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Silver Rabbits

Silver Rabbits

When you chat about Silvers they think Silver Foxes but  Silver Foxes are a whole different breed. So the best way to find Silver is looking for shows with Silvers showing at. When you see a Silver it looks like a Silver Fox but don’t get them confused because Silver Foxes are common and Silvers are not. How can you tell which is which by looking at the size a Silver Fox is bigger than a Silver. Also if you want to find a Silver breeder in your area go to https://www.silverrabbitclub.com/find-a-breeder

Or if you live in England and you want to find a breeder go to http://www.nationalsilverrabbitclub.co.uk/imndex.php?q=node/140

History about Silvers

The Silver Rabbit is one of the oldest recorded rabbit breeds. It is said to date back to the 1500s where they were introduced to England from Portugal and kept in large plots of land surrounded by walls that are called warrens around 1552 and 1618.The breed silver was a meat rabbit than they changed it to a preceded breed and they were not a meat breed any more. It is not known exactly when the Silver Rabbits arrived in the United States of America except that it did so around the time of the “great Belgian Hare boom” in the 1890s. Some of the varieties of the Silver rabbit were recognized in the first book of standards and a few years later the Grey Silver rabbit variety was renamed to Black. The original Silver type rabbit is only being bred in the United Kingdom and America and is today considered to be a rare rabbit breed. They are listed as a threatened breed by the American Livestock Conservancy. They are an active, lively breed of rabbit that are very friendly rabbits. They do, however, like to live in large colonies and it is suggested that they are better suited to living in large Warren types . enclosures as they did historically when they were first taken to England.

Silver Care

You have to do certain things to take care of Silvers or any rabbit in the world. When you feed them you need to give them water, pellets and hay. When you clean the cage and litter box you should put down fresh bedding so it is easier to clean it. You have to exercise your rabbit often, different breeds love to jump including Rosey my Mini Rex so if your Silver likes to jump why stop them when they can and love it? If your Silver is shedding you should groom it to get the loose hairs out. Certain breeds need to be groomed daily like American Fuzzy Lops or Jersey Woolies. When you have a Silver or any rabbit you need to cut their toenails like we cut ours and also have a quick stop if you cut too far down. Quick stop stops it from bleeding. When you have any rabbit you need toy wooden toys so they can chew on something because then they can get malocclusion. If you see a shorter tooth that means that they chipped or broke it if they did then you should take them to a vet hospital so they can make sure that they grow back evenly if they don’t the rabbit can get malocclusion. When I say malocclusion it means when the teeth grow unevenly or overlap each other so it is super bad. There is another that is super bad, actually two things that are bad for the feet but I am going to say one right now it is called hutch burn they get hutch burn when they rub their paws  against the wire. The second thing is sore hocks are a little better than hutch burn but they are the same. If your rabbit is fat then give them no more than ½ a cup and no less than a ¼ of a cup because then they become fat and shed like nuts.

Silver habits

Some habits are in the bucks and some are in the does. One thing that bucks and does is bite and attack like kicking and scratching people when they feel threatened. But the does do it more when they have babies because they are protecting them.The bucks also like to  push and toss objects around. They may also race madly around in their cage. Like jumping on and off a box and stomping their feet. Also another habit that bucks do, what they do is they get on their back legs and pee on you. Then they also will stomp their feet for defending purposes. One thing that doe’s do is grunt. They grunt when they are about to bite you or that they do not like you invading their space. Finally not just the Silver breed does this, all of the breeds of rabbits do it.

Silver showing

When you have a Silver or any rabbit you need to practice before the show so you have a chance at winning when you do showmanship it is  not about your rabbit it is how much you know and how you handle your rabbit.When you do breed it matters about your rabbit not you it is how close it is to the standard of perfection.You probably already know this but different judges think differently so you may win in the highest capeditive level and you may loss at a super easy show but the judges all the same thing pick whichever one that is closest to the standard that means light silvering but the rest is up to the judge.

Silver colors

Did you know that only three colors of Silvers are recognized by ARBA! The colors that are recognized by ARBA are black, brown, and fawn. Then there are to colors that are not recognized by ARBA and they are blue and tortoises. The blue is most common in England and tortoise is only in the USA but you normally don’t see them especially at rabbit shows because they are unrecognized from the ARBA that is what makes new rabbits recognised. When I say blue the rabbit is not actually blue it is more of a grayish color. Tortoise can be made by six different combinations that is black/ fawn, black/ blue, black/ brown, fawn/ brown, fawn/blue, brown/blue; those are all ways to make tortoises. Fawn without the silvering looks blond but when you add the silvering then it gives it a sheen. Brown can vary from a really dark brown all the way to a light brown. The brown kinda looks like chocolate and with the silvering it looks like chocolate with little silver sprinkles. Blacks look like the night sky with no moon and a lot of stars. Tortoises can be anything basically within the Silver breed and tortoises are really crazy about what colors they can be. Blues are beautiful but sadly they are not recognized in the USA. Also in England they call black Silvers grays. 100.34.197.125 (talk) 23:16, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

I will make sure to add some if this information to the page. However, some of the information is about rabbits in general (like the rabbit care). I will make sure to add more information to the showing section you suggested. If you have any more suggestions, let me know! GoatLover1234 (talk) 01:24, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

Also, tortoises are also found in England. This is because of the genetics of the differents colors. If you interbreed fawn, brown, and black, you will eventually end of with the tort. If you want to know more, go to this page:

https://www.silverrabbitclub.com/_files/ugd/8ffb73_e4a9b87b519a41068da32239c494f404.pdf

Basically, all Silvers (aside from blue and varieties based from breeding of other varieties with blue) are dominant for all of the color letter genes except for A and E. Torts are aa ee (they are fully recessive for A and E). The other varieties have a mix of dominant and recessive. Eventually, with breeding, you will end up with the aa ee.

Hope this helps! GoatLover1234 (talk) 02:40, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank You

Thank you so much for creating the Silver Rabbit page. It is such an important breed and it definitely deserves mention. Hopefully in the future it can be greatly expanded, especially in regards to the breed's history and use in the creation of so many other breeds. Thank you again,

TanRabbitry (talk) 08:16, 28 April 2024 (UTC)