Reserving Rabbits

[RAL Rabbitry]

The broken orange is probably a broken red. If the broken red and the broken castor came from the same litter I would have my doubts as the whether the broken red would be showable. Reds can't have any undercolor and should not have any smut. If they have castor in them than they probably have undercolor and smut and would have really dark color.

As for breeding to an REW it would all depend on whatvariety the REW is genetically and what varieties you want to concentrate on. If the babies have REW on their pedigree and you want to work with REWs then they should be alright to breed to your REW buck.

Roger

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

Thanks RAL. Here's the picture from the post, so you can see what colour I'm talking about. It doesn't look broken red, but I could be wrong. It's very light, like broken orange

Thanks,

Emily

 

[RAL Rabbitry]

In the picture they look like broken reds. the other isuue I can see with the brokens is that they might not have enough color to show them. They have to have at least 10% and no more than 50% color to show. I am afraid they would be DQed.

Roger

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

Alright, thanks for your input RAL! I would hate to get one and then have them be DQ'd on the showtable! I think I'm going to go check them out next weekend, and if they have less than 10% coloration, then I won't get one. I'm not sure if the castor is a buck or doe...but would castor be a good colour to breed to a REW also?

Emily

 

[bunnybunbunb]

Rew is not the actual genetic color so to say if a Rew would be ok to breed with such and such color would be unknown. I believe his dad is chinchilla and the mom is a blue? I would expect he is geneticly a castor or black but to say he has good undercoat genetic is unknown and doubtful seeing as he would be a castor from non castor parents. Castor is a hard color to work with and unless you want ALL castor Mini Rex, unless you have room for many rabbits and diffrent rabbits for each color you breed, castor is not for you-breeders in general-.

Good luck

 

[RAL Rabbitry]

Castor isa pretty tough color to get right as Bunnybunbunb said. I usually only breed castor to castor for castors. Anything else is asking for trouble. You will mess with the rufus band and get castors that don't have good color and good width of the rufus band. Knowing that your REW buck is chin and blueI would proabably only use him forREW. Using him for other varieties will definately get you unshowable varieties You stand the chance of blue self chins, squirrrels and and other colors. you will get some self chins which you could show as seals and maybe selfs and probably some castors but the castors would probably not have good color. The shaded gene with also mess up the color on selfs. I use blacks to improve my sable points but the blacks that I get just don't have the same nice color as the black to black breedings.

If I were you would sit down and decide what varieties you really want to do. I did that whenI started beforeI bought any rabbits. I started with castors and blacks and moved on from there. I now do castors, blacks, brokens, otters, reds and sable points. I only breed castor to castor for castor show rabbits. I do breed both castors and blacks into my otters to improve fur, type and color but I don't show the castors from these breeding. The color is not quite right on them.

Good Luck

Roger

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

Thanks so much Bunnybunbunb & RAL! I guess the castor is out of the question then. We'd like to focus on REW, Chinchilla & Broken Chinchilla. Apparently my sister found a solid chinchilla would that be ok also, or no?


Thanks again, so much!

Emily

 

[RAL Rabbitry]

Solid chin should be OK. You may get some squirrels with the blue gene thrown in that you would have to find pet homes for but you should also get the varieties that you want.

Good Luck

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

Thanks RAL. We're going to continue our search and hope we find what we're looking for!

Emily