What is a broken Holland Lop?
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What is a broken Holland Lop?
Holland lops will either have a solid coat that only has one color or broken, meaning they have different patches of colors that can form many different patterns. These rabbits are only shown under those two categories, but outside of a showing context, the colors can be grouped and sub-grouped further.
What is the rarest Holland Lop color?
Also known as blue chinchilla, squirrel is one of the rarer colors in holland lops. Kit Coloring: As newborns, squirrels are light gray sometimes verging on pink. When their fur begins to grow in, they are a shimmery blue gray color. Adult Coloring: Adult squirrels are a blue/gray color with agouti markings.
What is the rarest rabbit?
Sumatran striped rabbit
What is a broken bunny?
Broken : A color pattern. A broken patterned rabbit is. white with at least 10% of another color on its fur, resulting in a splotchy, broken pattern. A broken bunny will usually have color over its back and across its nose.
What does broken mean in rabbits?
Broken : A color pattern. A broken patterned rabbit is. white with at least 10% of another color on its fur, resulting in a splotchy, broken pattern. A broken bunny will usually have color over its back and across its nose.
What is a broken color rabbit?
Sir Lancelot, above, is a broken patterned rabbit, meaning that he has a white coat with color (in this case, black tort), broken up, on it. The gene for the broken color is Enen. The solid gene is enen. As long as there’s no color broken up, over a white background, the rabbit is not a broken, its a solid.
How do you break a rabbit?
The broken pattern gene, En, is dominant over the solid pattern gene, en. Thus, it takes only one broken pattern gene to produce a broken. With two broken pattern or En genes, you get a Charlie. Thus a solid rabbit is en-en, a broken is En-en and a Charlie is En-En.
What is the rarest color of Holland Lop?
Also known as blue chinchilla, squirrel is one of the rarer colors in holland lops. Kit Coloring: As newborns, squirrels are light gray sometimes verging on pink. When their fur begins to grow in, they are a shimmery blue gray color. Adult Coloring: Adult squirrels are a blue/gray color with agouti markings.
What color Holland Lops are Showable?
Tan pattern showable colors include black otter, blue otter, chocolate otter, and lilac otter. Other very interesting variations of the tan gene exist but are not showable in Holland Lops.
What are the colors of Holland Lops?
Numerous colors are available across several groups.
- Self Group: Black, Blue, Chocolate, Lilac, Ruby-Eyed White, Blue-Eyed White.
- Agouti Group: Chestnut, Chocolate, Chinchilla, Chocolate Chinchilla, Lynx, Opal, Squirrel.
- Broken: Any color with white.
- Pointed White: Black, Blue, Chocolate, Lilac.
What is the oldest Holland Lop?
The oldest verified Holland Lop was 15 years old, though there are claims of one that lived to 17 years. A number of factors can greatly affect how long your Holland Lop Bunny can live.
What is a magpie Holland Lop?
Magpies are quickly becoming one of the most desirable colors in Holland Lops but are not a showable color. The Japanese brindling gene is responsible for magpies, harlies and tris. It basically creates a striped/ block effect (or mottled in the case of tris) This gene sits on the E Locus.