White toe

[skysthelimit]

Here's a first for me. I get scattered white hairs on my brokens all of the time. one can also get a random white hair or two on a solid from broken lines. This has nothing to do with the Vienna gene, that's pretty rare in Standard Rex, especially if ones been breeding and inbreeding the same line for 4.5 years.

But this time I got a white toe nail, the whole toe nail. It's very interesting, and that definitely means this kit will be a cull.

 

[Peach]

wow! That's a good bit of white! Are you going to further test the breeding pair who produced this kit to see if this is possibly influenced my the vienna gene?

 

[skysthelimit]

wow! That's a good bit of white! Are you going to further test the breeding pair who produced this kit to see if this is possibly influenced my the vienna gene?

I don't have the pair, just the doe. But this line is pretty inbred, doe and her brother were accidentally bred, so if there was any vienna gene involved, it probably would have shown up by now. All of these rabbits are either half brother/sister, close cousins, aunts, uncles, grands.
In this case, I believe the sire is a half brother. Since vienna is not a normal standard Rex thing, I can't see anyone being too happy about finding out this might be related. However, it's not the only possible explanation.

 

[Lastfling]

:lol: Shoot, that's not a white toenail, that's a white toe! Do you think the trait is locked in with all the littermates now carrying an increased potential for producing this with just this one expressing it?

 

[skysthelimit]

:lol: Shoot, that's not a white toenail, that's a white toe! Do you think the trait is locked in with all the littermates now carrying an increased potential for producing this with just this one expressing it?

LOL, that should have said white toe.

Hard to say. This is a litter of black and black otters too, so all of the otters have white toes. And of course, since all of my brokens tend to have scattered white hairs, perhaps. I bet one of the others probably have a few scattered white hairs somewhere on their bodies.<br /><br />__________ Mon Dec 31, 2012 10:54 am __________<br /><br />There is also a slim possibility that this is from scar tissue, dam doing some over zealous cleaning.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

There is also a slim possibility that this is from scar tissue, dam doing some over zealous cleaning.

That was my first thought. I am inclined to think there would be more than one white toe on the foot otherwise.

 

[skysthelimit]

Taking another look, three of the four solid kits have significant white on there toes, so they are basically no good to me. So this is definitely something recessive popping up from the line breeding, flushing out some junk in the trunk, as my breeder calls it. It's really hard to say anything about the otters, since their feet are white. Whatever I keep of the otters will be bred to the dam's brother to flush out anything else.