Got a champagne buck!! ~Pic added

[Legacy]

I finally got a champagne buck. I will be breeding him to my half champagne does(result of champagne buck and NZ doe). The seller said he wasn't show-able but I told her I wanted him anyway. Turns out, his disqualification is his fur. It's not uniform champagne. It didn't silver out evenly and it has black streaks mingled in it.

I am not showing. Just raising them for meat but I was wanting my champagne babies to silver out properly and create some good does down the line. Is this fur issue genetic and will it pop up in the babies a lot?

 

[akane]

If you are breeding to does with good silver it may go away so long as you keep breeding to full silver rabbits. Silver is not an on/off gene. I crossed silver rabbits to nonsilver rabbits and got everything from mostly silver to no silver with every rabbit being a different amount. It seems to be a combination of genes and modifiers. The more silver the rabbit you breed to the more silver the offspring and the greater the difference between them the more varied the resulting offspring. Also if you are butchering and want silver pelts you need to be more careful about what you use because some lines silver faster than others. Mine are still quite black at 8 weeks and are down to having black heads by 12weeks so if I want full silver pelts I have to wait at least until 3months. Some are still rather dark or streaky even at that age. Other people have argent rabbits that silver 100% by 8 weeks. Crossing out to breeds without silver may also delay how soon they silver.

 

[Legacy]

Thanks. That helps. Here is a pic. Also, I got the pedigree. All of the other rabbits in the pedigree had good coats. She was going to sell me the brother that had a good coat but he died from the heat before I got a chance to pick him up. She showed me the mom too and she had a good coat. This rabbit has 9 legs in it's pedigree.

 

[PulpFaction]

Wow, I think he looks AWESOME! I love the paint splotches. You should call him Picasso or something like that.

But...sure he's not just molting in funny patterns?

 

[Legacy]

Maybe he is. I don't know. I do know that the temp has been anywhere from 104 to 112 here. He had fans blowing on his cage but it has been stinking hot. I wonder if that affects the molt. The different colored areas have extremely different textures. You can distinctly feel the pattern when you pet down his back.

I do love him so!!! I have waited and waited to find a champagne!

 

[eco2pia]

I agree, I know that is undesirable coloring, but I prefer it to the correct coloring, it is charming.

 

[LilFish_JWQueen(:]

It looks as though he's jus molting out his coat in a weird way lol

 

[Devon's Mom Lauren]

We actually had a Brun "silver" out that way this summer. He looked like an Appaloosa! However it only lasted a few weeks. He isn't moulting to get silver; it actually just grows in! He may even out later but he will be a very heavily silvered Champagne, which may be good for you as I assume your half Champages have some silvering but not a lot? He looks very nice! Congrats on him!

 

[BoxerMom]

He is beautiful! Congrats!

 

[Legacy]

Right, my half champagnes have some silvering. What is weird is that most of them were born gray or brown and only one was born black. The gray and brown ones silvered out but the black one did not. I actually kept a buck out of that litter to breed with the brown doe to try and get some more brown babies. Don't know if it will work but I am going to try.

 

[fuzzy9]

What a beautiful color!! Congrats on the new bun!