Peanuts/Double Dwarf gene

[lilangelhotots]

Just curious, could a doe be homozygous for the double dwarf gene? Meaning she only produces peanuts? Or does the buck have to have the gene as well in order to have a peanut baby? I've been wondering this for some time. I remember one of my Dwarf Hotot does had a litter of peanuts twice...she wan't bred again after that.

Thanks for any info!

 

[bunnybunbunb]

Nope, it's just luck of the draw. If you bred her to say a Dutch you wouldn't had got peanuts. I'm not sure if anyone has tried but I doubt a peanut could reproduce. I know they have been known to live for a year but not sure about breeding. I had a breeder try to tell me they had a "false peanut" that bred, this is rediculas and there is no such thing. It is either a peanut or not a peanut, there is no inbetween.

The 2 dwarf breeds seem to have more peanuts than not, not sure why. Holland Lops and Mini Rex have them but it seems like you get 1-2 or 0. I personally have never seen or heard of a Lionhead having peanuts, they are tiny but don't carry the gene? Maybe someone could help straighten that out.

 

[fld20]

I think it just depends on how the genes line up in that particular litter my mini rex doe had a litter of 7 4 peanuts 3 regulars . I had netherland dwarfs years ago have litters of all peanuts and then later have litters with none it's the luck of the draw .

Fallon

 

[gentle giants]

Yeah, it was pretty typical for my Mini Rex litters to have one peanut per litter. I have never heard of a peanut being able to breed, the odds of it even living past a couple of days are pretty slim. There has only been one (recorded) peanut that lived to be a year old, and that was with constant medical care. I have also heard of one that I believe lived to be about ten months old, too. I once had one liveto be five weeks old, but it never got any bigger than a small hamster.Here isa picture of it with one of it's normal littermates.

 

[lilangelhotots]

Wow, the comparison of your little one is amazing. I know that this doe wasn't a 'peanut' herself but only weighed a pound and a half- she was an itty bitty girl. I was just wondering if maybe she was 'homozygous' for the dwarf gene but now I know there is no such thing. Thanks guys for the info!

 

[Starlight Rabbitry]

In order to get a Peanut, both parents have to carry the dwarfing gene. If you bred a Dutch to an animal that carries the dwarf gene, you would get rabbits that carry the dwarf gene and some that do not.

I am not sure if the Lionhead carries the dwarfing gene. However, it depends on what is in the backround of that rabbit...Some breeders were breeding Jersey Woolies, Netherland Dwarfs, and other dwarf carrying breeds into their Lionheads.

Sharon

 

[TinysMom]

Many many lionheads carry the dwarfing gene because when they were first brought into the US - breeders used Netherland Dwarves to bring the size down .... and so they now have the dwarfing gene in there...

I've had many lionheads that have the dwarfing gene and in the future if I ever rebreed, I will probably make sure that my herd buck carries it if possible....