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[SternRose]

If you breed your current does to a Rex, you will get normal coats on the offspring. The coats might be a little denser, and maybe a little softer, but the gene causing the Rex coat is recessive, so both parents have to have it for the offspring to get it.

The Rex has commercial type, so the potential as far as meat certainly won't suffer. I've never tried tanning pelts myself, but I've heard that the pelts of fryers don't work well (the fur is rather thin, and the texture isn't so great). By the time a rabbit is old enough to have a really "prime" coat, the meat is tougher, and the rabbit has passed into the "stewer" class. 

If they want the Rex fur, they can breed them keep a baby, breed it back to the Rex, then if the coat is not to we're they want breed that baby to a non-related Rex buck and you should be good. But you should be fine by just breeding daughter to father.

 

[insanity]

does anyone have a preference between alfalfa and alfalfa pellets? Right now I'm feeding mine the pellets in addition to their normal food. Anyone have a suggestion of something better?

I feed pure grass hay as treat/supplement with no alfalfa. Purina performance as the main diet with free range(35x45 run) time daily. My lops tend to get pudgy if they get alfalfa to regularly.

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Litter 1:
REW?


Blue/black Tort?


Blue/black Tort?


Black Tort?


Blue Tort?


Lilac?



Litter 2:
Black?


Black?


Orange?


Black?

 

[SternRose]

I think u have all black torts besides the blacks and lilac, and REW.

 

[ChirpChickens]

rabbits don't get fleas or ticks do they?

 

[Bunnylady]

Doesn't one of those possibly tort babies have lighter color on the insides of its ears? Does it have a white belly? If so, it's an orange, not a tort.

Lilac is a a sort of pinky-dove gray color (genetically a dilute chocolate), and it should be impossible to get a lilac from crossing an orange and a tort. I'd be thinking maybe a sable point/pearl point, but that should be impossible with that REW in the litter.

 

[Bunnylady]

rabbits don't get fleas or ticks do they?

If they are in an environment where there are fleas or ticks present, of course they can; any warm-blooded animal will.

 

[SternRose]

Unless it is a recessive trait. It is possible.

 

[CierraandDaniel]

I prefer alfalfa hay. I give mine a handful a day with their blue seal pellets.It works great for mine.

 

[CierraandDaniel]

Hey everyone! I have a question. My holland doe has been having issues getting bred. I have been trying for a while now...and this morning I noticed she was on my buck?? I have NEVER exerienced this before but my buck was horrified so I seperated them...do you think she could be a buck?? Honestly, it doesnt look like she is...is it normal? Relatively new to breeding. Though Iv had hollands for 9 years I only ever had bucks. Thanks for any help!