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Agouti Varieties

Agouti means banded hair shaft - blowing open the wool should show three or more rings of color

All agoutis have white markings - eye circles, inner ears, nose holes, throat, belly, under tail, inner toes

Agouti is dominant over all other patterns

Chestnut

Rich chestnut brown surface color, black tipped guard hairs, brown eyes. Chestnut can come in many shades.

Babies are born black with pinkish -white bellies.

Chestnut

Ring color should be chestnut alternating with tan, with a slate blue undercolor.

The brightness of the intermediate band is affected by rufous factor and wideband.

Chocolate Agouti

Rich chestnut surface color, chocolate tipped guard hairs, brown eyes.

Babies are born chocolate with pinkish -white bellies.

Chocolate Agouti

Ring color should be light chocolate alternating with tan, with a dove-grey undercolor.

The brightness of the banding is affected by rufous factor and wideband.

Opal

Opal is the dilute of chestnut.

Surface color is blue, ticked with blue tipped guard hairs.

Eyes are blue-grey.

Babies are born blue with pinkish bellies

Opal

Ring color should be shades of blue alternating with tan with a lighter blue undercolor.

Higher rufous factor makes for more distinct ring definition.

Watch for white toenails.

Lynx

Lynx is the dilute of chocolate agouti. Surface color is light tan ticked with lilac tipped guard hairs. Eyes are blue-grey.

Babies are born dove-grey with pinkish bellies.

Lynx

Ring color is shades of light lilac alternating with tan with a light lilac undercolor. Often the undercolor is white instead.

Toenail color can take 3-4 months to develop fully.

Copper

Surface color must be rufus red, ticked with black tipped guard hairs. Eyes are brown.

Babies are born black with pinkish -white bellies, same as chestnut.

Copper

Ring color should be bright red-orange alternating with dark slate, with a slate undercolor.

Copper is a rich and striking, but also uncommon color.

Chinchilla Varieties

Chinchillas are also agoutis and require the same agouti markings.

Chinchilla should have no red anything anywhere.

Chinchilla

Chin is a black agouti with rings of blue-grey and pearl with black tipped guard hairs. Eyes can be blue-grey, brown or marbled. Babies are born black with pinkish-white bellies, same as chestnut.

Chocolate Chinchilla

Surface color is a blend of choc and pearl with choc tipped guard hairs, eyes can be blue-grey, brown or marbled.

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Blue Chinchilla

Blue chin is the dilute of black chin. Surface color is blue and pearl with blue tipped guard hairs. Eyes can be blue-grey or marbled

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Broken Pattern

Broken is a pattern that can come in any color. The color must follow the rules of that color. The face must have colored ears, eye circles and a nose marking. There is no nose marking shape or size specified, but there must be something there. The first photo shows the most ideal face pattern. The second photo, a common blanket pattern.

Self Varieties

Self colors are solid. Any white anywhere is a DQ.

If your self appears to have rings, that is ok so long as they are all the same color.

Example - a black with rings of dark grey and light grey.

Watch for white toenails on dilutes.

Black

Black Angoras start off dark as babies but fade to a slate or smoke coat as adults. The face will always retain the dark black coloration. Eyes are brown

Chocolate

Same as black, except chocolate. Satin Angora will always be more vibrant in color, while English and Germans will develop very pale/faded body color. Eyes are brown.

Blue

Blue is the dilute of black and follows the same pattern. Eyes are blue grey.

Lilac

Lilacs are a light purplish grey. Look at the comparison to blue here. The difference is obvious. Eyes are blue-grey and sometimes have a ruby tint, which is fine.

Shaded Group

Tortoiseshell Varieties

Torts are a self-based color. There should be no white anywhere.

Pure white body wool, a white belly or white undertail is a DQ

Black Tortoiseshell

Black torts have a brownish-black or dark smoke colored face, feet, belly, ears, flanks and haunches and a dark fawn body. Eyes are brown.

Chocolate Tort

The marking color should be creamy chocolate with the body color to be fawn. Eyes are brown.

Blue Tort

The marking color should be blue and the body color shoud be beige or almond. Eyes are blue-grey.

Lilac Tort

The marking color should be lilac, body color should be beige or almond. Eyes are blue-grey.

Ticked Varieties

Steels come in all four self colors. The body color is generally lighter in shade than the full self variety. There should be no agouti markings although some steel can show rings due to unidentified modifiers.

The ticking is caused by tipped guard hairs and should cover the whole body evenly. Gold-tipped steel is chestnut based and Silver-tipped steel is agouti based.

Wide Band Varieties

Red, fawn and cream are agouti based colors and should have white agouti markings.

Red

A red should be as red and rich as possible. English, French and German will be more faded in the body fiber. Red can be black or chocolate based. Black-based reds are often smutty about the extremities. Eyes are brown

Red

Red will fade towards the skin but still the darker the better. You can see the new growth starting here at skin level with a darker shade of red. Guard hairs should be red to match.

Fawn

Fawns should be more of a clear golden color although that can vary widely from rabbit to rabbit. Eyes should be brown.

Fawn

Fawn CAN have white undercolor. Toenails should be colored. Flesh colored is not white.

Cream

Cream is the dilute of red or fawn. Creams are listed as having a pinkish-beige body color. Cream can be both blue-based and lilac-based.