Mini Rex show off!

[Bandits Bunnies]

Beautiful. Castor doe, Tort buck

 

[Bunnylady]

Actually, the buck is a harlequin.

 

[SternRose]

What makes u say that

 

[Bandits Bunnies]

That doesnt look like harle to me. It looks like a tort

 

[Bunnylady]

Candy Corn - buck

Click on the picture in Kathryn P's post- the forum will enlarge it. Those dark streaks on the body aren't dirt, lol. There's another pretty good-sized area of black fur over this guy's left eye, too. This guy's a harlequin - almost 30 years of breeding Harlequins (the breed) and harlequin/tricolor Mini Rex makes seeing the markings second nature to me.

 

[SternRose]

Click on the picture in Kathryn P's post- the forum will enlarge it. Those dark streaks on the body aren't dirt, lol. There's another pretty good-sized area of black fur over this guy's left eye, too. This guy's a harlequin - almost 30 years of breeding Harlequins (the breed) and harlequin/tricolor Mini Rex makes seeing the markings second nature to me.

I don't see harlequin, but I'm not in the mood to ague, and I've had 2 harilquian rabbit baby's but. This buck has the tort markings with smoking on him.
This is one of my harlequin mini Rex's.

She got her dark markings when she got older

 

[Bunnylady]

Tort



Harlequin

He's a harlequin, but if you must be stubborn about it, he's sort of both. Good harlequins are harlie + agouti, or if you like, dark markings expressed over what is basically an orange or red. You can get self-patterned harlies, which will show some "smut" on the face and ears - tort showing though the harlequin pattern. They are still considered harlequins, though.

Do you have any pics of that baby when she was older? She just looks like a sooty broken orange in that picture.

 

[SternRose]

No I don't I sold her to a breeder.

 

[SA Farm]

Both are cute. Buck is none show quality.

Why do you say he's not show quality? What would you be looking for in a show quality harlequin buck? TIA

 

[Bunnylady]

Harlequin isn't a showable color in the Mini Rex. Tricolor is; they prefer that there be almost equal amounts of the two harlequin colors in the colored areas (though it's not a big deal when it doesn't happen). IME, you can get the large blocks of color in the plain harlequin, but when combined with the broken pattern, it seems to break up into smaller spots (at one time, the best marked harlequin in my rabbitry was a Mini Rex, and I breed the Harlequin breed!). I suspect that for the harlequin to be showable, the standards committee would insist on the classic pattern that is seen in the Harlequin breed, which I suspect may be unattainable in the tricolor.