We're trying to track the genetics of the buck we have. He CLEARLY has the albino gene (The 3 albinos from his first litter with White Rabbit and then these 2 whites from his second). From what I can figure there are 5 genes that play in rabbit *fur* and albino is recessive but if 2 recessives are displayed it over-rides ALL of the other 4..?
So I'm going to look into that further, since we do not really like the white with red eye, if these 2 white looking ones have red eyes (and we do a couple more test breeds to confirm this suspicion) we may replace this buck with one that may not have this recessive. We kept Dopey, but if both buck and doe have recessive albino genes, then he is most like a recessive carrier and we were planning on putting him with Black Rabbit - who we know now is a recessive carrier... We would still end up with some albinos. Stinkin' red eye rabbits.
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Bunnicula reigns supreme. Woot for baby bunnies!
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