What might this crossing get me?

[GBov]

French Angora doe with a Rex buck?

IF she manages to have kits on a warm night so I can foster them onto another doe, that is. :roll:

Its just for fur bunnies rather than keepers so they are not that important but I suddenly started wondering what they might look like, fur wise, as she is due in a week.

 

[Dood]

Regular coated rabbits.

Rex and angora are recessive so unless one of the parents is a carrier you won't get a rex or angora. You may get a few with odd tufts of fur but this might moult out

 

[Zass]

Theoretically, you would get normal furred kits.
But both angora and rex have some madly dense undercoats, and sparse guard hairs (compared to normal coats). I guess I'm trying to say, they wouldn't be angora or rex, but would have the modifiers carried by both, so...it still sounds really interesting

 

[skysthelimit]

A commerical meat rabbit.
Both Rex and Angora have the usually amount of guard hairs. Rex guard hairs are the same length as the undercoat, and both are short, so it makes them appear to have no guard hairs. But when they molt, or pull fur for kits, you can tell what's guard hair and whats undercoat pretty clearly.

It's not the ratio of guard hair normal vs angora that makes the difference. It's the density and length of the undercoat. Angoras have guard hair, and some more than others. It's the guard hairs that carry the color and cause the halo in yarn. Because the undercoat (wool) is so much longer, it doesn't look like it. Angora with less guard hairs means a matted mess.

Both Angora and Rex have stand up fur. You will probably get something that looks a lot like my Angora/SF kits, short, normal coated with dense stand up fur.

Now I would cross these kits back later on. The good thing is, with both having good density and stand up fur, the quality and texture of Rex coat won't suffer, and the density of the future woolers won't either. I have gotten tire of buying Angora does and having mishaps, so I am considering breeding the chin does to the Angora buck. I have time and space for culls.

 

[GBov]

One of my does - Silver - is a Lop x Rex and she has very nice fur indeed. Its thick, long enough to almost hide my fingers in, is supper fine and seems all one length, like the under coat is the same as the guard hairs. A really long haired rex. :lol:

Am crossing my fingers for this time with Matilda, she has gotten kits to 18 days but that was it, she ran out of milk and they died before I could figure out what was wrong. Last time the cold got them, like two times ago. But THIS time it should be warm enough for them to last till I find them and 7 other does are bred for the same day so fostering is the plan.

Matilda is my daughters rabbit so any kit is a good kit as long as its a LIVE KIT!

Cant wait to see them though, the mix is interesting to me for any number of reasons.

 

[skysthelimit]

Any interesting colors?

My Angoras are all boring colors, but I am supposed to have a chestnut for trade in May, hoping to get something more interesting from future pairings.

 

[GBov]

Any interesting colors?

My Angoras are all boring colors, but I am supposed to have a chestnut for trade in May, hoping to get something more interesting from future pairings.

She is crossed to a blue so, it might be interesting. If nothing else, nice furs will be produced. If they match the quality of Silver's fur I will be MOST happy! <br /><br /> __________ Thu May 01, 2014 7:38 pm __________ <br /><br /> First, I am SORRY FOR NO PICTURES!!!

Because they are adorable! Like little fat powder puffs. They have more fur than any animal I have ever seen! :lol:

One blue, one black and three, what is it again? White with black points. I know it has a name but it escapes me this time of the day.

LOVE the fur!

She said no way to breeding two weeks ago but will be trying her again with my broken black rex buck. Some brokens with this fur will be sooooo cool!

 

[MR_ND]

One blue, one black and three, what is it again? White with black points. I know it has a name but it escapes me this time of the day.

Is it Himalayan?