My chestnuts seem to be morphing into chins?

[LPH_NY]

Ok... so when these kits were really small, they pretty much looked all chestnut. But now, at almost 6 weeks, all four of them seem to be half chestnut marbled with chinchilla. In the chinchilla parts of the fur, there is NO YELLOW at all on the rings. None. Back of the head is very golden yellow, and they seem to have saddles of chestnut that extend down the hips, a mostly chestnut face, with some chin marbled in there. Bellies all look like chin, with no yellow at all.

So... are they still chestnuts? If not, what are they?

(Father is a chinchilla Flemish Giant, Mother is a Black Tort Satin)

First pic is a young buck

next two pics are of a young doe

 

[Miss M]

I've had a few that have done this. All red slowly disappears, or disappears in swirls on the rabbit, leaving a half-chestnut, half-chin bunny. :lol:

As for answers... I don't have any.

 

[skysthelimit]

Chestnut. I need to go out and take a picture of my Chestnuts. The color is awful, and there are places where there is just splotchy gray. To top it off, the chins are all tinged with yellow, so they look like bad chestnuts! But that is the normal development of Chestnuts at that age. You probably won't be able to tell what's a good Chestnut until 4-6 mos, and since the non extension gene was introduced, and the modifiers for good chestnut color aren't there, you may wind up with chestnuts that have more gray on them than usual.