I’m such a pc nerd I really had to compliment that rig right there.

When I first got into rabbits, I researched color genetics. It is fascinating. My holland/Mini lop is a Chinchilla/Agouti with a saddle. I had a dwarf hotot with perfect eye bands. I had a charlie Broken tri-color mini rex. And a black otter with silvering Netherland dwarf. Yes, I went around collecting bunnies at one point in my life. Don't judge. Color genetics are awesome in Buns!

You’ve got a PhD in the science of cuteness

I loved your comment right at the beginning with "the wrong choice of words"! You have given me a lot of help. I am not breeding rabbits, nor am I raising them. However, I am writing a novel and in the book my main character is getting bunnies from a pet store and I needed lots of help with knowing color and how to describe them. Plus one bunny purchased has babies shortly after they get them home. So the genetics was another home run! I will be mentioning you and your KZfaq channel in the acknowledgements for all your wonderful information. THANK YOU!!!!!

Studying Holland Genetics looks like an exciting project to know rabbit family tree.

Dear Diane, I m always so glad when You make a new video ! Your bunnies are adorable ! 💓💓💓

This is the earliest I’ve been to a video!

🧡Have you hopped over to my merch shop yet? shop.spreadshirt.com/hooks-hollands/ I personally create all designs, and Spreadshop handles the printing and shipping. What other designs would you like to see?

I’ve been doing research regarding holland colors for a few months, and after watching this video, I feel like I have a really good grasp on it! Got every question on the quiz right :) Very educational video!

Very helpful!! Thanks you!! Even the start of the video I'm learning more.

This was so interesting! I have a chestnut Holland lop, he’s the sweetest! ❤️🐰

... but every gene is the gene that produces cuteness and perfection! :) This is a wonderful video and very informative. Thank you!

Excellent video with great information! I felt like I was back in my college genetics class and I loved that class! It's a very complicated subject but you explained it brilliantly. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge with us.

Thanks for this guide on rabbit colours. I enjoyed a lot listening to the way you explained the colour genetics. For bragging purpose (lol), I got the answers for all questions correct. Hahaha.

I find genetics fascinating. Thank you for sharing this information. 💗💗💗 Much love for you and your buns 🙏💗

Hands down the best video I have watched on colors! Fantastic breakdown and explanation. Thank you so much for doing this!

Your video is fantastic! You do so well with the tone and speed of your voice, along with clearly explaining the colors/genetics. Do I understand it all? Absolutely not, but in time who knows. I am so bummed you are no longer sell Holland Lops. I would have been honored to have one of yours. I had one many years ago when my son was younger and now I'm ready to get one for myself. I'll be watching every one of your videos and reading all your advice. By the way, I answered the last quiz question correctly; that's because you were an excellent teacher.

I would 100% recommend getting the Standard of Perfection I breed and show Mini Rexes and have a few rescues. That book is AMAZING! It not only shows a picture of the breed but describes every color each breed can be.

OHH- that’s what my color rabbit is... 😂😅 i have a chocolate holland lop, he looks EXACTLY like the bunny on the right in 14:06. thanks!!!

You have such a wealth of information and experience with Holland Lops! On a side note: I also love your computer setup and your outfit!❤️

So fascinating! New friend here! I have a 5 month old mini lop so I'm learning more about rabbits these days. Your videos are very helpful. Thanks!👍

So glad you made this video! I used to be in rabbit 4-h and people would ask what color there bunny is and I went into this entire speech of rabbit colors. Or I would tell them the color and they didn’t believe me 😂😂. Most people who don’t know about rabbit genetics and Colors may get lost in the video however as a genetics Freak I’m loving and understanding this video so perfectly! It’s fun when you learn about the two and experiment with breeding with the colors! Very fun! 💖💖 You definitely need to know/ learn about Dominate and Recessive genes and the categories of colors (Shaded, Self, ect) to really really understand this video if you wanna know more if the breeding side of this video.

Wow, this is an epic video!! Your presentations are always so informative & thorough. My little guy is a blue tort ☺️

I have 4 hollands: a cream, a black, a blue point, and a broken seal.

Soo informative!! Learned lots today,Really well explained.and btw ur bunnies are soo cute I can’t wait to get an Holland lop soon! 🐰💕

Thank you so much for this video!!!! I had my first litter of bunnies yesterday and I’m not sure about their colors. ❤️

Absolutely lovely! Congrats!

Mine aren't too complicated but I'm happy it's now confirmed 🥰 I have a blue eyed white (BEW) and an harlequin

Ooh! This was very interesting! I already knew Oreos (broken black otter), but I'm always open to learning more! I never knew I would watch a 58 minute video about bunny colors!

Love You so Much! Thanks for this video I am so curious with rabbit color genetics and you explain it so well!

Thank you so much for this video! I recently started breeding Rex rabbits, and for the life of me I couldn't understand color genetics. Somehow this video made it all click into place. Thank you!!!

Yaay this video is great!! I've been wanting to know what colors our hollands are, even better to learn about some of the genetic info too. Also, I love your hoodie! Did you make it?

This was such a useful video. Thank you! I've always been at a loss to describe my miniature lops coloring to others without a picture. .

