Fee de Marbourg

The Marburger Feh is a small, about 2.75 kg rabbit breed of light blue color with a brownish haze. The corresponding hereditary formula is:

ABCDG ( German symbolism ) or ABCDE ( English symbolism )

History of the Marburger Feh

The Marburger Feh was bred in 1912 by the breeder Sandemann in Marburg. Franke writes, but without taking up his sources that L. Peters, caretaker of the ear clinic in Marburg, a fehfarbiges animal vorfand throw in a Havana rabbit and this gave a then 11 -year-old neighbor boy who soon lost interest in it and the animal to its aunt, the aforementioned woman Sandemann passed on, which could make further fehfarbige animals by re- intersections.

The recognition of the breed took place in Germany in 1916. The name of the race results from the hometown of the breeder as well as the ( desired ) similarity of the coat with the Siberian squirrel that is out in the fur trade as an error. In the early days of the rabbits was often the desire to breed breeds, with their fur could imitate the fur nobler fur animals. Except for some color similarities, this is not successful, however, cause a variety of rabbit breeds in the model name.

Joppich writes that fehfarbige animals previously appeared in litters of Havana rabbits, but have been mostly ignored. He attributes this to early introgression of Blue Viennese and Blue van Beveren, the Dutch Rabbit Havana. Looking at the genetics of coat colors, this seems plausible: the Havana rabbit has the hereditary formula ABCDG or ABCDE, while the Blue Vienna as well as the blue van Beveren have the hereditary formula ABCDG or ABCDE. It is quite conceivable that the recessive form of the dilution factor is ( d both German and English symbolism ) remained undetected in some Havana, and spalterbiger with random mating parents then appeared in litters of Havana rabbit fehfarbige animals.

Similar breeds

The Perlfeh is a wildly colored blue, small rabbit breed. In contrast to the Marburger Feh the Perlfeh has a sparkle to the hair tips exactly like the model of the Siberian squirrel, they are missing the Marburg error completely. Perlfeh was developed in parallel with the Marburger Feh.

In the Netherlands next to the Marburger Feh the race Gouwenaar is grown, which is slightly lighter at the same hereditary formula, the Dutch standard requires the Marburger Feh " dark gouwenaarfarbig ".

In the UK the breed is known as Lilac and became independently several times bred as 1910 by H. Onslow in Cambridge and at the same time by Illingworth in Essex ( Essex as Lavender ). The geneticist R. C. Punnett in Cambridge bred Lilac (or Cambridge Blue ) from Havana and Blue van Beveren, the progeny of this cross are initially solid black, the F 2 generation split in the ratio 9:3:3:1 on in black, blue, brown and fehfarbige Animals.

In France, this breed has the name error de Marbourg.

The Fehfarbe is recognized as color impact in other breeds.

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