Making Red By Casey

A few years ago, Casey made the decision to introduce red into English Angora by using Thrianta. It has been a very long process, a lot longer than expected. Color made it into Casey's herd but the wool and type of the red and red carriers are not nearly as good as her original herd. These two bunnies carry a special meaning as Betty lent a helping hand to put Molina's gene into the red breeding. Molina was one of Casey's big winners but Casey has not been able to put her gene into the red bunnies.

Red and fawn have essentially the same color genetic codes, red is fawn with Rufus. In this picture, the one in the left is a fawn and the one in the right is the "prize": fawn with Rufus thus red. They are three weeks old in this picture.

Left to right: red and fawn at 6 weeks old.

Left to right, fawn and red at 6 weeks old. It would have been nice if the colors are as intense as shown in the picture but it's more due to the camera flash.