White/grayish foot pads?

[Rae]

I was messing around with the kits this morning and noticed one of my black kits looks like the fur on the bottoms of his feet are turning white. Does that mean it's not really black as far a genetics and/or showing go? The ears and belly still seem black to me. Other kits in the litter are 4 REW, black with (still) black footpads and a castor. Mom is red and dad is REW.

 

[SMR]

Probably just a poor black, it happens...try to avoid using such for breeding unless they're really super other wise and can do more good then harm imo. DQ in show if truly white, check to make sure its white all the way down to the foot, surface discoloration can happen and appear white but its a definite dq if its white all the way down...

Still don't want white pads on a rabbit period though.

 

[akane]

You sure it was born dark? If it's something other than a rew with the c locus or possible it can have white foot pads and turn out to be a seal. I have one that looks kind of blue or off black right now that you'd swear was a odd colored dark silvery blue which I know was born pink and blues are not born pink. It is a sable in hiding that hasn't changed yet and it's foot pads are white.

 

[SterlingSatin]

i had a few black satins with white footpads, i never bothered with them. all black rabbits have grayish foot pads, but if its truely white then i would cull it. i showed a doe with white footpads once and she didn't get DQ'd. but its not something i really want in my herd. i think it probably is a black, just with poor footpads.

 

[Rae]

Thanks for the information, I won't keep it if they turn truely white. Unfortunatly it's our fastest growing kit of the litter, best looking head and nice body type with good shoulders and hindquarters. I know they have a lot of growing and changing to do, they're already starting to get funky looking.

 

[SterlingSatin]

if it really does have awesome body type, keep it to breed brokens. i mean, really, i pick my rabbits based off topline first and then color. if it has really great body type but a dq in the color, i'll find a way to breed it and get a good color out of it. it depends on the breed of course, but with something that is judged a lot on body type (satins are, but htey are also judged heavily on fur), sometimes it doesn't matter if its a bad color, it'll do more good than harm in your breeding program. what breed do you have? mini rex?

 

[Rae]

The dam is a meat mutt daughter of a NZW and the sire is a NZW. The white are so popular it's hard to go wrong, but I do love the brokens, red or black. If I ever stumble across one for sale thats the way I plan to go.