What kind of bunny is my bunny?

[SuperRabbit]

This is Hareold! He is two and a half months old. He is completely white with blue eyes. I have never seen his parents, but his brothers and sisters were either black and white or brown and white or completely white with ruby eyes. I don't know how much he weighs, but he's very small!
Most of his photos turn out to be white blurs because he always likes to dart around everywhere!
I'm guessing he may be a Netherlands Dwarf, but I really don't know.

 

[mistyjr]

he looks like a netherland dwarf! Very cute baby!

 

[HappyFarmBunnies]

That definitely looks like a blue-eyed white (BEW) Netherland Dwarf to me! Are you sure he is pure white though? Because if so, I don't think it's possible for him to have had colored littermates.

 

[hillrise]

He can have colored littermates. The gene that causes BEW, when there in a single dose instead of the double dose results in dutch-like patterning (sometimes as little as a little as a white snip on the nose) with otherwise normal colors. And somewhere else I saw that REW overrides BEW, so a REW littermate is still possible, too.

Congrats on your new baby! (I agree it's a nethie).

 

[HappyFarmBunnies]

hillrise wrote:

He can have colored littermates. The gene that causes BEW, when there in a single dose instead of the double dose results in dutch-like patterning (sometimes as little as a little as a white snip on the nose) with otherwise normal colors. And somewhere else I saw that REW overrides BEW, so a REW littermate is still possible, too.

Congrats on your new baby! (I agree it's a nethie).

So for example, if you bred a blue buck to a BEW doe, you could get BEWs and Vienna Marked blue babies in the same litter? Huh. Well, proves me wrong. I thought you had to have BEW x BEW to get BEW.

 

[Nancy McClelland]

so very cute :inlove:

 

[Must_Love_Pets]

I'll tell ya what he is....CUTE!!!! Tehehehe adorable looks like a BEW nethie to me.

Congrats!!!

 

[hillrise]

HappyFarmBunnies wrote:
I thought you had to have BEW x BEW to get BEW.[/quote]

Nope, just have to have two Vienna-marked or a Vienna-marked and a BEW. Crossing a BEW and blue may or may not get you blue vienna marks...it would depend on what else the BEW has (just like crossing a REW and something else).

 

[HappyFarmBunnies]

I thought that BEW's only threw BEW's, and they didn't have that tricky masking habit that the REW's do? Gah, now I'm all turned around. I'm sorry!

 

[Dustiechick]

Soooooo cute!! I love the baby blue eyes! <3

 

[mistyjr]

I had a Siamese sable buck that had half bluish eye and then brown eye, I bred him to a black tort (LH) doe, And she had 2 blacks and 1 rew!

 

[Korr_and_Sophie]

The Vienna gene that causes BEW rabbits is recessive. In order for a rabbit to be BEW, both parents must have the gene and pass it along, so the rabbit would get 2 copies of the gene. Rabbits who are Vienna marked or are carriers only have 1 copy of it.
2 BEW rabbits bred together will only produce BEWs. 1 BEW and 1 Vienna marked will produce 50% BEW and 50% Vienna carrier or marked. 2 Vienna marked or carries will produce 25% BEW, 50% Vienna carried or marked and 25% that don't have the gene.

Other colours in a litter would depend on the parents. They would still have to follow other colour genetics though. I am not sure, but I think that since the vienna gene is recessive, that a BEW rabbit can't hide other colours. REW is dominant, so it can cover other recessive colours.

 

[hillrise]

BEW hides everything but REW (and maybe Californian, but I haven't seen any information on how that color works with BEW). REW is also recessive (to all the shading/chinchilla genes). If the rabbit were't white (didn't get the BEW/REW) it could be anything.

They "hide" colors because it turns all of their fur white, no matter what it might have been had they not gotten the BEW/REW gene.

The hiding that you're thinking of it called carrying, where a dominant gene expresses itself, but the gene for another color might be hidden recessively (like self blacks from chestnut parents...or even REWs from colored parents).

When you breed rabbits of recessive colors, you only ever get that recessive color, but you can also get that recessive color from parents of different colors if those parents carry the gene.

...hope that's not too confusing...

 

[SpotLover]

I thought you had to have BEW x BEW to get BEW.

There's a reason ND breeders keep the non-showable vienna rabbits. BEW's are very hard to get with decent quality, so they keep nice quality VM's to breed so they can give their nice type to their BEW offspring!

 

[SpotLover]

Korr_and_Sophie wrote:

REW is dominant, so it can cover other recessive colours.

That is why people don't breed REW's to BEW's, REW is dominant so if you get a BEW, it has REW in the background and will produce REW and not the BEW like wanted

 

[SpotLover]

It is definitely a Nethie. Not too quality though, HUGE ears, but still a cutie!

 

[SuperRabbit]

Thank you all for your responses!
@SpotLover, yeah the big ears is what made me uncertain!

 

[MagPie]

Awww he's so tiny and cute! I have a ND that's 4 lbs haha

 

[Amber98]

Hi your rabbit is so gorgeous and very fluffy the younger years with your rabbit are very important and fun so enjoy it while you can. He could be a netherland dwarf but his ears seem bigger than the typical netherland dwarf it he is a netherland dwarf he won't grow much more than what size he is now. He is so cute!