coloured rabbits

[LUCY04 27]

years ago keepers used to put coloured rabbits among wild ones as they could see if anyone was somewhere they should not be don't know if they can do it now. keep a eye out for ginger ones as well had one a while ago with the ferrets

i have had a ginger/white rabbit a good few year bk with the lurcher and i have had black rabbits and white rabbits ferreting

[mighty celt 996]

got one the other nite,allways seem to get 1 or 2 a season had a black and white aswell and a ginger one allso

[Ideation 8,216]

f**k all to do with game keepers. It's just variation / mutation of the agouti coat which is made up of all those colors.

[BLACKHEART 61]

Had black-black and white-ginger and a few weekes ago tewksbury way-netted bury and had 7 blue rabbits-5 of which were only half grown drummers-i shouldnt have-but i bought a few back home and let them go local-and all the big uns had 1 hell of a fat layer on them.

[widowmaker 13]

f**k all to do with game keepers. It's just variation / mutation of the agouti coat which is made up of all those colors.

how did they get there in the first place then if its got f**k all to do with the keepers as u put it ???? and also if there was the colours or colors as you said why are they only in certain areas when black is a dominant colour and the natural colour of uk rabbits is gray ? get looking on google boy

Edited January 3, 2012 by widowmaker

[Jordb543 9]

f**k all to do with game keepers. It's just variation / mutation of the agouti coat which is made up of all those colors.

f**k all to do with game keepers. It's just variation / mutation of the agouti coat which is made up of all those colors.

how did they get there in the first place then if its got f**k all to do with the keepers as u put it ???? and also if there was the colours or colors as you said why are they only in certain areas when black is a dominant colour and the natural colour of uk rabbits is gray ? get looking on google boy

 

Tbh it is probably a little of both, the genetics of agouti coats will throw up different colours such as black etc, otherwise domestic rabbits would all be one colour, and if a black rabbit bred to another chances are you will get some black rabs if not the majority of the offspring will be definitely more likely to produce them, and with the in-bred nature of rabbit breeding, would explain why they appear more frequently in certain areas

 

but also due to the vast different colours of domestic rabbits with light brown, ginger and black being almost everywhere im sure a few game keepers and local residents have also contributed, which again thanks to rabbit breeding would soon cause certain colours to show up

Edited January 3, 2012 by Jordb543

[frankel 2,123]

I have had brown and white ones, black,grey, ginger....My uncle once got 2 brown hares that had white necks..

 

this is one i got earlier this season,

 

it was a grey one

Edited January 3, 2012 by frankel

[bunnybasher69 56]

How rare is a golden hare? I seen one last night that looked like this

 

[Ideation 8,216]

f**k all to do with game keepers. It's just variation / mutation of the agouti coat which is made up of all those colors.

 

how did they get there in the first place then if its got f**k all to do with the keepers as u put it ???? and also if there was the colours or colors as you said why are they only in certain areas when black is a dominant colour and the natural colour of uk rabbits is gray ? get looking on google boy

 

 

Do you have any understanding of genetics? Or natural selection?

 

Agouti (the colour of rabbits fur) is not one colour, it is made of many hairs of a variety of colours all mixed together. As rabbits breed very quickly, and their populations are quite dense, they tend to show up possible genetic mutations / variations quite readily. These variations include rabbits with fur that is almost all of one of the colours that make up their natural coat.

 

They occur in some areas more so than others, as these tend to be the areas with very large healthy populations with an abundant food source, this is perhaps natures way of evening the balance (by making them easier prey), or just the law of percentages meaning that you with more rabbits you get more 'freaks' and when / if these freaks breed, then you start getting more and more funny coloured rabbits.

 

You also get it a lot in mice.

[widowmaker 13]

maby but that wouldnt explain where i caught them because its dead

[Ideation 8,216]

Fair play. I'm sure you do get the odd one that has escaped / been released. But having caught those kind, they do not have the same body shape / type as wild rabbits, especially when you open them up, and they no way run the same. Most likely your one is just a random freak, they can occur everywhere.