flexedHollands
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Hello Guys, I breed Mini Rex out of Shelburne Ontario I specialize in Lynx Mini Rex. I know its ararer variety, just curious if anyone elseis into them. I only know of one other breeder in ontario whoo does them.
Lynx are apparently rare everywhere then, you almost never see them around here either, even in the bigger shows. When I was breeding MR, I was hoping to get into chins, but not only was there no show competition, but even finding any breeding stock at all was next to impossible.Thanks guys, I wish there where more out there it might make for some interesting competition. I usually dont have enough competition at shows in my color category, which means I have to go for a BOB or a BOS...But its great when pple stop by our coops to look at our unique rabbits.
I forgot to ask Pam as a judge what are the main reasons for DQ for the lynx variety other than the wrong under color in the ring. Im new to the variety so I want to ensure I havent missed anything.
A true lynx to lynx breeding would not give opals. If you got anything but a chocolate based color from said breedings I would be testing both sire and dam because one has to be genetic fawn. bb(chocolate based color) to bb can not give Bb, opal is not chocolate based. An apal would be very likely between a fawn and a lynx due to the fact one is shaded and one ischocolate, not every kit will get the chocolate or shaded gene(s) from both parents thus opals happen.I have a brkn lilac fawn buck that I bred with a lynx to produce my first lynx. That means that some of my does can produce fawn as well as lynx, but I just pet them out. That is how I had to start as it was very difficult to find pure lynx to start with. I have since obtained lynx breeding stock from lines in which lynx is predominant. Im breeding these into my line which will hopefully eventually rid me of any fawns. The occasional one that does show up I pet out.
What I usually end up with in my litters is lynx and opal. though Usually lynx to lynx gives me pure lynx litters. I do keep back some of the nicer opals to breed back to my lynxes.
BTW im a member of ARBA and in the package they sent me I never got the standards of perfection, just general guide lines for each breed...whats with that.
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