Solid vs. Broken

 

 

 

 

This is a solid chestnut agouti French Angora.

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Another view of the solid chestnut agouti doe.
 

This is also a chestnut agouti doe except that the chestnut is combined with white, thus it's a "broken".   In rabbit terminology, "broken" means any accepted color combined with white. 


 

Broken gene is dominant of the solid gene, this gene is not in the regular ABCDE series.   The ABCDE of this broken chestnut agouti is the same as the solid chestnut agouti

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  Two solid rabbits cannot produce any broken offspring while it's possible for two broken parents to produce solid offspring if both parents carry the solid gene.   The broken pattern gives a clue of whether the rabbit carries the solid gene.   If the white and colored are about pretty evenly represented, more than likely that the rabbit carries solid gene.    If a rabbit carries two broken genes, the pattern is mostly white with very little color, in rabbit terms, it's called a "Charlie".  

At the current time within the four breeds of Angora, broken pattern is only accepted in French Angora.   There are breeders working on trying to get the broken pattern accepted in English Angora and Satin Angora.