Self black?

[Tiny Buns]

I have this holland lop buck who has a terrific glossy black coat. I wonder why his hair is white at the base of the hair shaft? Still black though right? <br /><br /> __________ Mon Oct 05, 2015 6:06 pm __________ <br /><br /> Trying to upload a photo :x

 

[DBA]

I could be wrong, but I think I would call that a black self steel. Black, or self black, should carry the solid black through the entire length of each and every hair.

 

[alforddm]

How old is the rabbit?

 

[Zinnia]

Can we see the whole rabbit?

 

[Dood]

Could also be a self chinchilla

 

[Tiny Buns]

For some reason, iphone photos uploaded with your phone are massive and impossible to resize.... :x It's a take a pic, email to the computer, download from email, upload from computer type process....sorry for the delay.

Angus is 6 months old.

__________ Tue Oct 06, 2015 5:57 am __________

I could be wrong, but I think I would call that a black self steel. Black, or self black, should carry the solid black through the entire length of each and every hair.

That's what I thought about self black but it says black on the pedigree :?

 

[Zinnia]

Even as babies, when they have not yet grown their "wool", my Self Black Chinchilla appears lighter (bluer) through the shaft of hair. I don't think you have any reason to assume Steel unless one of the parents are.

 

[Tiny Buns]

Parents are blue and broken orange. Grandparents are black, tort, cream, black tort

 

[DBA]

Well, since blue is the dilute of black, you may very well have a black rabbit

 

[Tiny Buns]

So self lack even though the hair shaft isn't solid black?

 

[DBA]

As the rabbit ages, it might grow into solid black.

 

[fhjmom]

You have a black. The correct under color for a black rabbit is steel blue.