Jace Hohenthaner
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What are the possible colors when breeding a female chinchilla color Netherland Dwarf with a Male Chestnut color Netherland Dwarf?
About the only things you can be sure you won't get are BEW and broken. Other than that, your possibilities are just about any color a rabbit can do. Chestnut is expressing all dominant genes, so you can't be sure about what recessives might be hiding there. Chinchilla is nearly the same way, except that the Chin gene is one step down on the dominance ladder in the C series - there still could be a bunch of hidden recessives there, too.
Do you have pedigrees for these two? That can help you narrow down what is likely to be hiding in your gene pool. Though even then, you can sometimes get some real surprises. I once owned a Sable Point Marten that had nothing but Chestnuts on his pedigree - when he was born, his breeder not only didn't have any idea all that was lurking in his herd, he didn't even know what to call him!
Male pedigree- black, black otter, chestnutAbout the only things you can be sure you won't get are BEW and broken. Other than that, your possibilities are just about any color a rabbit can do. Chestnut is expressing all dominant genes, so you can't be sure about what recessives might be hiding there. Chinchilla is nearly the same way, except that the Chin gene is one step down on the dominance ladder in the C series - there still could be a bunch of hidden recessives there, too.
Do you have pedigrees for these two? That can help you narrow down what is likely to be hiding in your gene pool. Though even then, you can sometimes get some real surprises. I once owned a Sable Point Marten that had nothing but Chestnuts on his pedigree - when he was born, his breeder not only didn't have any idea all that was lurking in his herd, he didn't even know what to call him!