I've recently been trying to tackle breeding sable points in Mini Rex (being that it's a very uncommon color in my area, yet one of my favorites). The closest I've come to finding one was a Sallander that was listed as a Sable Point (had chinchilla gene in pedigree; no sables at all). Being that they've been close to impossible for me to find locally, I decided to pick up some colors that would help me along the way. I currently have a Sable doe (carries Himalayan, not sure on non extension), A Himalayan buck (not sure on non extension, chch), and a broken Tort buck that carries REW (Cc) that I'm using in this project.
I recently bred the sable doe to the broken tort, and the resulting litter was four kits : 2 presumed Himalayans (never bred them before, but at a week old, all are practically solid white) and 2 black kits. I'm sort of crossing my fingers that one, or both, of the Himalayans end up being non extension himi. I'm just curious as to how others may think to proceed? My thoughts are to keep one of the Himalayans, being that they now carry the non extension gene (Ee) - or even potentially (ee) if they, themselves, are non extension. However, I'm also torn because I know that a repeated breeding between the pair could result in a Sable that carries non extension, which may be even better, as it wouldn't completely throw out the sable gene.
I was honestly hoping for something a little more telling in this litter as to whether or not my doe carries the non extension gene herself, as she does have a tort grand sire on one side of her pedigree, so there's definitely the chance. I also may end up attaching images as the Himalayan (presumed) kits get older, to get some help confirming whether or not they'd be considered non extension (though, it may be a tad tricky if either are genetic brokens).
I recently bred the sable doe to the broken tort, and the resulting litter was four kits : 2 presumed Himalayans (never bred them before, but at a week old, all are practically solid white) and 2 black kits. I'm sort of crossing my fingers that one, or both, of the Himalayans end up being non extension himi. I'm just curious as to how others may think to proceed? My thoughts are to keep one of the Himalayans, being that they now carry the non extension gene (Ee) - or even potentially (ee) if they, themselves, are non extension. However, I'm also torn because I know that a repeated breeding between the pair could result in a Sable that carries non extension, which may be even better, as it wouldn't completely throw out the sable gene.
I was honestly hoping for something a little more telling in this litter as to whether or not my doe carries the non extension gene herself, as she does have a tort grand sire on one side of her pedigree, so there's definitely the chance. I also may end up attaching images as the Himalayan (presumed) kits get older, to get some help confirming whether or not they'd be considered non extension (though, it may be a tad tricky if either are genetic brokens).