So... What Colour Is She?

[Bad Habit]

I have an almost 4mth old female lionhead x dwarf bunny. She's super adorable, but I've been having some trouble pinpointing her colour. I was told on a different forum that she's a harlequin, but when researching genetic information, I never see that colour listed.

if you need different photos, let me know and I can take them.

 

[caroline]

other names that are used to indicate that the rabbit is expressing the ej gene are:
japanese and magpie

the wild rabbit has EE for full extension of color
other options are

ej_ which can give you tri-color, magpie and harlequin, depending on some of the other genes the rabbit expresses

ee - the most recessive of that group, gives you non extension, which is red or orange,depending on the breed it's in

you might want to look at pictures on

http://www.rabbitcolors.info/int/en/index.html

Renete has hundreds of rabbit pix that people have put up there and there are geneotypes with the pictures which may help you learn a little more about the genetics of rabbit color

 

[MaggieJ]

She's pretty! Her colour kind of reminds me of Marilla... the cat that is my avatar.

 

[Bad Habit]

At the risk of sounding shallow, I actually picked her out because I have 2 torty w/ white cats, and a black and tan w/ white dog. I think she's pretty too, though, and I adore her.

 

[curlysue]

It is harlequin and you see it more often in Mini rex or i used too.

 

[ladysown]

black japanese harlequin colouring on the kit. At four months she should be about her adult size if a true lionhead.

 

[Bad Habit]

She's half lionhead, half dwarf. In those photos she was about 8wks old. So if looking at genetic information, I should look for "japanese" rather than "harlequin"?

 

[akane]

If you are using a search engine for more info looking up "harlequin rabbit" will get you farther than using the term japaanese or japanese brindling but the latter is used more on certain sites.

 

[Devon's Mom Lauren]

Dwarf what? Lionheads are dwarfs. Dwarf is a gene that's inherited in many breeds.

 

[Bad Habit]

Netherland dwarf.

 

[akane]

If you got her from a pet store they call them all dwarf rabbits whether they have netherland dwarf or not. Anything dutch or smaller is often a "dwarf rabbit" and then they add lop or lionhead depending on the ears and coat.

 

[Bad Habit]

I got her off kijiji, and she was advertised as a netherlands dwarf x lionhead. I just assumed that if I used "dwarf" in the breed sense, people would assume it was a netherlands dwarf, I apologize.