picture, you can make out the brown ticking/cast whatever it is lol
The dam to this litter, she only has tort, black and solid blue in her ped but she could be carrying a shaded gene from several generations behind but I can't confirm that. The sire is like I said a really dark siamese sable, very similar to this one: http://rabbit-stock.deviantart.com/art/ ... -164440585 but maybe a tad darker.
Anyways, I was just wondering if this is common for blacks or perhaps they are really dark siamese sables or seals?
In low light it looks black
With natural light shining on it's face you can really see the brown cast. Some kits have it more than others, I have one you barely see any of the brown cast.
In this pic you can see it on it's hips a little, just enough to throw it off color wise. Kind of like brown ticking?
Here is the bunch at 6 days old. The kit at the bottom of the picture, you can make out the brown ticking/cast whatever it is lol
The dam to this litter, she only has tort, black and solid blue in her ped but she could be carrying a shaded gene from several generations behind but I can't confirm that. The sire is like I said a really dark siamese sable, very similar to this one: http://rabbit-stock.deviantart.com/art/ ... -164440585 but maybe a tad darker.
Anyways, I was just wondering if this is common for blacks or perhaps they are really dark siamese sables or seals?
