parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
This is Bluebell . . . rather predictable for a Vienna Blue!!! She is very very handsome indeed.
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anyone else got a Vienna Blue?
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parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
AwwwwwLovely colour
Was she from a breeder?
I got her from a rescue (Wood Green Shelters) but apparently she was put there by a breeder (not sure why, or why a rescue should take in breeder stock), she still had a ring round her leg when first taken in.
parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
Gosh! Had no idea they came in so many varieties!
biscuitblossom
Warren Veteran
Shes beautiful
You can get a vienna marking in any colour (except REW, and BEW), even a butterfly, but obviously you can't necessarily tell with that.
parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
So how does that work? I know nothing about breeds but had been told by someone that a Vienna has to have eyes, whiskers, tail and all hair the same colour (in our case 'blue) - but obviously a butterfly couldn't be like that.
A vienna marked rabbit is a rabbit that has inherited one blue-eyed white gene (two blue eyed white genes give a full BEW).
For a self colour, for example, my black self, the vienna marking would be any white on them (this might also include blue eyes).
My Badger is a vienna marked.
As is my Rosie. You can see her white front paws, but that is all the white she has.
For a butterfly, they would inherit the one BEW gene, and would get the white markings, but you wouldn't always see them because of how the butterfly marking showed, but they would still be there.
For a self colour, for example, my black self, the vienna marking would be any white on them (this might also include blue eyes).
My Badger is a vienna marked.
As is my Rosie. You can see her white front paws, but that is all the white she has.
For a butterfly, they would inherit the one BEW gene, and would get the white markings, but you wouldn't always see them because of how the butterfly marking showed, but they would still be there.
parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
Not a hint of any other colour at all - all this fantastic bluey grey all over including eyes, whiskers, underside etc etc. very dense fur as well.
She's a blue self, not a vienna marked blue self then. Doesn't make her any less beautiful though i think blue is a gorgeous colour.
ETA- the 'self' bit refers to the rabbit being all the same colour, you can have lilac, chocolate, blue or black selfs. REW and BEW do not come into it (not sure why though :lol.
i think blue is a gorgeous colour.ETA- the 'self' bit refers to the rabbit being all the same colour, you can have lilac, chocolate, blue or black selfs. REW and BEW do not come into it (not sure why though :lol
.I never knew there was a breed. Sorry for talking garbage on your thread parsnipbun. We can talk a good confused conversation though.
If she is the vienna breed, then she is a blue self colouring wise.
Sorry!
parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
Ooops - just as well she is my only particular 'breed' rabbit - I am obviously useless at that kind of thing.
So she is a Vienna breed that just happens to be coloured a Blue self then?
Looking at the BRC http://www.thebrc.org/vien.htm All viennas are blue.
DemiS
Warren Veteran
I think the only BRC accepted Vienna colour is blue, although at London show they were trying to get a non-self pattern accepted, can't remember what it was though :lol:
