What do you breeders think of this pair for breeding?

[Pipp]

:yeahthat: and :yeahthat:

Apologies for the brow-beating.

You've been very responsible by asking. Whether you decide to breed them or not, you will get support and information on this forum.



sas :hug1

 

[dixonsrabbitry1]

Sarah93 wrote:

Shaded Night Rabbitry wrote:

They'll produce adorable babies, with amazing blue eyes, but nothing showable, and not much worth as broods unless it's for a BEW program.

See I suppose thats what I'm going for.
I dont think I'm like tearing about the breed by doing this...and they've been bred in America for only ten years...I am only seventeen years old, so thats more than half my life...and thats not a very long time for a breeding program to be going on, even for me.

I suppose right now I'm not going for showing...its just to complicated for me.
If I want to get more into that, I'll look into getting a breeding pair that would be great for showing in the future.
And I see your point in not knowing what my pair will produce.
Do you mean in colors or in general?

Also the vienna marks are prone to seizures?
But they're used to make BEWs, correct?
Wouldn't BEWs be prone to getting seizures then too since that is a hereditary disease?

Also if I get a doe here in a month or so that is from a BEW bred to a harlequin is that an poor choice in pair too?
I just like the beautiful colors I think these pairs can produce and I'm not taking away from their form.
So I dont see why its so awful?

breeders that produce blue eyed whites have more experience with them. They are bred mostly for show. Its something that shouldn't be attempted by a new breeder. Just just never know what will happen with the babies, the vienna gene is there.

I would love to have BEW beverans some day. But then again they have the blue eyed white gene, and there is the possibility there could be complications from it.

Is the new rabbit going to be purebred lion head, or a cross breed?

I don't think you are a backyard breeder(I hate that term). You are on here to learn, and that is a good thing. I feel you should do a little more research when it comes to breeding these rabbits together though. And listen to, and learn from the other breeders on here.

 

[dixonsrabbitry1]

Also its very rare to lose a doe to pregnancy complications.

 

[pamnock]

elrohwen wrote:

Sorry, my terminology was wrong and I confused myself - I meant to say it's a partially recessive gene. A rabbit with one vienna gene can be vienna marked, or a carrier. Just because her doe's father was a VM does not mean that her doe is necessarily a carrier. He only had one copy of the gene, so her doe may not have inherited it. There is only a 50/50 chance that her doe is VC vs a regular shaded. Also, VMs are a more common expression of the Vv genotype, so considering that and the 50/50 chance it's less likely that her doe is a carrier.

Normal "V" is actually incompletely dominant over the recessive "v".

Vv may or may not show that they are carriers by phenotype.

 

[BleuButterfly]

Your bunnies are adorable. <3 Good luck with them.

 

[elrohwen]

I suppose it might be more correct to say that V is incompletely dominant to v, but that's just semantics. I have also seen sources that claim something is incompletely recessive, even if it's not totally the correct term.

The point I was making is that it is not all that likely that the OP's doe is a vienna carrier when you consider the odds. She certainly could be, but it is in no way a sure thing and I wanted to let her know that before she breeds.