What color is my rabbit

[AltonaAcres]

she's blue. Opal's have creamy tan color around nose, eyes, ears, under-tail, and belly. My first rabbit was an Opal!

 

[AltonaAcres]

she looks light in the pictures, but that's how blue rabbits sometimes come out in photos.

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

she looks light in the pictures, but that's how blue rabbits sometimes come out in photos.

She would still have the incorrect eye color though

 

[AltonaAcres]

Yes, but that could happen if she's a rescue.

 

[Wolfefarmyard]

One more question for you guys. Where I got her from said that she was bred with a chinchilla mini Rex buck. So she’s pregnant, and I’m wondering what colors her kits will be.

 

[Bunnylady]

If she is a Lilac, that wasn't a very good move. Her babies from this litter will most likely be Chestnuts and probably Blacks, but there are so many unknown possibilities, you almost can't rule anything out (except Broken). Chocolate and Chin really don't belong in the same gene pool; you can get an awful lot of head-scratcher "whoops" colors when you have things that mixed up.

Even without the Chocolate involved, Chins should only be bred to Chins. One of the commonest "whoopses" is the self Chin - a self colored rabbit with Chin genes. Chin takes almost all of the red/yellow pigment out of the coat, and a little bit of the black pigment, too, so you wind up with a not-quite-black animal, often with blue-gray eyes (if you put a Black Otter and a Black Silver Marten next to each other, you can see what I mean - Silver Marten is Otter + Chinchilla). Blues can wind up a weirdly light shade as well, and depending on the judge, they may get put off the table for being an unshowable color, or marked down for "poor color."

If, by some crazy chance this doe is a dilute Self Chin, you'll get Chin babies, either agouti or self patterned, and possibly dilute.

I don't happen to have any Blues or Lilacs in my rabbitry at the moment, but just for the fun of it, here's a Chocolate doe (please excuse the mess in the background. Florence made one heck of a mess here, and getting things back in order has been slow going)

 

[AltonaAcres]

Beautiful bunny! I breed chocolates we get so many blue babies somehow............breeding Sable points and Agoutis, even breeding BEW's and Agoutis. lol.

 

[Bunnylady]

Beautiful bunny! I breed chocolates we get so many blue babies somehow............breeding Sable points and Agoutis, even breeding BEW's and Agoutis. lol.

I assume you mean you are getting Blues from other crosses, since you can't get Blue from breeding Chocolate to Chocolate. Chocolate is another of those colors that can cause havoc in a breeding program. I have Chocolates mainly because I have Reds; in the Mini Rex, it's hard to get absolutely all of the dark pigment off the ends of the hairs in Reds. If a Red is Chocolate-based rather than Black, you really don't see the darker hair tips. It's kind of funny; I have a buck that is an Amber (non-showable color, basically a Chocolate Castor), but your impression is that he's a Red, unless you have a Red nearby to help you spot that there's a decidedly brownish top color that shouldn't be on a Red.