Chocolate Rex are on the way!!!

[skysthelimit]

I'm picking up some chocolate Rex next week, I finally found some replacements for my does. I haven't given up on getting some shipped from the West coast, but for the meantime, it nice to have some new colors to play with. Now I need to study up on chocolate genetics.

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

Awesome!!! Congrats.

I'm only just learning color genetics, so confusing!!! Horse color genetics seem so simple, why can't I figure out rabbit colors? :lol:

 

[LauraNJ]

Yay, pictures when you get them!

Rabbits are so addicting. My husband is driving back to NC right now and I am reading him ads of rabbits he could go get for me down there. He enables me, so he is like, call them up and tell me where I need to go.

 

[OneAcreFarm]

Yay! Chocolate are so much fun! I love my Chocos...they give me pretty Lilac babies too!

 

[hoodat]

Yay! Chocolate are so much fun! I love my Chocos...they give me pretty Lilac babies too!

Don't I know it. Those two lilacs I bunnysat were the prettiest and sweetest rabbits I ever saw.

 

[ZRabbits]

Congratulations! Love my Broken Chocolate LH.

Can't wait to see your chocolate rexes!

Karen

 

[faiththequeen]

Yay! Congrats! I love Chocolates!

 

[skysthelimit]

Supposedly, the doe I had planned to cull carries chocolate. I am going to get two does, and maybe a castor with them. The pict she had on CL looked more like amber, and she said as much. she said she would send me more picts and I'll look at the pedigree. I am wondering if this is the same lady I got the first Rexes from last year. She had some nice reds.

I plan to breed the chocos to my blue buck.

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

Oooh, I LOVE dilute Chocolate. I don't know the name though...but sooooo pretty. Will that be what you get, Chocolate to the blue?

 

[trinityoaks]

Chocolate Rex are so pretty!

 

[LindseysWoolies]

Supposedly, the doe I had planned to cull carries chocolate. I am going to get two does, and maybe a castor with them. The pict she had on CL looked more like amber, and she said as much. she said she would send me more picts and I'll look at the pedigree. I am wondering if this is the same lady I got the first Rexes from last year. She had some nice reds.

I plan to breed the chocos to my blue buck.

If i am not mistaken amber is the same as chocolate agouti which yes will produce chocolates. Congrats on your new rabbits!

 

[fuzzy9]

Congrats!! inkbunny: How exciting!

 

[skysthelimit]

Supposedly, the doe I had planned to cull carries chocolate. I am going to get two does, and maybe a castor with them. The pict she had on CL looked more like amber, and she said as much. she said she would send me more picts and I'll look at the pedigree. I am wondering if this is the same lady I got the first Rexes from last year. She had some nice reds.

I plan to breed the chocos to my blue buck.

If i am not mistaken amber is the same as chocolate agouti which yes will produce chocolates. Congrats on your new rabbits!

I think so, this where I go into unstudied territory-- amber is chocolate agouti and red is non extension agouti? I always get those two confused.<br /><br />__________ Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:09 am __________<br /><br />

Oooh, I LOVE dilute Chocolate. I don't know the name though...but sooooo pretty. Will that be what you get, Chocolate to the blue?

It should get me lilac. I think I now would have all the genes to get lynx as well.

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

Lilac = SOPRETTY.

 

[scottdigital]

skysthelimit Don't you have Standard Rex bunnies? And Now I am hearing the words Chocolate and lilac as well???????

I may be begging to come for a visit and get a lilac buck from you in the future. I want a lilac Otter so very much!!!

__________ Mon Jul 30, 2012 2:11 pm __________

Kyle@theHeathertoft I think I found a place to get my future Lilac. If thats the case I will bring down 5 or 6 bales of hay for you!!!! :bunnyhop: <br /><br />__________ Mon Jul 30, 2012 2:12 pm __________<br /><br />Or 1 or 2. lol Not sure how much room you have where your at.

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

Kyle@theHeathertoft I think I found a place to get my future Lilac. If thats the case I will bring down 5 or 6 bales of hay for you!!!!

Woot!!! That'd be awesome; if you are driving past Muskegon just let me know when and how much for each bale.

 

[scottdigital]

If I go the hay will be free. I know how hard hit lower michigan is for hay. You will just have to meet me somewhere to get it.

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

Okay!

 

[skysthelimit]

skysthelimit Don't you have Standard Rex bunnies? And Now I am hearing the words Chocolate and lilac as well???????

I may be begging to come for a visit and get a lilac buck from you in the future. I want a lilac Otter so very much!!!

Yes I have Standards (and minis). Lilac Otter should be interesting. Perhaps something I'll look into. I would like some Chocolate Otters myself. I am so considering some Silver martins, I have the perfect chin doe and otter buck.

 

[Devon's Mom Lauren]

Congrats! Chocolate genetics are exactly the same as black-based genetics.. it is just that black is always dominant over chocolate. Chocolate agouti or Amber is the chocolate version of castor. Red is non extension agouti and can be either black based or chocolate based. Breeding chocolate to blue will get you the dilute gene but probably only show blues and blacks in the first generation, unless that blue carries chocolate already then its just a game of 'chance" what genes pair up in each kit!