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- Title
The genetic base of the havana-sallander color variety of the Szekler Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus).
- Authors
Botha, Miklos; Petrescu-Mag, I. Valentin; Gavriloaie, Claudiu; Cristian, O. Coroian; Rákossy, Zsigmond
- Abstract
In the last 1.5 decade in Romania has launched a few very important breeding programmes in the field of rabbit breeding. Namely three rabbit breeds were created in a period of ten years (this period represents the time from the start of the first project until the three breeds were officially recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development through the National Livestock Production Agency "Prof. Dr. K. G. Constantinescu"). Before 2016 Romania had no certified rabbit breed. The three rabbit breeds we are talking about are: Rabbit of Cluj, Giant of Transylvania and the Szekler Rabbit. The latter (Szekler Rabbit) has its breed standard published in 2016, were three color variety is mentioned (the black sallander, the havana-sallander, and the blue-sallander color variety). The creation of the black sallander Szekler Rabbit was previously described in 2015. So far there is no publication concerning the creation/development of the havana-sallander and the blue-sallander color variety. Therefore the present paper aims to describe in detail, step by step the havana color variety breeding programme. Briefly havana-sallander Szekler Rabbit descends from the black sallander Szekler Rabbits, which was infused with havana color gene (bb). The infusion crossings involved the French Lop and Giant Papillon (the solid color variety) and California (havana-himalaya) breeds certainly all of them havana colored. During the breeding programme, beside the new/external blood infusion through the three breeds mentioned (havana gene carriers) also consaguinization was used in order to stabilize the color pattern. From here it can be deduced that the havana-sallander Szekler Rabbit has a polyphyletic origin. Although the havanasallander Szekler Rabbit is a very recent creation, it is already present in the rabbit shows, attaining very promising results even in a national show in Romania in 2017.
- Subjects
EUROPEAN rabbit; RABBITS; RABBIT meat; RABBIT breeds; RABBIT breeding
- Publication
Rabbit Genetics, 2018, Vol 8, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
2248-3098
- Publication type
Article