Breeds and color names of my bunnies?

[chay]

Edit- alright, so the pics aren't that big. They looked huge on the preview, though. XD

The workers at the pet store told me that a breeder had a litter with 20+ kits- I'm wondering if he meant multiple litters that totaled 20, or if there really were 20 babies from one doe...anyway. I was also told that they are "Harlequin dwarfs" (which he explained was harlequin x Netherland), but I do know that they don't look like any Netherland dwarfs I've ever seen and they don't have the tortoiseshell-ish color that I saw when I googled "harlequin rabbit".

Apart from the obvious red-eye my camera's flash gave him, Bally seems to have ruby eyes- at least one. My guinea Annie is a lilac/cream rex x abyssinian, and she has ruby eyes, so I suppose it has to do with a black/chocolate dilute color like blue or lilac (respectively)?

And then Toby- no clue at all what he is. He's bigger than Bally, too.

 

[la~la~land]

Apart from just being mixes I'm not really sure of their breed but they don't look anything like nethies to me.As for colors Bally is a magpie and Toby is a broken orange. Both adorable :biggrin:

 

[Shaded Night Rabbitry]

I don't know about the breeds, they're pretty obviously mixed, but colors I can help with.

The top is a magpie harlequin. Doesn't have good bands, which is why theres all the scattered colors, but definitely a result of the harlequin gene. =D

And the second is a broken orange.

I can't tell you about the ruby eyes. I don't think it's tied into dilute, since my sable points and sables have ruby casts. And the himis, black blue chocolate and lilac, all have ruby eyes.

 

[chay]

Thank for the information and the compliment! :bunnydance: I didn't think I'd get any breed specifics, though I guess that's what I get for not buying from a breeder.

Edit: "Oh well" about the ruby eyes/dilutes theory I had going on, then.

Everyone here is so quick to be helpful, it's amazing! o.o

 

[Shaded Night Rabbitry]

I checked the Harlequin standard.

Chocolates and Lilacs both should have a ruby cast.

Black and blues should have either brown or blue-grey eyes.

 

[Silver Star Rabbitry]

They look like Harlequin mixes to me. Color wise it looks like a black magpie and a broken orange.
I have heard that the record for live kits in a litter is 24. They were kindled by a New Zealand White doe and she weaned all of them.

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[pamnock]

chay wrote:

Apart from the obvious red-eye my camera's flash gave him, Bally seems to have ruby eyes- at least one. My guinea Annie is a lilac/cream rex x abyssinian, and she has ruby eyes, so I suppose it has to do with a black/chocolate dilute color like blue or lilac (respectively)?

There are actually a number of colors in rabbitsthat have a ruby glow to the eye (shadeds/chocolate).

In guinea pigs, the REW eye on a colored pig is due to the pink eyed dilute gene - very rare in rabbits. Shown here on my site: http://www.nockrabbits.com/lutino.html