[Rosewood]

So my little Variegated litter popped out a Black fox buck. I'm going to keep the little monkey but I'd like to know, what do you actually add to a black fox to make more of them? Are foxes dominant over other colours, like tans are? My wild guess would be you can add a fox to a black but I suppose that depends on dominance...

Little help?

 

[ian]

Fox is recessive, so both of the parents of the buck you have are both carrying fox. If you dont have any other foxes you could put him back to his mother and you should get about half of the litter being foxes and the rest being carriers.

edit to add: You also have to have the tan gene or the fox doesnt show, both parents must be tans as its dominant, although i guess if its a variegated it might not show. Potentially the parents are heterozygous tans so the fox buck may well also be heterozygous meaning he only has one tan gene (but because its dominant the tan gene has an effect). This means that the resulting litter between him and his mother could have some self babies although these too will have the fox gene too.

 

[Cait]

Fox is not its own gene, it's tan + chinchilla. The chinchillation dilutes the yellow of the tan hairs to white (or in the case of bad foxes, pale yellow). To make foxes from scratch you'd breed a tan with a chinchilla. This would produce black tans and agouti tans. You'd then breed the black tan babies to each other to produce a black fox.