New bunny owner with a ?

[NDrAbBiTs58041]

We just got a doe holland lop bunny and was wondering about the marking. Im just starting to get very interested in marking,color,ect I have read posts on here and was just curious what you would call her color? Im sure it would help if I posted a pic(in the prosses of getting them off my phone now and on my computer) but she is tan/brown with white. Mostly white with brown/tan around her eyes and a brown patch on her back with some smaller spots. Would you call this magpie?

 

[hillrise]

Magpie is a type of harlequin marking that is most obvious by striping (or if it's a purebred Harlequin, it often becomes patchwork like a quilt instead of stripes). By stripes, I mean like a brindle dog or a tiger. Magpie means that it alternates with white instead of orange (as would be the case for a japanese harlequin).

Because there's spots, I would guess that your bun is probably what's called broken. Is the brown patch kind of a stripe along its spine or more of a patch? If it's a patch, that's called a blanket pattern.

Is the color the same on her back as it is toward her belly/nose? If it gets to a darker grey/black, she's probably a broken tortoiseshell. If it's all the same shade, she's probably a self (solid) chocolate (although I'd guess not since you say tan). If the colors a little speckly (each shaft actually has bands of color--black, brown, yellow--which will show up as rings when you blow into the solid patch), then she's a broken agouti (being brown, I'd guess probably Chestnut, but it could be Chocolate Agouti).

Here's a good site for determining her color: http://www.geocities.com/hoppinherdofhares2003/lopcolorguide.html

You'll want to look at Agouti, Shaded, Ticked and Wide-Band, probably.

 

[NDrAbBiTs58041]

Wow! That's ALOT to know. I have no idea! Couldn't really tell either by going by the site.

She is all white with tan/orange around both eyes, tan/orange spots more like a brwn on her ears and tan/orange stipe but wide on her spine and a few spots near it. All the rest of her is white.

 

[hillrise]

No spots on her nose? That would suggest that's she's a charlie broken (double English Spotting gene, so ALL of her kits will be brokens, or charlies).

Her ears are darker than the other markings? She's probably a tortoishell, then. A picture would be needed to tell for sure.

 

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[NDrAbBiTs58041]

sorry there IS a small tan/orange spot on her nose.

Ia that bad (if she is a broken) for colors?

 

[hillrise]

The standard for broken (that are to be shown, anyway--there's no standard for pets![or even breeders for that matter]) is that they have complete eye circles, colored ears and symmetrical spots on their noses (and I think some breeds prefer what's called a full butterfly, where the nose marking literally looks like a butterfly, extending over the whisker pads, and a little up the bridge of the nose). Otherwise, the requirement is 10-50% coloration (no more, no less). It's not uncommon to get charlies when you breed two broken rabbits together. All it means is that she has double english spotting gene, so if you want to produce showable kits, breed her to a solid colored rabbit (preferably that comes from a broken parent, although it's not required...it just helps with the modifiers) and all of the kits should be showable broken kits.

 

[NDrAbBiTs58041]

Awesome! This helps! Thank You!

I hope to breed some day, not really into showing but I would like to breed at some point.