What color is this bunny?! ***PICTURES***

[KrystalMarie]

So I bred my black Mini Rex and she had seven babies, four black, two brown, and one odd colored one. I had never seen one like her. We ended up keeping her. Her name is George (we didn't know she was a girl before we named her.)
I was just wondering if you guys would know what color this is??

 

[Bunnylady]

The color is Tort (also called Tortoise or Tortoiseshell), but what did you breed your doe to? That certainly isn't a Mini Rex coat!

 

[KrystalMarie]

I bred her with another Mini Rex.

Here are some pictures of her parents.

This is Pickles, the mom.

And, this is Super Bunny, the dad.


Both Mini Rex's. Or atleast thats what they told me they were.

 

[ksalvagno]

I have to say that Pickles doesn't look like a rex. But maybe it is the picture. Also George doesn't look like a rex. Just doesn't have the fur like a rex does. Very cute though!

 

[Emmetts Dairy]

I love bunnies!! I love the torti color...sooo pretty!!!

 

[Bunnylady]

Super Bunny is a Mini Rex, but Pickles is an outcross. She might have one parent that was a Mini Rex, but the other parent clearly wasn't - her type is off, and she has a normal coat, not the rex coat. Same with George. They are cute buns, though!

 

[TheSheepGirl]

She does look like a really dark tort.

I'm glad to see a rex cross with smooth fur. I've always found that they have the smooth fur. My guy was a mini rex/holland. He had smooth fur too and so does my other rex cross mutt.

I like the name George. We had a Sam that became Sammy later on.

 

[Bunnylady]

I'm glad to see a rex cross with smooth fur. I've always found that they have the smooth fur. My guy was a mini rex/holland. He had smooth fur too and so does my other rex cross mutt.

That's because the normal coat is dominant, the rex coat is recessive.

Were there any rex-coated babies in Pickles' litter? If one of her parents was a Mini Rex, some of her offspring should turn out rex, since you are breeding to a rex. In a sample group as small as one litter, you might or might not get rex babies, but if she never has any rex-coated offspring, it may be that she's more of a mix than I thought. Since you know that George's (Georgia's?) father is a Mini Rex, it is highly probable that you will get some rex-coated babies from her, if you breed her to a rex.

 

[TheSheepGirl]

I've been stating that rex coat is recessive for a while now. i've only rarely seen rex fured rex crosses. I did see a satin rex cross with satined rex fur.

 

[KrystalMarie]

My white one, Oscar came from the same litter as Pickles and she is waay bigger!
Usually when Pickles has babies only one turns out like the dad. It's always the same color as him and male haha. But of course I always end up giving it a girl name the last one was Tilly lol!
I'm horrible at naming my rabbits lol.