Orange or Fawn ?

[miniquilts]

These kits are out of an American Chinchilla & a Chestnut mix breed. The Chestnut is out of a Gold Tip Steel & a Japanese Harlequin. I was hoping for some chinchilla coloured babies but no dice there.Are these babies orange or fawn, or is it to soon to be able to tell - they are 4 days old.

 

[Secuono]

Fawnge? =D
No idea bout colors.
But for surprise colors, sometimes they don't show and you will have the same colors for a few litters. Then all of a sudden, you get a full rainbow! =D Maybe the next litter will have some chinny buns.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

I have no idea on colors either- I like fawnge!- but I wanted to say that those are beautiful healthy looking kits!

 

[miniquilts]

I figure as this must fall of of the sire's side as he produces a wide variety of colours. He has given me GTS's, Harlequins, torts and blues, but never this beautiful fawn/orange. If these two are females I will be saving them back.

 

[garden lady]

These kits are out of an American Chinchilla & a Chestnut mix breed. The Chestnut is out of a Gold Tip Steel & a Japanese Harlequin. I was hoping for some chinchilla coloured babies but no dice there.Are these babies orange or fawn, or is it to soon to be able to tell - they are 4 days old.

I raised greyhounds most of my life and if I were registering these as a greyhound then they would be fawn, but greyhounds do not have orange and I have owned Boxers for pets over the years and they are fawn if this color. They are really pretty! Congratulations!

 

[skysthelimit]

I'd say give us some picts a few days from now I can't tell yet.

 

[OneAcreFarm]

They ALMOST look like the Choco Tort I got from my litter...it was orangey at first too...

 

[luvabunny]

they look like tortes to me.

 

[Devon's Mom Lauren]

Well judging by the fact the chestnuts are not dilute I would say the others are full colour as well. Orange/red/fawn are used differently in different breeds so being crossbreds you could call them whatever you felt was best! The odds are though that they are agouti which would be red/orange plus they got that non extension off the harlequin as well! The only way they are tort is if both parents carry one self gene and the AM.Chin also had a non extension gene, which would be pretty low chance of considering the parents (but anything can happen!) Nice litter!!

 

[JessicaR]

in flemish giants they would be called fawn but in ND they would be orange so... I also learned recently that when you breed a chestnut to an orange you can get orange with smutty colors, so that why they could kind of look like torts.

 

[OneAcreFarm]

Well judging by the fact the chestnuts are not dilute I would say the others are full colour as well. Orange/red/fawn are used differently in different breeds so being crossbreds you could call them whatever you felt was best! The odds are though that they are agouti which would be red/orange plus they got that non extension off the harlequin as well! The only way they are tort is if both parents carry one self gene and the AM.Chin also had a non extension gene, which would be pretty low chance of considering the parents (but anything can happen!) Nice litter!!

See, that is what I was thinking too...SLIM chance....I love it when you or Devon chime in with the genetic info. I am still learning and BOY can it ever be confusing! I appreciate all the help you give the rest of us Genetics challenged folk!

 

[miniquilts]

Thank you everyone for the super quick replies I will post new photo's in a few days, chocolate tort would have een awesome but I am almost positive the Amer. Chin does not carry for tort - though then again I was sure she did not carry for fawn/orange either :0/

 

[ZRabbits]

Beautiful babies! Can't wait to see what they look like in a few days.

Karen