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Textured fur types, differing Astrex genes/different sources; Learning about trippy furs
Topic Started: May 2 2015, 10:47 PM (250 Views)
wildrabbits
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Posting up some pics of my newest textured furred rabbits. These two rabbits in particular will be one of my next pairings, both seem to carry quite a few recessive genes. Their body types, fur, and personalities should really produce some all around amazing offspring! =)
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wildrabbits
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The first 3 pics are of Mylop Splorer. Notice how her fur started off very textured but not in a very typical astrex phenotype. She has since progressed into a much more straight furred/less textured rabbit. The last 2 pics are of a rabbit with an entirely different bloodline who's fur seems much more along the typical astrex. Notice how his fur appears similar to that of a baby lamb's. His fur has straightened out since but is still very pronounced and I think will stay visiblely so.
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NeuBunny
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I can really see the waves in the second one!
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wildrabbits
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His fur seems more curled than waved. Also his fur seems very short similar to a rex but doesnt seem as soft..the rabbits he was with didn't have rex fur or astrex of any sort from what I could tell but I am not even sure if he was related to them. His fur doesn't seem to have the typical "ridged wave" look I have seen pictured in some Rex rabbits with astrex genes.

Honestly I don't care for the "ridged wave" fur, I prefer some of the different textured types. Dumansark has some great pictures showing the different kinds of astrex. You will see some similar to both of my rabbits but also some other kinds of textures from their pictures. I just wonder what all causes the big differences..
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wildrabbits
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Found a couple great sites showing and speaking on different astrex genes and traits. One even shows astrex angora rex furred rabbits http://astrexrabbits.com/newlatest.html and http://www.astrexrabbit.com/about
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NeuBunny
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Thanks for sharing … their Legend and Storybook are lovely!
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wildrabbits
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Yes Legend and Storybook were AMAZING looking rabbits with great fur phenotypes! These links both go in depth a bit as to how there are different kinds of astrex from different genes and give some decently pictured rabbits for different examples.

I can't help but feel that there is something big to this quote in particular

Dr. J.N. Pickard, beginning in 1932, made a considerable study of the Astrex and reported his findings in the Journal of Genetics April, 1941. He describes this mutation as a simple auto somal monogenic recessive (to Rex) and in a later work belief that the Astrex factor is closely associated with Angora, but can only appear when combined with the fine-coated (French) gene. It may be present in other rabbits, but is "masked" by the different type of coat.
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wildrabbits
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Notes on updates from these two rabbits. Chinchilla astrex rex male has had minor bald spots on and off during youth at shedding points, fur overall is less textured than his youth showed as expected. His kits from a magpie colored flemish mix doe all seem to have textured fur that was less pronounced yet also longer and thicker than the rex father..again as expected..unlike the father, litter has showed no balding what so ever as of yet.

Lop update, results similar in effect to standard understanding of things..lop never displayed any balding but lost most textured appearance with age, cant help but feel there is still a slightly unique look to the coat though. Litter from the lop and a tricolored dutch buck produced extremely mild texturing among offspring but helped give me a much better idea of inheritance.

Overall from my experiences with these two rabbits and their differing unrelated kits thus far it seems clear to me that almost any kit that shows a sort of texture to the fur may indeed carry differing potentials and kinds of astrex genes.

I would describe most of the astrex chinchilla rex buck's prodigy as being similar in appearance to the pearl lop during her youth but with much shorter/less dense hair/some also less "textured" despite none of them being related.

As an ending note I cant help but wonder how the kits would turn out overall from pairing the rex buck and the lop doe mentioned above compared to the litters I have seen now. Something I may look into more soon =)
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Update, astrex Rex buck and astrex lop doe produced 4 kits. 3 are pearl in color with thick fluffy fur, the 4th is chinchilla color with shorter fur.
All 4 display textured astrex fur traits with greatly pronounced expression and no balding so far. Fur is "still standing" when brushed in a direction. Textured expression has reduced slightly over the last week.
Pearls seem identical to mother but with slightly different hues of eye/coat color.

Will be trying to keep an eye out for a special "shimmering" effect seen in the coat colors of previous chinchilla-w/astrex genotypes
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