Sassy07
Chirping
So I recently bred my broken blue Rex doe to what I thought was a purebred Californian buck. She produced four kits, one of which is a REW. If my Californian were purebred he wouldn’t carry that recessive “c,” would he?
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Himi/Cali/Pointed White kits are born solid white; the darker points develop a bit later. This color is temperature dependent. The dark pigment only appears on cooler areas of the skin, which is why it normally only shows up on the extremities. Does often get dark patches on their dewlaps when they pull fur and the skin cools as a result (not a fault on the show table, as long as the dewlap is the only place the dark marks appear). Himi kits that get chilled in the nest box may develop a dark band in the part of the hair that was growing at the time of the chilling; this dark ticking can be so pronounced, they almost look like some sort of Chinchilla (though the ticking will grow out with the next molt). Himis frequently show smaller/lighter points during warmer weather, with the points growing darker/larger during cooler months.
Another thing that can put smaller points on a Himi is genetics. The expression of the middle genes of the C series is a sort of sliding scale, and a chc Himi shows the influence of the REW gene by having much smaller and often lighter points than a chch Himi has. The nose marking of a chc Himi seldom covers more than just the nose itself; if the rabbit in your avatar is the Cali buck in question, the size of his nose marking sure makes it look like he has two copies of the Himalayan gene (ch). Do you whether your Rex doe has REW or Cali (in the Rex, this color is called Californian, in this case, I mean the color, not the breed) in her background?