Recent content by Edge of the Wilderness

Okay, so we'll go with Kit#2 is Black Self-Chinchilla. Do you think the lighter tips is just weird baby fur stuff or something else going on with genetics? BTW, sorry for all the second guessing and thank you for all of the feedback. I know I'm not raising purebreds or anything, but I find it...

Kit#1 Comes from a Chestnut Buck and a Himi Doe. I know they both carry (c) as #1 has a REW littermate. I suspected the buck had steel as he is much darker than his Chestnut littermates, but I wasn't sure. I have a couple (not great) pictures of him at around 12wks old last year. I only have...

Finally got her picture taken in some decent light. Only took me a month. :D On a separate note, I have a couple of "black" kits (from different litters) that I'm not quite sure what is up with their coloring. I can provide more details on their parents, etc, but wanted to just put the...

I try to get a first weight around 2-3days and then usually once a week or so until just after weaning. I don't usually track a litter so closely, but the lower weights of this particular litter made me take notice and I reweighed a second litter to have data from a point of reference. I...

Okay, thanks for the reply. I had ended up deciding to go ahead and at least foster out the two kits that had lost weight between the 31st and 1st. Foster mom went in and nursed them right after I moved them and I was able to coax the doe that seems to be having supply issues into her nest to...

Concerned about first time mom milk supply. How much should newborn kits gain a day? Should I foster out my kits? I did find information stating gain should be ~.25oz/7g per day. The kits in question are 3 days old and did not meet this in day/day weight check. Here is my situation. I have...

Okay, I had been guessing it was Lilac for a while, but wasn't sure how the Chinchilla color pattern would affect brown coloring for Chocolate Chinchilla since my understanding was that it reduces/removes yellow pigment. I had a difficult time finding anything labeled as Lilac Chinchilla and...

Here are a couple quick pics, but I can try to get some better shots tomorrow when it's light out.

Okay, I'll try looking closer at the rabbit in question and maybe getting a current picture (10wks). Here are a few pictures of the rabbit in question with its Blue Self-Chin litter mate at 1wk. Ignore the respective pink and green ears. That was just coloring for my identification...

I'm wondering if anyone can give any pointers on how to tell the difference between Chocolate Chinchilla, Blue Chinchilla (Squirrel), and Lilac Chinchilla. Pictures that I have been able to search online look very similar and don't give me confidence I am looking at the correct thing. I have a...

It could be that between the harsh light and the rabbit's age you could see through the fur easier in the first picture. They're 4 days old in the first set and 5 days old in the second. I was using the squirrel kit picture posted on http://www.gbfarm.org/rabbit/holland-colors-agouti.shtml as...

I had an appointment that went shorter than expected and had a few minutes to try to snap a few photos in slightly better light. Hope these are helpful. Also, I mark their left ear so be mindful of inaccurate colors there. :) The one that I'm pretty sure is Himalayan. Also has slight tint...

This sire mated with 5 different dams. 2 were REW and 3 were Himalayan. REW #1 has 7 REW(+1 stillborn). REW #2 was my bad mom who messed up her nest. She had 7, 5 of which were various colors other than white, but being new at this I didn't try to figure out what the other colors were on day...

So I was attempting to figure out what I could of some of my rabbits' color genetics. I have a chinchilla sire that produced REW, Himalayan, Chocolate, Chinchilla, Blue, and Squirrel, if I'm reading the colors correctly. Think this is squirrel. (Blue with a pink belly.) Think this is blue...

The babies had been in the center of the nest last I saw them on Sunday night. Silly mom fidgeting with her nest. :rolleyes: Thanks for the feedback!