Need help with color dilemma..

[CCourson05]

First off, hello! I am new here. I found this site on another rabbit/livestock site and it is packed with users, so I will ask my question here!

I will soon begin my adventure into raising rabbits for meat, and on a side note, try my hand at tanning. Due to this side ambition, I do not know what breeds/colors to get. I was going to cross a Cali buck with a NZ black doe to create all black kits. But... Now I would like a broad spectrum of colors... I know that if I get a broken mutt, I could get any color, but can anyone tell me how to spot a broken anything when looking? Around here, not many people know of genetics, so I need to be able to do it myself... :x

Thanks,
Christian

 

[caroline]

color genetics,,,MY FAVORITE

Hi Christian,
I raise standard Rex rabbits because I love their fur, their temperament, and the wide variety of colors that they come in. They are a bit smaller than some of the other meat breeds, the does average between 8.5-10.5 and the bucks between 7.5-9.5 but you can get LOTS of colors [some not recognized for showing] and that is one of the things that I have REALLY enjoyed about breeding them.
We use them for meat for us and our LGDs and we just really enjoy having them around.
There are a number of sites that you can look at with pictures and descriptions of rabbit colors. Here are a few:

http://www.nockrabbits.com/coat_colors1.html

http://www.minkhollow.ca/MHF/doku.php?i ... it_colours

http://www.rabbitcolors.info/int/en/index.html

http://rexrabbit.tripod.com/Reading.html

and one where you can put in the genotype of your rabbit parents and see what possibilities you have for the kit colors

http://www.welshrabbitry.com/matrix.php

I'd be glad to talk rabbit color genetics with you anytime. Read up and ask more questions. It's kind of like getting a surprise present every time a doe kindles around here. We still get so much pleasure out of looking at those kits in all their rainbow glory!

 

[CCourson05]

http://www.rabbitcolors.info/images/col ... /346-1.jpg

I would like to have a possibility of producing this color and blues. I find these two stunning!!

 

[caroline]

the picture that you linked to looks like a standard "wild rabbit" color, called chestnut, or castor in the Rex. it's genotype is
A_B_C_D_E_

the blue rabbit is the "self" "dilute" version

Genotype
aaB_C_ddE_
The capital letters mean they gene is dominant
The lower case letters indicate a recessive gene
the _ means that the second gene can be either the dominant gene or a recessive.

 

[CCourson05]

the picture that you linked to looks like a standard "wild rabbit" color, called chestnut, or castor in the Rex. it's genotype is
A_B_C_D_E_

the blue rabbit is the "self" "dilute" version

Genotype
aaB_C_ddE_
The capital letters mean they gene is dominant
The lower case letters indicate a recessive gene
the _ means that the second gene can be either the dominant gene or a recessive.

This seems like a difficult task to accomplish...

__________ Thu Nov 17, 2011 11:51 am __________

So it looks to me like it is an easy task to accomplish by breeding a Chinchilla to a New Zealand Black... Does that work? However, this combination won't produce good meat rabbits, as Chinchilla aren't very large. For the chestnut color, that is.<br /><br />__________ Mon Dec 05, 2011 5:08 pm __________<br /><br />What color is this little guy?

 

[ladysown]

that little guy is a a blue or possibly lilac japanese. possibly a harlequin rabbit. one of "MY" breeds.

Chinchilla colouration comes in a variety of sizes from small to extra large. to get chestnut.. take your chinchilla doe.. could be a mutt, could be a chinchilla breed (american or giant), breed to your black NZ and you'll get some chestnut.