The standards are updated every 5 years, and though they are written by the breed clubs, they are the property of the ARBA, so the only way to get an accurate version of the current standard is to read it in the latest edition of the ARBA's Standards of Perfection. Even the breed club usually...
A lot of people don't know any better. A rabbit is a rabbit is a rabbit to them; they aren't breeding to the standard and may not even know that a standard exists. Even people who breed for show may do an outcross for some reason (like creating a new color), but they then have to work pretty...
I am not sure what this is supposed to mean; the genes for REW, Chinchilla (which is called "grey" in the FG's) and Himalayan all occur in the C series. EVERY rabbit has genes from the C series; full color and Siamese-type shading genes occur there as well. Himalayan-type coloring clearly points...
Flemish Giants do not come in broken, nor does the gene for Himilayan exist in the FG gene pool. Clearly, someone has been doing some out-crossing to other breeds. Lots of people do outcrosses for a variety of reasons; sometimes it's just because they don't have two of the same breed to put...