Adorable Bunnies 😍🫶💕🥰😘

Wow I was not expecting such an in-depth video! Awesome, this is exactly what I was curious to know, like what can throw what colours. I'm reasonably familiar about horse colour genetics so it was kool to learn agouti exists in bunnies too!

Nice job You really know your bunny stuff

I feel like I’ve just revisited high school genetics 😄😄. I have a lilac Dutch and an orange mini-lop.

Wow, you have no idea how much I’ve been needing a good and comprehensive guide to color placing my Hollands and...have been too passive (and Lazy!) to look it up! This is a really great guide you made for us Diane and you bet I’ll be referring to this video all the time now. I have “Black, Broken Black, and Agouti Broken Cream! Feels good...😎🐰👍 Also...where’s the Men’s shirts sizes with the “Hooks Hollands” four different color baby bunnies?? I gotta get that one!

Ah! My epi genetics class tells me Agouti gene in mice makes them look orange and fat 😂 Chubby bun mystery solved

This is a great video about holland lop colors! Love your videos Diane! :)

This video is super helpful, as I have been learning all about Holland lop colors and genetics. Thank you for putting so much of your time into making this amazing video! I have four Holland lops: a Blue tort, Blue point, Chesnut VM, and Orange.

This helps a lot. I kind of understood how dilutes work but now i understand. I focus of silver fox so I dont have to worry about brokens but i love my vienna marked mini rex. So cute.

Agoutis of all kinds have some form of ticking. Its really cool each hair has multiple colors so if you blow on their fur its easy to see the layers of colors. Its so interesting. With our mix rabbits our chocolate chin mini rex mix (oddly part lionhead but unlike his sisters who looked like lionheads he came out all rex looking with no hint of the lionhead) a lot of them end up being opal, chocolate chin, other levels of greys. Some blue greys etc (cant remember what blue grey is called lavender?? Idk its like a Scottish blue cat color). Eli its hard to see but shes broken opal. His babies with her come out broken chocolate chinchillas and other levels of colors. It is such a cool gene. Interesting enough all of Cupid's (the chocolate chin mini rex lionhead I mentioned) sisters and brothers that looked lionhead came out that black otter color and pattern. His mom was the mini rex his mom looked like what I've seen labeled as castor. She had one lionhead looking girl that was her color all fluff. The rest were black otter and then there was Cupid super pale silvery grey lol. He had the ticking though it was more diluted than a typical chinchilla. I was told by people in the rabbit group he is "chocolate chinchilla with wideband"? Not sure what the wideband is not that far into the video yet. We have some tri mini rexs (purebred). Princess they told me is a booted tri color. Her daughter and an unrelated male she had that I bought are broken blue tris? Instead of the black its a blue grey but then the orange and white as well. Comet is a pretty boy. Princess won't be bred since she is recovering from an owl attack. Her color is super cool though its like with a TV if you turn the saturation up. She has a huge patch of an orange like color and then small black spots and a white belly and feet etc.

This video was so fun to watch! Why do we not learn this in school.

Wow! What a great vid. I have a broken blue mini lop. I had to double check his eyes though...and yep they have a blue tinge. Thank you for the education.

Sunny Jim is so cute. I also luv ur intro. Is it okay is I leave my Holland lop in an 8square foot cage. She gets a lot of snuggle time with me. I let her out when I can 3 plus hours. I know it is supposed to be five hours but I am trying. Love sunny Jim:)

I know you made excellent video previously, crystal clear and reliables explanations about genetic and colours. But I was still in the blur and had questions I didn't dare to ask cause I feared to seem numbskull. Here the Bunnentertainment I needed. 'Black Tort' is the one I wanted to know ‼️ Thanks Diane for these precious details . All the best to the terrific Hooks Holland family 💫 (Foozy 💘)

Hello! My bun is a black otter tort! He has the otter markings with the orange at the back of the neck and on his nose but his belly is much more white and has black patches. He also has some orange mixed with the white on his belly as well.

you have a nice gaming setup xD

Thank you for this video. My rabbit has a really unusual color and marking, so it was fun to play detective and discover wich gene combination were at play! :D

Colors are my hobby and me luv rabbits :3 so interesting

Thank you! This helped a lot. I believe I have a chocolate silver marten in the litter.

Beautiful vid

Very interesting to learn about I have a black otter Neverland dwarf and yup he has the triangle behind his neck with beige and white on the underneath

I love this video. It is so helpful.

In Texas/Oklahoma, Black and Blue Torts are definitely the most common, and the most popular. I have a couple Charlie Torts with mostly the orange showing that I loveeee. Thank you for the video, I've been in bunnies for awhile and still have trouble remembering all the colors.

This video was really helpful, as I'm about to start breeding Holland Lops as a hobby. I currently have a Seal Point, and I'm really excited to get him a girlfriend.

I have no bunnies but i do want some! I am a cat breeder so i am always studying genetics for my cats. I got a litle confused on your quiz but only got two wrong which was not too bad! I saved this video...so so informative!

Cute and healed💛

I have a cinnamon breed rabbit. She is my best friend. I had a chestnut Netherland dwarf, that little dude was my world but he passed, now every chestnut reminds me of him.

