Odd Coat

[HoppinHalfPints]

So, I have this kit. He's out of a Beveren doe and a pet shop mix (they said a dwarf hotot x). His coat is odd. I raise Netherland Dwarfs, so I know what rollback fur is like (and I have had other kinds of rabbits too, so I know what flyback fur feels like) but this is like nothing I have felt before. It almost reminds me of wool with the texture and when I pet it backwards so that the fur stands up it doesn't roll back at all (at least, until I pet it so that it lies back again). I'm wondering if it is just because it is his baby coat, or if maybe he inherited a wool gene... help?


:bunnyhop:

 

[Secuono]

That's what SF fur is supposed to do.

 

[Sinnfox]

That's what SF fur is supposed to do.

:yeahthat: that sounds like the fur on my silver foxes...the woolly bit your talking about sounds like their baby fur to

 

[Secuono]

That's what SF fur is supposed to do.

:yeahthat: that sounds like the fur on my silver foxes...the woolly bit your talking about sounds like their baby fur to

Haha, sorry I can't expand on that. I know squat about genetics in rabbits in general... =/

 

[HoppinHalfPints]

well...I wonder if any of his ancestors were SF? Interesting.

 

[LauraNJ]

Some lines of beverens have a wooly coat when they are kits, when they molt the normal coat grows in. As kits some look like angoras. Look up Reillys rabbit ranch. She has a few pictures of wooly kit beverens.

Our beveren buck is half Reilly lines and he has a gorgeous coat, nicer than my other lines of beverens.

 

[HoppinHalfPints]

That clears things up! Thank you!