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[SternRose]

Torts aren't supposed to have "smudges" on them. But they are get pets, I know a few breeders who would breed the smudges out of the line. But they don't breed minis.

 

[Bunnylady]

If this




Is a tort, then what is the bunny on the left in this picture?



Or how about the bunny in the middle of this picture?

 

[SA Farm]

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.

Okay, thanks

 

[SternRose]

If this Is a tort, then what is the bunny on the left in this picture? Or how about the bunny in the middle of this picture?

The one in the middle is not like hers. The first one is a a dark tort. The OP's is a light tort with smudges. All 3 are not the same.

 

[SA Farm]

According to this website: http://wildriverrabbitry.weebly.com/shaded-mini-rex-color-guide.html Candy Corn would be considered a Torted Japanese Harlequin.

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: None of the bunnies in that litter are any kind of tort. The bunny on the left in my first picture is a harlequin, the bunny in the middle in my second picture is a tricolor. "Light tort with smudges" is a meaningless phrase because there is no such thing as a "smudge" in rabbit color terminology. "Smut" is the term for the undesirable dark shading that can turn up on the points or other parts of the coat, but it is a general shading, not small clumps of black hairs like these rabbit have (which are harlequin markings).

 

[SternRose]

According to this website: http://wildriverrabbitry.weebly.com/shaded-mini-rex-color-guide.html Candy Corn would be considered a Torted Japanese Harlequin.

See he's a tort AND harlequin . I've seen these before., lol

 

[SternRose]

None of the bunnies in that litter are any kind of tort. The bunny on the left in my first picture is a harlequin, the bunny in the middle in my second picture is a tricolor. "Light tort with smudges" is a meaningless phrase because there is no such thing as a "smudge" in rabbit color terminology. "Smut" is the term for the undesirable dark shading that can turn up on the points or other parts of the coat, but it is a general shading, not small clumps of black hairs like these rabbit have (which are harlequin markings). 

Read the post ubove and below yours. It's both of the colors tort and the harlequin.
Smudges and Smutt are the same thing, just fancy talk u using!

 

[Bunnylady]

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.

Quote: If you read my post, you''ll see that I have already explained that. He's not "a tort and a harlequin," he's a harlequin. The person who created the website (which is quite impressive; they obviously put a lot of work into in. They need a proofreader, though) used the term "torted," which is an adjective, not a noun. If he were a magpie, would you try to say he's "a himi and a harlequin?"

"Smut" is something that sometimes happens in rabbit color. "Smudge" is something that sometimes happens to paper. If you want people to understand what you are talking about, you won't make up your own names for things, you'll learn the correct terms. Besides, in this rabbit, the smut is the extra dark pigment that the self genes put on the points of the rabbit getting expressed over the harlequin pattern, and what you are calling smudges are the dark markings of the harlequin pattern - we aren't even talking about the same thing.

 

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