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Misty Blue - Blue SF

Sex: Doe
Breed: Silver Fox
Color: Blue
Genotype: aa B_ Ccchd dd E_ si

Purchased from Worth It Farm in February 2014.

Best Traits: 
  • Excellent mother producing lots of milk
  • Kindles have numbered between 5 to 9 kits with few losses. 
  • Well rounded hips 
  • Docile once securely held
  • Deep blue coloring with even silvering
  • Good shape

Worse Traits:
  • Shy but will take greens by hand when the cage door is open most of the time
  • Difficult to breed
  • Chinchilla carrier

Notes:
We bought our first pair of Silver Foxes from Worth It Farm, a black buck we named Romeo and this blue doe. I fell in love with the blue coloring: it reminded me of misty mornings, hence the name Misty Blue. We were meat breeding only then, producing some purebreds and some crosses with New Zealand Whites, which is how I found out that Misty Blue was carrying chinchilla. I learned a lot about color genetics from those crossings. The only rabbit I kept from her was a doe, Misty Blue Too, whom I found did not carry chinchilla and had all her mother's good traits and more.