Does this look like a NZ/Cali mix?
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Kati's Holland Lops
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Maybe a little bit of giant too... I don't exactly know I'm better with small breeds
A New Zealand / Cal mix should not be agouti colored, at least I don't think so. Looks more like a Flemish Giant / ? mix. NZ come in black, broken, red and white (with white being the most popular) and Cals are white. The NZ/Cal mixes I've seen were white.
That's what i thought myself. But all of his offspring (22 from 3 separate litters) are white, black etc. With only a few other colors.
What would the potential outcome be if it was a black NZ and other mix? Would that have the potential for this color combination? Are there any studies on color genetics?
hannahbean
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What type of lopped ear his he 
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I'm not a genetics guru, but I don't think he's a NZ/Cal mix. He might be a Flemish Giant/ NZ mix and the NZ wasn't white. Flemish are meat rabbits at least.
I don't know if you plan to sell any of your rabbits for meat pens, but if so, using purebred parents of the same breed would be best. Uniformity among the offspring is very important when judging them and using mixed breeds makes that much more difficult.
woahlookitsme
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I do know that some people when breeding New Zealand whites would get a gold tipped black steel. The whites are considered albino rabbits and hide all other colors in their background. The rabbit you pictured above is a chinchilla colored rabbit. I don't know how those play into the new Zealand's though. You might want to try googling things like meat rabbit color genetics and seeing if you can find something
Well i see the giant in him now that I've looked it up. The people who were selling their stock whom i bought him from had said he was a Cali/NZ mix. I wanted to give them a little credit. Now u see what that gets me.
