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What color are these baby rabbits?
 

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Since you have zero information on parents colors, I would guess sold chestnut on top and broken something on bottom. Really can't tell yet, wait a few more days.
 
You're really challenging us by not giving even a clue about the parents' colors! :)
At first the kits all looked like black silver martins, but in the "group" photo there seems to be some paler fur on the solids' backs and especially their heads (not sure about the broken, I can't really see that one too well)... I'm actually thinking chinchillas, since black martins do not have head/body color other than black and white, and chestnuts do not have white markings.
Many of my chinchillas start out looking like black martins or coppers (except for the silvery marking color), I think because the black-tipped hairs are just starting to grow out. Eventually they "turn into" chinchillas when the fur lengthens and the rings start to appear. Some chins have first coats that look pretty brassy, too, but that usually molts out as they come into prime (I do NOT mix sables into my chin lines!!!).
So... what colors are the parents??????
 
Sorry, the parents are chestnut and black Vienna. I don’t know the grandparent‘s color.
 

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Well, huh. That would make it more likely that they were chestnut. It seems really unlikely that most or all of the kits would get a hidden chinchilla gene (to make chin or martin), but there doesn't seem to be even a hint of tan on those markings...except maybe on their heads in the group photo. It's so tricky with the lighting and iffy monitor displays.
I hope you put more photos up in another week or two! :)
Incidentally, that broken may also be a VM bunny... the brokens that come from our BEW Polish lines often lack a nose marking.
 
What’s a vm rabbit?
It's Vienna Marked... When a rabbit carries one copy of the vienna gene, if it does not show white markings it's a VC (vienna carrier); if it does have the typical white markings on its nose and/or forehead and/or feet it's called a VM (Vienna Marked). So, a rabbit can be both broken and vienna marked.
If a rabbit gets *two* copies of the vienna gene, it's a BEW (blue-eyed white).
You said the dam was a black vienna, but now that I see the pictures you just posted, I'm not sure what you meant by that. Maybe it's a term that's used differently where you live? (I'm in Alaska, USA).
 
I have VM black rabbits right now and all of the markings overall are a streak of white on the forehead, a little streak on the nose, white armpits, small white patches on the bottom on the feet, and a chunk of white on the neck
 
I think there’s one chestnut one VB(Vienna broken) and three chinchillas.
 

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