This color has me stumped!

[RR MiniSatins]

Thanks to my rainbow pedigrees (lol) I am getting some colors that I'm not familiar with. This light tan kit is a foster to the others, but it's littermate that didn't make it, was what looked like a blue chin. It is almost a champagne color, ears and belly are lighter but not really white. Dad was a chin that has given me lots of colors, mom was a chin out of a black silver tipped steel. Any ideas? Thanks

 

[akane]

Looks chocolate based.

 

[ladysown]

probably chocolate agouti based on inner ear colour.

 

[Dood]

If both parents are chinchilla he must be chinchilla (or possibly shaded) and I'd say steel chocolate chin or siamese sable

 

[RR MiniSatins]

Thanks, the father is definitely a chin but the mother might be a light steel. Her mom was a black silver tipped steel and this doe's bands were pretty much non existent. She looked like a chin from the top, but not when you blew into her fur.

 

[akane]

Sables aren't born sable colored. They are born an off blue. Kind of smokey silver color. Most people would mistake them for blues or dark lilacs but the points start to darken at about 8weeks. They won't turn brown until 3-4months. Not sure what a chocolate based with sable genes would do though. Google seems to show something that is a shade between chocolate and lilac as kits. The pics here look like a fully dark chocolate. With a chin and steel parent it's probably agouti based. Chocolate chin or chocolate agouti (cinnamon).

 

[RR MiniSatins]

smokey silver is a good way to describe the color. Starting to look chocolate based as it gets a little older. Exciting to see what it turns into. Thanks for the insight everyone. <br /><br /> __________ Thu Mar 06, 2014 2:40 pm __________ <br /><br /> Here is a pic of the mystery kit, now 12 days old. Looking more like a chocolate chin? Never seen one before. Head is slightly darker than body.

 

[Dood]

Definitely agouti based so not a Siamese sable (or chocolate sable) which are self, and probably chocolate chin or a VERY sooty black chin

 

[PSFAngoras]

I vote chocolate chin

 

[RR MiniSatins]

Here is a new pic of the mystery kit, almost 3 weeks old now. It does have a narrow pearl ring, no black tipping (all chocolate) and the eyes definitely have a red cast. What would be the difference between chocolate agouti and chocolate chin? Thanks

 

[Dood]

Chocolate agouti has yellow while chocolate chin lacks any yellow pigments and are white and chocolate. I'd say this is a chocolate chin very pretty!

Maybe I should try and get it recognized in American Chinchillas opcorn:

Chinchillas - the rodents - now come in chocolate after all :mrgreen:

 

[RR MiniSatins]

Thanks Dood, he is definitely unique looking.