Thistledown WarrenThe Thistledown Silver
Gran spent thirty years on it. Blue, with a silver frost, velvet rex fur and soft half-lop ears.
The standard asks for a Blue Silver Marten with a rex coat, lop or half-lop ears, and a solid coat (no broken or Dutch markings).
Show the genes it takes (a spoiler)
- Silver marten is the tan pattern (at) with chinchilla (cchd) on top: at/at or at/a, and cchd with no full-colour C.
- Blue is black diluted: B, and two copies of dilute (d/d).
- Rex takes two copies: rx/rx.
- Solid: no broken gene (en/en) and not Dutch-marked.
- Ears aren't one gene: they're bred over generations, like size.
And here's what Gran knew: every one of those genes is already in her three rabbits. Barnaby carries tan, Clover carries chinchilla, Biscuit carries rex and has the lop ears, and all three carry dilute. The Coat Atlas can show you a route.