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Color & Markings Flashcards

1
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What is a hair shaft that has three or more bands of color with a definite break between each color?

A

Agouti

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What is a hair shaft having various colors, normally associated with an agouti coat called?

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Banding

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What do you call the fur color at the base of the fur shaft next to the skin?

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Base color or undercolor

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What do you call the color on the underside of the rabbit extending from the forelegs to the crotch area?

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Belly color

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5
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What are the colored markings on the feet and legs of pointed pattern rabbits called?

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Boots

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What do you call an intermixture of two colors without definite pattern?

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Brindle

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What is the longer tan tipped guard hairs carried up the flanks and hindquarter of tan pattern rabbits called?

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Brindling

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What is a nose marking found on some marked breeds and broken varieties called?

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Butterfly

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What do you call an extremely lightly marked animal in marked breeds or broken groups?

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Charlie

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What is a single, round spot of color on the cheek of marked breeds called?

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Cheek spot

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What is it called when a color marking intrudes into a white marking area?

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Drag

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12
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What is a colored line of fur that outlines the sides and tips of the ears called?

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Ear lacing

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What is a round marking found on the Checkered Giant, English Spot, Rhinelander, Tan and broken varieties that surround the eye?

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Eye circle

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What is a thin marking that forms a complete outline of the eye called? Found in the Dwarf Hotot and Blanc de Hotot

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Eye band

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What do you call two spots of marking color at the inside base of the ears in tan patterned breeds?

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Pea spots or Crown spots

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What is a distinct and noticeable cluster of white or colored hairs called?

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Spot

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17
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What is any marking spot occurring in an area that should be devoid of markings called?

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Stray spot

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What is the top color of the fur, lying in its normal position called?

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Surface color

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What do you call a slight coloring or dusting of one color on another color?

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Tint

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20
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Off colored stray hairs in a colored pattern, giving the appearance of being powdered or sprinkled with meal is called what?

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Mealy

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21
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A distribution of longer guard hairs of a color distinct from the under wool or body fur which presents a wavy appearance is called what?

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Ticking

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22
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A reddish-brown coloration of the fur, usually appearing on the sides, flanks, or feet of rabbits is called what?

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Rust

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23
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What is the term for a regular cheek spot which is divided into two spots by a line of white?

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Double Cheek Spot

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24
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What is the term for any color of fur, nails, or eyes differing from that called for in the ARBA Standard of Perfection for the breed or variety?

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Foreign Color

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25
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What is the term for well-formed markings without congestion or drags?

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Clean

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26
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A foreign colored pigment on the skin in the nose and mouth area is called what?

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Freckle

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27
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What is the term for intensification of belly color in the area of the groin?

28
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Small colored drag off the top of the eye circle. Usually associated with Checkered Giant, English Spot or Rhinelander.

29
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Any drag in the coloration of a Dwarf Hotot or Hotot eye band.

A

Feathering

30
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What is ring color?

A

Color of the intermediate portion of a hair shaft in Agouti patterned animals

31
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When referring to color, what is run?

A

Intrusion of white color into a colored marking area

32
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When referring to color, what are points?

A

Colored ears, tail, nose, rear feet and forelegs of rabbits like the Californian or Himalayan

33
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What is the belly marking on a Dutch rabbit?

34
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What is the white marking found on the face of a Dutch?

35
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What is the body portion of the butterfly marking called?

36
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What is the serrated edge to the spine marking in the English Spot called?

A

Herringbone

37
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What is the marking on each rear hock of a Dutch called?

38
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Where are the leg spots located on the English Spot?

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Elbow of front leg and hock of rear leg

39
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What is the surface or intermediate color band of some varieties of rabbits, which is off-white in color called?

40
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What is the narrow white line running between the ears of a Dutch, connecting the blaze to the neck marking called?

41
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Describe self when referring to color.

A

Rabbits with same color fur all over the body, head, legs and tail

42
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Define broken color.

A

Any recognized rabbit breed color in conjunction with white, and carrying the breed pattern.

43
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What is an eye band?

A

Thin marking that forms complete outline of the eye; found in the Dwarf Hotot and Blanc de Hotot

44
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Define neck when referring to marking.

A

Wedge shaped marking that is a portion of the collar, behind the ears, on a Dutch

45
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What is a feature of Tan patterned rabbits when referring to the small area behind the ears which is generally lighter in color than the rest of the coat?

46
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All domestic rabbits have only three patterns of coat, what are they?

A

Agouti, Tan Pattern and Self

47
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How many colors of domestic rabbits are there and what are they?

A

2; black and chocolate

48
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What are the five eye colors?

A

Pink, Brown, Blue, Blue gray, Marbled

49
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Describe undercut.

A

The belly marking on a Dutch rabbit

50
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Referring to color, what are cheeks?

A

Rounded color head markings that forms blaze and carries down along jaw line of Dutch

51
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Is the stop on a Dutch located on the front legs or hinds legs?

52
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Where are cheek spots located?

A

Below the eye, should center where whisker emerges

53
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Colored rabbits exposed to direct sunlight will develop what?

A

Discolored cast over the fur

54
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How do you describe a solid rabbit?

A

A rabbit with the same basic color over entire body

55
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What is the term for splotches or streaks of color around eyes of himalayan and pointed white breeds?

56
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What part of the body is the butterfly found?

57
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What causes silvering?

A

Abundance of silver white or silver tipped guard hairs

58
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In Tan Pattern rabbits where on the head must markings appear?

A

Nostrils, eye circles, jowls, inner edges of ears

59
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What causes rust on a rabbit?

A

Dead fur about to molt, sunlight

60
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When do you see the colors on a Dutch appear?

A

Right away

61
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Name the head markings of the Checkered Giant, English Spot, Rhinelander and any broken variety.

A

Butterfly, Eye Circles, Cheek Spots and Ear Markings

62
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This is the stable genetic feature of the Tan rabbit.

63
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Tortoise is a recognized color with black shading being the most recognized, however, what are the shades Tortoise can be seen in?

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Black, Blue, Chocolate, Lilac

64
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When referring to coat color genetics, the cch gene gives us what pattern on rabbits?

A

Himalayan pattern

65
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Where on the head must tan pattern rabbits have markings?

A

Eye circles, nostrils, jowls, inner edges of ears

66
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Name the 6 markings judged on a Dutch.

A

Cheeks, Blaze, Neck, Saddle, Undercut, Stop

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