Any1 know anything about new zealand whites?

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- 04/01/2008 at 2:34 PM
  alyssa
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  i think thats what madison is but all the sites say they must have red/pink eyes, and madison has blue eyes
  
  is she a mix? or now a NZW after all?
  
  thanks
- 04/01/2008 at 2:36 PM
  charlie82
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  She doesn’t look at all like a NZW to me, too small and dainty. I still think she is a dutch. 🙂
- 04/01/2008 at 2:39 PM
  alyssa
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  YAY cuz that would make her the same breed as chewy, and it would be AWESOME if they could grow up and be around the same size, cuz i read that NZW grow to be 11 pounds! thats bigger than my dog! lol
- 04/01/2008 at 2:39 PM
  Sarita
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  Well, it’s hard to tell at her age since you don’t know what size she will be full grown. She doesn’t have the dutch markings if she’s all white so I wouldn’t say myself that she is a dutch. She could very well be a mix of some kind though. Generally the all white rabbits are either Florida Whites (smaller than a New Zealand) or a New Zealand White or a mix with these 2 breeds to the best of my knowledge.
- 04/01/2008 at 2:45 PM
  charlie82
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  Dutch do come as white buns with blue eyes due to recessive genes. I know on Rabbits united they recently had a litter of purebred dutch babies. Mum was a typical B&W dutch and dad was a lovely G&W dutch. They ended up with two B&W, one G&W and two white babies….all with blue eyes. I didn’t know dutch bunnies could come all white but apparantly they do due to recessive genes somewhere along the line 🙂 They looked just like maddison!
- 04/01/2008 at 2:50 PM
  Sarita
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  Interesting! I did know that many dutches come with blue eyes which are so pretty but I have seen other breeds with blue eyes as well – perhaps they were dutch mixes though as well. Although I have seen rexes with blue eyes as well.
- 04/01/2008 at 2:51 PM
  charlie82
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  http://forums.rabbitrehome.org.uk/showthread.php?t=123129
  
  There is a picture of Louie on there who was from the litter of dutch babies…I can’t find the original thread 🙂 I think marchhare must have a dutch in every colouring!!!!!
- 04/01/2008 at 2:53 PM
  charlie82
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  Yeah I didn’t know Dutch could come like that either…infact I didn’t even know they came in so many different colours!!!! Milly has blue eyes and they are so unusual. She was supposed to have been a lionhead but she definietly has cashmere in her somewhere along the line.
- 04/01/2008 at 4:59 PM
  babybunsmum
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  i kinda thought madison looked like a wee / young new zealand white, but i think i’m just assuming that about white buns now-a-days. pinky sure has influenced my judgement. mind you, pinky has red eyes and looks more muscular than madison, but i adopted pinky at 10 months old so i have no cluse what she looked like as a wee one. whatever madison is… she’s darn cute!
  
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- 04/02/2008 at 6:24 AM
  Beka27
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  this is dorky, but i always loved learning about genetics and heredity stuff in school… it’s cool how those recessive genes can pop up further down the line.
- 04/02/2008 at 1:12 PM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  Here’s some interesting stuff on rabbit genetics…
  
  http://www.tsukiyo.org/argent/genetics/other.html
  
  Interestingly, Kahlua my dark lionhead, has the Vienna gene (according to the breeder, and sources-shown by the little white splotch on her nose) and her mom and dad were both BEW (blue-eyed-whites) and were completely white!
- 04/03/2008 at 8:27 AM
  babybunsmum
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  no way !?! cool stuff
- 04/03/2008 at 9:05 AM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  Yup, these are here parents
  
  This is her Daddy, Orion
  
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  And this is her mommy, Mary
  
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- 04/03/2008 at 10:16 AM
  Tami
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  Oh my goodness ! Her mama almost looks like an Angora ! LOL ! And the daddy resembles a Jersey Wooly…..to me, anyway :o)
  
  They’re beautiful, though. No wonder Kahlua is such a looker
- 04/04/2008 at 9:26 AM
  bunnytowne
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  that orion is a lionhead and what is the vienna gene?
- 04/04/2008 at 9:34 AM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  Yeh, they are both (mary and orion) pedigreed lionheads…I could have paid for a pedigree with Kahlua, but obviously she’s never going to be bred (she’s spayed now) and I don’t do shows so no point…
  
  The vienna gene is mentioned on that page I posted http://www.tsukiyo.org/argent/genetics/other.html it has to do with producing Blue eyed white’s. I’m not sure exactly how it works but it’s mentioned in that article. I guess it’s expression in a non-blue eyed white (like Kahlua) is to have a white splotch on their nose…
- 04/04/2008 at 9:38 AM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  You can see the white spot good in this pic (there is fawn coloring on her nose, the white is a spot on the top of the fawn)
  
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- 04/04/2008 at 9:57 AM
  alyssa
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  i just wish i knew how big madison would get, so i could prepare a bit. as of now, madison already makes chewy look like a midget bunny lol
  
  lol i remember when we used to think chewys markings were so cute and special, then we went to the state fair and we were like
  that one looks like him.. and that one.. and that one.. and that one.. and that one 2
- 04/04/2008 at 10:04 AM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  LOL Madison is a dutch right? I thought the same thing with Kokanee, my dutch…Then I was like oohhhhh they all look like that hehe
- 04/04/2008 at 10:06 AM
  alyssa
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  we dont know if shes a dutch, we were told she was..but we dont know really, cuz the petstore seemed pretty clueless and shes all white with blue eyes
- 04/04/2008 at 10:11 AM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  Oh darn I meant chewy is a dutch-now do I make more sense?
  
  I googled new zealand white and I guess they can have blue eyes…maybe post some more pics of Madisson and beside soemthing so we can see how big she is, that might help some of our experts figure out her breed!
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