REW+ Blue dutch = tan???

[BusterHill]

scratching my head over this one lol I cant find my camera, or id take pics, but 2 started off looking blue to me, but i guess are actually black? or a very dark blue? and 2 are beige... ive bred this buck to a cali, and got cali offspring, bred to a chinchilla, got chinchilla offspring lol

 

[Dood]

I am assuming the buck is the REW which is the most recessive C-locus colour so when bred to other C-locus colours - chinchilla, shaded and himilayan - the kits will be chin and shaded and himi

Secretly he could be any colour under his white fur (as can Himilayans) and by this breeding it seems he carries one or two non-extension gene and the blue dutch doe must carry one as well and produced fawns which are a beige or orange in colour.

I think blue is pretty distinct from black so waiting for pictures.

 

[BusterHill]

ok I wasnt sure if the white could hide color (instinct told me "duh" yeah, its pretty rude ) I've never had black kits born before, but the skin was bluish, and now has furred out to black, but its in the barn and I havent taken them out into light yet (its not dark, just dim) I didnt know that about the white being recessive (It makes sense to me, but I just figured I might eventually get some REW) ... I'll keep hunting for the camera (I know its around here somewheres :| )

 

[Dood]

the skin was bluish, and now has furred out to black,

that's pretty normal for black kits.

 

[BusterHill]

ok... i guess my bigger question is how does a blue have fawn kits? I guess I have horse genetics in my head lol, that blue is black based fawn (palomino) is red based, white can hide anything, but you dont usually get a dilute of a different base like that :?

 

[Dood]

Actually rabbit and horse colour genes do have similarities

A Fawn rabbit is the equivalent of a chestnut horse - not a palomino which is a cream chestnut (rabbits dont have the incompletely dominant cream gene) and genetically is agouti "A_" (which also creates bay horses) and non extension "ee"

A black rabbit and a black horse are not agouti / bay so are "aa" (called "self" in rabbits) and full extension "E_"

A blue rabbit is a recessive dilution of black - horses dont have this colour - and since black is recessive to agouti you get agouti rabbits = fawns

 

[BusterHill]

oh, ok man last night i went up and took my light, i go to count and find only 3.... so i pull out all the bedding from the nest (she pretty much filled the litterbox, she is my first baby bury-er ) i stuff the other 3 in my pocket meanwhile... so i did not find the kit, then i start restuffing the nest and find him... he must have crawled out and burrowed into the loose bedding pile she made just outside the nest... scared me! I'm glad i made one more night check, almost wasnt gunna...