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Surprise

6/6/2014

 
So yesterday we had the neatest thing happen.  We bred our sable point buck with a cute little tort doe.  The tort doe shows no sable in her pedigree so we were expecting a litter of torts.  She was a first time mom, so our expectations were limited.  Well to our surprise she had a litter of sables!  
So this has of course made me think about recessive genes and the importance of buying from reputable breeders.  Sable was not shown for 3 generations, which means it is somewhere even further back.  Had we purchased this rabbit from just anyone and based it off pedigree alone who knows what could have happened.  My worst fear is VC showing up in my lines anywhere.  That wouldn't have shown on this pedigree and yet it could have happened.  However, I feel safe in knowing the breeders who I have purchased from will have reliable genes that may show themselves later on down the road.

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