Probably the most unique and amazing element of Ozimal bunnies is the ability to breed them. Ozimals have a full genetic system built of dominant and recessive traits that can only really be discovered through breeding. The genetic structure is complex, but fun and rewarding when you are able to understand and use the knowledge.

Each bunny has four separate genetic traits consisting of both a Primary and Secondary gene. This basically means that bunnies have traits we can see (Primary) and hidden ones that we cannot (Secondary). Each bunny has:

• Fur– Primary – Secondary (Secondary fur does not have to be the same as the Primary).
• Eyes – Primary – Secondary
• Shade – Primary – Secondary (Can be classic, dusky, aphotic, silky or radiant)
• Ears – Primary – Secondary (Can be upright, half-a-lop and lop)

To make this easier to understand, we’ll use the trait Fur as our example.
Bunny A is a Dutch with Amber fur. <- mom
Bunny B is a Havana with Black fur. <- Dad

Consider Primary the Dominant trait and Secondary the Recessive. We’ll pretend that these are starter bunnies (bunnies that come directly from the Ozimals store) and that the primary traits are showing and secondary are hidden. We won’t know what their secondary traits actually are until we start to breed them with one another.

Bunny A and Bunny B have a baby – a Dutch bunny with Amber fur. This means there is a good chance that the Dutch Amber fur is dominant over the Havana Black fur. But we still don’t know what secondary gene these bunnies might have.

Bunny A and Bunny B have another baby – a Havana with Black fur. Again, we’ve not learned anything new at this point.

Why? Because Bunny A and Bunny B have those particular furs. We don’t know yet what the secondary traits are. There is only a 50/50 chance of which fur is dominant over the other.

Bunny A and Bunny B have their third nest which turns out to be a Mini Rex Castor. Taa-Daa! Mini Rex Castor must be a secondary trait – although we still don’t know if it is a secondary trait of Bunny A (mom) or Bunny B (dad).

We can continue to breed these bunnies and hopefully find out the secondary traits of both bunnies. But we would have to breed another pair of completely different bunnies with different fur types/colors and then interbreed them with Bunny A and B to find out if the Mini Rex Castor fur belongs to Bunny A or Bunny B. Even then, there holds a chance that both Bunny A and Bunny B have the same secondary fur type.

That is the complexity of Ozimal genetics. There are no guarantees and a lot is left up to persistence and chance.