Well let me see. I picked Zakura out since I loved her colouring. Out of a litter of 5 she was the only one who had the exact same colouring as her mom (chestnut aguti) and according to the owner, this was the first time that female had produced such a kit (and the last.
She had a broken chestnut aguti later she never had another full-coloured one, probably since she was only bred to Zakura's father once)
Sasuke I got since my mom "forced" me to get a rabbit from my school if I wanted another rabbit at all:roll: Originally I wanted a castor rex female, but of course Sasuke's mom (who is in fact Castor) got 5 blacks and an aguti blue:roll: The blue doe was sold very early on so when I was allowed a second rabbit, all they had left was 2 black bucks from the first litter and one black and one dalmatian buck from the second (there were two females who gave birth within a month's time. They were mother and daughter so Sasuke is the "uncle" to the younger litter) I don't really fancy dalmatians, besides the school planned on keeping that one, so I picked one of the older black rabbits.
There were several reasons why I picked the older ones instead of the one-month-younger ones (Sasuke was 3 months, the other 2 were 2 months)
One was by a tip from my friend, that seeing as the younger litter's parents were both dalmatians, they had higher risks of getting white hairs in their fur (takes points of shows) the other was that Sasuke was older, and would therefore be able to go into Rabbit Jumping contests sooner. It was just before summer so if I picked the younger ones I would have had to wait untill authour before I could start.
For Aroma, I had wanted a brown sable rex for ages, but they weren't easy to come by.
Once I had gotten permission to buy a third rabbit, I asked on a norwegian rabbit forum if anyone had one. I heard it was hard to find rexes of that colour in my area, but luckily one breeder had some.
She had one brown sable which was so dark it was almost black, I wasn't really all too keen on a doe which would look almost identical to my buck but she also suggested buying her sister, which was also sable but not brown.
I went back and forth for weeks, wondering of which one to pick, I eventually chose the second rabbit. The next day I got horrible news.
The kit I picked out was dead
And the rest of the litter were also looking poorly, shortly after the brown sable died as well.
I was assigned to an older doe, which the breeder decided to keep for a while longer since she was a little skinny. After waiting for weeks and weeks for that one, I was contacted a third time. I got the news I had been fearing. This kit had also died. Third one from the same breeder.
Although I was rahter devastated the next day I put up an add on the forum again, and got two replies very quickly. One had castor rexes, the other the bunny I had been looking for, brown sable.
Unfortunately both were living very far away, then my friend (the same one who had adviced me to buy Sasuke over his nephew) contacted me and told about another breeder in my area who coincidentally was getting a rabbit from the same rabbitry.
I contacted her, and asked if she had room for an extra rabbit. No problem
Even more unbearable waiting afterwards I finally got my baby
Aroma is the only rabbit I've got who wasn't born at school. That has it's logical reasons even though they have gorgeous rexes (I've already fallen in love with quite a few kits there...) but I wanted a doe for breeding (and I don't want to be told of about that again, I HAVE thought this trough, a lot, and don't lack experience), preferably sable as Sasuke's father was sable.
The school has (or at least had before summer break:roll: ) 5 rexes. 2 does and 3 bucks.
The odler doe is Revenge, Sasuke's mother, the younger one is Revenge's daughter and Sasuke's half-sister Astica.
Then there's Sasuke's half-brother from a later litter, Black Beauty, and the the very same dalmatian buck I turned down before getting Sasuke, Astica's son Idefix. All in all the only rex we had that ISN'T related to Sasuke in any way is Asterix, a dalmatian buck. So needless to say all kits born at school will be related to Sasuke in one way or another:roll: +As Asterix is our most used breeding male (the only one actually as the other two are related to both the does) most of the kits are dalmatians, and as mentioned I don't like Dalmatians:lol:
Whoa this was a long post:lol: Wonder if anyone will bother reading:roll:
