Charlie vs little markings

[ckcs]

As I understand things an ENEN is a solid, ENen is a broken and an enen is a charlie. With that in mind I breed a broken (came from a solid buck broken doe) to a solid. I got 1 solid and 5 brokens. A few of them have very little broken markings. One in particular has only a small dot on it's tail. It also has the butterfly and dark around the eyes and ears. I'm gathering less than 10% pattern can occur even if the rabbit is not a charlie

 

[Dood]

Actually broken ( ENglish spot) is incompletely dominant so "enen" is solid, "ENen" is broken and "ENEN" is Charlie (it can be confusing because the other white mark genes (Vienna and Dutch) can be incompletely recessive and rabbits with just one can have white marks but not always)

Anyways, there are other modifiers that increase and decrease the white areas to create false Charlie's and booted brokens so it is possible to have a nearly white rabbit that only has a single broken gene

BUT

Rabbits that have a broken and Vienna gene can look like false Charlie's as well

Could either parent carry Vienna?

 

[akane]

That's the difficulty with brokens. It's suggested to only breed solids with well marked brokens in their background to well marked brokens and avoid the modifiers that make poor patterns of too much or too little white. That doesn't show on a pedigree though so picking out good stock to breed brokens for show can be hard.

 

[OneAcreFarm]

As I understand things an ENEN is a solid, ENen is a broken and an enen is a charlie. With that in mind I breed a broken (came from a solid buck broken doe) to a solid. I got 1 solid and 5 brokens. A few of them have very little broken markings. One in particular has only a small dot on it's tail. It also has the butterfly and dark around the eyes and ears. I'm gathering less than 10% pattern can occur even if the rabbit is not a charlie

Less than 10% of the secondary color is what makes a rabbit a "charlie"....