Rabbit coat color genes can be confusing and sound like a bunch of. It differs greatly from the light chinchilla color. The chinchilla gene turns any yellow cream to rust pigments white. These tiny rabbits weigh under two and a half pounds and had their beginnings in the netherlands.
The last possible combination is a truebreeding dense color rabbit with a dilutecarrying dense color domestic rabbit. In your breeding however, its important to remember that youre working with the chinchilla gene and not the full color gene. Most mutation chinchillas are mutant at only one locus. American chinchilla rabbit is a popular breed and mainly raised as a commercial meat rabbit. Midori no daichi rabbitry breeding the chinchilla variety. For instance, a hair color gene location may allow 2 genes of different types to. Breeding to opal will cause the castor offspring to carry too much black on the surface color. The are several different loci that control fur color in chinchillas. American chinchilla rabbits are a sixclass breed in show. Below is the most extensive color family chart on this website. To go into the genetics of the rabbit would be a monumental task. The chinchilla phenotype is du the the c ch allele, which is dominant to all alleles other than c. The short answer is that a self chin looks exactly like a black usually.
About bunny colors, a book on rabbit coat color genetics and a. Below is a table of the various common colors of rabbits and their genetics to help you determine what color your rabbit is. In full color rabbits, the color is not restricted to a certain part of the rabbit, but it spread over the entire rabbit. Note not all colors have been added and this is a working process. It darkens any color that it is combined with and creates the wrap around effect. If the two genes in a pair are the same the chinchilla is said to be homozygous with respect this gene pair.
Select a color from the drop down list that applies to the buck and doe you are breeding. This chinchilla mini lop has the cchd chinchilla gene. The c series gene is where color genetics starts to get complicated we have not 2 or 3 but at least 5 alleles possible for this gene but remember, each rabbit only gets two of the 5 and some of them are codominant meaning they interact rather than one covering the other. Your number one source for rabbit and cavy cages and supplies. Standard chinchillas are thought to have the best genetics of all the color varieties.
Chinchilla rabbits learn about the history and description of standard, american, gigantas and giant chinchillas, all of which have many uses somewhere in the fogshrouded past of french bunnyhistory a kit was born to wild agouti colored rabbits, but it was missing half its color. If a dominant modifier is paired with a recessive only the dominant will show up but the rabbit is a carrier of the recessive gene and may pass it on instead of the dominant gene. It is a proven fact that rabbits that weigh from 1215 pounds at maturity have generally been accepted as the ideal meat producing rabbit. This is a gene, and not the phenotype of the rabbit. A book about bunny colors is the practical breeders guide to mastering the knowledge you. Sable chinchilla shaded black chinchilla cocoa colored undercolor in this animal, there is the double presence of the chin light gene.
The first american chinchilla rabbit was developed by french engineer m. Chinchillas for kids amazing animal books for young. Their mother is a fawn rabbit and their father was an opal. An albino rabbit must always carry all the same color genetics that any other colored rabbit would carry in its genotype. Most of this information is based on the book a textbook of chinchilla genetics by e. Most of the books and articles ive read concentrate on the genetics related to hair color. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading chinchillas for kids. It differs, however, because it gives you a colored nose, tail, ears and feet as well as colored toenails. The giant chinchilla has been purebred for over 45 years. Pointed white is closely related to rew, in that you have a mostly white rabbit with red eyes.
They were originally called heavyweight chinchilla rabbits. An allele that is standard is the wild type allele and an allele that is not standard is the mutation type allele. Chinchilla genetics punnet squares punnet squares is a diagram that is used to predict an outcome of a particular cross or breeding experiment. The study of coat color genetics has taken the rabbit world by a storm. The easiest way is to breed a tri color to any color except chinchilla varieties. Of course, we know from above that the cc genes cause this albino appearance. Not only do you need to know color genetics to be able to choose your breeding pairs wisely, but the study is fascinating in itself.
Rabbit colors the range of bunny colors and have they are. The ch allele, dominant only to caalbino, results in the himalayan coat color. Genetics to rabbit coat color hollys hollands rabbitry. The effect is similar to that of the chinchilla variant, but further lightens the black turning it into more of a sepia color. Chart of 144 rabbit coat colors and their genotypes.
