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NZ Appaloosas October 22, 2011 October 22, 2011

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Hubby and I trotted off to the rabbit show today, and we got talking (as you do), and one person has some 'interesting' colours popping up in her giant flemishes (which she believes have other large breeds "crittering up the woodpile" so to speak). And of course hubby goes "oh wifey is into all that colour genetics stuff"... So, I need book recommendations for learning dog, and now rabbit, colour genetics. I think Santa's gonna be getting a book-list from me this year... Diane

Threnody Sat, 10/22/2011 - 10:04

I sadly don't have any suggestions for bunnies. And all of of my dog books from my mother have genetic research no more recent than the 70's. :rofl

But what was the bunny color conundrum with the Flemish Giants?

NZ Appaloosas Sat, 10/22/2011 - 23:35

The breeder we were talking to yesterday is coming up with a chinchilla coat/colour. She likes it, so she wants to breed FOR it, but isn't quite sure what's going on to see if she can increase it.

So, I need/want something that isn't totally genetic basic BUT rabbit/dog colour basic...from what I found on the web, I'm either going to have to do a massive amount of printing, find books, or figure out how to download the sites to a kindle (and THAT requires me being able to GET a kindle) cuz reading here on the lappy is eye-owie-making...

Diane

CMhorses Sun, 10/23/2011 - 19:04

Do you know what other colors the rabbits are that she has?

This seemed to explain it pretty well
C LOCUS

"C" is the next "letter". This "letter" tells the rabbit whether or not to have red colouring, as well as how deep and dark the base colouring is. The genes are as follows:

C: Full Colour - The red colouration of the fur is full expressed, and the base colouring is also fully expressed.

c(chd): Chinchilla Dark - All red colouration is removed from the coat, but the base colouring is still fully expressed.

c(chl): Chinchilla Light - All red colouration is removed from the coat, and the base colouring is lightened, causing darker shading around the head, ears, tail, feet, and legs.

c(h): Californian - All red colouration is removed, and the base colouration is restricted to the nose, ears, feet, legs, and tail. The eyes are red.

c: Albino - All colour is restricted, leaving a pure white rabbit with red eyes.

as far as flemish go, they accept black, blue, fawn, light gray, sandy, steel gray and white colors for the ARBA.
Light gray is from cchd, blue is from C, so no dilute, I'm not sure what steel grey is, and white would be cc
http://www.nockrabbits.com/coat_colors1…

NZ Appaloosas Mon, 10/24/2011 - 16:26

[quote=admin]I found this http://www.rabbitgeek.com/file/amchinco…

It has a few books at the bottom

[quote]So, I need/want something that isn't totally genetic basic BUT rabbit/dog colour basic.[/quote]

Do you feel the canine section of this site is lacking?[/quote]

No, I need to be able to curl up with a book, write notes, etc. It has more to do with the way I was taught to learn (pre-technology)...I'm getting "lost" trying to read off the computer because I don't have the base foundation that I had with horse colour, and my brain wants its old techniques back! :rofl

Diane