galoreherd
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what weight is she herself? the female kits will be in high demand.
Whopper of a litter!! Updated w/Pics in reply #10
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SuburbanFarmChic
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Those look great! If any of the white ones are girls I know someone that may want one. They only breed whites. I don't care about color so I'm happy to take anything.
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The nest looks awfully small!
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brentr
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I wondered if someone would pick up on that!secuono said:
That is just a nest box I use to put the kits in when I check them. I pull them all out so I can make sure everyone is present and accounted for. The actual nest box has plenty of space.- Thread starter
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brentr
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These wouldn't be pure (or true) whites, though. Between the Cali and Giant Chin in the family tree, they could throw any color, I think. Although I confess to being TOTALLY ignorant about color genes in rabbits.SuburbanFarmChic said:
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brentr
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She is 12-13 lbs (at least). I haven't weighed her for a bit. I do know she keeps her condition well, even nursing a large litter. She eats like a horse, but it all goes into milk for the litter. No unwanted weight gain at all.galoreherd said:
SuburbanFarmChic
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Yeah he knows. He's just getting started and wants to get white and only keep white. Everybody else goes in the freezer. I think he wants to breed the color out while selecting for other traits.brentr said:
Bunnylady
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If you are breeding REW to REW, you can only get REW because it is the most recessive gene in the C series. Conveniently, Chinchilla and Himi (the cause of the Cali markings) also occur in the C series. Unless you breed to something else (say, for example, a black) the only colors you can get are Chin, Himi, and REW.
If the doe is part NZ and part Giant Chin (and no other breeds in the mix) then she has one Chin gene and one REW gene. If the buck is purebred Cali, then he should have 2 Himi genes.
If he is only part Cali, he could have one Himi gene and one REW gene.
Himi is a weird color. The expression of it is temperature dependent. Areas that are cool on the rabbit (nose, ears, tail, etc) get colored fur, the warmer areas get colorless (white) fur. If a kit with the Himi gene gets chilled, the body fur may show a ring of color where the hair was growing in at the time when the kit's skin was cool. That's probably what is going on with the dingy kits. Himi kits often seem all white, it is only as they grow a bit that you see the darker points showing up. If any of these kits get to fryer size and still don't show any color at all, you can be reasonably sure that they have 2 REW genes, meaning that they got one from their father as well.
If the doe is part NZ and part Giant Chin (and no other breeds in the mix) then she has one Chin gene and one REW gene. If the buck is purebred Cali, then he should have 2 Himi genes.
If he is only part Cali, he could have one Himi gene and one REW gene.
Himi is a weird color. The expression of it is temperature dependent. Areas that are cool on the rabbit (nose, ears, tail, etc) get colored fur, the warmer areas get colorless (white) fur. If a kit with the Himi gene gets chilled, the body fur may show a ring of color where the hair was growing in at the time when the kit's skin was cool. That's probably what is going on with the dingy kits. Himi kits often seem all white, it is only as they grow a bit that you see the darker points showing up. If any of these kits get to fryer size and still don't show any color at all, you can be reasonably sure that they have 2 REW genes, meaning that they got one from their father as well.
RPC
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Wow that is really awesome I can not believe she has raised 13 kits
