Agouti vs. castor vs. chestnut vs. tort

[eco2pia]

OK, all the brown bunnies are driving me batty.

I think I know agouti is just the wild cottontail color. I think I know that the torts have darker "points"--nose and ears. But the pictures I am finding online are very confusing, and to add to that, I can't figure out if they are genetically all the same thing but with a bunch of modifiers activated....or? For the sake of clarity, has any one got pictures?

I think the following rabbits are all just agouti, but there is quite a bit of color variation between them, due to red modifiers showing up from the doe. Sorry for the less than stellar photos--clearly natural light was not the best choice for showing reddish colors. These are freezer camp babies--cute, but mutts.

 

[Jasharia]

I only heard caster with mini rex and rex. Here is a pic of my caster doe.

I had a blue tort Elop here is the buck and a baby one

Here is an opal mini rex

 

[DevonW]

Agouti is the name of the pattern. Castor, and chestnut are the same colour they just have different names in different breeds.

Black Agouti= Chesnut, Castor, Copper, Belgian.
Blue Agouti= Opal
Chocolate Agouti= Amber or Cinnamon
Lilac Agout= Lynx

Torts are Non extension, so they will not have creme bellies or ring colour. All the different variations within one colour have to do with modifiers.

This is a Chestnut lacking in Rufus.

A Chesnut with a lot of Rufus, sorry about the massive picture.

A black tort with a lot of shading.

A black tort with very little shading.

A blue tort with a lot of shading

A blue tort with little shading.