again rex color

[kyylik]

Hi again.
I am confused on my one litter rexes. I will put photos of them up here and hope you can help me with colors.

She looks like this


her circle on color lie this



ears upclose, they are not blue


nose is blueish but not blue


tale


nails are white, eyes blue/grey

and her brother looks like that, blueish,b ut not blue



nails are white, eyes are blue/grey

[thunderbunnies]

On my monitor, they certainly look blue to me. The blue-gray eyes also say 'blue' to me. What is it about them that makes you say that they are not blue? Maybe you are leaving out something that you can see that we can't so maybe a little more information is needed.

[kyylik]

Certanly the first one have yellowish or creamish underfur and on real you can see that theya re not blue at all. There something else, I just do not know how to tell it. Try to make some new photos soon. Last one is more blueish but underfur have also this chocolate or brownish, not blue. Ihad blue rexes before and they looked compleately different.

[Rebekka Bishop]

I don't have my Dwarf color guide in front of me right now, but could it be they might be broken Opals?

I am trying to remember the undercolor/eye color for both Opal and Lynx...is Lynx even found in Rex?

[kyylik]

I don't have my Dwarf color guide in front of me right now, but could it be they might be broken Opals?

I am trying to remember the undercolor/eye color for both Opal and Lynx...is Lynx even found in Rex?

Yes, rex have lynx in color, at least in EU standard it is accepted color. You think Opal... I had 3 opals last year, but hey did not survive, we had feedpoisoning... Pellets were bad and we lost over 200 rabbits during within 2-3 weeks...

This is one opal we had, on photo he is 19 days old.


You know you, might be right that first one is broken opal, but another one...

[kyylik]

Is it possilbe that another one is lilac? I found this one in internet and under that it is lilac rex and he is same in color actually...

[Karin Vail]

could be blue or lilac - lilac usually has a slight ruby glow to the eyes. Do you get chocolates in your rex? Often a self blue-chin (a blue with the chin gene instead of the full color gene) can be mistaken for lilac too since it's a bit of a washed out blue.......

[kyylik]

could be blue or lilac - lilac usually has a slight ruby glow to the eyes. Do you get chocolates in your rex? Often a self blue-chin (a blue with the chin gene instead of the full color gene) can be mistaken for lilac too since it's a bit of a washed out blue.......

Yes father of them is chocolate and mother is broken black. On mothers side parents are broken chocolate and brown gray/castor, brokec charlie castor/brown grey, broken black, orange, black, orange, blue, chinchilla.

from fathers side broken chocolate, broken black, black, chinchilla, blue, orange.

But in germany they call this color also Feh/Egern in Sweden (is it squirrel aka chinchilla blue or I am mistaking?). What it could be in English then. I have to look for that ruby glow, I think that it was there, but not sure. He have very unique color, it is hard to put to words and hope that will get better photo one day as well. But any suggestions will be great.

By the way in 4 litter they had together was only 2 blacks, all others were chocolates, tortoise black and tortoise chocolate, blue then opal as well and now this mystery boy...

[Karin Vail]

by the other litter colors, I would say that it is a lilac very likely.

[kyylik]

I looked today his eyes, he does not have that ruby glow. Just lightbrown eyes.

[Karin Vail]

I looked today his eyes, he does not have that ruby glow. Just lightbrown eyes.

well, it could still be lilac, not all have the ruby glow or not as noticable as some anyhow. My lilacs tend to have a blue/gray eye though, not light brown? that would be an odd color for a dilute colored rabbit........

[Rebekka Bishop]

Don't all dilutes have grey/blue eyes? I was thinking they did--at least in Dwarfs....

[Karin Vail]

Don't all dilutes have grey/blue eyes? I was thinking they did--at least in Dwarfs....

the dilute coat color gene is not directly linked to the dilute eye color gene - so, the answer is ''no'', not all dilutes have blue/gray eyes. We have bred them to be together for the standard, but genetically they can be either way.