Hello everyone.
I have a new litter of rabbits today, and my newborn kits are, uh, not what I was expecting. I was hoping to draw on the experience of the group here and ask if anyone has seen kits born with similar color patterning to this:
The background is that these little guys are out of a Black Otter doe and a REW buck.
The buck has had one other litter with a Blue Silver Martin Doe (suspect at_ B_ Cchd c dd E_) and thrown Chinchilla, Black Silver Martin, Self or Self-looking-steel, and REW. So he doesn't appear to have any odd recessives of his own. I am thinking he may be an Aa B_ cc DD __ or an A_ B cc DD Es_. Still not sure about that "self" kit I have.
This is their dam's first litter, so I don't know much about her genetics, but visually she is at_ B_ C_ D_ E_
None of the parents are broken, to my knowledge. At least, the buck did not throw any broken kits in his last litter. The doe shows no broken marks.
I'm wondering if someone is "ej", and I have "ej e" kits, or if this is what heavily nestbox-frosted Himalayan could look like (so ch c). I've never seen newborns with either combination though, so for now, I'm stumped!
Where did these speckly bunnies come from?! Out of a litter of 8, I appear to have five of them!
I have a new litter of rabbits today, and my newborn kits are, uh, not what I was expecting. I was hoping to draw on the experience of the group here and ask if anyone has seen kits born with similar color patterning to this:
The background is that these little guys are out of a Black Otter doe and a REW buck.
The buck has had one other litter with a Blue Silver Martin Doe (suspect at_ B_ Cchd c dd E_) and thrown Chinchilla, Black Silver Martin, Self or Self-looking-steel, and REW. So he doesn't appear to have any odd recessives of his own. I am thinking he may be an Aa B_ cc DD __ or an A_ B cc DD Es_. Still not sure about that "self" kit I have.
This is their dam's first litter, so I don't know much about her genetics, but visually she is at_ B_ C_ D_ E_
None of the parents are broken, to my knowledge. At least, the buck did not throw any broken kits in his last litter. The doe shows no broken marks.
I'm wondering if someone is "ej", and I have "ej e" kits, or if this is what heavily nestbox-frosted Himalayan could look like (so ch c). I've never seen newborns with either combination though, so for now, I'm stumped!
Where did these speckly bunnies come from?! Out of a litter of 8, I appear to have five of them!
