My rabbbit had 7 babies.4 of them were normal rabbits.At about 4 weeks 3 of them got real fuzzy.They are nearly grown now and their hair is about 3 inches long.What happened? Any body else have any rabbits to do this?

-- BamaJohn (jjjn@bellsouth.net), August 17, 2001

Answers

Sounds like there's an Angora in the woodshed! :-) There could be some Angora somewhere in their ancestry, a few generations back perhaps, that is causing this. I have a beautiful Siamese Satin buck that I bred with a New Zealand White, and they produced the cutest little solid black bunnies you ever did see! So..... I think neither one of us has purebred rabbits!

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), August 17, 2001.

As President George Bush would put it: "Whats all this fuzzy talk with fuzzy numbers".

-- R.H. (rhays@sstelco.com), August 18, 2001.

I believe you are right about the ancestry.I started with a brown lop eared buck and a florida white.I've had all colors from black to white but this is the first fuzzy one's.The lop ear is the daddy and the white doe is the grandma. Their mother is solid black.I'm gonna keep the fuzzy ones and see what kind of little ones they have.

-- BamaJohn (jjjn@bellsouth.net), August 19, 2001.

BamaJohn, I think that in rabbits the long hair is recessive. A rabbit can carry the trait but not display it. I think you would find it fun to find a web site with a forum where rabbit experts could help you "fix" this trait. sounds like a fun project. :)

-- Little Quacker (carouselxing@juno.com), August 21, 2001.