Baby Bunnies born today! Colors?

I wish I had a red, or chestnut so that I could get a red later on. Maybe next time!

You will, eventually. Most likely, the kits you have have a recessive red or chestnut gene.

I only have room to keep one more doe, so I am trying to decided whether or not to keep one of these or wait until we breed this pair again.

This could get interesting . . . .

When red (which is an agouti color) x black (a self color) = black, you gotta start thinking about steel.

Steel is awesome. You can get some, well, unexpected colors from steels, depending on what the rabbit's parents, grandparents, etc., are. But, as long as you don't end up with a DQ color/pattern or a color/pattern you don't want, it isn't all bad.

I would be happy with any Agouti colored rabbit, eventually I would get a red haha.

@DutchBunny03 I have a lot of room to play, while they are all pedigreed, I only raise for meat and the occasional pet.

HaloRabbits said:

I would be happy with any Agouti colored rabbit, eventually I would get a red haha.

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Eh, maybe.
Y'see, in New Zealands, Red is A_B_C_D_eeww++++. Not only do you need the recessive non-extension (e), you need wide-band (w) and the rufous modifiers (+) to get that good, rich red. When you cross away from that, with each generation you have a better chance of losing one of those recessives and some of the modifiers. What you may get is an agouti with non-extension, which without the wide-band and the rufous is an orange. Since you may be dealing with the chinchilla gene (cchd), and we are talking New Zealands here, you could even get this:

which is A_B_cchdcD_ee. an ermine. In fact, if you get the wide band (ww) too, it could even be completely white.

@Bunnylady I've heard of ermine but hadn't read much on them. Ahh! Well that's annoying. While the possible chinchilla gene has given me some cute little fur balls, I would still like to keep at least 20-40% of my rabbits showable.

I'll attach photos of my last litter, all self (chinchillas?).

HaloRabbits said:

Is anyone good at identifying colors on Newborn kits? I see the pics where people are like "chestnut, lilac, chocolate, tort" and I am just like how do you know?

ANYWAYS, I have some new kits as of today and am itching to know what colors they are, as I paired two very different rabbits this time a broken red buck and a black (self chin [more than likely]) doe. I expected to have some chestnuts, maybe more black [self chins], possibly a chin.

Can you tell anything so far?

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DutchBunny03 said:

Looks like broken black and black, but I'm usually just as confused by kit colors as you are.

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promiseacres said:

Chins and chestnuts will have lighter ears and bellies, while black would be solid in those areas.
The 2 brokens on the farthest right look like that. Hard to tell but some do appear more blue than black.... so maybe. Do you know if your red carries "c" ?

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HaloRabbits said:

@promiseacres
I know one of the does grandsires was red and the granddoe was blue. I completely forgot about the possibility of getting a blue. I don't know if the red carries "c"

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Four Days old now!

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I see Broken Black, Maybe a False Charlie, Blacks and maybe a Blue. What Breed(s) Are They? What colors are in the fathers background, his Mother, Father, Grandsires, GrandDams, Great Grandsires and Great GrandDams? And What are all the colors in the Mothers Background, Her Mother, Father, Grandsires, GrandDams, Great Grandsires and Great GrandDams?