Kit color help?

[Captaincatholic]

What color kit is silverish with pink belly from 2 Flemish Giant NZ mixes that are chinchilla? This kit is lighter than the blue kits in the black doe's nest that were born the day before, and those blue kits have blue bellies too. This kit is silvery bur still has a pink belly. I am a softy for dilute colors, so I am already intrigued.

Other kits seem to be chinchilla (dark with pink bellies), and maybe one steel or black, no pink belly.

This doe is seeming tonhave anrough time bouncing back, even refusing toneat oats, although she does like the sunflower nuts. I hope she feels back to her bouncy self soon.

I can get pictures in daylight tomorrow, or I may search the internet fir similar photos.

 

[judymac]

Agouti rabbits have white bellies and white inside the ears that is noticeable even at birth (other markings will be visible in a week or so, like the light eye rings, white on the chin and banding of the hairshaft. Normal agouti rabbits have the dominant agouti 'A' gene, and the full color dominant 'C' gene. Chinchillas also have the agouti 'A' gene, but they have the more recessive chinchilla c(chd) color gene. Chinchilla removes the yellow/orange/red shades from the agouti fiber, but all the normal agouti markings are still present.

So, normal agouti and chinchilla rabbits will both have white bellies. Chestnut agouti and chinchilla are both born black, their final color develops as they grow, and the banding develops. Blue agouti (also called opal) and blue chinchilla (also called squirrel) are born gray, not black, having the recessive dilute dd gene and lighten as the banding develops. Depending on other factors, like color depth modifiers, the shade of gray can go from charcoal gray to silvery gray.

 

[Captaincatholic]

Pics!!! These are two separate kits. I was thinking the bigger slightly older kit may be a chestnut, but I am not sure of the smaller one. It is out of 2 light gray (chinchilla) flemish giant/nz crosses. Could it be sandy?

 

[RabbitsOfTheCreek]

Looks like both Chestnuts to me

 

[Captaincatholic]

I wonder of sandy in flemish giants is chestnut in other varieties of rabbit.

 

[Alaska Satin]

I wonder of sandy in flemish giants is chestnut in other varieties of rabbit.

Yes, in Flemish Giants, sandy = chestnut and light gray = chinchilla.
I agree with @RabbitsOfTheCreek, they both look chestnut/sandy to me.

 

[Captaincatholic]

New pic from yhr mystery silverish kit. It looks like it has tab on the back ofnits head, and maybe non-extension or slef color? I am out of my league. What color is this?

 

[judymac]

The triangle behind the ears is a classic agouti pattern trait. Rabbits with full color 'C' genetics have a fawn (yellowish) triangle, chinchillas have a pearly white triangle. Your kit also has white inside the ears and white eye rings, so you know you have an agouti rabbit.

This is a closeup of your rabbit to the left of the triangle. The color looks gray-based, not brown, so I'd guess we're talking about a kit with dominant black genetics, not recessive brown. Black agouti is known as chestnut (or sandy or castor, depending on breed), and the kits are born black and then develop the chestnut banding on the hairshaft. Blue agouti is the dilute color, called opal. Opals are born gray, like your kit was, and the hairshaft ends up being mostly shades of gray. I'm guessing it's an opal.