Silver Marten Pictures

[Silver Star Rabbitry]

Well, here they are! A few members of my Silver Marten herd. Storm is a buck, but the rest are does. Critiques are welcome.

Silver Star's Storm

Silver Star's Tornado

Silver Star's Black Pearl

Silver Star's Sparkle

Silver Star's Savanna

Tex Thomas's Alice

Shimmer's kits - Simmer kindle 11 healthy kits and was a great mother to all of them, but sadly they crawled out of the nest box in freezing temperatures and she lost all but these 3.

 

[ladysown]

is that one kit all black with no silvering? is that a normal thing?

oh sorry...it was lovely looking at them all...just that one question struck me at the end.

OOHHH and if you get an all black kit that has excellent type... do you keep it or is that a bad thing to do?

 

[Silver Star Rabbitry]

It is a sport. So is Storm, Tornado and Black Pearl. They can't be shown, but they make good brood rabbits.

 

[Pickles]

Beautiful-Beautiful-Beautiful is all I have to say! And love those kits, too!

 

[ottersatin]

My favorite one is:
Tex Thomas's Alice.
Excellent type.
They are all nice rabbits
Ottersatin. ldtimer:

 

[Silver Star Rabbitry]

Thanks everyone!
Alice is my Best in Show buck's dam. She is going to her first show this weekend and would you believe that she is at LEAST 4 years old. She just keeps getting better!

Emily<br /><br />__________ Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:09 am __________<br /><br />She's going on 5, I believe and still reproducing. She only has 5, or 6 kits, but always keeps her type and fur while she has them.

 

[Anntann]

Oh wow. I agree with ottersatin. Alice is gorgeous. Such lovely rabbits you have! I'm sure more BIS are in your future.

 

[Jack]

grow the ones you like out, silvering, at least with rabbits that you don't want it in, tends to develop with each molt, so a lite coat at birth, may be a medium at 6mo

 

[PulpFaction]

grow the ones you like out, silvering, at least with rabbits that you don't want it in, tends to develop with each molt, so a lite coat at birth, may be a medium at 6mo

Jack, I don't believe the silvering in the martinized pattern is the same as other breeds. A sport will not develop silvering later on like in rabbits that have the si gene coming into play.

 

[Jack]

Oh, my bad, I hate genetics...

 

[Silver Star Rabbitry]

They are born with their silvering.

 

[Devon's Mom Lauren]

Its actually the otter pattern that they have with the addition of the chin modifier to take the tan and turn it silver!

 

[herosshamy]

Silver marten is a nice and beautiful animal. I really love it. Silver marten rabbit is a very hardy medium-sized rabbit, everything will be 61 / 2 to 8 1 / 2 kg, with a beautiful soft hair. Varieties, blue, chocolate or black, silver hair and sharp needle eyes, mouth, chin and body under the silver markings.

 

[SatinsRule]

What is that growth in Tornado's left ear?

 

[Silver Star Rabbitry]

Scaring from living together for too long. Both does have it.

 

[SatinsRule]

I gotta say that I like Sparkle and Alice the best of all of them.