What offsprings would a Polish Dwarf Rabbit and a Miniature Rex Rabbit make when breed?

The Dwarf is black + white colored and the Rex is gray + white colored.What offsprings would a Polish Dwarf Rabbit and a Miniature Rex Rabbit make when breed?
There are far to many unwanted rabbits in the world to be breeding mixed rabbits. The only reason a person should be breeding rabbits is to improve the breed. Which means breeding purebred rabbits only. The other acceptable breeding would be for meat. These rabbits will be small and not a desired meat breed.





The rabbits will not have rex fur. The rex fur is a recessive gene and it would take 2 generations for it to show up. You could get just about any color depending on what the hidden genes the rabbits carry.





There are many different colors that can be called gray and white. It could be broken blue which is a broken gray pattern. Broken just means the pattern is broken and causes white. Gray could be chinchilla, opal, blue otter all of which would have white. This could mean that the rabbits could be any color in the rainbow.





I strongly suggest that if you wish to breed rabbits that you join the ARBA. They will send you a book called raising better rabbits and cavies. It will give you advice on breeding purebred rabbits as well as explain the importance of not mixing breeds.





Before anyone breeds any rabbits they should know what colors are compatible. Since there is no such thing as a color called gray I am guessing that you really dont understand what your rabbits are. Crossing rabbits with incompatible colors will give you a bunch of useless rabbits that will most likely end up as snake food. For each non useful rabbit born that is one in a shelter that is euthanized.What offsprings would a Polish Dwarf Rabbit and a Miniature Rex Rabbit make when breed?
'; If the polish is the female, she needs to have a first litter before she is one year old because otherwise her pelvic bones fuse, making giving birth naturally will be impossible. ';





That's the craziest thing I ever heard. It's harder to breed females after they are a year old, but not impossible!! I do it all the time. One doe didn't have her first litter until she was 2.





The ';Polish dwarf rabbit'; .....is this a cross between a Polish and a Netherland Dwarf?? There is no such breed as a Polish Dwarf. There is the Polish, and there are Netherland Dwarfs. Two different breeds.





You didn't say if your Mini Rex was the male or the female. If the Mini Rex is the male, I would NOT under any circumstances breed these two rabbits. The babies will be too big for the doe to have, and they'll get stuck inside her, and she'll most likely die from trying to have such large babies. Netherland Dwarfs have enough problems having purebred babies, let alone babies where the buck is twice the size of the female.





I agree with the other poster. If you want to breed rabbits, do it for the benefit of the breed (not your own curiousity), and get involved with ARBA (www.arba.net) and breed purebred animals. Breeding rabbits isn't as easy as most people think it is. There are alot of things that can go wrong, and there is a lot to know.
you wouldn't know until they had them, it's all about genetics and the recessive and dominant alleles making up their shapes and colours. I don't think it'd be a good mix, in the idea that polish rabbits aren't known for their good temperaments (just in the breed, I'm not saying your rabbit isn't nice!!) and the mini rex is almost opposite so that isn't good temperament wise. If the polish is the female, she needs to have a first litter before she is one year old because otherwise her pelvic bones fuse, making giving birth naturally will be impossible. She should also not be bred after 3 years old. Hope it helps, if you want info on anything I'll help,





-Sarah


http://www.waskalywabbits.webs.com
The offspring will make about 8 more unwanted rabbits looking for yet more homes that don't exist!





Don't litter!! Desex your rabbits.