This one's got me stumped!

[alforddm]

How do you know they are white with dark eyes? Can you tell through the skin?

Congratz on the litter btw!

 

[Susie570]

I'm really smitten with all of the spotty spots! <3

 

[PSFAngoras]

How do you know they are white with dark eyes? Can you tell through the skin?

Congratz on the litter btw!

Yes, you can tell through the skin. If you look at the one all the way on the left and the fourth in from the right, (the one on the top facing left) they both have darker looking eyes. On REW kits the skin over the eyes is just as pink as the rest of the bunny. I learned this when I got my first sallanders and ermines with my angoras.

 

[Dood]

Oooh !!!!!

I LOVE broken magpies and I am pretty sure the broken with the most white will turn out like mom :mrgreen:

Remember you can have two, or more fathers to a litter, you've certainly got a wide range in brokens from booted to charlie

 

[ottersatin]

{Remember you can have two, or more fathers to a litter,}
Sorry, but I have to disagree with the above statement!
I have never seen any truly significant proof of such a thing happening.
According to "Rabbit Production"
A plug of mucus usually forms in the vagina following coitus.
The plug is formed from gel contained in the ejaculate.
This would prevent any other mating to succeed. [See page 980]
This would name the Broken Buck as the Sire.
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[Dood]

{Remember you can have two, or more fathers to a litter,}
Sorry, but I have to disagree with the above statement!
I have never seen any truly significant proof of such a thing happening.
According to "Rabbit Production"
A plug of mucus usually forms in the vagina following coitus.
The plug is formed from gel contained in the ejaculate.
This would prevent any other mating to succeed. [See page 980]
This would name the Broken Buck as the Sire.
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It isn't commom but it does happen

The progression of breeding is being examined closely and litters are checked for maternity by behavior, pregnancy and lactation, and for paternity by analysis of DNA. Preliminary results indicate that the males which are socially dominant in the enclosures may sire the majority of the litters, but by no means all. Most litters are sired by one male; the frequency of multiple paternity within litters is less than 10% (L. A. Hinds)

from - http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewc ... text=vpc17

Also, please keep in mind that this study was done on wild rabbits in a large enclosure and naturalistic setting where the males could set up territories and fight for females or maintain harems so I suspect the percentage should be higher


Ah ha! This study. ( http://www.reproduction-online.org/cont ... 5.full.pdf ) http://m.reproduction-online.org/conten ... 9.full.pdf of domestic rabbits with controlled breeding found that 27% of the kits were sired by a male mated to the does 10hours after the first males mating

 

[ottersatin]

Ah ha! This study ( http://www.reproduction-online.org/cont ... 5.full.pdf ) of domestic rabbits with controlled breeding found that 27% of the kits were sired by a male mated to the does 10hours after the first males mating

If that did happen it would mean that the first mating did not take,
as rabbits are forced ovulators and that takes place in about Ten hours.
Making the Doe more recessive to the breeding and not actually being
bred by two different Bucks. As always JMPO according to "Rabbit Production".
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[Dood]

Table 2 clearly shows that the kits in the litters from doe 19 to 26 were half siblings, some sired by the white buck and some sired by the black - http://m.reproduction-online.org/conten ... 9.full.pdf <br /><br /> __________ Tue Mar 10, 2015 11:33 am __________ <br /><br /> Oops - I just noticed I put the wrong link in my prior post :roll:

 

[ottersatin]

Everybody is entitled to their opinion,
I still believe that both the White and the Black Buck
could have produced the same colored offspring
that were found in the produced litter.
Meaning that perhaps ALL of the offspring were
actually produced by only one of those Bucks.
The colors produced not being proof of the
genetics of either buck. As always, JMPO. I have no more to say,
I have to just agree to disagree!
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