Anyone have Angora rabbits?

[Tale of Tails Rabbitry]

which is why I say, "if there's one particular color that you are just dying to see, it's gonna be the last one you see, or the one that dies at birth, or . . ."Just one more way my rabbits work on "how can we drive her crazy today?"

Yep! I am a true believer!

So if two are lilacs, then you know both parents are carrying chocolate and blue.

I've raised a lot of dutch rabbits and the male (head) doesn't look black as far as the black in dutch but then again he does look way darker then any blues I had in dutch.
I will believe he is black.

I had a black French Angora as a house pet long, long ago and it looked just like yours with smokey long fur, but black on the head, ears, and legs. Having Silver Fox rabbits, which is a different texture of fur, I can say that a black kit with SF fur will look slightly off-black when placed next to a black with typical rabbit fur, like a New Zealand for instance. It is only because of how the light plays on the texture of the fur. And, also, being an artist, your "eye" (actually the brain) will "blend" colors, so when you look at a rabbit with all that smoky fur, the black parts will tend to not look as black to you.

Both of these are NZW/SF crosses of the same kindle, but the one on the left has Silver Fox fur and the one on the right has normal rabbit fur. At first, I thought the one looked off-black, even a bit like seal with a shade of golden coming through (although that did not show in the photo-that eye trick), until his fur got a little longer a few days later and then I realized he had SF fur and the other did not.

 

[The Moonshiner]

 

[The Moonshiner]

Is this correct if the litter has blue, chocolate, lilac and tort?

Black buck
aa Bb C? Dd Ee
Chocolate doe
aa bb C? Dd Ee
Offspring
Lilac
aa bb C? dd EE 25% or Ee 50%
Blue
aa Bb C? dd EE 25% or Ee 50%
Chocolate
aa bb C? DD 25% or Dd 50% EE 25% or Ee 50%
Blue Tort
aa Bb C? dd ee

EE or Ee I can't be sure of on the ones besides the tort. 50% chance of Ee and 25% chance of EE.
DD or Dd can't be sure if chocolates are DD or Dd.
Everyone is full color so C?. Full color C is dominate so could be something besides C involved but since all offspring are full color odds are at least one parent is CC?

 

[Tale of Tails Rabbitry]

It looks like you got the parents right, assuming that at least one kit is Blue or Lilac, as the pictures are not clear.

You can say with certainty that all the offspring carry Chocolate, because one parent only had bb to contribute to their genotype. So they are either Bb or bb and that one is simple because if they are Black or Blue, they are Bb. If they are Chocolate or Lilac, they are bb.

If you have a Lilac, then both carry Dilute as Dd, but that does not mean that all the offspring will also carry dilute. They could be DD as well as Dd, because both parents have both D and d to contribute. You cannot know if a Black or Chocolate (non dilute phenotypes) offspring is in fact DD or Dd until you test breed, so you should write D_ for your Blacks and Chocolates. You only know for certain that the dilute colors of Blue and Lilac are dd.

Same goes with the E locus, as you have written. They all are E_ except the Tort has to be ee.

It is very likely, if all are full color, that one parent is CC, but you would need a REW cc to test breed for the C locus. However, do not assume that either, I found out my Blue SF carried Chinchilla cchd recently even though I bred her with NZWs for a couple of years. Some things are not seen for several breedings.

 

[The Moonshiner]