Lightening Siamese Smoke

[Sabine]

My only Siamese Smoke Doe, Pearl, although of nice type is rather dark. (Incidentally so is my Siamese sable doe). She was mated with my main buck, Hamish, who has excellent colour. The two offspring look rather dark although nice enough re type.
I am considering a few options of how to lighten the colour through breeding.
a) I could mate a doe of Pearl's litter back to her sire or use the other buck I have, that has the same nice colouring.
b) I could mate a doe of Pearl's litter (or even Pearl herself) to a REW buck from Ember's litter or vice versa (not sure about the sexes yet)
The REWs from Ember's litter would be smoke/sable bred so I am wondering would that defeat the purpose or do I have a 50% chance maybe of lighter smoke babies?

That's all the options I have at the moment. Which one would get me closer to my goal?

 

[Sabine]

:bump

Nobody?

 

[pamnock]

Using REW is the best way to lighten the color of shadeds.

 

[Sabine]

That's good news then i just wasn't sure as my two REWs are not pure smoke bred but sable/smoke. I'd be worried that the sable would dominate.

 

[polly]

Shouldnt matter though Sabine it just means you are going to get rew, light sables and better coloured smokes coming out the litter I was going to say REW too lol



edited to add: I know a couple of really good REW breeders up here and one would prob give me something of his if you were interested and were coming to one of the lanark shows I could try sort something out for you

 

[Sabine]

Thanks, Polly I do hope to make it to Lanark some day. It's just a shame I can't transport rabbits by plane It's such a long drive but I'm working on Davidleaseplease: