Kit color help please? (Pics included)

Kyah · #1 07/14/09, 07:12 PM

Can someone help me to ID these kits? The Mom is a white rex, with cal markings, and the Dad is white also. Grandmother & grandfather are black otters.

I've had blue, lilac, chocolate, seal, black, white, and otters in this line, but I've never seen this color before. I've looked at several sites, and the closest match I can guess at is chinchilla maybe? And if that's what these guys are, I'd be sooooo excited.

Is there someone here with more experienced eyes than mine that can help?

Many thanks,
Kyah

Kit color help please? (Pics included) - Rabbits

Old Swampgirl · #2 07/14/09, 07:28 PM

We used to call those "Pearls". Every now & then I'd get some when I bred that same mix. Sometimes just one or two in a litter. They turn out real pretty.

Jesse L · #3 07/14/09, 07:53 PM

Ya - to me they look like frosted pearls/frosties.

MaggieJ · #4 07/14/09, 07:55 PM

Oooh, aren't they pretty! And so plump! Congrats on the super popples!

morgansrgr8 · #5 07/14/09, 08:01 PM

I had one that looked like that when it was little then it turned out to be a chinchilla color all grown up. LOL They sure can change.

ladysown · #6 07/14/09, 10:47 PM

they look like chins to me.

have fun watching them grow out. If they get lighter they'll be frosties, if they stay as is, they'll be lighter chins.

brody · #7 07/15/09, 07:27 AM

Adorable

morgansrgr8 · #8 07/15/09, 08:41 AM

In a couple more weeks you'll have a better idea what color they will be. I am new to rabbits and its alway fun to watch them change.

jil101ca · #9 07/15/09, 02:52 PM

I was told once that if you blow into the fur and see rings then it is a chinchilla.... or am i being confused again....

Devoville · #10 07/15/09, 04:40 PM

Yes there will be ring colour for chinchilla. It is an agouti colour. Dilute would be Squirrel. Some of the kits also look like "Smoke Pearl" which is different from a frosty. Frosty is another name for Ermine and these kits look too dark in this photo for that. They also have the possibility of being "Smoke-Pearl Martins" because of the otter grandparents.The chinchilla gene would have come from the Himi doe.The martin or otter markings from the grandparents.Are the otters the parents of the buck? If not what are they as this has a bearing on what his white is masking!

Kyah · #11 07/15/09, 06:27 PM

Thanks so much for all the help and the nice comments.

I don't know if this helps or not, but the kit's eyes are opening today and they look red, like their parents' eyes. The buck's mother and the doe's mother were both black otters, and were full sisters. The buck's father was also a black otter, my foundation buck. The grandmother was also a black otter and her mother was a chocolate. I still have the chocolate doe (great grandmother) and she's been having a lot of blues, lilacs, and chocolate kits so far this year when I bred her to her son, a solid black buck.

I can post some more pics later, as they get older, but one of the kits looks to have otter markings. ???? Their fur looks to be really short compared to other kits born at the same time. So maybe I should wait a few weeks and then try blowing into their coats to see if I can see the ring color?

Thanks again,
Kyah