Now how did I get THAT?!

[Jessykah]

1 Californian buck. 1 Californian doe. Lady said they are purebred....so you'd expect cali kits, right?!
Then how did I get a WHITE kit? Not a speck of black or grey.
She kindled 10. 6 froze from jumping out of the nestbox too early, weren't able to get back in...so out of the 4 left, there's the 1 WHITE kit, and 3 cali kits that are very grey (hopefully just from being chilled, I hope they turn out more cali looking in the end).
On the plus side, someone wanted to buy the white kit, even though they don't know what to expect from her.

So my questions are:
1) How did I get a white kit?
2) If the white kit is bred to a NZR or NZW or a broken red, or broken black, what colours will that produce?

Oh I wish I could understand these genetic things. Oh well maybe one day. Thanks for the help

 

[Mary Ann's Rabbitry]

they have newzealand in the background that pops out now and then. Also those other kids are smutty.

 

[Dood]

There are 10 coat colour locus that we know of and more yet to be discovered (but usually we just use the 5 most common - A, B, C, D & E)

There are 5 known modified colours on the C-locus in rabbits and the order of most dominant to recessive is as follows

C = full colour
cchd = chinchilla AKA dark shaded
cchl = shaded
ch = himilayan AKA California marked
c = red eyed white AKA REW

Each rabbit has two colour choices for each locus , one from the mother and one from the father. Normally we can only know one of theses colours (the one that is more dominant and gives the color to the kit) and we put a blank in the second, more recessive spot. For Example ; a chinchilla rabbit would be - A_ B_ cchd_ D_ E_

But because your two Californians had a REW we know both colours and they must be "ch c" on their C-locus.

 

[Demamma]

I have had New Zealand kits that turned grey from getting chilled. They did turn white though in time.

 

[Dood]

I forgot the second question

2) If the white kit is bred to a NZR or NZW or a broken red, or broken black, what colours will that produce?

The himilayan and REW genes are special in that they will turn any rabbit into a white with pink eyes. Because of this there is no way to know any of their colour genes, except for the C-locus.
Genetically - __ __ cc __ __
You can guess what will be in the blanks if they had non white parents or siblings or offspring.

So...
Breeding to a NZR would likely produce chestnuts but no way to know
Breeding to a NZW would only produce more NZW no other colour is possible
Breeding to a broken red will likely produce chestnuts and broken chestnuts but there is no way to know
Breeding to a broken black will likely produce chestnuts and broken chestnuts but there is no way to know