Netherland Dwarf Picture updates

[mewlingcricket]

Rabbit Tree's Autumn dob: 10/13/10 age: 7 weeks

Rabbit Tree's Skye dob: 10/13/10 age: 7 weeks

Rabbit Tree's Tiana dob: 09/08/10 age: 12 weeks

RTE-3 dob: 09/08/10 age: 12 weeks

other updates coming soon. Have a great week

 

[Blaze_Amita]

I LOVE the color on sky and autumn!

 

[mewlingcricket]

Thanks! We are really pleased with how they are coming along. They are blue otters. I am obsessed with the otters, as well as solid blues and chocolates.. Well in Netherland dwarfs anyway, with my lionheads I am hung up on the torts, sable points, and BEWs.

 

[mistyjr]

cute babies

 

[lelanatty]

Autumn and Skye do not look like blue otters to me... they look like opals!

Do they have any chestnut or opal in their background?

 

[mewlingcricket]

yes they have some chestnut in their background

 

[mewlingcricket]

mom is a chestnut, dad is a blue and both have otter in their background. I know both babies are otters (creamy tummy, mark on nect, ect.... So they look more like opal otters than blue?

 

[lelanatty]

mewlingcricket wrote:

mom is a chestnut, dad is a blue and both have otter in their background. I know both babies are otters (creamy tummy, mark on nect, ect.... So they look more like opal otters than blue?

They are most likely opals if their mom isa chestnut and dad is blue. Their color is diluted(blue)chestnut, called opal.

 

[mewlingcricket]

Wow, I have never heard of opal otters. Interesting. Dad is a blue, but when he was little no one could tell if he was a blue or lilac and he had white tips on his fur. They ended up calling him a frost tipped lilac. when he reached 6 months and molted out of his baby fur, it came in blue with no tipping or confusion. I just assumed they had the same blue/frost tipped thing going on and that they would grow out of it. They are pretty either way.

 

[lelanatty]

mewlingcricket wrote:

Wow, I have never heard of opal otters. Interesting. Dad is a blue, but when he was little no one could tell if he was a blue or lilac and he had white tips on his fur. They ended up calling him a frost tipped lilac. when he reached 6 months and molted out of his baby fur, it came in blue with no tipping or confusion. I just assumed they had the same blue/frost tipped thing going on and that they would grow out of it. They are pretty either way.

There is no such color as "opal otters." Chestnuts have white/creamy tummies and marks on the back of their necks too. The color of your babies is simply called "opal."

I had a blue otter that looked like he had the frosty tips when he was younger too. It was just his baby fur.

And I must say, Tiana looks very very good!

 

[mewlingcricket]

Thanks, we are loving her!!

 

[mewlingcricket]

okay feel foolish now. I just looked eveything up and realized you are right. I believe they are opals. I had never seen them and somehow missed the details when I was looking in the Netherland guide book. Thanks for the help, I would have felt twice as foolish had I tried to show them as otters in the future. duh me (LOL)

 

[lelanatty]

I am glad I could help. That's what the forum is for.

 

[Shaded Night Rabbitry]

I LOVE Tiana! Looks just like a junior buck I'm growing out right now. ;D

 

[Nancy McClelland]

they are all darling. Tiana looks just like our little bunny Stewart.