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confused-changing colour!

bunny-lover

bunny-lover

Young Bun
when a lop moults...can they change colour???:? because when i bought milly he was an all grey/blue lop,,and now he has started moulting and has a large balck slodge on his back,his sides have turned brown and he has a brown patch on his head!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:? its so wierd, is this common??? :)

thankyou x;)

bunny mummy to milly and cookie x
 
yup chelsea is a grey chinchilla coloured rabbit through summer...and has brown coat in winter...you look at pics and during moult she looks like a harliquin!!!! arhtur is grey but has a brown moult just getting rid of...and dora doesnt change she moults to the same colour just lighter or darker...sooty gets brown overtones... snowy always stayed white! xx
 
yup both mine do, myxi a smoky grey is going blonde :? and gumpy my gingery apricotted colour bun is going darker
 
biggles goes darker for his winter coat, and in every passing year he gets older ive noticed his summer coat goes more grey poor mite
 
This is Charlie at 16 weeks (he's the tan coloured one)



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This is Charlie at 2 years.


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The only really dark bit he has left is on the end of his nose. So he has certainly changed colour.
 
Kermit was a lightish brown when i got him....he has definately got darker spots with the moult
 
Some rabbits appear to be darker/brighter when they moult. Many get "sunbleached" at summer, my black rex turns golden brown:lol: and Aroma's currently covered in bright brown spots:roll: (She's a sable)

Also baby bunnies' fur is often different from an adults. Zakura was bright orange as a kit, now she's grey on her back:
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Aroma too looked slightly different as a baby, she was born grey before turning into a brown sable. Her son was born black...later he became dark grey and now he's somewhere in between gray and black.

As far as white hairs go, it happens to be a "problem" for show bunnies sometimes. White hairs can be a sign of stress, or some bunnies are just genetically prone to get them.
Zakura's an example of that too, as she's got a white spot in her neck. I'm not 100% sure how it got there but I think it's an old bite wound where as Sasuke bit her fur of and it grew back white.:roll:
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