It darkens any color that it is combined with and creates the wrap around effect tummy color. Genotype is the color coded for in the genetics including those hidden in the phenotype. By using an understanding of basic color genetics, i have learned what colors. An illustrated guide to rabbit coat color genetics mink hollow. The ideal giant chinchilla should weigh, when fully mature, 14 pounds for bucks. The perfect butchering age is around 8 weeks of age. Rabbit genetics dominant and recessive trait inheritance principles applying equally to rabbit coat color genetics and other genetic traits manda fletcher bunny raisin 12 hole apartment cage. Rabbit populations can also be defined in terms of the strength of breeding stock. Rabbit coat color genes can be confusing and sound like a bunch of mumbojumbo, but once something just clicks, it all begins to make sense. The first chinchilla rabbits to hit the english market were in the summer of 1917 thanks to an import from a mrs. This gene is more for color pattern then for actual color.
However, the rabbit also must have the agouti allele a in order to be a correctly colored chinchilla. Assuming it has the normal eye color, it is acceptable to show it as a black, blue, chocolate, or lilac, because the arba varieties are based on appearance, not genetics. If the rabbit does not have an agouti gene, but has a self gene instead, it may cause a normal colored rabbit with a wrong eye color. Books have been written concerning this one subject. The pearl rabbit carries a shaded geneevident by its nose shading. Colors accepted by the american dutch rabbit club are black, blue, chinchilla, chocolate, grey, steel and tortoise. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading chinchillas for kids amazing animal books for young readers.
This gene creates the one color that we see in blacks, blues, etc. Color genetics of the rabbit is a complicated thing, but understanding it can be very helpful when purchasing new stock, working on a new color, developing a new color or maintaining only the varieties that are desirable to you. About bunny colors, a book on rabbit coat color genetics and a practical guide on raising colors in your rabbitry and applying what you know in rabbit coat color genetics to get an accurate picture of all the colors you could produce with. Small population of the american chinchilla rabbit is largely due to the demise of the rabbit fur industry during the late. In rabbits, himalayan is the name of both a color and a breed that sports that. For 44 years, kw cages has led the way in providing the latest in advanced design and usamade quality. Notice that the far right column contains rew regardless of the other genes involved. A book about bunny colors spelling out the essentials of rabbit coat color genetics coat color genetics is one of the hottest topics among rabbit breeders. These 10 day old angora babies are back to front chinchilla, chestnut and pearl.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are. Have you ever heard of a rabbit color called self chinchilla. You wont find it in the standard of perfection, but if you talk very much with enthusiasts of rabbit color genetics, the name will probably come up. This book talks about various genes, and their effects on fur, eye, and ear color. Being a rabbit breeder, its important to know which colors could produce what, what genes are recessive and which are. Rabbits which have two copies of the shaded gene will be darker.
The chinchilla color was developed between 1900 1950. Rabbit color genetics 101 genetics 101 wildriver rabbitry. Rabbit color genetics showing holland lops breed standards. This gene removes all red, orange, ad fawn pigment from the coat, leaving white. Rabbit breeding color chart three little ladies rabbitry. There are over 200 possible genotypes based on the 5 main color genes. Classical genetics is very important for animal production at the small. Dilute and dense rabbit color genetics d series, or blue. This means you will need a larger breed so it will be a decent size by the 8week mark.
Enchanted by its gorgeous coat, the new breed took the fur trade by storm. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The topic of rabbit color genetics is sufficiently complicated to warrant whole books on the subject. Genetically, the only difference between a true black and a self chin is that. It darkens any color that it is combined with and creates the wrap around effect tummy color same as the back color rather then whitish. You can trust that kw will only sell relevant products that are time proven. Heterozygous is a term when a chinchilla has has two genes different to one another i. Chinchillathese are agouti colored rabbits that lack the orange or red band on the hair shaft. Dybowski, and were first shown in april 19 in saintmaur, france. The genes of one parent are shown along the top and the genes of the other shown down the lefthand side.
