Hoppy Hoppers rabbitry updates

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Hatties Hoppy Hoppers journal.
Currently I raise Mini Rex, Meat rabbits, "my does are NZW and buck is a Californian" and I have some lionheads. I started showing Mini Rex as of Oct 2017.
Right now I have a litter of 7 and a half week old mini rexes and a litter of 6 week olds. I'll have to post some pict of them. It the older litter there are 3 broken blacks and 2 Charlie's. The younger litter has 3 black, 2 REW and a broken blue Charlie.
I am expecting my NZW doe to have her first litter tonight so we will see how she does.
Within the next 3 and a half weeks I should have 7 mini Rex, 1 lionhead and 3 NZ litters born.

 

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Sorry it took so long for a update. Sunday my NZW doe had a litter of 8. They all are doing great. White King the mom pulled plenty of fur for them.

 

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Sorry to say 3 of the NZ babies crawled out of the nest box and died. Another NZW doe had a litter of 6.
Last night my broken black otter mini rex had a litter of 6. I was surprised by the colors. She had 3 broken blacks, 1 black and 2 REW. I have no idea where they came from. None of the parents of their pedigrees had REW anywhere.

 

[Dani4Hedgies]

pretty babies

 

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Thanks

 

[promiseacres]

REW can hide for generations! So yes it can pop up almost out of no where.
I love pedigrees that actually show genotypes. Gives a better idea of "suprises".
Congratulations on your litter.

 

[Tale of Tails Rabbitry]

Last night my broken black otter mini rex had a litter of 6. I was surprised by the colors. She had 3 broken blacks, 1 black and 2 REW. I have no idea where they came from. None of the parents of their pedigrees had REW anywhere.

I like pedigrees with known genotypes and I do mine that way, but as @promiseacres suggested, REW being a recessive gene, you would not see one until you bred two that had it even if you could not see it. By crossing with a NZW, I recently found chinchilla in my Blue Silver Fox doe...had no idea and it really should not be there, but there it is. I might have seen it before in brokens or one self chin offspring over a year ago, but we were just doing meat rabbits and I was not into genetics at the time, so I did not "see" it before.

Just got to love rabbit genetics!

 

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Definitely!
I got them out to take pictures of them and the black is actually a black otter.

 

[Tale of Tails Rabbitry]

I agree that none of them will be REWs. I made a mistake in thinking two I had were otters recently and they actually were a chestnut and a chinchilla, but at least yours came from an otter. Still, be patient and give it some time. They need to get their fur in. I have decided that I will wait until their eyes are open before I try to figure out their phenotypes.

 

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The first picture is of one of the New Zealand babies from the older litter. Second picture is from the younger litter. The younger litter defiantly caught up in size.