Opal?

[Wyldrose]

Castor rex (carries chin and blue) Bred to broken tort lionhead. 7 babies, 3 where fed off, 3 broken black otters and this girl.

Eye picture

She has white unde coat on her back and blue on the sides?

She will be 4 weeks old Monday and is now 1lb 1oz!

 

[skysthelimit]

Unless the rings are in the wrong place, no. Opal is a much darker color, and would look like a blue with castor/fawn colored rings. That looks tort.

 

[Wyldrose]

It's weird that I got no agoutis in there. I bred the castor doe to my chocolate so i'll see what happens there. Maybe the 2 broken I culled where chestnuts??? I was expecting 25% self blacks, 25% broken blacks, 25% chestnuts and 25% broken chestnuts. Genetics fairy is playing around with my animals!!!

Fatty would be a dilute tort right? Lion, the sire, is a black tort. So he must carry dilute as well. His breeder had no clue about genetics.

 

[skysthelimit]

I've bred an agouti doe twice,got no agouti, bred to a broken black. The litter was all black and broken black. The colors are predictable, but the ratios are never that tidy, they are meant to average out over time.


Yes a dilute tort,like a fawn,with the non extension from the tort. Castor, chin, tort and dilute are a lot of colors that don't go together, they work against each other, so there may not be a clear way to identify the color.

 

[Wyldrose]

Fatty does have a white belly and otter markings, so she's probley a dilute tort otter?? lol! We like her and any offspring she produces will be for FC or our personal pets.

I know my mouse genetics and my snake genetics, there is so many different factors that play around with rabbits. Like the Rufus
ee in mice is a yellow mouse(so no extension). I had a Aa ee mouse who looked yellow but sired agoutis when bred to blacks.

Of course the predctions is per ova, like each ova had a 50% chance at producing a broken/self/agouti etc. I had 8 cornsnake eggs hatch out 50% bloodred and 50% normals so 100% right from the prediction lol! We will see what hatches out ths year from the same pair, I have 15 eggs this time.

 

[skysthelimit]

Tort otter is likely, because tort and otter are codominant, thanks to the ee gene.It pretty much works the same way, ee with agouti is a Red, fawn, cream still agoutis, and with the right genes, you can still get a chestnut agouti from a red- non extension agouti.

What I cant say is how many rabbit litters it takes to see the predictable pattern, because i usually sell or cull after so many litters. The broken castor/black combo I started with never produced any solids, out of 11 kits 8 were broken, 3 were charlie, out of the 12, 9 were broken, 3 were charlie, then the doe died, and I was never able to test the 25/25/50 rule.

 

[Disney]

She doesn't look like a tort otter, either opal with low rufus or lynx (lilac agouti).

 

[skysthelimit]

Opal should be gray, it's s blue agouti. Lack of rufus rings would leave you with a bun that looks blue, not fawn.

for a lynx you would have to know that both parents carries chocolate.

 

[Disney]

I've had opal where some were more on the brown side and other more blueish.
I guessed lynx since he resembles a fawn and the eyes look like my lilac's eyes.
I don't see any other option than these 2.

Dood will probably have a better idea.

 

[skysthelimit]

I've had opal where some were more on the brown side and other more blueish.
I guessed lynx since he resembles a fawn and the eyes look like my lilac's eyes.
I don't see any other option than these 2.

Dood will probably have a better idea.

The undercoat is wrong for a mature lynx, but it happens that rings grow in the wrong order sometimes.