Anchor Lops

10/27/2024

Not exactly a black cat… but I’m counting her as my fluffiest Halloween decoration 🐈‍⬛ 👻

10/20/2024

Young lady has quite the noggin!

Anchor’s Shipwreck x Spruce Hill’s Uno

10/16/2024

Tundra won BOSB at the State Fair of Texas, which is especially fun because Warpaint won BOB, and they’re out of the same buck from my sable program.

She’s a little sable point doe built like a brick house 🧱 Heavy muscling, impressive width, great depth, and a very smooth body. And she won’t turn senior til next month, so she’s got a lot more filling out to do!

Anchor’s Tundra
Anchor’s Fairbanks x Anchor’s Trailblaze

10/13/2024

Anchor’s Warpaint won BOB (Best of Breed) at the Texas State Fair this weekend! Proud of the little guy, just 10 months old but he held his own! He’s such a “Mr Congeniality”… every time I went to check on them, he was squishing his fat head against the cage door, soliciting head rubs from randos walking by.

Anchor’s Tundra won BOSB (Best Opposite S*x of Breed). She’s a sable point junior doe who I’m really excited about—pics to come. My favorite baby at the moment, she has better muscling and width than most of my torts—which is the color project goal!

My little junior buck won his class, as did Nantucket who took BOSV broken behind Warpaint. Congrats to Bolingbabiesrc on their big win in youth Hollands!

10/11/2024

Just checked a handful of rabbits in to the Texas state fair. This little gal, out of Frostbite & Thunder Thighs, has never been out of the barn but she immediately started showing off for the crowds. She’s gonna have so many fingers through the bars… 🫠😑

09/28/2024

BLUE POINT VS SMOKE PEARL COMPARISON
Left: Blue Point (aka dilute sable point)
Right: Smoke Pearl (aka dilute siamese sable)

As these colors are not very common, there’s often confusion between the two. When you understand a little bit about the genetics, the colors make more sense. The blue point looks like a sable point, but with blue/grey points instead of brown (which is what the dilute gene does: turn black/brown into blue/grey) while the smoke pearl resembles a dilute siamese sable for the same reason (brown/black turns blue/grey). The blue point’s body is cream/beige while the smoke pearl’s body is light blue grey with darker blue grey points. Smokes often have silver tipped fur as a baby that creates a “shimmer”.

It’s crucial to look at parents: if both parents are sable points or torts, then genetically the baby CANNOT be smoke pearl!! I’ve seen many babies erroneously called smoke pearls when they’re out of two torts and/or sable points, which is genetically impossible. A smoke pearl requires at least one full extension gene (meaning at least one parent must be full extension color: black, blue, seal, siamese sable, etc). It also requires one copy of either REW/PW.

So, smoke pearl is “EE or Ee” and MUST have at least one full extension parent, whereas blue point is “ee” non-extension so they can result from non-extension parents (torts, sable points) or full extension parents who carry the non-extension gene.

As with any color, there are lighter/darker/smutty variations (particularly with 2 copies of the sable gene) which can complicate things a bit—but I don’t want to get into that right now. This post is too long already... But I hope this clarifies basic differences.


**Edit: both of my babies pictured here carry REW. If your rabbits don’t carry REW or pointed white (PW), then any sables you produce will have two copies of the sable gene and thus are technically seal points or seals—both of which have dilute versions that look like blue points or smokes but will have more “smutt” (darker tipped fur that’s not as clean colored).

09/24/2024

Quid won a BOSV last month, now she’s moved on to full mamma mode—expecting her first litter soon! 🤞🏼

Anchor’s Quidditch
Anchor’s Invisibility Cloak x TF Cutter

09/20/2024

New Hay found: Anchor’s Beaumont
Very solid 6 month old blue tort doe

09/19/2024

I’ve been out of the country for a couple weeks, so it’s nice to check back in on the rabbits. Warpaint was the happiest to see me—little guy is a fav and he knows it... His first litter should be on the way! Praying he passes on that head and short/thick limb!

09/02/2024

Anchor’s Chinook
Anchor’s Fairbanks x Anchor’s Trailblaze

Junior sable pt doe with muscle and chest to spare

08/25/2024

This young gun has me like 🤩

08/23/2024

Pretty stoked about this guy! Same buck I posted 2 weeks ago. Love his profile as much as his front end!

08/18/2024

Little pudge out of Thunder Thighs x Spruce Hills Uno who I’ll be watching. Stellar round of babies over here, having to make lots of room for grow outs! 🚼

08/16/2024

**New hay found: Two baby fuzzy bucks, both with lots of potential. Could be great 4-H or FFA rabbits! I may also have a junior or two (Hollands) who could be awesome youth rabbits.

08/08/2024

Got this dude out for his first evals and was pretty impressed. Out of Warpaint’s sister and a typey normal buck from Bold Bunnies (yep, I use normal does AND bucks if they’re nice enough!)

08/08/2024

Like what I’m seeing with this sable point! She’s Bangarang’s first kit, linebred!

08/07/2024

08/01/2024

She wouldn’t sit still, so I gave up posing her. But then I looked through the pics, and did a double take 😆 She didn’t sit up for long, but thank goodness the camera caught it because I was about to pet her out…