Colours Of Bramblewood

At Bramblewood we do breed for colour as well as health and temperament. We feel its nothing wrong in saying people
 breed for certain colours as long as its not at the top of the list and always comes behind Health and Temperament. 

We have been quite lucky with our pairings and have produced some stunning colours.
Here we have produced :-
Albino, Apricot, Champaign, Red Eyed Cinnacot, Dark Cinnacot, Cinnamon, Brown, Choc, grey and Dark grey.

Snowflakes:- Champaign, Red Eyed Cinnacot, Dark Grey, Grey, Chocolate, Brown, Cinnamon and Dark Eyed Cinnacot.
We are currently working on Salt n pepper snowflakes and  Apricot snowflakes.

Black eyed whites:-
We have produced a few litters of Black eyed whites, mostly they have only been Brown whites and Chocolate whites.
We are hoping to produce whites in a range of colours as we did with snowflakes. Some confuse snowflakes with Black eyed whites. But here our BEWs are born white and mostly stay white unitl quilling and then go on to be whites.

We are quite proud to say all our colour results are done without inbreeding. We do except this happens to produce certain colours, Just it does not happen at Bramblewood. I am sure some breeders use this method and good luck to them. I personally think working with animals that come from a very shallow gene pool, that has already gone through a fair amount of line breeding is a needless and slightly dangerous task.  I do understand inbreeding can be used as very helpful tool in breeding healthy hogs. But not knowing the subject that well we choose to not use this tool. But I am sure  there are breeders out there who do know the best way to work that form of breeding

There is no real secret to colours, it comes down to careful planning and a lot of luck.. It is a only a case of pairing up healthy happy hogs with similar hets.

We have been lucky here and we normally get quite varied litters. In one of our last litters we had. :-

* Plus and most of these snowflaked.