Himi Gene

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

I was wondering this while reading a different post/thread, but I have Netherland Dwarfs and some of my rabbits are himis. I was thinking about how I've been breeding with himis since my second and third rabbit (seven years ago) and I've never gotten a REW. Is it possible to get a REW out of a Himi? Wouldn't it just lose the black tips? These are some pictures of a few of my himis, a few months old since I'm posting this on my fire kindle (we don't have Taffy anymore :[

 

[ThunderHill]

Here's a pretty good site explaining the C locus of rabbit genetics: C-Locus

I think the himi pattern is caused by a rabbit with ch at the C locus, either two copies of it, chch, or could be one copy of ch dominant over one copy of albino, c, which would be chc. I think for a himi to produce REW, they would have to be chc at the C locus and breed to another rabbit carrying the recessive c, and both pass the c gene to the offspring, resulting in cc, or REW.