Fox rabbit

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Fox rabbits are long-haired rabbit breeds whose fur, unlike that of Angora rabbits, is subject to the normal seasonal hair change and therefore does not have to be shorn. They also differ from Angora rabbits in the lack of tufts of hair (hangings) on the head and ears.

A distinction is made between the fox rabbits, a medium-sized breed (weight 3 - 4 kg), and the fox dwarfs (also dwarf fox rabbits) with a weight of 1.1 to 1.35 kg and the typical body shape of the ermine rabbits and colored dwarfs . Both the fox rabbits and the fox dwarfs are bred in different colors.

After it was sometimes assumed that the fox rabbit has a different genetic factor for the formation of the long hair than the angora rabbit (referred to as fu / FU), it is now assumed that angora and fox rabbits have the same long hair factor (v / V or l / L), which, through modifying genes, experiences the breed-typical expression. Angora and fox rabbits result in a long-haired F1 generation when mated to one another, with different factors a normal-haired offspring would be expected.

Together with the Angora rabbit and the Jamora , the fox rabbits and fox dwarfs make up the division of long-haired breeds in the division of the Central Association of German Racial Rabbit Breeders .

History of the Fox Rabbit

Medium-sized fox rabbits

Fox rabbits were bred jointly by Hermann Leifer from Coburg and Müller from Zug in Switzerland using Angora rabbits and were shown at exhibitions in Germany from around 1920 . The aim of the breed was to imitate the half- length blue fox fur , but this did not succeed. While the breeders in Switzerland limited themselves to the blue color, other colors were bred relatively early in Germany . The breed has been recognized in Germany since 1962.

  • Fox rabbit

  • Black silver

  • Blue silver

  • Blue silver young animal

Fox dwarfs

The fox dwarfs or dwarf fox rabbits were created in Germany at the end of the 1970s by crossing fox rabbits with ermine rabbits , sometimes also, in the absence of suitable fox rabbits, by crossing ermine rabbits with angora rabbits . One of the first breeders of this breed was Herbert Richter from Treuenbrietzen in Brandenburg , along with others . Recognition as a breed took place in the GDR in 1980 with the "Assessment Regulations for Breed Rabbits in Socialist Countries" in all the colors permitted for fox rabbits and in 1986 by the Central Association of German Rabbit Breeders (today Central Association of German Race Rabbit Breeders) in the Federal Republic of Germany . In the uniform standard of 1991, the breed was named as fox dwarfs and the weight was set at 1.1 - 1.35 kg.

Similar races

Other long-haired breeds are the Angora rabbit and the Jamora .

In the past, other breeds were sometimes also referred to as fox rabbits, so the white awn rabbit was originally referred to as the silver fox rabbit . In the English and Dutch language areas this ambiguity is still present, since the white-awn rabbit is called the silver fox there. The fox rabbit, on the other hand, is called the Swiss fox (Swiss Fox) or simply fox rabbit (Voskonijn).

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