Lux rabbit

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The Lux rabbit is a small breed of rabbit weighing 2.5 to 3.25 kg.

Appearance

The Lux rabbit has an opaque color called blue-silver in the standard, over which there is a brownish-red tinge on the upper side of the body. The underside of the abdomen, the inside of the legs and the underside are much lighter. The intermediate color is brownish red. A peculiarity of the lux rabbit is its white undercolour, which no other wild-colored breed shows. This color combination is known as deer color.

The hereditary formula is:

black: ABcdG (German symbols) or AbCdE (English symbols)

History of the breed

The Lux rabbit came about by chance. The breeder of the Düsseldorfer Perlfeh , Karl Hoffmann from Düsseldorf (in some publications also "Hoffmanns", this spelling seems to go back to Joppich) received the Lux rabbits during his crossing attempts. Hoffmann writes (quoted from Wischer) that he also obtained yellowish animals from a cross between Perlfeh and Marburger Feh , which another breeder from Düsseldorf liked very much, since at the time (around 1920) skins of this color were in demand as a trimming of women's hats. Hoffmann therefore decided to undertake further breeding experiments with these animals. By coincidence, he owned a tattered rabbit (who is said to have had an almost white belly color) and a pounder from the Marburg Feh, a pounder with a dirty white undercoat and a light brown covering color, which supposedly looked like a tan rabbit but had white markings. The rearing of this animal was a coincidence insofar as the rabbit was actually intended as a wet nurse for a litter Perlfeh, but this did not materialize, so Hoffmann left the nurse rabbit her own litter. Hoffmann has now paired this Rammler with one of the yellowish rabbits from the cross between Perlfeh and Marburger Feh. To his own surprise there were 6 young animals from this pairing, all of which had a pure white undercolor, a sharply defined reddish-brown intermediate color and the light silver-brown overcolour and which also inherited these properties when they were paired with one another. When Hoffmann showed these skins to a furrier, he compared the color with that of lynx skins . In 1919 Hoffmann showed the new breed for the first time at an exhibition; it was recognized as a breed in 1922. For reasons that are no longer entirely comprehensible today, it was decided to use the spelling Lux rabbit. According to Dorn, it results from the insight that no real imitation of the lynx fur could be achieved. This name decision has been questioned regularly, mainly because the breed is named directly after the lynx outside of Germany (Dutch lynx, French lynx).

Similar races

The lux color is also recognized as a color variation for the color dwarf .

literature

  • W. Schlohlaut: The big book of the rabbit . 2nd edition, DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt, 1998, ISBN 3-7690-0554-6
  • F. Joppich: The rabbit , VEB Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, Berlin, 1967
  • Starke / Wischer: Practical rabbit breeding , 13th edition, licensed edition from Verlag Dr. F. Poppe, Leipzig im Neumann-Verlag, Radebeul and Berlin, 1949
  • FK Dorn, G. März: Rassekaninchenzucht , 5th edition, Neumann-Verlag, Leipzig-Radebeul, 1981
  • G. Hochstrasser: Does it really have to be the "Lux = Lukaskaninchen"? ; Rabbit, 2/1997, ISSN  0941-0848
  • 75 years lux rabbit , rabbit, 3/1997, ISSN  0941-0848
  • R. Opfermann: Luxkaninchen , Rabbit, 8/1998, ISSN  0941-0848