Vienna marked Tort

[Hayley411]

Here is a vienna-marked tort buck. His father is a tort lionlop, mother vienna-marked orange lionhead doe. And I have been told that they can only be true vienna-marked if they have blue eyes any other color and they are not a true vienna-marked rabbit.

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His mother

~Hayley~

 

[TinysMom]

According to Glenna Huffmon's book on color genetics....Vienna marked rabbits may have:

• blu eyes
• browns eyes with blue areas
• a few may have brown eyes

They are usually called:

• Sports
• BEW mismarks
• BEW sports

Typically they will have one or more of the following:

• blaze of white
• half collar of white
• white spot on nose or feet or legs
• mismatched eyes
  • part blue / part brown
  • one blue / one brown (my guess - based on one doe I have)

Hope this helps...

Peg

EDITED TO ADD: I just came back here and reread this (to make sure I got it right) and I realized I might have sounded snooty. I didn't mean to sound that way.

I was working and the company's computer systems went down and this thread was on my mind - so I pulled out the genetics book and posted from it- I see now that someone else posted and I hadn't read their message. I'm not sure if the rabbit must have blue eyes to be considered "vienna marked"....that could possibly be true!

Either way - I didn't want to sound like a "know it all".