Hi all, I am raising 2 litters of kits ... one is a cross EA buck x Satin doe, and the other is EA x EA, and the kits of the EA are quite a bit different than the cross kits. While I expected some differences, the one that surprises me is the difference in how "bony" the EA kits are compared to the cross kits ... their hip bones are quite prominent compared to the other babies of the same age, but this is my first litter of EAs and even the adults have quite prominent hip bones compared to the satin doe and I was wondering if this is normal?
English Angora kits
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skysthelimit
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satins are one of the top commercial meat breeds, they should produce a more meaty body style, with a lower bone to meat ratio than all but the other meat breeds (commercial meat breeds)
Frosted Rabbits
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When the driving purpose behind breeds are different, one does have different skeletal/body conformation results. An animal bred for fiber, was not developed to feed a carnivore or omnivore-- in other words-- that animals energy goes into producing fiber, not flesh. If you look at dairy cow breeds, vs meat cow breeds, one finds longer legs, exaggeratedly large udders, prominent hip bones, even ribbiness- while the meat animals are shorter legged, well fleshed out over the whole skeleton, and even the best mothers have small udders.
