Different color rabbits.

[Archerace7]

We are so new to this. Was given 3 rabbits, a white male, a white female, and a female that has the colors of a siamese cat.

The siamese cat rabbit is a good mother, has had 3 litters now, for a total of 20 babies.

The white one lost her first litter, had 4 the next time, now has 7.

But we have grey rabbits, siamese rabbits, white ones with pink/red eyes, white ones with brown eyes.

Is it standard to have so many variations in color etc?

I will say, the grey ones seem to be larger also, so far.

Just curious, we are 6 months into this, and the differences is curious.

Thank you.

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

Pictures please?
White with blue eyes is BEW
White with red eyes is REW
Idk what you mean by Siamese cat colored
What kind of gray? Light-ish gray with darker points is Siamese Smoke Pearl
Darker solid gray is Blue
Lighter solid gray is Lilac

 

[Alaska Satin]

We are so new to this. Was given 3 rabbits, a white male, a white female, and a female that has the colors of a siamese cat.

The siamese cat rabbit is a good mother, has had 3 litters now, for a total of 20 babies.

The white one lost her first litter, had 4 the next time, now has 7.

But we have grey rabbits, siamese rabbits, white ones with pink/red eyes, white ones with brown eyes.

Is it standard to have so many variations in color etc?

I will say, the grey ones seem to be larger also, so far.

Just curious, we are 6 months into this, and the differences is curious.

Thank you.

Basically the genes that code for all-white rabbits with red or blue eyes "turn off" all the other color genes, so you can think of an all-white rabbit as a colored rabbit with whitewash spread over the color.

Almost any color can "hide" behind a red-eyed white (or "REW") or blue-eyed white (BEW) rabbit. If you breed REWs together, you should always get REWs, and BEW x BEW should always give you BEW.

But if you breed either one with any other color, you never know what you'll get (unless you have pedigrees for both parents, in which case you can make some guesses). You might even get some spotted bunnies!

Your siamese rabbit is probably a siamese, a siamese sable, or a pointed white. You can tell the difference between a siamese/siamese sable and a pointed white: the first two have brown eyes, and the pointed white has pink eyes. As it turns out, siamese and pointed white are two of the few colors that can't hide behind REW or BEW, so in terms of color variations, you basically hit the jackpot!

Gray is a color that could describe a number of varieties. If your gray rabbit has different colors on each hair, that's called chinchilla. (Your white rabbit with brown eyes is probably a color called ermine, which means it has genes for chinchilla and for non-extension, so I'm guessing your gray rabbit is a chinchilla.)

Pull back on or blow into the fur to see if it's got separate bands of color (chinchilla), or all one color which shades to lighter as it gets closer to the body (called a blue, or a self blue).
Here's a chinchilla:


Here's a blue self/solid (note her eyes are not actually red, that's just an artifact of the flash):


The image below is obviously not a blue, it's a red, but it's what self fur color looks like underneath - no rings:


If the coat is gray-looking but the rabbit looks like it's shaded towards its extremities, it could be a smoke pearl, siamese, siamese sable, sable point (the sable colors are more brownish but could still be called gray).

Smoke Pearl:


Sable:


Sable Point (a dark one):


And here's a pointed white, also called californian or himalayan (note the pink eyes):


That's probably enough info to make your head spin. If you could post some photos of the rabbits, we could probably be more help.

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

White with colored points and red eyes is also called Himilayan (Shortened to Himi)

 

[Archerace7]

Basically the genes that code for all-white rabbits with red or blue eyes "turn off" all the other color genes, so you can think of an all-white rabbit as a colored rabbit with whitewash spread over the color.

Almost any color can "hide" behind a red-eyed white (or "REW") or blue-eyed white (BEW) rabbit. If you breed REWs together, you should always get REWs, and BEW x BEW should always give you BEW.

But if you breed either one with any other color, you never know what you'll get (unless you have pedigrees for both parents, in which case you can make some guesses). You might even get some spotted bunnies!

Your siamese rabbit is probably a siamese, a siamese sable, or a pointed white. You can tell the difference between a siamese/siamese sable and a pointed white: the first two have brown eyes, and the pointed white has pink eyes. As it turns out, siamese and pointed white are two of the few colors that can't hide behind REW or BEW, so in terms of color variations, you basically hit the jackpot!

Gray is a color that could describe a number of varieties. If your gray rabbit has different colors on each hair, that's called chinchilla. (Your white rabbit with brown eyes is probably a color called ermine, which means it has genes for chinchilla and for self/solid, so I'm guessing your gray rabbit is a chinchilla.)

Pull back on or blow into the fur to see if it's got separate bands of color (chinchilla), or all one color which shades to lighter as it gets closer to the body (called a blue, or a self blue).
Here's a chinchilla:
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Here's a blue self/solid (note her eyes are not actually red, that's just an artifact of the flash):
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The image below is obviously not a blue, it's a red, but it's what self fur color looks like underneath - no rings:
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If the coat is gray-looking but the rabbit looks like it's shaded towards its extremities, it could be a smoke pearl, siamese, siamese sable, sable point (the sable colors are more brownish but could still be called gray).

Smoke Pearl:
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Sable:
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Sable Point (a dark one):
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And here's a pointed white, also called californian or himilayan (note the pink eyes):
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That's probably enough info to make your head spin. If you could post some photos of the rabbits, we could probably be more help.

Thank you!!

The siamese looks like the one with the floppy ears, except it has perky ears.

The big greys look just like your picture. I will take some pics tomorrow and post them.

Again, thank you. I loved the info!