Mini lop x NZ?

[Cottie]

I have some beautiful mini lop does. I love their coats.

My NZ buck appears to be a meaty fellow, but is a little on the small side I think.

What I'd really like to do is breed the mini lop with the NZ, and see what I get. I know there's a science to it, but no matter how much I read up it isn't clicking.<br /><br />__________ Sat May 25, 2013 11:46 am __________<br /><br />Here are some pics. We just weighed them both. She's about 3lbs 4oz and he's just over 4lbs. Both are ~16 weeks.

Isn't that kind of big for a mini lop? Do I even have mini lops? :shock:

Shhh no one tell the man I brought the bunnies in the house.

 

[Cattle Cait]

I'm not sure that's a New Zealand. Wrong size, wrong color.

 

[Cottie]

:shock:

Which one? The buck is the broken...red? He was sold to me as a NZ. If he's not a NZ, what is he? :?

The doe is the other. I'm not sure what official color she is. She was sold to me as a mini lop.

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

That is a REALLY little NZ...or a really big Lop, LOL! I was going to say "too much size difference between the breeds" but the buck isn't much bigger than the Lop, so..........I say go for it. Just have a clear idea of what to do with the offspring and it should be fine.

 

[Cattle Cait]

I don't think he's a red. He looks more Tort colored to me. Let me find a picture of a broken red so that we can compare.

Looks like they'll be fine to breed, I'd wait for her to grow up a little more though.

 

[Cottie]

He tried mounting her while we had them running around and she just did the bear skin rug thing on the floor. She's not ready to be impregnated. I'm going to give her another month and try again.

My plan - *snort* - is to build rabbit tractors for over the summer. My Cali/Rex buck is going in with the larger does, and I want to put this guy in with the mini lops.

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

I don't think he's a red. He looks more Tort colored to me. Let me find a picture of a broken red so that we can compare.

Looks like they'll be fine to breed, I'd wait for her to grow up a little more though.

Yeah now that I'm looking, it looks like he has a darker "butterfly" on his face. RJ, do you have a picture that shows the right side of his face better?

Nothing wrong with torts, they're cute as the dickens! But I agree I don't think he's red. Or a pure NZ.

He IS really cute though.

 

[Cattle Cait]

Here I've attached pictures of a Cinnamon (a Tort colored breed) and a Red New Zealand to compare. Doesn't mean your bun is a Cinnamon, because the color appears in other breeds and can pop up in crossbreeding, but I think he's a broken patterned Tort. Nothing bad, still adorable!

 

[Cottie]

Yes. He does have a lot of dark patches. Here's his right side.



I'm not too upset that he's not a red. I just feel stupid for not knowing. :lol: When we started this I thought, "Rabbits are rabbits. I'll get ones bred for being fatter." D'oh...<br /><br />__________ Sat May 25, 2013 12:32 pm __________<br /><br />Ugh. I hate to be nagging with so many questions, but would anyone mind if I made a thread (or even here) with pictures of ALLLLL my stock so I could get a detailed ledger going?

 

[Cattle Cait]

Go ahead! Start another thread though, otherwise this one will get completely off track

 

[Kyle@theWintertime]

Don't feel stupid!!! Just be happy he's pretty and he's healthy. Good rabbits come in all sorts of cool colors...personally I like torts.

 

[Cattle Cait]

He tried mounting her while we had them running around and she just did the bear skin rug thing on the floor. She's not ready to be impregnated. I'm going to give her another month and try again.

My plan - *snort* - is to build rabbit tractors for over the summer. My Cali/Rex buck is going in with the larger does, and I want to put this guy in with the mini lops.

We have rabbit tractors for the fryers, just be sure to put a floor in like chicken wire or something, otherwise they'll leave. We've had a few litters born in the woodpile...

I'd give her at least until six months. Generally at that age they're grown up enough physically and mentally to handle becoming a mother.

 

[DBA]

She might be a touch on the small side, and she is too young to breed.
You shouldn't breed a ML doe before about 6 months.
And he doesn't really look 100% NZ. I would let them each grow a couple more months. <br /><br /> __________ Thu Apr 09, 2015 5:05 am __________ <br /><br /> She might be a touch on the small side, and she is too young to breed.
You shouldn't breed a ML doe before about 6 months.
And he doesn't really look 100% NZ. I would let them each grow a couple more months.

 

[Susie570]

That post was from 2013...

 

[DBA]

DOH!!!!

 

[mini_lop_mama]

Hey Cottie,

I'm not going to repeat what everyone else has already said, but it's so funny you mentioned this. I have a mini Lop named, Atilla the Bun. And my ex has a new Zealand red.

We may have unintentionally bred them because I was giving him exercise in her run area. And towards the end of when I was bringing him over was about the time Cinnamon Buns got pregnant.

The only thing is during the same time she got pregnant, a very brave wild rabbit stood down my ex pulling into his driveway in his car.

So we could either have a possible new breed or a we could have a partially wild rabbit.