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Coolest Rabbit Breed Out Of These?

  • Holland Lop

    Votes: 108 21.3%
  • English Spot

    Votes: 14 2.8%
  • American Fuzzy Lop

    Votes: 11 2.2%
  • Mini Rex/Rex

    Votes: 107 21.1%
  • New Zealand

    Votes: 95 18.7%
  • Polish

    Votes: 13 2.6%
  • English Lop

    Votes: 33 6.5%
  • Mini Satins/Satins

    Votes: 14 2.8%
  • Lionhead

    Votes: 112 22.1%

  • Total voters
    507
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Woolies! Your babies are adorable!

You asked where the Siamese Sable came from. . . .

One of the greatest shortcomings of a pedigree is that it only shows you the direct ancestors; you have no idea what their siblings may have looked like. Years ago, I got some Woolies from Helen McKie. All of her rabbits had the legendary "Mughead" in their background. If I remember correctly, Mughead was a REW from a line of Chocolates. The rabbits themselves weren't chocolates, but I had chocolate varieties popping up all over the place when I started breeding those buns (one of the most gorgeous was a Cinnamon [Chocolate Agouti] that I named Kodiak).

Also, I once owned a Sable Point Marten Netherland Dwarf that came out of a straight Chestnut line. The breeder didn't even know what to call it, because he'd never seen such a color! It was just "one of those things," a situation where a bunch of recessives had been carried unseen for several generations and all came together in one rabbit.

With your rabbits: a Siamese Sable is the result of a rabbit getting a shaded gene from one parent, and either a Himi or REW gene from the other. Shaded, Himi, and REW are all recessive to the full color gene that is being expressed in a Black or Chocolate. Obviously, one of the parents is carrying a Shaded gene (Cchl) and the other has either a Himi or REW. Based on my experience, I'd suspect the Chocolate had a REW, but that may or may not be the case.
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thanks the father comes from two show winners that buck with that doe always gives us some leg winning rabbits!
 
Haha, I don't think I have ever seen a rabbit in costume and now I know why, bunny vengence is a terrifying thing.
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LOL

Those little jersey woolies are precious
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I especially love the last one, he looks like he might be giving an extra adorable version of bunny stink eye
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After cleaning up the big hay mess in Appas room. I come back to give him his filtered water and he had pulled all of the hay out of his litter box lol he did not know why someone messed up his good job decorating
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