If I have a true Sandy orange color Flemish Giant female doe can I bring her to the standard silver giant chinchilla buck what color will the babies be??
Hey guys ! Need help on colors
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This is what the **** color is and the female I'm getting is from Craigslist let me get that picture
Typically you'd call those orange, or in Flemish Giants, "fawn," which is a non-extension chestnut agouti. (Note that in some other breeds, "fawn" often refers to a different, dilute color.) "Sandy" is the name for chestnut in Flemish Giants.
Chestnut - your basic wild-type agouti - has dominant alleles at nearly every locus, written <A_B_C_D_E_>. Fawn and chinchilla are both agouti colors as well, but each of them differ from basic chestnut by a different set of recessive alleles.
Fawn in Flemish Giants is a chestnut with two non-extension alleles <ee> at the E locus, so it's <A_B_C_D_ee>.
Chinchilla is a chestnut with at least one chinchilla allele <c(chd)> in the dominant position at the C locus, so it's <A_B_c(chd)_D_E_>.
Most likely you'll get a bunch of chestnuts carrying both chinchilla and non-extension, so <A_B_Cc(chd)D_Ee>. You may also see some REWs, common in Flemish though I don't have enough experience with Giant Chins to really estimate the chances of that breed carrying it. The understrikes after each letter indicate that it's not known which allele the rabbits are carrying in the second place at each locus, so it's hard to predict for sure what might pop up if two hidden recessives happen to connect.
Down the line, if you breed the offspring together or back to the parents, you'll be able to get back to fawn and chinchilla. Orange (fawn) is usually a wideband color, so that might also pop up in your chinchillas, giving them a lighter surface color and making their agouti trim (eye circles, jowl markings, etc) more prominent.
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Thank you so much for that explanation now I'm wondering whether I should stick with just chinchillas or get a harlequin pattern buck.. that's what I did before and I got harlequins stuff as babies I'm sure you know how that works. Decisions decisions
