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Chise

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I just picked up a few buns the other day and had a question. These I told are Netherland Dwarf Rabbits so I am wondering what color type would you call these?

Also, in the future if we were to breed them, would these be good choices?

Thanks!
 

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I’m fairly certain those bunnies are mixes though the bun in the very back (behind the white and black and white bunny) looks like his head shape is netherland dwarf-like. The grey-white and black-white bunnies look like they have Dutch bunny coloring
 
All of them are mixes. They probably do have Netherland Dwarf in them though. From Moonshadow's response, they do look like they could be mixed with the Dutch breed.
The grey one's color is called Chinchilla the white implies that she/he has the Vienna gene (blue eyed gene) does he/she have "marbled" eyes (a mix of blue and brown kind of like the human hazel eye color). The white one with the eye circles looks like she's a Chestnut Vienna (You can see she has the marbled eyes). Are the spots more brown or more black? The last two are Black Vienna (that is if they have the marbled eyes).
I would recommend against breeding them, especially if they all are related. There is already and more stock of rabbits due to over breeding of lots of mixed breeds. When animals are mixed with a ton of different breeds, their genetics get wonky and they are more prone to sickness and genetic problems (bad feet, bad eyes, etc.)
 
All of them are mixes. They probably do have Netherland Dwarf in them though. From Moonshadow's response, they do look like they could be mixed with the Dutch breed.
The grey one's color is called Chinchilla the white implies that she/he has the Vienna gene (blue eyed gene) does he/she have "marbled" eyes (a mix of blue and brown kind of like the human hazel eye color). The white one with the eye circles looks like she's a Chestnut Vienna (You can see she has the marbled eyes). Are the spots more brown or more black? The last two are Black Vienna (that is if they have the marbled eyes).
I would recommend against breeding them, especially if they all are related. There is already and more stock of rabbits due to over breeding of lots of mixed breeds. When animals are mixed with a ton of different breeds, their genetics get wonky and they are more prone to sickness and genetic problems (bad feet, bad eyes, etc.)

Thank you so much for the info. I felt the eyes were more of a gray color and for the white the patch around the eye was more of a gray/black I got them from two different areas so the two black and white ones are siblings while the other two are a different set of siblings. I'm including some other photos to see if it helps.
 

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I'm sharing another photo of the white one, there's a few spots along her back, not just the eye and that's it. Still curious if I'm getting closer to pinpointing the breed type
 

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