Question about New zealand Breeding

[Blaze_Amita]

I ran into a guy today at the Preston Court days and at some points I felt like a retard for believing him because half of me thought he was just saying that to make a sale, but the other half of me thinks he *could* have been correct, so what better place to ask than here!

The guy told me that by crossing my Red doe to a White buck, i'll probably get a lot of black babies. I'm doing everything in my power to avoid black bunnies I have not had much luck with them at all and they make me weary.

Was he telling me the truth? Or was he trying to make a sale of his red buck. And Yes I bought a Red buck from this guy to go with my red doe, and I'll eventually get a white doe to go with my white buck.

Please -someone- anyone- can you help me understand this? I only have New Zealands for meat production so there are no pedigrees on them, but i do know that their parents are all the same colors as their perspective offsprings, no one has crossed colors in generations

 

[TCRabbitry]

by crossing a white with a red, you can get blacks, steels, blues, just about any color really... you could even get brokens... this would be because the only thing a white needs to be white is two genes. cc these two genes override everything else, so unless it is on the c gene, the white can hide anything.

Think of it as getting a slip cover for your couch. You can hide anything under a slip cover...

 

[jubidyjub]

It depends what the white has on it's pedigree.

 

[TCRabbitry]

jubidyjub wrote:

It depends what the white has on it's pedigree.

Being as the white is a NZ, I can almost guarantee that the white's ped is solid whites. So, they may never know what is behind that white coat.

 

[Blaze_Amita]

I have no pedigrees on these guys, I bought them locally from other meat breeders that had them as pure new zealands- i did see parents/grand parents and they were new zealands(at least by my visual check over) and they all stayed the same color as their offspring down to the ones I have. SO going back into a pedigree isn't an option. THe guy i got my red doe and white buck from said that the parents of his had pedigrees, but he never bothered to get them for his stock, since he was only breeding for meat.