Blue eyed Netherland Dwarf VM Gene?

[squidpop]

Are all VM marked Netherland dwarfs carriers of the blue eyed gene? or do some VM marked rabbits carry only two genes for Brown eyes?

 

[akane]

Occasionally you can get a little grouping of white hairs for reasons unknown but a clear white spot is probably always a vm.

 

[uhurubuns]

My understanding is that the blue eyes and the vienna white always travel together on the gene. If it was easy to separate them, we'd have brilliant blue eyes in all sorts of breeds, since people like the blue eyes.

 

[squidpop]

Since I posted I've read more and I think you are right uhurubuns, I think its the way VMs display pigment that causes the blue eyes, so its not a separate gene for eye color that creates blue eyes, its whether or not there is pigment around the eye area? But I'm still not sure how it works exactly.

 

[Bad Habit]

Well, the way I understood VM, it's vv for a rabbit with no vienna, Vv for a rabbit with some vienna markings, and VV for a BEW. I have a VM blue lionhead buck, and he's got blue/grey eyes.