Great video!! Thank you!

I have one black tort, slightly darker though than the one on the picture (12:01) with brown, black and grey. The other bunny I have is like a broken black tort, she´s mostly white, but with a brown and black stripe on her back, brown and black around her eyes and two spots on each side of her back/side, also her tail has a stripe on it ❤️

I really wish there was at least one breeder of every breed that made a video like this for the corresponding breed. I've watched this video five times already!

This youtube was so. Informative thank you

I wanted this video to happen so much

Wow, thanks so much for sharing this! 🥰

Also, congrats on 100k!!

Oh i love to have a Holland loop,

I have four Netherland dwarfs. 1 broken orange, 1 black otter, 1 charlie, and 1 lilac otter

I thought agouti was rings in the layers of fur, so if you blow in the fur you would see layers of multiple colors and tan (otter) was the light under the eyes and underbelly. I guess I should have waited till the end to ask questions! You've explained the above. Thank you Did I learn my lesson of patience? No.

I'm gonna have to watch this a few times lol way over my head but that comp omg gamers/streamer and content creaters dream

THANK YOU!!!! This video helps a lot! we are bless you have you!!!! 🐰🥕

I'm pretty sure my rabbit has the orange agouti base. But his fur is in some places mixed with dark-grey splotches and stripes in some places. Maybe tortoise, though I'm not sure.

Sooooooooo cuuuute😍❤️

Now I know I have a Charlie tri-color❤️!!!

26:46 thanks for making this, I got a rescue this week and thought he was an agouti but no white markings, then you mentioned sable, he has black smudge nose, ears, tail, feet, but when you started on tort, that is more his smudge nose. Most similar to 26:46 so I'm not 100% his fur doesn't have bands, more orange to cream skin looks black? Bizarre! He was supposed to be a mini lop but is bigger than the ones I had previously and can raise his ears right up unlike them. So I was thinking agouti or chestnut but think both were wrong 😂 x

You are beautiful, your bunnies are wonderful. I love you

She got a better pc setup then half the gamers I know haha Love it

I have a harlequin lionhead, I noticed she has what looks like agouti markings with the lighter fur around her nose and her belly

My friend: I found some genetics youll like Me: oh? Friend: yeah theyre like dogs but not Me: 👀👀👀👀👀

Got it all right at the end. Took two watches to understand it all. Still confusing. I need help with the chocolate silver martens vs chocolate otter. I think the otter would have the tan behind the ears/nape of neck and tan ring around the nose.

Rabbit genetics are so interesting but so complicated! I have a chinchilla buck with dark grey eyes. I can't tell whether he's black or opal chinchilla. He also has the reddish/lavender cast around his eyes like a sable point does. Does that mean he might be carrying the sable gene?

Thank you. I learned alot! But you lost me a bit after the first part🤣

I watch so many of your videos!! You are the one who got me into breeding!! I am going to message you on Facebook in a bit I have some questions for you!!

Nice rig!!! ASUS ROG motherboards are the best! Also bunnertainment!!! 😂

My bunny love color❤️

Off topic: That is a nice setup 😮

I have a cream lionhead, and either a brown-grey or chocolate agouti French lop

My rabbit has two-colored eyes. And I mean that both of his eyes have both blue and brown! The colors are neatly separated, brown being on top. If there's anyone who knows what this is about, I would be very appreciative to hear!

I actually have a question on lop-eared bunnies. I am thinking to adopt another bunny to my fluffle and she is labeled as a "lop ear mix". She has though ears that are at a "helicopter" state and have not flopped completely down. In fact, they are nearly standing upright, but just curved downwards and look like propellers. Are there lops that just never get their ears to lop? Or are there ways to massage or something to make it so the ears can lop? I think the girl is so cute, and of course I love all animals/bunnies, but this was something that stood out to me and I feel I've not seen. I have seen lops with one ear up and one down... but that usually would fall over time. But this girl is already over 10 months old and doesn't seem to show signs of lopping. Do you have any ideas on these types of lop-eared bunnies?

Hi There I have a smoke pearl marten female and a male chocolate chinchilla. If i were to let them have a litter, what would the possible colours be ?

I have a harlequin female, and my male is orange with dark ears and muzzle

You are the best

This was really helpful I have a red rabbit and I think she is a orange

Great video you should be a ARBA Official. This is very handy

What the offspring colour will be if a Siamese Sable Buck mate with a Blue Tort Doe?

Hi! My bunny is black, orange and white, she looks like the orange broken, but has all three colors on her body and face with black eye circles. What is the name of the color pattern?

PLEASE how can I get chocolate point or chocolate sable kits? What color the parents should be

Do you know sallander color? Is het the same as seal point? I try to find information but it's very confusing...

I love your videos, this one especially! I know you separate your rabbits because they're not neutered/spayed etc, but do you recommend people only keep 1 pet rabbit at a time or do you think bonding and keeping 2 that have been spay/neutered is ok? I'm looking at getting 2 sibling bunnies, but looking around for more advice first. Sorry if you've addressed this in previous videos, I haven't watched them all yet. Thanks!