Reviewing Old Litters - Genetics Q's

[Bad Habit]

Firstly - This kit. Single mane. Dobby(blue vienna) x Lily(Japanese harlequin)

You can see him between the dark marked harlequin, and the blue harlequin. Looks white-ish.

Tan starting to come in.

You can clearly see the distinguishment between the white and tan

The tan darkening up, moving further on the body. By the time the kit sold, it looked like a regular harlequin.

These are a couple different kits, but all appear to be the same colour

Hannah's 1st litter, by a blue harlequin vienna buck. double mane

Dobby x Lily single mane

Same kit as above.

Hannah's current kit, single mane.

Just trying to figure out what colours these kits are. I thought that grey colour was opal. I wonder why that particular harlequin grew out like that, he's the only one who did. Anyone got any ideas?

 

[lissapell]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawe he looks like a calico kitty

 

[Bad Habit]

Lol I think that's what was said when I first posted those photos .

I'm still trying to find out why he did that, when none of his siblings did. I'm hoping Dood will come and share his thoughts soon.

 

[Dood]

OK, this is what I think

Picture 1 - 4 harliquins a blue and a I think a chestnut

Picture 2,3 & 4 - blue fawn harlequin I have attached a picture of another I found on the web. It is very hard to get a good orange/red coloured rabbit as there are all sorts of modifiers and the wideband gene that effect the colour that we dont fully understand yet and many fawns have their white bellies blending up toward their backs.

Picture 5 - white and a vienna marked blue tort

Picture 6 - blue agouti

Picture 7 - blue agouti

Picture 8 - vienna marked blue tort

 

[Bad Habit]

Well, the rabbit in 2 - 4 was black and fawn, not blue, and not orange. It was the only one born like that, even though that's what the doe looked like. In 1, it's 4 harlequins(one being blue), a chestnut, and an opal(blue agouti)

I guess the difference between the blue tort and the opal is the white ticking?

Could I breed a blue tort vm to a non-dilute vm and get a clear blue eye?

 

[Dood]

Yes, the ticking is a sign that the rabbit is agouti.

The kits will carry a blue dilution gene, I don't know if one copy will interfere with a clear blue eye.

 

[Bad Habit]

Alright. May hold him back and see, depending how he grows.

I was hoping that the colour of that one kit would give a clue as far as the genes went, that maybe it was the harlequin interacting with a specific gene.

That one kit in Hannah's current litter still looks like a magpie, and a really super cute one at that. I keep reminding myself that I shouldn't keep one anyway. There's also a brown eyed white kit in that litter. I am interested to see what Star and Crystal produce, as they were bred to the same buck.

 

[Dood]

brown eyed white kit in that litter

Is it a Vienna marked broken?

 

[Bad Habit]

I'm not sure. No colouring, didn't have any spots or anything, at one point I did think that it might have some eyeliner, but otherwise not really any evident markings.

Genetics sure are fun when you've started with rabbits that were thrown together because they were the same general breed, and had opposite parts!