Where can I learn about rabbit colour genetics/lines?

[jcl_24]

The title covers it really. I know nothing about how different coour lines mix or dominate andwant to learn more, particularly about how a solid black colourgenes would possibly over-rule any other colour except Agouti.

:?

Jo xx

 

[pamnock]

There are many genes that contribute to the color of a rabbit, just as there are many ingredients needed to make a cake.

A solid black rabbit is:

a - recessive in the A series, where tan and agouti are dominant.

B - dominant in the B series over b brown (chocolate)

C - dominant in the C series where all other genes remove red from the coat.

D - dominant in the D series over d dilute (blue).

E - dominant over non-extension colors that remove black from the coat. (An exception in this series is that Es steel supersedes dominant E and further darkens the coat - we would only see its effects on tan or agouti coats.)



Pam

 

[jcl_24]

That lettered list is very helpful thankyou!

I would like to breed Ebony who is a solid black mini-lop. My hope was to breed her to Guy (Brown Butterfly Agouti) which I understood would create white with black Agouti marked kits.

Guy is very willing but is not inperfect health currently and there's some concern over whether he would pass infection on to Ebony even when heis apparently healthy again.

That being so, I've made a couple of tentative enquiries about using bucks for stud only. One breeder has told me she has a "lilac buck carrier lilac, blue and choc". From Pam's chart, the black might dominate these colours?

Ebony was a sweet little ball of black fluff who has grown into a gorgeous,smoothly furred little lady bun. Any buns that take after her will be equally lovely I'm justcurious about the possibility of seeing a mix of coulours in a litter.

I don't know if I will be allowed to breed rabbits. I may be 30 but I live in my Dad's house so what he says goes! It is something I would like to doso am graduallyfinding out more about it.

Jo x

 

[polly]

I think from that (Pam correct me if I am wrong) that black will dominate the litter but you will get carriers of the dilute colours in your litter.

Phil has a good website with genetics on it.
http://www.miniaturelops.com/home.htm