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What are the recognized color combinations for Tri Mini Rex?

According to the \"standard of perfection\" it is black/orange, lilac/fawn, chocolate/orange, and blue/fawn. Eyes are to be brown in the black and chocolate and eyes should be blue-gray in the lilac and blue.

Thank You

I thought this ARBA article about showing tricolors was helpful. I think it is a great tool if you are planning on showing tricolors! I hope you find it useful.
http://www.arba.net/jttricolor.htm

Thanks Ann, much appreciated.

Ann-I read the article that you recommended and it was very informative. Thanks for sharing it. I have a question though. So does that mean that I could breed a broken opal to a blue/fawn tri and possibly get some tris? I have one tri and I would like others, but I\'m having a hard time getting any. I tried a blue with my blue/fawn tri and that just made broken blue tort and broken blue and no tris. Unfortunately, finding a tri in our area is impossible so that\'s why I\'m trying to grow my own.

The only way you would get tricolor from an opal x tricolor is if the opal is a carrier for the japanese gene (ej). Any non-tricolor/harlequin babies would be tri carriers (Eej). Your bkn. blue could very well carry for the japanese gene. I would not breed the tort with the tris though as you can get torted tris. You could breed the bkn. blue back to it\'s parent (if one\'s a doe, the other a buck ). If it is a carrier then each kit would have a 50% chance of being a tricolor or harlequin. I hope my explaination makes sense!

After reading your explanation several times, it did begin to make sense. It just takes me a few extra times through to get it. I guess that I have to realize that rabbit breeding can take a couple of generations sometimes to get the desired results.

Read anything you can about genetics! Especially if you are trying to produce a recessive variety in your line. It can be very frustrating if you do not know how the different genes series work. This website will help with tricolor genetics.
http://members.tripod.com/Rexrabbit/TriRex.html
There is a mistake on the page though. Under the \"Extension of color on the hair shaft\" listing, the last gene, non-extension, should be \"e\" not \"E\". Besides red, the \"e\" gene also produces the tort which is why that blue x tricolor crossing might not produce all tri carriers (you said they had produced a tort so then you know that gene series is Ee for the blue and eje for the tricolor).