The right colors for breeding...

[wooly_queen]

I have to bucks that I would love to breed out, but I don't have enough does. My REW is pregnant and my black just had a litter of babies and they are 6 days old.

One buck is a blue tort. he is out of a blue and a broken tort if I recall correctly and I also have a siamese sable that is out of a siamese and a ...another siamese I think.

So my question is, what are the best colors to breed with them? The babies I have now are black and otter. And my REW does will be having mostly REW and pointed white and maybe a black. Are those two bucks ok with black or REW? Or would I need to get one more shaded doe or something.

Thanks to whoever can help. I need to get all this genetics stuff down. I am trying.

 

[Starlight Rabbitry]

Here is a link that has an excellent article written by Kitty Lynch on what colors can be bred to what colors: http://www.jhcrabbitry.com/colorbreeding.htm

Sharon

I have the article when it was published in the Jersey Wooly magazine and this is someone's website that has it on there.

 

[wooly_queen]

Thank you. I will read it.

 

[whaleyk98]

I just want to say thank you for that site! It is awesome and it answers a lot of questions.

 

[Starlight Rabbitry]

Your both welcome

 

[wooly_queen]

Yeah, that was so much easier to understand than other things I read. Thanks for finding that.

 

[OakRidgeRabbits]

You won't want to breed the bucks to otter.

Black is the best choice, or possibly the REW, depending on what the REW is hiding. What are the REW's out of?

 

[wooly_queen]

Emo (my REW) is out of a black and siamese sable. Her kits will be out the of herself of course which is REW and a black.