What color is this Angora rabbit?

[FantatsticFluffle]

I have been trying to figure out what color my rabbit is. He looks blue pearl colored on his coat but he has brown eyes. Does anyone know what color this is/ what genes cause it? Here are some pictures of him.

 

[judymac]

Your rabbit is lovely! A blue tortoiseshell would have creamy fiber; blue face, ears, feet and tail, usually with grayish eyes. A black tortoiseshell has brighter yellow fiber, brownish black points, with brown eyes. Both have normal color C_ with non-extension (the fawn gene) ee.

Pearls are tortoiseshells with the chinchilla or sable gene instead of full-color. Chinchilla/sable genetics stops the yellow pigment factories from producing color, so they have pearly white where the yellow would be. Blue is a dilute color, which means it is grayish instead of black, and the body fiber is pale cream instead of straw yellow.

If your rabbit's fiber has a bit of a yellowish tint to it, it's probably a blue tortoiseshell. The color looks quite rich on the face, may account for the darker eye color. Pearl color isn't quite pure bright white, but it's close, a pearly white. Blue tort is more of a aged ecru shade.

 

[FantatsticFluffle]

Your rabbit is lovely! A blue tortoiseshell would have creamy fiber; blue face, ears, feet and tail, usually with grayish eyes. A black tortoiseshell has brighter yellow fiber, brownish black points, with brown eyes. Both have normal color C_ with non-extension (the fawn gene) ee.

Pearls are tortoiseshells with the chinchilla or sable gene instead of full-color. Chinchilla/sable genetics stops the yellow pigment factories from producing color, so they have pearly white where the yellow would be. Blue is a dilute color, which means it is grayish instead of black, and the body fiber is pale cream instead of straw yellow.

If your rabbit's fiber has a bit of a yellowish tint to it, it's probably a blue tortoiseshell. The color looks quite rich on the face, may account for the darker eye color. Pearl color isn't quite pure bright white, but it's close, a pearly white. Blue tort is more of a aged ecru shade.

His wool is not at all creamy. It is almost pure white. Is it possible for blue rabbits to have brown eyes? I thought the dilution from black to blue caused brown eyes to turn gray. One of the kits from him and my black tort is a blue tort and she has dark gray eyes but they are not brown.

 

[judymac]

If you have a blue tort kit out of him, he has to be ee non-extension, and dd dilute, which we'd already guessed anyway. Chinchilla or sable plus non-extension with non-agouti self makes pearl. But chinchilla/sable plus non-extension plus agouti makes ermine. The non-extension with agouti makes fawn/red/cream agouti rabbits. Then chinchilla takes out the yellow shades, leaving a pearly white rabbit. The only dark would be where smut would be on the regular fawn agouti rabbit. Ermines can have brown, gray, blue or marbled eyes.