double dwarf gene

[polly]

So I am having a mental block. If you have a baby carrying the double dwarf gene would it be a peanut ?

Sophie had 3 babies today (netherlands) and 1 was DOA and quite big one not to bad and one tiny one is smaller than Bruce's pinky. IS it just a runt or does it carry that gene? It is definately not a peanut just very tiny. hereis a pic though it doesn't really show just how much smaller it is.

 

[fld20]

If it carry's 2 dwarf genes it's a peanut .Is it the one on the left it kind of looks like a peanut in the picture?

Fallon

 

[Starlight Rabbitry]

Double Dwarf gene and Peanut mean the same thing. The terms are used interchangeably.

Sharon

 

[lilangelhotots]

Didthe smallerkit make it through the weekend? He looks like a peanut baby but maybe he's just on the small side. They are both so cute~congrats!

 

[bunnybunbunb]

I had a peanut live for 3 weeks. It was the only peanut I had had in years. I tent to never get them.

 

[fld20]

If you dont get peanuts it means your rabbits dont carry the dwarfing gene . Which actually isnt a good thing when you raise dwarf breeds

 

[gentle giants]

The one on the left looks kinda like a peanut to me, although it's hard to tell at that angle. There will be a difference in the head shape, and sometimes the hindquarters will look "funny" with the feet slightly curled under towards the belly. Five weeks is the record for one of my peanuts living, it never got any bigger than a hamster. I posted a pic of it with one of it's normal littermates in the thread "Peanuts/Double Dwarf gene" here: http://www.rabbitsonline.net/view_topic.php?id=35893&forum_id=8

 

[polly]

thanks guys i was having a total mental block i was so tired i couldn't get my brain to function at all.

at this point it is still alive though i dont hold outmuch hope for it. i do think its a peanut.

gentle giants that is amazing i have never seen a peanut get that old before!! vety interesting to see.

 

[TinysMom]

Here are a couple of links to pictures of peanuts....

http://www.islandgems.net/peanuts.html

http://www.geocities.com/mnd_rabbitry/Peanut.html

I had a peanut that actually lived 11 days (his name was Charlie) when I was in the early days of my breeding. I kept him alive by feeding him every 2 hours and fought hard to give him a chance.....but he didn't make it.

One of the things to note about peanuts (I'm sure Polly and most breeders know this) is that there is a bulge or something on the head and the hindquarters look different.

In my Valentine's Day litters - I had two that I kept debating back and forth on about if they were peanuts. Every morning I expected to go and check them and find they had passed....but they survived. They were the size of a peanut when born but they did not have the bulge on the head nor were their hindquarters caved in.

I was just telling Taylor last night how handsome he is and how glad I am he made it - he obviously carries the dwarfing gene but he's fine and healthy....as is his sister Peanut.

I'm sorry about your peanut - it always hurts to lose them.

 

[Starlight Rabbitry]

I had one live 6 weeks but that was because I was hand feeding it KMR. BlueGiants, mine never got bigger than a hamster either. It was a Jersey Wooly. Back when it was born, I didn't know anything about the double dwarf gene.

Sharon

 

[BlueGiants]

It's a real shame we have to worry about peanuts (double dwarfing). With our Mini Rex, I've never had one live longer than 15 days, no mater what I tried... and they never look like they are thriving. I was told by my vet that they usually lack the ability to digest nutrients. That makes sense to me. They would suckle but fade anyway.

I do usually see a different shaped head, more dome-like and almost paddle like feet. And the waist and hips appear pinched. I always give them every chance in the world, just incase it's only a runt, but the true Double Dwarfs never make it.

 

[gentle giants]

It was very interesting to watch the one of mine that lived for five weeks, to sort of study the differences. It had a rounded head, slanted eyes, and small, very pointed ears. Other than the physical differences, it acted jsut like a normal bunny baby, leaping and playing, etc.

BG, I think that must be right about them not being able to process nutrients, because the one I had ate like a tiny lion. It was so small it would actually hop into the dish because it couldn't reach over the edge.