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Below is a color progression on an chestnut agouti German angora. Agouti patterned kits all have lighter colored bellies, undersides of tail and chin, as well as inside of their ears. When their hair starts to grow, at a couple days old, you will see some brown coloration coming through with darker colored hair tips. Different agouti patterned colors (i.e. - lynx, chocolate chin, fawn, chestnut agouti, etc.) all have the same lighter colored areas and color rings when you blow into their fiber. Their body color, however, is determined by the other genes in their genotype.



Here is a two day old German agouti kit.

Note the ligher colored belly, under the chin and tail, and around the nostrils. Agouti and Chinchilla kits look almost identical at birth. A few days of hair growth will show brown tones in the agouti.



This is sheared fiber from a 5 month old agouti doe. See the layers of color...or rings as they are called when you blow into the fiber on the bunny? This intense coloration will usually dilute out a bit after the first real harvest so treasure your first clip!



Here is the same agouti buck at around 4 months old.




This is a chocolate agouti buck. All agouti patterned animals have white underbellies, eye circles, and ear lacing. You'll notice this buck has brown coloration where black would be in a chestnut agouti. 



This little German kit is a lynx (dilute agouti). She has a lilac hue to her agouti ticking and has obvious white underbelly, inside ears, and eye circles.

This doe has quite a few rufus modifiers as well, so she shows a good amount of orange coloration.


     
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There is also a blue agouti (called opal), however, I haven't ever had any born here so I'm unable to provide pictures at this time. 



The fawn coloration arises when an agouti patterned rabbit has two "ee" non-extension genes. This causes the color to not extend the full length of the hair and creates an orange to red hue. 

This young doe is showing her typical white tail and you can also see the white tips of her ears.