white patch on wild rabbit

Was the fur real soft and thick less coarse than normal ? Smokey Mountian rabbits look and run alot like wild rabbits, alot of us use the to train pups. Thay can survive in the wild infact where I use to live I have killed them the next season after release. Bieng a domestic rabbit they can also breed with other domestics so I wonder if this could have been a cross.
 
I have seen one whith a white patch about like that once. I also shot a rabbit that had a third ear, wish I had a picture to post of it
 
Hey, im a long ways away from you, im in AZ. But we have large jack rabbits down here. The bigger of the two are what we call Antalope Jack Rabbits. They are about 5 to 8 pounds and have a large white side from about the front shoulder to the rear leg. Just like a antalope. Not to rare around here, so if your in the area just look for them, youll find them.
 
We have both snowshoe and cottontail rabbits here. It's funny to see a white snowshoe without snow or a brown cottontail in the snow. They really stand out in these situations. Nice pic. MI VHNTR
 
That is a genetic mutation which will probably not be too successful, given that it enhances the view of the front sight or crosshairs when properly placed against the animal...heheheh.
 
When my wife was little, the kids would raise pet white rabbits on the dairy farm and they would eventually just let them go or they would escape and my wife says that for years they would see rabbits every now and then that were partially white.
 
We just got back from a shooting spree in Wyoming. We shot a truckload of white rabbits there. Seems they have a type of jack rabbit that color phases white like a snowshoe during the winter. Never seen a white cottontail though.
 
i caught a black rabbit in one of my snares a few weeks ago. the fur was soft and i have kept the pelt [image]http://www.sussexhuntingforum.co.uk[/image] and its under trapping and snaring called the black rabbit
 
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