What color?

[Dove]

Dam is a broken black english lop and sire is a magpie rex. I have a pedigree for the dam but not the sire. The sire is definitely not a black magpie, maybe blue or lilac or some light color that resembles blue-ish.
This doe is 8 months old. She looks chinchilla, but seems to have 2 different colors of chin. One is the normal dark grey with bands and the other has a tanish look with bands. From the side, it almost looks like the color change is where tort shading would be. But then there is a big chunk on her rump area with the lighter color.
I thinks it's very pretty and unique. What color would she be? Thanks!

I'll upload some pics in a few minutes. My computer is super slow today.

 

[skysthelimit]

I'll be interested to see pictures. She is about the age for senior prime molt, and could simply be going through a slow molt. It's not unusual for chins to take on a brownish cast as youngsters, molt out of that, and as they age, the brownish cast returns.

 

[Dove]

I thought maybe she was doing some sort of molt, but wasn't sure. When I was in school, all I raised was new Zealand whites. So I never had to even think about color, they were all white. :lol: Now I'm in my 30's and just having fun with it.

She's a bit chunky, and the photos aren't that great.......

Here's the dam and sire also......

 

[Dood]

I would guess shaded agouti or possibly chocolate chinchilla.

 

[Dove]

You can see in one picture that the edges of her ears have a brownish color. So, yes, maybe a chocolate chin?
Correct me if I'm wrong......isn't agouti dominant? Since the dam is broken black, and her pedigree is full of blacks, torts, and blues. I don't have a pedigree for the sire. Does that mean he is possibly a chinchilla magpie? I never even looked that close at his hair color. I'll have to check tomorrow and see if his hair is color banded.

 

[Dood]

Yes, the father is the source of the agouti gene so he is chinchilla with the harlequin gene or shaded agouti with the harlequin gene.

(There are instances where a black rabbit is actually agouti based but I don't think this is your case)

 

[MamaSheepdog]

That ELop is adorable!

 

[skysthelimit]

Looks like a chin in molt. My chocolate chins were beige from start to finish, no black at all. I culled the chocolate chin, but if you search you should be able to see a picture somewhere here.

I'll go out tomorrow and see if I can find a chin in molt, I think I culled all the ones that get rusty like that. Usually those ones wind up with a lighter surface color, and that's what I wanted, but I didn't know that at the time, so I culled them.<br /><br />__________ Sat Jan 11, 2014 7:22 pm __________<br /><br />

Chin doe, not in prime





Finished coat. In the Rex, the ones with brown spots tend to be the darker chins, and when the coat ages, it gets brown again. I don't like those ones, because it spoils my pelts