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What can I expect if I cross breed?

22 11:07:50

Question
I have a male agouti dwarf lop, a male black & white mini lop, a agouti and a black up ears females as shown in the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOoDDAlh5ao

What would the possible kits look like?

Answer
Firstly, I would advise against breeding any rabbits, purebred or otherwise, that you do not have a complete pedigree on and that were not sold as show or breeding quality. This is because without having a breeding/show quality rabbit with a pedigree, it is quite possible that the rabbits are hiding genes for some very bad things that could be passed on to the babies. These can include seizures, crooked teeth (which have to be trimmed for the entire life of the rabbit), genetic defects which cause death at a very early age (like 2 weeks old or less), temperament problems, and a lot more.

However, if you were to cross the chestnut agouti with the black female you would definitely be able to get chestnut agouti babies. It looks like the black one may be half lop, so some of the babies may have fully lopped ears. Some might have ears like hers (mostly upright but kind of lopped). If you bred her to the black and white (called a broken black), you would definitely get solid and broken blacks. They might be hiding the genes for other colours, too. Breeding the agouti to the black could result in almost any colour in rabbits, depending on what genes the two are hiding. Breeding to the broken black could result in many less colours.

Without knowing what colour their ancestors were, it is impossible to know what colours they might be hiding.