What to breed?

[Oscar]

So I am planing on breeding holland lops. If I can't find a orange rabbit what colors could I breed together to get orange babies?

 

[Winterwolf]

Agoutis and torts can produce orange babies when bred together. But if both parents aren't carrying the wideband gene, the orange color will look smutty.

 

[Oscar]

What color tort?

 

[Winterwolf]

Black Tort is best for a really rich color. But chocolate would also work. Blue Tort and lilac tort usually cause the dilute version of orange (not sure what it's called in lops).

 

[Oscar]

Dang it I found a person getting rid of a Blue Tort holland :? I would get him but I want orange not diluted. :evil:

 

[Winterwolf]

Could still work if you breed the blue tort to a black or chocolate based agouti. Since the dilute gene is recessive, the babies could turn out orange but carry a "hidden" dilute gene. But you'd run the chance of ending up with smutty oranges, dilute oranges, and completely non-orange rabbits as well.

 

[Oscar]

Wait so if I wanted a tri would I breed a broken black to a broken orange?

 

[twr]

No. Tri is a broken harlequin. The minimum genotype for a tri is C_ej_Enen. It is not impossible to get one from broken black x broken orange but the black would have to be something unusual like aaEejEnen (i.e. broken black carrying harlequin).

To make tri from scratch at the first generation you could cross a harlequin (for the C and the ej) to a broken orange (for the En and an e that lets the ej show). If you want nicely marked tris it may be easier to just get some rather than try to recreate the colour from scratch.

 

[Oscar]

Ok, before that I was kind of wondering how I would get that. I'm not the fondest of tri anyways. What are your favorite rabbit colors? Can I breed for a Magpie holland, what colors