thumpingBerry
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Can lionheads that have a background that includes longhair have longer manes than those who don't?
I've mentioned two breedings I did a few months ago. I'm still 99% of the thinking that I should never have done these breedings (impulse breeding), but still, it happened. And I have a beautiful little male I am planning to keep, that is much calmer than his dad and more suited to my home. The dad, BTW, due to his activity level, I decided to surrender to a rescue. That way he will be fixed and get a home that can give him more attention and out of cage time that I can give him. I hated to do it, but I think it was for the best for him. I doubt I will breed any more litters.
Anyway, the dad was a lionhead lop from a pet store. One mom was a fuzzy lop (which is the male I'm keeping), and the other one was an English Angora, English Lop mix with shorter fur (planning on keeping a female from this litter). His lionhead (lop) babies all seem to resemble double maned lionhead (lops), or at least it appears to me that way although I haven't seen many double maned lionheads to compare.
The lionhead lop babies I have kept back, at 3 months old, have a good amount of mane around their head and it is about 4 inches long, plus mane along their sides and back maybe of 2 inches. Gorgeous little bunnies, but their fur takes some work to maintain right now. I hope they end up having more fur than their dad does as he just had some right at the back of his head on his neck.
I will try to get some pictures up of them, right now I am procrastinating on tasks I need to do, LOL ... kind of a busy time for the next couple of weeks.
I've mentioned two breedings I did a few months ago. I'm still 99% of the thinking that I should never have done these breedings (impulse breeding), but still, it happened. And I have a beautiful little male I am planning to keep, that is much calmer than his dad and more suited to my home. The dad, BTW, due to his activity level, I decided to surrender to a rescue. That way he will be fixed and get a home that can give him more attention and out of cage time that I can give him. I hated to do it, but I think it was for the best for him. I doubt I will breed any more litters.
Anyway, the dad was a lionhead lop from a pet store. One mom was a fuzzy lop (which is the male I'm keeping), and the other one was an English Angora, English Lop mix with shorter fur (planning on keeping a female from this litter). His lionhead (lop) babies all seem to resemble double maned lionhead (lops), or at least it appears to me that way although I haven't seen many double maned lionheads to compare.
The lionhead lop babies I have kept back, at 3 months old, have a good amount of mane around their head and it is about 4 inches long, plus mane along their sides and back maybe of 2 inches. Gorgeous little bunnies, but their fur takes some work to maintain right now. I hope they end up having more fur than their dad does as he just had some right at the back of his head on his neck.
I will try to get some pictures up of them, right now I am procrastinating on tasks I need to do, LOL ... kind of a busy time for the next couple of weeks.