Rabbit Breeds And Colors

The Silver Marten is both the name of a breed and a color. These days you can find this small velvety bunny in a wide variety of colors thanks to the input from the crossbreeding that helped start the breed.

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They thrive with the care and company of people and other rabbits.

Rabbit breeds and colors. 206 rows The harlequin colorpattern is found now in a different breed of rabbit. Its not an exhaustive comprehensive list of colors possible matches or colors possible from different matches. Some have black rumps and ears some have grey and some have brown.

Most of the colors and patterns may also be found on different coat types. Thats the color of a Chinchilla which is a slate blue lower base coat topped with a darker blue coat with a hint of gray. They are friendly curious and trainable.

Dutch rabbits are gentle calm and sociable. All colors are best bred to rabbits of the same color or to REWs with compatible parentage but sometimes its fun to mix it up a little bit. The American Rabbit Breeders Association established a working standard for Black and Chocolate Silver Marten in 1927 and the Blue and Sable in 1933.

This chart and any information on it are not written in stone. Some pointers to remember. The black tint in rabbits should ideally be very dense.

These particular colors charts while they are geared toward Holland Lops they can be used for other breeds as well. Its assumed the rabbits are type compatible. White with either black and orange lavender blue and fawn chocolate and orange or gray and fawn colors.

Nevertheless not every breed of rabbits has every one of these colors or patterns. The Silver Marten breed came first and then was used to introduce the color as a variety in a number of other breeds such as the Netherland Dwarf Mini Rex and Mini Satin. Different breeds of Dutch rabbits have different dark colors on their ears tails and rumps.

Chestnut also called castor in rex copper in satin and sandy in Flemish can carry just about any other color so even breeding two together you have the potential to get ANY color depending on parentage. Most colors are showable but focus is on chestnut opal tort orange and there associated brokens. It also means that if you use a.

The Tri-Colour Dutch also known as the Harlequin Dutch. They are stickily built and can weigh as much as 12 lbs. Unlike other rabbit breeds only one color of the American Chinchilla is accepted by the ARBA.

The Mini Rex Rabbit Club recognizes colors including black castor blue chinchilla opal tortoise chocolate lynx seal white lilac red Himalayan broken blue eyed white otter sable point and the newly recognized smoke pearl. However the underneath hair of a black bunny usually has a blue-gray color. Such evolutions in terminology pertain also to some fur types where for example the Rex breed has rex fur one new variety of which appears in the unusually rexed Astrex rabbit breed.

Some rabbit colors are rarer than others such as the silver and lilac colors while others are often seen in pet stores.

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