Right? Shes a unique girl. Sometimes when agouti is broken it can have white ticking alongside the markings but shes got it all over even in solidly colored areas. Hard to know when I know nothing about the father. Her name is Dumplin
Hmm...I am not sure. What you're saying make sense, but I'd really think if she was tri color she would have some orange hairs somewhere in that huge blanket of black on her back. But theres nothing. Solid black everywhere except for behind the ears, under the nose, and around the eyes. Is it possible for a rabbit with harlequin to have very few and far between markings and large areas of solid color like that? I'm not wanting to sound argumentative it would be really cool if she was a tri color with very few orange markings. And would explain the unique baby!
Yeah, first glance it looks like chinchilla due to the surface color, but that wouldn't have tan on the ears and nose... That fur shot looks like a silver-tipped steel... But steel shouldn't have any tan, either, because the chinchilla gene that makes a silver-tipped steel prevents expression of most yellow pigments... I thought about the possibility that it was just the rustiness that some chinchilla (and STS) rabbits have when they're young, but usually that spreads across the nape, not the ears and nose.
Otters do have tan in the nape area, sometimes having a pretty extensive nape triangle; the doe still looks like a broken otter on my screen. However... the baby lion lop does have some suspicious darker patches on his body and ear that appear in one of the photos:
While I don't really see it on the doe, it wouldn't surprise me to find out the sire was (or carried) harlequin.
Yes, she has both darker gray spots in her blanket as well as areas with a warmer tan hue. Could the mom potentially carry harlequin?Yeah, first glance it looks like chinchilla due to the surface color, but that wouldn't have tan on the ears and nose... That fur shot looks like a silver-tipped steel... But steel shouldn't have any tan, either, because the chinchilla gene that makes a silver-tipped steel prevents expression of most yellow pigments... I thought about the possibility that it was just the rustiness that some chinchilla (and STS) rabbits have when they're young, but usually that spreads across the nape, not the ears and nose.
Otters do have tan in the nape area, sometimes having a pretty extensive nape triangle; the doe still looks like a broken otter on my screen. However... the baby lion lop does have some suspicious darker patches on his body and ear that appear in one of the photos:
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I don't know if those are shadows or what, but looking closely at the picture of the hindquarters, I think I might see tan not only on the lower flank, where you might see it in an otter, but also higher up on his hindquarters:
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I'm always open to blaming harlequin for inexplicable colors and patterns.
Do you see the areas I've arrowed on your little lion? It's a lot easier for you to tell what's there, given the trustworthiness of photography and computer screens.
Well that's convincing enough for me! It sounds like @judymac called it.
That makes sense, as orange is recessive to harlequin. To be orange, a rabbit needs two recessive non-extension (orange) genes ee, so they can't carry harlequin.
