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Biscuit.. this past litter was bred back to a son of hers off a NZ red buck.

He had dark eyes just like Biscuit.

Biscuit has thrown RED eyed white in the past.

This litter... She has two blue eyed whites. One buck, one doe.

I was stunned.

Blue eyes? She's never had vienna marked kits, never anything to suggest that she was carrying this gene. Could it have been passed through by the Purebred NZ buck you think?

Makes me consider keeping the doe (which coincidently is the biggest, but also the most shy .. which makes me NOT want to keep her). Especially when I have an almost as big, and much friendlier red as competition...
 
Ermines are also possible if there is hidden chinchilla anywhere, it only takes one rabbit with the gene if the other rabbit has rew. Genetically, it a non-extension chinchilla.

I just posted a pic of one that was born white. I couldn't tell the ermines from the rews in that crossing until their eyes opened. Both were pure white in the nestbox. I would get these from a silver tipped steel buck and a sandy looking agouti mutt doe.

The ermines had blue eyes (Later darkening to grey or brownish, sometimes with some amount of blue still on them) The darker markings also came in much later, and it seemed to take a long time for the color to develop as much as I have pictured. This kit was the heaviest marked one I had. Most just lookied like "smutty dark eyed whites" even as adults.

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