When you first obtain anything with a pedigree, it's always interesting to review the generations past. With our herd buck, we were aware that there was dilute 2 generations back. We had not, however produced anything with dilute.. Well, we can now attest to the fact he does carry dilute and so does his daugther. During a recent line breeding we produced 2 lovely blue torts. I am half delisional with every litter thinking the lighter shaded torts are blue torts. My kids enjoy making fun of me. Well, now I have no doubt because there is a huge difference. The blue cast is so apparent. It's a funny world, this rabbit hobby, because I have been dying to have blue torts. And yet, I don't want to have a blue project or even a dilute project. This is absolutely when the emphasis comes in on type. No matter what color these rabbits are, they must display type.
Now with this new discovery of dilute... it possibly didn't end with just the blue torts. Our sable baby has a very blue cast to it, which already makes me feel like it could be a blue point. Along with this we have 2 other mysteries all from the same litter. I am hoping they are possibly just really really dark sables... but they actually appear to be more of a smoke pearl or a siamese sable.
This being said, depending on how this litter matures we will likely have some stock available, as we don't plan on running with dilutes. This was a much anticipated litter, as the doe is our beefiest boned doe with the largest head. Hopefully these traits have also passed on to her offspring.
We will be doing a fun photo shoot with these guys once they open their little peepers! Stay tuned and in the mean time, here's a fun montage of Nugget, Cream Puff, Little Buddha and Finn. Hard to believe 2 of those are only 4 months old.
Now with this new discovery of dilute... it possibly didn't end with just the blue torts. Our sable baby has a very blue cast to it, which already makes me feel like it could be a blue point. Along with this we have 2 other mysteries all from the same litter. I am hoping they are possibly just really really dark sables... but they actually appear to be more of a smoke pearl or a siamese sable.
This being said, depending on how this litter matures we will likely have some stock available, as we don't plan on running with dilutes. This was a much anticipated litter, as the doe is our beefiest boned doe with the largest head. Hopefully these traits have also passed on to her offspring.
We will be doing a fun photo shoot with these guys once they open their little peepers! Stay tuned and in the mean time, here's a fun montage of Nugget, Cream Puff, Little Buddha and Finn. Hard to believe 2 of those are only 4 months old.
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