You could do that, but you wouldn\'t get any first generations tricolors unless the black carried for the tri gene. You could breed them and then try for second generation tricolors. With the second generation cross, each kit would only have a 25% chance of being a tri, but a 50% chance of being a carrier. It can take a few generations to get those recessive genes to show up in the phenotype. Do you have a pair that you are considering breeding?
Would that also hold true for breeding a broken chocolate to a herlequin?
I don\'t mind waiting a couple generations if I have to to get exactly what I want, but was just wondering what I would get if I did breed one of my broken chocolates to a Harlequin.
I would really like to work with chocolate/orange Tri\'s or blk/orange Tri\'s.
The harlequin buck I am getting is blk/orange. His sire is a harlequin his dam a broken blk. If I bred him to a broken chocolate with broken blue & broken chocolate in it\'s pedigree would I likely get Tri\'s eventually?
Yes, it would also be true for a bkn. chocolate x harlequin breeding. I will be doing that next spring to start my chocolate/orange tricolor line. I will be breeding my bkn. chocolate buck to my black/orange tricolor doe and my black/orange tricolor buck to my bkn. chocolate doe. I will breed their offspring together and hopefully get some c/o tricolors or harlequins.
Here\'s a great website about the genetics of tricolors. It helped me a lot!
http://members.tripod.com/Rexrabbit/TriRex.html
Let me know what you think!
I got it to work initially by right clicking on it and clicking on properties and getting the correct url.
That\'s a great article. I\'ve read it several times over the past few weeks and have come to understand more and more what it all means.
It\'s a super article for beginners I think, it totally makes sense without losing the reader.
Thanks for posting it.
yea i have a black buck and a tri doe the buck has a few brokens in his ped mainly blacks or black otter the doe is all tri on 1 side then on the other she is all red on the other side of her ped