If you liked this article, check out our book about bunny colors for more like it. The group of c genes in rabbits controls the amount and placement of the color. Genetics in general genetics is a research area in which people study inheritable characteristics, the consequences of these characteristics for the organism in our case the chinchilla and how these characteristics are passed on to the next generations. Ive studied rabbit coat color genes for a couple years now. The breeds which accept the color as part of their standard will be listed in the standard breeds column. When i first became curious about why colors are what they are, i found there was a lot of old scientific information, but hardly anything recent, accessible, or understandable to the average rabbit breeder. The difference in their rabbit coat color genetics is this the heterozygous castor rabbit can possibly surprise you with opal rabbits in the nest box.
Rabbit genetics rabbit genetics for broken, solid, and charlie patterns there are several genes involved in determining the color and pattern of a rabbits fur. One of the things deciding what a chinchilla will appear like what color it gets, how big it gets, the quality of the fur, etc is the genes. Broken is not on the list because when breeding to a broken you will have a 50% chance of. Breeding french angora rabbits for color, what you need to. The study of the genetics of rabbit colors is a fascinating and very useful part of rabbit raising.
Chinchilla c chd is recessive to normal coloration, but dominant to all other cseries genes. Just because the rabbit shows no color, does not mean it doesnt carry any other color genes. It contains most of the rabbit colors you might think of, though there are some exceptions. It is important to know that when raising rabbits for meat that the older the rabbit gets, the tougher the meat becomes.
Breeders remain extremely interested in this important subject. The cchd, or chinchilla dark, gene is what contributes to a chinchillacolored rabbit. Again, all of the offspring will be dense colors this always happens when at least one parent is a truebreeding dense, but half of the offspring, on the average, will carry dilute. This guide is written in simple language no, it really is. If you enjoyed this article, you can learn more about rabbit color genetics through the book, about bunny colors from rabbit smarties.
How to survive alone in the wilderness for 1 week eastern woodlands duration. The book is over 20 years old, but i have not found anything more recent on chinchilla genetics. Actually chinchilla rabbits are a group of three rabbit breeds, and the american chinchilla is the most rare of the chinchilla breeds. Standards come in dark to light shades of grey and they have a blueish hue to the coat. The origins of the chinchilla rabbit commercial possibilities accommodation management food marketing exhibiting. Examples include but are not limited to, chestnut, opal, chinchilla, squirrel, lynx. Any color that is not standard is known as a mutation. You can find a more extensive list in a book about bunny colors but this list will cover most of the colors you encounter.
Chinchilla genetics is a complex subject and below are some terms you should first become familiar with. The cchd, or chinchilla dark, gene is what contributes to a chinchilla colored rabbit. In this section we shall be looking at the genetics for colour mutation. Cc cchd cchl cch cc chd is the chinchilla dark gene. This page will consider only the enen gene, which determines whether a rabbit will be. Two terms that are commonly used in articles about genetics are genotype and phenotype. C is dominant to all other alleles and causes full color. The c gene is responsible for rabbits being full color, chinchilla, seal, sable point. Shaded c chl is recessive to normal and chinchilla genes, but incompletely dominant to the other cseries genes. The american chinchilla rabbit was bred from large standard chinchilla rabbits in order to produce a meatier rabbit. Rabbit color genetics for beginners windle wabbits english. If not, now you know the castor carries one d dilute gene, and you can work to eliminate the recessive gene from the breeding program.
The 5 gene locations act upon the two basic colors in a rabbits coat black, and yellow changing how those two pigments get expressed in the rabbits fur additionally, these 5 genes are acted upon by other modifying genes, rufus factors, and plusandminus modifiers from all the interactions and modifiers, it is possible to obtain literally hundreds of different rabbit colors. Chocolate chinchilla is the chocolate colour expression diluted to lilac chinchilla in rabbits that also carry a dilute gene. Now, you can jump directly to look up your color in the chart above if you want, or you can step through the genetics in the 101 sectio n which works from genotype to phenotype and just try to put it in reverse, but hopefully this sections gives you a basic process. Other genes, such as the ee genes may cause a shaded look in a full color rabbit, but the color restriction is not due to the c gene in that case. Rabbit genetics answering your bunny genes questions. 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. Mar 23, 2018 colors accepted by the american dutch rabbit club are black, blue, chinchilla, chocolate, grey, steel and tortoise.