When they are new babies the double manes have no fur on their flanks(hips) and face cheeks. The fur on their head is longer and thinner than that on a single mane or no maned rabbit when they are babies.
On older rabbits double manes' face is wool insted of fur, which makes me think Misty's buck is a double mane since it looks like his ears and head is short wool. Whether he has mane left does not change his genetics. The first doe is a double mane and the second is a single because her wool is so long and her face is fur insted of wool. See, there is slight diffrences that the trained eye can see *wink*
The colors of your lions is chestnut agouti for the buck, black for the first doe and the second doe I am pretty sure is a blue tort since she is so light.
Also, it is not possible to get a broken from two solid parents. The baby(s) that looked broken would be double manes. Your aunt should know that if she knows much of anything about lionhead breeding and color genetics. *shrugs*
I will get new pictures today of my babies!!!!!!! It was confirmed that the sire is a single mane so that explains it. It looks like two of the bucks are broken lilac or something, they are VERY light diluted. It may just be that the blue is lighter on the double manes than the single mane, I am unsure. The other baby is still pink and is a single mane. You can not see that it is a single mane but I rubbed his flank against my lips it felt smooth, not like skin on the double manes felt. His head is also not got the long thin hairs.
My lionheads are not pedigreed(I pick type, health and the lines breeding record over a peice of paper that people lie on everyday) so their lineage is unknown. I will be keeping information on them so they can be pedigreed down the line.
Technically you do not need two pedigreed parents to write pedigrees for them. Many people will simply take what you know so that if they breed it to a pedigreed animal they have some information on that parent even if it is just it's parents. There is currently a breeder here in kentucky that is being sued for faking pedigrees. I have been jokingly told by other breeders "No, I do not pedigree, but I can go write you up a fake one if you want *wink wink, pinch pinch*".
I am buying my lionheads for the type, look, and color that -I- want. If they have pedigrees I will buy them but if not I am not going to sweat it. If I am breeding typey healthy animals a peice of paper should not matter, not on a non-accept breed anyway.
