One determined doe!

Glad you were finally able to make her happy!

Shimo kits
Half agouti looking, half pink looking however I'm not sure they are so cut and dry. The right "pink" one doesn't quite look pink off camera and the black looks more blue. They are likely chins. We'll see what happens when they fur.

I can see that the right one is more of a dove-grey on pink... maybe it is a mini-Shimo?! They look like good sized kits, and well rounded too.

One of the good things to a not show quality netherland; far less birthing problems and healthier kits. I don't think we have any dead ones and 4 for her first litter. She pulled a ton of fur. I saw her running around with it all day and there are handfuls in there I had to sift through and put back. She's been dead set on making the perfect nest since shortly after she got bred. Now if she just feeds them we are good. Our pedigreed netherland does failed 2/3 and 3/3 with 1-3 dead kits every litter until this last successful one from the blue doe.

Hooray for Shimo!

SHIMO = not just a pretty face

I will probably take another pic in 2 days but the pinks are already not pink anymore. They are very very light blue. My buck wasn't suppose to have dilute so odd if that's what it is but always possible. He is black sable, black himi down his entire pedigree.

Do dilute kits typically change from pink to some other color?

Yay Shimo

Generally only kits with certain C locus or ee are born pink and then turn things like REW, himi, red... Regular blues are born slightly lighter than regular black based kits the same as they color. A pink shouldn't turn blue but this is not normal blue. It is Shimo's light blue, off white, greyish, not quite silver for lilac, and not quite dark for blue that apparently shouldn't exist since everyone has bets but no one has quite seen that color before.

If the pink ones are not rew or white and are showing silvery -grey then they are Siamese sable like the buck.

I figured a regular sable would turn brown like a chocolate when it colors since a sable is brown, slightly lighter than chocolate, with black points rather than very light blue.

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I realized the light ones were blending in so I took a pic on blue and found they are not the same color

How exciting that the blues are different shades! It looks like Shimo is taking good care of them too.

Siamese Sable always starts out silvery, then darkens later in a week or two. We have had quite a few born here when we had the Jersey Woolies. I have no idea why this is so.

Awe....you got two of each. I like the just slightly darker of the two blues. Very nice