WildWolf
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OK, I've noticed for some time that my SF doe is slightly red. I always thought, well it must be the lighting, or that maybe it was a SF trait. But now that my SF buck is grown out a bit, I can clearly see a difference in fur color... although my buck has some oddities too (see it in a different post- I thought that both color questions in one post might get confusing since there will be lots of pictures.) And then it got me thinking- SF's must be agouti, since I can clearly see a ring when I pull back her fur. But how can my black SF fox, with only blue and black in her pedigree, have red in her??
She has blue and black SF rabbits on her pedigree. Her parents were both black, but some of her brothers were blue. So, she could be "Dd" or "DD" (I will breed her to a blue carrier buck this September and figure out that). The breeder only had black SF's for breeding. There weren't any chocolates or lilacs in the litter or in the rabbitry. Also, there are none of the harlequin/wool carriers on her pedigree.
So, here are some pictures:
This is her eye- does it look a little ruby colored?
This is the picture that shows the reddish color most clearly:
She has a little patch on her shoulder that is extremely red:
Ring pictures of the fur where she is reddish:
Is she molting?? There were occasionally black spots in the middle of the ring-
Ring picture of the fur where she is not red:
up close of her more silver-and-black fur
up close of her reddish fur, though the patch in the picture is not her most reddish fur:
sorry for so many pictures, but I don't know how else to describe it...
thoughts on how in the world this can happen?
She has blue and black SF rabbits on her pedigree. Her parents were both black, but some of her brothers were blue. So, she could be "Dd" or "DD" (I will breed her to a blue carrier buck this September and figure out that). The breeder only had black SF's for breeding. There weren't any chocolates or lilacs in the litter or in the rabbitry. Also, there are none of the harlequin/wool carriers on her pedigree.
So, here are some pictures:
This is her eye- does it look a little ruby colored?
This is the picture that shows the reddish color most clearly:
She has a little patch on her shoulder that is extremely red:
Ring pictures of the fur where she is reddish:
Is she molting?? There were occasionally black spots in the middle of the ring-
Ring picture of the fur where she is not red:
up close of her more silver-and-black fur
up close of her reddish fur, though the patch in the picture is not her most reddish fur:
sorry for so many pictures, but I don't know how else to describe it...
thoughts on how in the world this can happen?
