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[ZRabbits]

Excuse the names? Why? lol All my Tribe members are named after Harry Potter characters. Special meaning to me.

Well, not really on top of color genetics, but all I can say is you will have lots of different possibilities of colors and patterns. I was more concerned about health and bone structure than color.

You will definitely have some "color" in your nestbox. Good Luck. Hoping for a colorful HEALTHY Christmas litters.

Karen

 

[rawfeeder]

Haha thank you Karen, all good points! :lol: I am hoping for some healthy colorful christmas popples this year, these will be my first litters! Can you tell I'm excited?!?? Since 99.999% of what everything I produce will end up as raw dog food, I am going to be selecting for larger/typier rabbits whereever possible - and cull hard for health. Its just my inner geek that is interested in the genetics side of things :ugeek:

 

[3mina]

That's the way to do it
While you're breeding for dog food, don't forget to put a few of those away for yourself.

 

[OneAcreFarm]

Haha thank you Karen, all good points! I am hoping for some healthy colorful christmas popples this year, these will be my first litters! Can you tell I'm excited?!?? Since 99.999% of what everything I produce will end up as raw dog food, I am going to be selecting for larger/typier rabbits whereever possible - and cull hard for health. Its just my inner geek that is interested in the genetics side of things

When you have mixed rabbits of unknown origin, it really is a grab bag, so to speak. You won't really know until you start getting some litters. Then you may be able to sort out some of genes in the mix.

 

[Peach]

You are probably going to get rainbow litters lol

 

[Devon's Mom Lauren]

Black and broken black. For the Tort to show or the shaded which the does have/carry then the buck will also have to have a non extension gene plus have some hidden shaded genes there as well. However the NEXT generation would be more of a grab bag...

 

[MamaSheepdog]

The broken gene is dominant, so it always shows. Since the sire of your doe was a solid color, he cannot be carrying a broken gene. Charlies have two copies of the broken gene, so your doe cannot be a Charlie because she did not get a broken gene from her father. She is just a very lightly marked broken, sometimes called "Charlie marked".

http://www.thenaturetrail.com/rabbit-ge ... lie-solid/

 

[rawfeeder]

Thank you for all the comments,and the for link MSD! That is actually the exact page I was reading yesterday in my research And thanks for confirming that about the 'charlies'... I had a thought they might be. Genetics never fails to interest me, I just wish I understood it better lol. Cannot wait to see these litters, and hoping to keep a nice BIG doe back to grow out.