Please help identify breeds

[samssimonsays]

That is awesome! sorry I just saw this tag My email is choosing what to send me I guess... I am so glad y'all are having fun and learning! that is what it is all about They are cute as buttons either way you look at them hehe!

 

[Bunnylady]

I agree that #3 (white) is most likely a New Zealand, but if #1 and #2 are siblings, then I highly doubt they are fully New Zealand. In order to get the #1's colour (chestnut, as bunnylady said), then you would need to breed a New Zealand to a rabbit that is an agouti of some sort (chestnut, castor, etc). New Zealands cannot carry the agouti gene because it would throw the color off and you would see banding in the fur (a disqualification in New Zealands.

My apologies, but this is incorrect. It may not look like it, but red is an agouti color. Every red rabbit has at least one Agouti gene. Because the REW genes of the New Zealand White shut down all pigment production in the coat, a New Zealand White could have agouti genes, and you'd never know it. Even a New Zealand Black could have agouti genes. Lots of New Zealands carry Steel, and a rabbit with two copies of the steel gene would be solid black, even if it had agouti genes.

But the important thing is that the kids learn things and have fun in 4H, and it sounds like they are doing that!