I'm posting these for a friend 
This doe is neat. See that pretty white belly?? My friend (who owns her) and I couldn't decide what color she was as she grew. I thought her steel when she was smaller. But, as she developed she showed almost all of the markings of a squirrel(blue chinchilla). So we thought squirrel for a while.
Yep, a steel fooled me
Well, bred to an agouti, she threw steel kits So...looking closer...
There ARE eye circles visible that do not show up in the pic. Her ear lining isn't as clear as I would have expected for a squirrel, and looking REALLY close she lacks the ring color her fur should have when blown into. Her belly is very white, but it isn't as large of a white area as it should be. The white on her feet covers a bit less than in a un-steeled squirrel (hard to see here, but we had one for comparison ) In an opal or agouti the white area would look messier for all the tawny color that shows more than white on gold tipped steels, but chinchilla eliminates that tawny color, leaving the marks SO MUCH whiter.
So...She is a really heavily marked silver tipped blue steel. A_ B_ Cchd_ dd Es_
And...we had initially thought this doe to be a frosty(when she showed only a little dark tipping on white), but her coat became much darker as she aged. I'm not seeing agouti marks...is this Sallander? If so, it's also my first time seeing it IRL.
This doe is neat. See that pretty white belly?? My friend (who owns her) and I couldn't decide what color she was as she grew. I thought her steel when she was smaller. But, as she developed she showed almost all of the markings of a squirrel(blue chinchilla). So we thought squirrel for a while.
Yep, a steel fooled me
Well, bred to an agouti, she threw steel kits
So...looking closer...There ARE eye circles visible that do not show up in the pic. Her ear lining isn't as clear as I would have expected for a squirrel, and looking REALLY close she lacks the ring color her fur should have when blown into. Her belly is very white, but it isn't as large of a white area as it should be. The white on her feet covers a bit less than in a un-steeled squirrel (hard to see here, but we had one for comparison ) In an opal or agouti the white area would look messier for all the tawny color that shows more than white on gold tipped steels, but chinchilla eliminates that tawny color, leaving the marks SO MUCH whiter.
So...She is a really heavily marked silver tipped blue steel. A_ B_ Cchd_ dd Es_
And...we had initially thought this doe to be a frosty(when she showed only a little dark tipping on white), but her coat became much darker as she aged. I'm not seeing agouti marks...is this Sallander? If so, it's also my first time seeing it IRL.
