Two silver fox....

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Ok...strange things have happened! I have a black silver fox doe and a blue silver fox buck. they bred a month ago...and the doe had broken babies!? Ok....ONE or BOTH of the rabbits are obviosly not pure bred. BUT they both look like true silver fox.
1) how can they make broken kits?
2) how do I find out who the mutt is?
 
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OK, you have really gotten my curiosity piqued. Could you post pictures?

I'm not quite sure what you have going on here. The broken gene is dominant; generally speaking, if it is present, you will see it. The expression of the broken pattern varies widely; it can be as little as a bit of white on feet and face (called "booted") or as much as the classic English Spot. It shouldn't be possible for two solid colored rabbits to produce broken babies.:idunno
 
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sorry i havent posted pictures yet. BUSY Season is upon us! I think there HAD to have been a rouge broken buck running around....there is NO WAY brokens are possible if breeding solid rabbits. Unless silver fox isnt considered a solid since they have the silvering?
 
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Babies.....
 

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The buck i sold
 

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The mother of the kits
 

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Ok. The mother doe is from my first litter of silver fox. Both are pedigreed stock, black silver fox. They are brother sister. He silver was less than i like so i sold her to a friend as a grade brood doe along with a blue buck from a different litter, same father but different mother. The kits were born 29 days after i sold the rabbits to him. I have no idea how he got broken kits! He doesnt have other rabbits and i dont have brokens! I do have a couple meat mix mutts but to my knowledge, they were not in the same pens. These rabbits were in ground tractors. Maybe she was bred thru the fence?
 
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Aren't rabbits fun?:he

I strongly suspect that one of your mutts might have gotten to her through the wire - it wouldn't be the first time such things have happened. The white patterning on at least one of them looks more like a Dutch, or maybe the psuedo-Dutch of the Vienna (Blue-eyed White) gene. Is either of those a possibility?

Something else I see, is a couple of Tortoiseshell colored babies. That's the non-extension gene, and a pedigreed Silver Fox shouldn't have it. It's recessive, so both parents had to have it; anybody do an outcross to a Cinnamon, by any chance?
 
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