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If you want to show your doe, you need to do it before she is bred. The stress of raising a litter will cause a doe to lose condition, and she just never will get it all back. Mini Rex are very popular, and very competitive at shows, IMO showing an out-of-condition animal is a waste of your entry fee. An animal like that can't win, there will always be lots of animals in better fur and flesh than a working doe.
The value of the (prospective) babies will depend largely on your market. If you are selling them as pets, their value will be whatever the pet price is in your area, whatever the parents may be. To a breeder, some animals are pet quality, and some are show quality, there may also be "breeder quality" somewhere between the two. A pet buyer won't care if the parents are Grand Champions, they won't even care if the babies have pedigrees or not. A breeder will want pedigrees, but knows that the real value is the rabbit itself. Even Grand Champions can throw babies that are only pet quality, so you need to be able to tell the difference. If you build a reputation as someone who breeds quality rabbits, you will be able to charge more because people will trust your judgement and your bloodlines. If you are just starting out as a breeder, you can't expect to charge more for the bunnies, just based on what the parents may have done at a show.
i have a broken black carrying castor mini rexbuck and a castor carrying btoken black doe
I'm not clear on the colors of your buck and doe. If the buck is black, he can't be carrying Castor. Castor is an agouti color, agouti is dominant to self (black is a self color), so if he were carrying the gene for Castor, he would be Castor. The same thing applies to your doe. If she's Castor, she could be carrying the gene for self, but Broken is dominant to solid, so if she were carrying the gene for broken, she would express it, in other words, she'd be a broken.
Broken black is my favorite color in Mini Rex. Pics?
