What color would these be considered?

Christinacm2014 said:

I typed it all out & it didn't post. Let's try again... NZ buck(from a meat breeder) & NZ doe(from a regular person).

Obviously my buck is huge lol(from meat breeder). He weighed in at 4lbs 15oz at 10weeks today ... His dad is the same color & mom is darker, "steel" color.

The doe is from a white mom(black eyes) & dad is "broken"(black & white).

What color would each be considered? TYIA

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Alaska Satin said:

It looks like the little doe is broken chestnut and the buck is chinchilla. His color is a little atypical - very light surface color with white trim that's more extensive than usual - so he may have a wideband influence.

Chestnut and chinchilla are both agouti varieties. Neither is a "recognized" NZ variety, nor is steel or ermine (white with dark eyes, as your doe's dam). Ermine is a form of chinchilla, so your two bunnies may produce more chinchilla kits.

A good way to get a more confident idea of color is to blow into the colored areas on the back and look for what's called ring color, like this picture of a chestnut. This rabbit also has silvering, which is white hairs interspersed throughout, but the basic slate gray inner ring-rufus intermediate ring-dark tipped pattern is chestnut.
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Below is what you'd see in a chinchilla, which is like a chestnut, but the rufus intermediate ring is replaced by a creamy white ring.
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