zazz6000
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NOTE: This is a question about Sectoral heterochromia. I messed up the topic title and I don't know how to change it!
Hi all, I am brand new to this site but my curiosity finally got the best of me after a year and had to find an answer to my question!
So my tail :biggrin: goes something like this... I was breeding rabbits to try and achieve an orange coat with blue eyes, like that of my male. However 30 rabbits later and I only ever had 2 dark orange offspring, and 2 offspring with dark blue eyes, but none of them had both the eyes and fur, nor were they the right tone! That was until MC Ice Tea came along (purebred lionhead)... he has born into a litter of 5 with all the babies being distinct different colors from each other. Iced Tea started out black, but then actually turned out to have a co-dominant coat of both the mother (black) and father (orange), giving him a brownish natural appearance similar to that of a wild rabbit. Whats even weirder about this rabbit, is that he has Sectoral heterochromia in both his eyes and its symmetric. 60% of his eye is brown like his mother, and 40% is bright blue, like his father. I have never heard of, nor seen Sectoral heterochromia in a rabbit before and have only seen complete heterochromia in one other rabbit ever, and assume it is really rare. Has anyone else ever had a rabbit with Sectoral heterochromia, or know why he would be born with this genetic rarity?
I believe he is in perfect health, although I have questioned his sight and hearing abilities from time to time. Either he is just stubborn, which is very likely his innate behavior, or he does indeed have a slight hearing and eyesight deficiency. Its hard to tell because he responds to things at his own leisure it seems compared to many other rabbits I have raised, although every animal has its own different demeanour!
I'm not concerned about his genetic abnormality, but actually just wondering if it was a random unique occurrence or if it was hereditary. I have raised 30 other rabbits that were all born normal from the same parents, as well, I have the two offspring of the affected rabbit which are also normal!
Hi all, I am brand new to this site but my curiosity finally got the best of me after a year and had to find an answer to my question!
So my tail :biggrin: goes something like this... I was breeding rabbits to try and achieve an orange coat with blue eyes, like that of my male. However 30 rabbits later and I only ever had 2 dark orange offspring, and 2 offspring with dark blue eyes, but none of them had both the eyes and fur, nor were they the right tone! That was until MC Ice Tea came along (purebred lionhead)... he has born into a litter of 5 with all the babies being distinct different colors from each other. Iced Tea started out black, but then actually turned out to have a co-dominant coat of both the mother (black) and father (orange), giving him a brownish natural appearance similar to that of a wild rabbit. Whats even weirder about this rabbit, is that he has Sectoral heterochromia in both his eyes and its symmetric. 60% of his eye is brown like his mother, and 40% is bright blue, like his father. I have never heard of, nor seen Sectoral heterochromia in a rabbit before and have only seen complete heterochromia in one other rabbit ever, and assume it is really rare. Has anyone else ever had a rabbit with Sectoral heterochromia, or know why he would be born with this genetic rarity?
I believe he is in perfect health, although I have questioned his sight and hearing abilities from time to time. Either he is just stubborn, which is very likely his innate behavior, or he does indeed have a slight hearing and eyesight deficiency. Its hard to tell because he responds to things at his own leisure it seems compared to many other rabbits I have raised, although every animal has its own different demeanour!
I'm not concerned about his genetic abnormality, but actually just wondering if it was a random unique occurrence or if it was hereditary. I have raised 30 other rabbits that were all born normal from the same parents, as well, I have the two offspring of the affected rabbit which are also normal!