Havana rabbit

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The Havana rabbit is a medium-sized (3.25 to 4 kg), monochrome, dark chocolate-brown rabbit breed with characteristic red translucent eyes.

The hereditary formula of Havana is
ABcDg (German symbolism) or abCDE (English symbolism)

History of the breed

Havana rabbits go back to the Ingenschen Feueraugen, which were shown in 1899 at an exhibition in Utrecht by the farmer de Honder from Ingen near Utrecht in the class of crossbred animals . He had found two of these animals, a batter and a rabbit in a litter of gray and white country rabbits. De Honder was particularly struck by the chocolate brown color and the red translucent eyes, after which he named the animals. According to the descriptions available, both animals still had white markings. Breeders W. Jan van der Horst and Joh (ann?) Haisert from Utrecht bought the animals and intended to breed the brown color pure. Since the rabbit was not in foal, the Rammler was paired with rabbits of iron-gray giant rabbits , black tan rabbits and Blauen van Beveren (according to other sources, blue Viennese , but this seems unlikely because this breed was only developed at the same time). The matings with the blue rabbits and the tufted rabbits brought the best results. The breeders called the breed "beaver rabbits" because of the brown coat color. Speculation began about the breed, which led, for example, to Pit Schelling from Yarteur buying 3 rammers and 2 rabbits from van der Horst and Haisert, and immediately selling 2 pairs to France for a profit, whereupon he did not get any more animals. He now mated the remaining Rammler with Russian rabbits , which resulted in a smaller and lighter hit. In France, too, “beaver rabbits” were crossed with Russian and silver rabbits, which also resulted in an easier hit. In France it was also called Havana (Havana francois), which was adopted by the Dutch breeders. Havana rabbits of the lighter French as well as the heavier Dutch variety made their way to Germany and were bred in parallel in the first few years, but over time the lighter type prevailed.

It is not certain whether animals of the type and color of Havana rabbits did not emerge at the same time in other places in the Netherlands and France.

Similar races

The havana color shade is recognized as a color shade in many breeds. The Marburg Feh happened by chance from Havana rabbits.

literature

  • Havannakaninchen , in: The small animal breeder - rabbits 1/1999 ISSN  0941-0848
  • Friedrich Joppich: The rabbit , Berlin, VEB Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, 1967
  • H. Majaura: Chocolate brown Havana rabbits , in: The small animal breeder - Rabbit 24/2005 ISSN  1613-6357
  • John C. Sandford: The domestic rabbit , 5th edition, Blackwell Science, Oxford 1996 ISBN 0-632-03894-2
  • Wolfgang Schlolaut: The big book of the rabbit . 2nd edition, DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt 1998 ISBN 3-7690-0554-6