Hair changing colour?

[bex&2buns]

Hi

My Dwarf Lop Daphne seems to have fur that changes colours a bit. She is kinda brown but she will get these patches of kinda golden fur on ocassion. She actually used to be kinda a grey colour. Im wondering if I should be worried about her, or whether its normal.

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[bex&2buns]

Sorry. This is the right one I hope:

 

[mistyjr]

Looks like she's molting.

 

[Nikki_Shortstuff]

Hair changing color is normal, its because they're molting. What happens is when new fur grows sometimes it can be darker/lighter than the original fur.

 

[slavetoabunny]

As my buns have gotten older their fur color has changed a lot.

 

[bex&2buns]

Her fur always seems to be patchy like that, so I wasn't sure if molting occurred all year or not. My other rabbit Willoughby has never had that. Shes about 8 months old approx.

 

[Nancy McClelland]

Most of our buns have gotten lighter as they've aged and after each molt they aren't entirely like they were before.

 

[maxysmummy]

ive noticed that max is actually lighter in summer than he was in winter.

i was thinking perhaps its some sort of adaptation to the heat - ie darker colours hold in heat more and lighter colours reflect them, hence the coat change.

i'm not sure if its right or not, just my pet theory

 

[lionheadbunny21]

My black Lionhead was VERY black when we got her and now she has lightened up and has a lot of grey.. She looks cute but was suprised about her "greying" at 7 months.

 

[OakRidgeRabbits]

It's a molt...shaded colors look crazy when they're molting!

Siamese sables also get darker with age, so if your bunny is younger, that may be the cause.

 

[Byfuzzerabbit]

lol molting it makes it looked like you murdered a bunch of small animals in your backyard XD

My rabbit is currently molting also so there is fur everywhere.

 

[bex&2buns]

Thats weird because there isn't any molted hair anywhere! There is an ocassional ball of hair from when Willoughby has a fake pregnancy and takes hair of Daphne, but yeah. Daphne is a Dwarf lop and Willoughby is a mini lop, is there a difference when it comes to molting as Willoughby has never molted that I can tel...

 

[woahlookitsme]

Molting, I have found can also be dependant on breed or genetics. But even the best genetics cant hold back a molt when in the summer. I have one chocolate bunny and she looks great for about 5months out of the year, same with my brit, and then the other months she looks like this:

My other chocolate bun didnt look like that till she had her babies. She was a nice deep chocolate color through out the whole summer which i thought was amazing.

Heres my brit when hes molting. All those waves in his fur is the dead hair.

I really believe that if its an outdoor bunny season takes molting to another level. The thing is rocky stays inside with me so thats why i think its partly genetic. But cooler weather is a great hair season for my buns