Color question regarding Elop.

[bluepez]

My broken black and white Elop doe has brown thruout her black. Big patches. Its hard to show up on a picture....

What color would that make her then? Just broken? Her dad is black and her mom is a broken orange. And there are broken oranges, blues, chinchillas colors thru her lines ( my doe).

Would she then be a carrier for chocolate gene? I understand there is not a true chocolate Elop. i know a gal that has been working on getting one for 3 years now and she is close....but curious what color would be mine..and what should I breed her with to perhaps bring more of that brown out in her kits?

PS

HOW do you post a picture on here?? lol My webhosting page keeps freezing so I cant add the pictures I have recent of her on there now..its driving me NUTS.

 

[bunnybunbunb]

Hidden colors do not show through. If she is outside I would say she just as sun. With her colors I doubt she carries chocolate, and yes, there is chocolate english lops. Or I have seen pictures at least. Any breed can have a color if it is bred in.

Without pictures I can not really help

 

[bluepez]

I am trying to up load them to my site.
She is not in the sun so I doubt its that. So she has brown, black and white on her.

I have yet to see a true chocolate elop..woudl LOVE to tho! Thank you for your reply.

 

[bluepez]

www.bluepezrabbitry.com

She is BABS on the doe page. You can see brown on the upper part of her ..and then on the back you can see some. The camera is not showing the TRUE color I see..but I tried to get it.

 

[pamnock]

She's broken black (you don't need to put the "and white" part - broken indicates there is white).

There are actually a number of cases where the dominant does not completely mask the recessive, such assilvering andachondroplasia. (But that's a whole number topic LOL)

Pam

 

[bluepez]

LOL Thank you Pam.

 

[bunnybunbunb]

RD's???? Lucky! I love her rabbits

She could be steel, I see one of her parents are black. Steel can not be carried but unless the rabbit is agouti it does not show properly. Which is why people get "false steels", or so I have heard them called.

 

[bluepez]

Yes her bunnies are great! I have 2 of them...and one is a baby well not no more..of one of her rabbits