It looks to me like you have a sable and a smoke pearl (dilute sable, which can look more bluish). I can't tell from the photos if the sable is also steeled but it seems like it may be, from the one photo (#407). Alternatively, that could also be the interesting frosting/tipping that sables normally go through; hard to say from one set of photos at one age.
Yes, the one from my last post is a sibling of these two, same litter. And these two don't have any typical gouti markings so I thought they were self, I thought self would hide steel? Unless they are self masking steel? lol man I hate steel
Yes, you're right, they both look self, and yes, they could very well be carrying steel which is unexpressed in a self. Although your sable kit surely looks like a self, and I'd feel close to certain about it, sometimes steel so effectively reduces the agouti markings that they are no longer readily apparent. One of my surprise steels looked like a self black as a newborn, though by the time he was the age of your kits, it was obvious. So even though it looks like normal sable frosting, I hedge my bets.Yes, the one from my last post is a sibling of these two, same litter. And these two don't have any typical gouti markings so I thought they were self, I thought self would hide steel? Unless they are self masking steel? lol man I hate steel
I only have one picture that I took riiight as he started to squirm out of my hands (I promise I'm not strangling himYes, you're right, they both look self, and yes, they could very well be carrying steel which is unexpressed in a self. Although your sable kit surely looks like a self, and I'd feel close to certain about it, sometimes steel so effectively reduces the agouti markings that they are no longer readily apparent. One of my surprise steels looked like a self black as a newborn, though by the time he was the age of your kits, it was obvious. So even though it looks like normal sable frosting, I hedge my bets.
Your buck may not have had obvious white ear linings as a kit, though he has minimal agouti markings as an adult in this photo. You don't by chance have photos of him as a young bunny?
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) You're right though, he definitely had darker ears and hard to see mouth/eye markings, but his belly was still pretty agouti-looking. We'll see over the coming time how his offspring molt out because assuming they grow at a rate I like I'm probably keeping these two because I'm crazy and I'm a sucker for a pretty color lol.
