White hotot
The white hotot or hotot rabbit is a medium-sized breed of rabbit weighing 4 to 5 kg.
Appearance and characteristics of the hotot rabbits
Hotot are almost pure white, only a 3 - 5 mm wide ring around the eyes is colored black. The breed's eye color is brown. Interestingly, this narrow black eye ring is the actual basic color of the rabbit. The white color, on the other hand, represents a merged piebald. This drawing comes from a combination of dot and plate check ( genetics of the domestic rabbit ). The hotots are split-y in terms of dot check, but in contrast to the dot check breeds, their offspring are usually drawn according to the standard. Hotot are considered to be a very fertile and happy-growing breed. Your hereditary formula can with
ABCDg K s1s2 ../ ABCDg k s1s2 (German symbols)
aBCDE en dud / aBCDE En duw (English symbols)
can be specified. The name of the breed is derived from the place of residence of the outbred woman.
History of the breed
The breed was developed through selection from weakly marked French piebald rabbits. Hotot rabbits were first shown at an exhibition in 1912 by the outbred Eugénie Bernard from Hotot-en-Auge in northern France and recognized as a breed in France in 1922 . The breed came from France to Switzerland in 1927 , where it spread rapidly. In 1930 Joppich imported the Hotot rabbit from Switzerland to Germany, although it was not very common until after the Second World War. Since the breeding stocks were almost exclusively in the GDR , a new import took place in 1959 by Kissner in Darmstadt , who also obtained animals from Switzerland. In 1961 the hotot rabbit was included in the German standard.
Similar races
The hotot drawing also appears as a color in the color dwarfs . At the same time as the Hotot, shortly before the First World War, a similar breed emerged in Germany through displacement breeding, the Husum blue eye of the breeder Hermann Ziemer from Arnstadt , who named the breed after his former place of residence Husum . Since Ziemer had to give up his breeding in the First World War, the Husum blue-eye became extinct again.
Rabbit Breed of the Year 2007
The Hotot rabbit was voted breed of the year for the first time in 2007 by the Central Association of German Race Rabbit Breeders .
literature
- Friedrich Joppich: The rabbit , Berlin, VEB Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, 1967
- U. Reber: From the butterfly rabbit to the white hotot , in: The small animal breeder - rabbit 1/2006 ISSN 1613-6357
- Wolfgang Schlolaut: The big book of the rabbit , 2nd edition, DLG-Verlag, Frankfurt 1998 ISBN 3-7690-0554-6
Individual evidence
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