Black awn rabbit
The black awn rabbit is a small (2.50 to 3.25 kg) breed of rabbit .
Appearance
The black awn rabbit is a white rabbit with brown eyes, over whose fur is a soot-like black veil, which is caused by black-tipped guard hairs. Only on the so-called wild color badges (belly, underside of flowers, inside of the legs, cheekbones of the legs and dark circles) the black cover is missing. Genetically, it is a yellow deer-colored rabbit in which the development of the yellow color is suppressed by the simultaneous action of the chinchilla factor . The genetic formula of the breed can be indicated with achibCDG (German symbols) or ABcch2De (English symbols).
History of the breed
The possibility of breeding a white rabbit with brown eyes by combining wild yellow rabbits with the chinchilla factor (compared to red eyes in albinos and blue eyes in leucistic animals) was first mentioned in 1936 by Hans Nachtsheim (quoted from Franke and Fingerland). It is unclear whether Nachtsheim bred such animals himself. Hochstrasser assumes this, however, he cites a work by M. Wischer from 1928, in which such animals, which apparently come from the Dahlmer breeding program, are shown under the designation "yellow chinchilla". Niehaus carried out corresponding breeding experiments in Celle with Red New Zealanders and Great Chinchillas in the early 1960s . Surprisingly, he found that, as expected according to Nachtsheim, the result was not pure white, brown-eyed animals, but a soot-like veil. Apparently such a dark concept is also present in the Red New Zealander, but is not noticeable in the red fur. Niehaus reported on these experiments in 1968 (quoted from Franke and Fingerland). On the basis of this report, Fingerland called on Czechoslovakia to develop such a breed, albeit in the size range of the small chinchilla . Under the leadership of Franticek Provaznik from Holice , this breed was bred in Czechoslovakia using small chinchillas and yellow small silver . Corresponding animals were already obtained in the F2 generation. In 1976 the breed was recognized in Czechoslovakia. According to Franke, small chinchillas and Sachsengold were used in parallel experiments in the GDR , which genetically corresponds to the Celle combination of large chinchillas and Red New Zealanders. With the assessment regulations for breed rabbits in socialist countries, recognition in the GDR followed in 1980 (after Fingerland 1983). In 1991 the black awns were incorporated into the German standard and in 1995 into the European standard.
Similar races
Moravian white brown-eyed rabbit
In the Czech Republic there is a medium-sized breed (3.3 to 3.8 kg), the Moravian white brown-eyed rabbit, which was developed after Fingerland from 1972 by 9 breeders from Otaslavice in Moravia , who originally wanted to participate in the breeding experiment of black awns described above also used small silver yellow and small chinchilla. These breeders also received white rabbits with a sooty tinge in the F2 generation. It was already established in the Celler experiments that there are individual differences between the animals in the expression of the black term. Fingerland derived from this the possibility of displacement of the black awns and thus a white rabbit with brown eyes through selection. The mentioned breeders from Otaslavice started this selection in 1974 and were able to show such animals as new breeds shortly afterwards. In 1984 the breed was recognized in Czechoslovakia.
White Klausenburger rabbits
A breed very similar to the Moravian whites existed in Romania between the 1960s and 1980s , where they were bred by Laszlo Kiss from Cluj and first shown at an exhibition in 1968. According to Hochstrasser, the origin of this breed is unknown, they are said to have appeared in litters of chinchilla-colored animals. The desired size range was around 5 kg. It is unclear whether the breed still exists.
Sallander
The Sallander is a Dutch breed that was bred by DJ Kuiper from the Salland area . Genetically, it is a combination of the Thuringian with the chinchilla factor. The hereditary formula is:
achibCDg (German symbolism) or aBcch2De (English symbolism).
Sallanders are white animals (the Dutch standard speaks of "off-white"), the black awns are the typical markings of the Thuringian. At 3.5 to 3.9 kg, Sallanders are significantly larger than the black awns.
literature
- J. Fingerland: Czech black awns . In: The small animal breeder - rabbits 1/2000, ISSN 0941-0848
- J. Fingerland: Moravian white brown-eyed rabbits . In: The Small Animal Breeder - Rabbit 2/2000, ISSN 0941-0848
- A. Franke: Black awns . In: The Small Animal Breeder - Rabbit 2/1997, ISSN 0941-0848
- G. Hochstrasser: yellow chinchilla or black awn rabbit . In: Der Kleintier- Züchter - Rabbit 23/2007, ISSN 1613-6357
- Wolfgang Schlohlaut: The big book of the rabbit . 2nd edition, DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt, 1998, ISBN 3-7690-0554-6