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[MohicanHase]

Also your tort doe looks black tort, which it showable.

 

[ShadyGroveFarm1]

I tried breeding my Hollands yesterday. The male got on top of her and after a little while he jerked off really quick and didn't try rebreeding until a little while later. Do you think he breed?, I know usually they fall over on their side.

 

[abserbean]

@abserbean

Black and Tort are Self colors, and since the gene that causes the Self pattern is most recessive in its series, the only possible results from Self-to-Self breeding is more Selfs. In other words, you can't get any Agouti colors (like Castor) or Tan colors (like Otter) from them.
I'm having a little trouble deciphering this; "sire" is the word for the male parent, "dam" is the word for the female parent. If you are saying that her pedigree states that her dam was a black, and that her (black) dam cam from a cross between a tort and a broken blue tort, well, that's impossible.

But going on what you have, a tort and a black doe, breeding to a broken black buck with tort in his background, the possibilities are pretty straightforward. The likeliest outcomes are tort and black, and the broken versions of them. You might get blues or blue torts, if there is some blue lurking in the buck's background.

Sorry, I wasn't very clear! Still working on understanding, I don't want to jump into any breeding not knowing what we are doing. The pedigree for the black doe says that the black sire came from a red grand sire and castor grand dam. The dam was a castor, from a tort grand sire and broken tri (blue and fawn) grand dam. Does that make sense? I need to get a book and read it, I know there are several good ones out there for rabbit breeding/genetics.
What I did get from this, is that both my tort and black does, as well as my broken black buck, are all self pattern, and so regardless of pedigree we won't get any agouti colors. Correct? Thanks for any help! We won't be breeding until the fall regardless, b/c it is so hot here, Just trying to learn!

 

[SternRose]

I tried breeding my Hollands yesterday. The male got on top of her and after a little while he jerked off really quick and didn't try rebreeding until a little while later. Do you think he breed?, I know usually they fall over on their side.

2 things.
1: did he do it 3 or more times?

 

[ShadyGroveFarm1]

2 things.
1: did he do it 3 or more times?

He got on her once, and did the jerk off thing. And then I read somewhere that you can let them do it 2-3 times in a row, so I let him do it one more time (the jerk thing). I took them apart and put them back together 8 hours later but he did not do it that I know of.

 

[Bunnylady]

I tried breeding my Hollands yesterday. The male got on top of her and after a little while he jerked off really quick and didn't try rebreeding until a little while later. Do you think he breed?, I know usually they fall over on their side.

What did the doe do? A buck (particularly a young one) can go through all of the motions and still not get the job done if the doe doesn't raise up for him. Your doe may or may not be bred: you should mark your calender just in case.

Quote: Correct.

I'm still having a little problem here, Let's see if I understand what you've got.

Black doe (yours) from a black buck x castor doe - this makes sense. It's the next generation I'm having problems with.

Black buck from red buck x castor doe - perhaps not the likeliest outcome, but quite possible.

Castor doe from tort buck x tri doe - sorry, not doable. Castor requires the full-color gene in the E series, which is dominant to both the non-extension gene of the tort and the harlequin gene of the tri. Neither the tri nor the tort have a copy of the full-color gene, so they can't have a castor baby.

I've learned to take a lot of what I see on pedigrees with a grain of salt, because a lot of people don't understand color.

 

[ShadyGroveFarm1]

What did the doe do? A buck (particularly a young one) can go through all of the motions and still not get the job done if the doe doesn't raise up for him. Your doe may or may not be bred: you should mark your calender just in case.

Yeah. I'm going to palpate her too

 

[K Epp]

The Lionheads are getting g fuzzy.

 

[Lynzi777]

The Lionheads are getting g fuzzy.

What are the ones pictured in the top photo? Are they lionlops?

 

[K Epp]

What are the ones pictured in the top photo? Are they lionlops?

Yes, they are. I was really disappointed when I got home from the breeder and realized I had one with floppy ears. Then it grew on me and I got another.