Smoke Pearl x Black Otter?

[MamaSheepdog]

I have a Smoke Pearl Jersey Wooly doe, and have been offered a Black Otter buck. Are these acceptable colors to cross?

On the top side of my doe's pedigree, I have:

--------------------------------Siamese Sable
----------------REW
--------------------------------Blue Otter
Sable Marten
--------------------------------Siamese Sable
----------------Siamese Sable
--------------------------------Black

The bottom side;

------------------------Broken Tortoise Shell :?
-------------Blue Tort
------------------------Blue Tort
Blue Seal
------------------------Siamese Sable
-------------Seal
------------------------Broken Smoke Pearl

I don't know what is behind the Black Otter yet.

Any help to the "genetically challenged" would be highly appreciated.

 

[caroline]

here's a site to calculate what you'd get

http://www.ephiny.net/tim/pedigrees/color_calc.php

Welshes Honeybuns Rabbitry used to have one I really liked but haven't looked at their site for a long time and now when I go there I get an error message when I try to access the "calculate/genotype" link. Maybe it doesn't work any more

 

[Dood]

What are the plans for the kits?

Are there any specific colours you don't want?

Genetically ...
Doe = aa B_ cchl (cchl OR c) dd E(E OR e)
Buck = at_ B_ C_ D_ E_

You will likely just get black and black otter, of course this depends on the hidden recessives the buck carries.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

Thanks, Caroline and Dood.

The kits would be for show or (possibly) pets. I don't know that I want to sell to the pet market, though, so the culls may be pet food, not pets.

 

[MamaMandy]

In Netherlands this is considered a fine cross as you could get smoke pearl martens if your buck carries dilute!

 

[Dood]

I just checked showable colours and I think you're in the clear with the buck as pretty much anything black or blue based is showable.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

Great! Thanks!