Is this rabbit knocked up/ Whos my daddy?(solved #77 pg8)

[chickenwhisperer]

Ok, the pics are uploading right now . . .

So, now its been a few days and we can see whats going on a bit better . . .
There is actually a brownish colored baby!
The rest are jet black, I know they kinda look silverish in the first pic but thats the way the light was hitting the nestbox- it is no sun/grey out today.

At least momma is doing a good job feeding them, they got nice fat round bellies.
I guess like was said, once they get older their color will define itself.

Let me ask you this tho . . .
Why arent there any white babies or babies with white on them?
Or was this answered already with the explanation of why they are all black?

 

[Chickygirl55]

Beautiful babies!

 

[Toast n Jelly]

Adorable babies!

 

[silkieroo]

They are so cute! Are you going to keep them all?

 

[chickenwhisperer]

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I certainly hope not . . .

 

[RabbitMage]

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Your little brown bun looks to be agouti (also called castor, chestnut, and maybe some other names depending on the breed).

The only way the babies would be white or have white on them would be if they had received the albino gene from their mother (they did not) or if the mother or father had some kind of white pattern (broken, vienna, etc).

 

[chickenwhisperer]

K, ;lemme see if I got it right . . .

These babies are now carriers for an albino gene, which is recessive in them.
If I were to breed a baby back to its mother, then there would be white babies from that(Im not gonna, just example).

Is it then possible to selectively breed this particular group of rabbits back into dominate all-white-all-the-time rabbits?

Everytime I think I am starting to understand, I get completely lost again . . . there are alot of variables that I know I do not understand.

 

[chickenwhisperer]

FWIW . . .

I have a pair of pedigreed Californians that I am breeding for meat rabbits.
All my other rabbits are rescues, and have become sweet pets(even the ones that came with "problems"), I do not eat those ones.
But I also do NOT want anymore "pet" rabbits.

I am going to try to find homes for these baby bunnies, because I gave my word to all the people that surrendered rabbits to me that they would be cared for and not eaten, so to me that means these babies too.

I do NOT want to be a "rabbit breeder" either, I am just trying to find more information on how this stuff works.
Its all very interesting to me, more so since I cant easily figure it out . . .

Most of my pet bunnies are fixed at this point, but some of the males obviously need to go to the vet . . .

 

[Akane]

You will only get white rabbits if both the mother and father at least carrier the white. You will only get an entire litter of whites if the parents are both white. It is recessive and if one parent is white it's guranteed the babies carry the gene for white and bred to each other or another rabbit that carries white (doesn't have to be white) will give you some whites but not only white. We also now know one parent is castor/chestnut agouti carrying self since you have agouti and black but it could be the white one and the white is just masking it. What color bucks do you have or did I miss/forget it?

 

[chickenwhisperer]

K, so I know agouti color, tho I call it "wild", plain and simple.

I do not have a buck that is that color.
My bucks are:
flemish- rew, steel(purebred)
californian x2 (look purebred)
fawn palimino(ish)(mutt)
grey(pictured pg5)(mutt)

Any other male is fixed for sure, by me

It has already been advised/accepted that if the female in question is not an American, she is a bad new zealand.
I think both those kinds only come in white.