What are my babies

[Therry]

welcome from northern Minnesota! A good friend used to raise mini's and another friend raises Standards. They have nice heads and ear placement along with beautiful coloring. I have a weak spot for orange

I have a weak spot for color hehe

 

[samssimonsays]

I did too. I had 42 rabbits and I hardly had any that were duplicate colors in does and bucks. I raised French lops so a bit bigger but I had orange, blue, steel in silver and gold, blue steels in silver and gold, creams, opals, blacks, seals, chins, chestnuts and squirrels all in solids and brokens. Orange was my favorite.

 

[Therry]

I did too. I had 42 rabbits and I hardly had any that were duplicate colors in does and bucks. I raised French lops so a bit bigger but I had orange, blue, steel in silver and gold, blue steels in silver and gold, creams, opals, blacks, seals, chins, chestnuts and squirrels all in solids and brokens. Orange was my favorite.

Oh my <3

 

[samssimonsays]

You have to look at them every day so why not enjoy the variety, right?

 

[Therry]

You have to look at them every day so why not enjoy the variety, right?

Exactly!!

 

[Bunnylady]

Breeding a charlie back to a solid will produce 75% brokens in theory as well.

Breeding a Charlie to anything will result in 100% brokens, because the Charlie will give the broken gene to all of its offspring and broken is dominant.

A lot of people get confused about what those percentages mean. Basically, saying that a cross will result in a 50/50 ratio means that, if you could do the cross enough times to get 1000 offspring, approximately 500 would be the one, and the other roughly 500 would be the other. In something as small as one litter, or even the entire lifetime production of a particular pair, the numbers could be widely skewed from 50/50, and it is still quite normal because your sample group is so small. It's like tossing a coin. If you toss a coin 10 times, you aren't guaranteed that it would come up 'heads' 5 times and 'tails' 5 times; it could even come up 'heads' 10 time or 'tails' 10 times and, while unexpected, that would still not be abnormal simply because you did it so few times.

 

[Therry]

Breeding a Charlie to anything will result in 100% brokens, because the Charlie will give the broken gene to all of its offspring and broken is dominant.

A lot of people get confused about what those percentages mean. Basically, saying that a cross will result in a 50/50 ratio means that, if you could do the cross enough times to get 1000 offspring, approximately 500 would be the one, and the other roughly 500 would be the other. In something as small as one litter, or even the entire lifetime production of a particular pair, the numbers could be widely skewed from 50/50, and it is still quite normal because your sample group is so small. It's like tossing a coin. If you toss a coin 10 times, you aren't guaranteed that it would come up 'heads' 5 times and 'tails' 5 times; it could even come up 'heads' 10 time or 'tails' 10 times and, while unexpected, that would still not be abnormal simply because you did it so few times.

Makes sense

 

[TAH]

Welcome!
I am in alaska.
Cute bunnys.

 

[Therry]

Welcome!
I am in alaska.
Cute bunnys.

Thank you so much! I'm from Texas!!

 

[SableSteel]

Top one is Charlie castor, bottom is broken harlequinized castor. Breeding charlies can never create solids, but it doesn't create all brokens... You can get charlies too. Charlie x Charlie = 100% Charlie, Charlie x broken = 50% Charlie, 50% broken, Charlie x solid = 100% broken. Even if you are not breeding for show, Charlies often have a slower growth rate than other varieties, so I would avoid breeding charlies to anything but a solid (because that is the only combination that will assure that you don't get any charlies in the offspring). (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0093750)