Can you snip a few hairs and lay them on a contrasting color background? That will tell if it is a all-white hair (as in silvering or the mysterious stray white hairs), or a silver tipped hair (as in silver-tipped steel, although to be honest, steel does seem to have a tiny chocolate tip above the silver). If there is color below the whitish part, does the doe have chinchilla in her background? Regular gold-tipped steel is full-color agouti based, while silver tipped steel is chinchilla based.Does this look like silvering?
I'll try and get pics of some cut fur. It's not super long, so hopefully that's okay. I'll also take a look at her pedigree, i can't remember what was in her genetics. I had bought her and 2 of her brothers to add some new blood to my stock, thinking a self color could be handy to have since I no longer had any self colored breeders. So she wasn't personally produced in my barn.Can you snip a few hairs and lay them on a contrasting color background? That will tell if it is a all-white hair (as in silvering or the mysterious stray white hairs), or a silver tipped hair (as in silver-tipped steel, although to be honest, steel does seem to have a tiny chocolate tip above the silver). If there is color below the whitish part, does the doe have chinchilla in her background? Regular gold-tipped steel is full-color agouti based, while silver tipped steel is chinchilla based.
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