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Blue eyes

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Question
I think I understand the vienna gene and blue eye whites.  How does blue eyes work with color rabbits?

Answer
Hi Tom,

When a blue eyed white rabbit is bred to a regular colored rabbit that does not carry the vienna gene what you will get is a litter full of vienna carriers.  Some of them will be sport marked (look like dutch) others may look completely normal or may have a small white patch on their nose.  The good thing about these rabbits is that when they are bred back to a blue eyed white you will get about half blue eyed white and half vienna marked.

Any rabbit that has a blue eyed white as a parent will carry the vienna gene.  A sport carries both a normal gene and a blue eyed white gene so their babies only have a 50% chance of carrying the gene.

If you are working on improving your body type or fur on your blue eyed whites it is best to breed a blue eyed white to your best normal colored rabbit.  Then keep the best offspring out of that and breed it back to the blue eyed white parent.  

Your blue eyed white rabbits carry a color just like your red eye white(albino) do.  You will not know what they are hiding under their white fur until you test breed them.  Breeding a blue eyed white to a red eyed white will not give you all whites.  However when you breed a blue eyed white to a blue eyed white you will get all blue eyed whites (or possibly a rew hiding a bew).  The same goes for red eyed white except with them you have zero chance of ever getting blue eyes.

I hope this made sense.

Pam