Took these photos of the babies a few days ago! They're purebred English spots and were 13 days old in these photos :) love these little guys so much :heart:
#breedofthemonth because, why not ^^
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How is one of the English spots brown I have never seen a pur brown English spot before?
This might be confusing depending on how much you know about genetics, but I'll do my best to explain! So, genetically speaking, broken patterned rabbits (aka marked in the case of English spots) carry one dominant and one recessive extension gene, presenting genotypically as "Enen". A rabbit only needs one En gene to present phenotypically as broken. But they still carry that "en" gene which is what produces solids, which are enen. Charlies are what you see when a rabbit ends up with two En genes (EnEn), which is just a rabbit with very little markings, typically occuring only/ mostly on the rabbit's face.
So, breeding two broken rabbits together gives you a 50% chance of broken, 25% chance of solid/ sports, and 25% chance of charlies.
In other words, Peaches there ended up receiving a recessive gene from each parent ^^
So adorable!!