What color? Orange?

[Tiny Buns]

I have a holland lop that I bought as orange. He has multi colors on the hair shaft....orange fading to to beige....I'd have to double check but definitely not one solid color.

He has grown into the lacing on the ears and is darkening up. So officially what color? Feels agouti-esque to me.

thanks

 

[Dood]

Oranges are agouti, and not self based, but they should also be wide band and have an orange belly and not white like this guy so I'd call his colour "fawn"

The dark fur is called "soot" and not a desirable trait in fawn, or orange or red, rabbits

 

[alforddm]

Dood, how do you tell the difference between lightly colored chocolate agouti and a a sooty fawn?

Thanks!

 

[Dood]

It's genetically impossible for a chocolate to have ANY black pigment so the sooty areas, usually ears and whiskers are the most obvious, will be brown and not black

You can also tell by the ring pattern

Fawns are non extension and have an extra wide middle band that crowds out the outter black band while chocolate agouti will have the wider outter band but it will be chocolate instead of black

 

[Tiny Buns]

The dark fur is called "soot" and not a desirable trait in fawn, or orange or red, rabbits

That's too bad because he's such a great, compact little guy with an awesome personality. He wasn't nearly as "sooty" as a small kit and it's really come in as he matures.

 

[Zass]

It's very easy to tell orange/red or fawn from chestnut at birth. Chestnuts are born mostly black with white markings coming in over the next couple days and then the ticking grows in with the fur.

Fawn/orange/red kits are born all pink and the fur grows in orange or red, with white agouti marks unless wideband is present to make it all orange or red. Ticking and smut tends to come in later.

 

[alforddm]

It's very easy to tell orange/red or fawn from chestnut at birth. Chestnuts are born mostly black with white markings coming in over the next couple days and then the ticking grows in with the fur.

Fawn/orange/red kits are born all pink and the fur grows in orange or red, with white agouti marks unless wideband is present to make it all orange or red. Ticking and smut tends to come in later.

*smacks self in forehead*

I knew that I swear I did.

 

[Tiny Buns]

It's very easy to tell orange/red or fawn from chestnut at birth. Chestnuts are born mostly black with white markings coming in over the next couple days and then the ticking grows in with the fur.

Fawn/orange/red kits are born all pink and the fur grows in orange or red, with white agouti marks unless wideband is present to make it all orange or red. Ticking and smut tends to come in later.

So at 6-8 weeks I probably wouldn't have seen the smutty color? Just kind of wondering how I missed that.....