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Below is a color progression on a chinchilla colored angora. Agouti patterned kits (chinchilla is a form of agouti patterning) 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 can tell if they are chin or agouti. 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 chinchilla kit. 

Note the ligher colored belly, under the chin and tail, and around the nostrils.



Here are the same babies at 3 weeks old.

See the lighter colored eye circles and inside the ear?

In agouti babies, the patterning is the same, however, the silver color is replaced with varying shades of tan/brown.



Here is the same chin buck at around 10 days old.

(The dots in his ear were for identification purposes and have since been replaced with a permanent tattoo.)



Same chinchilla buck at 7 weeks old.

His body fiber will dilute out a bit once it starts to grow longer. It is a dark grey with black tips from the guard hairs.



Here is Hugo at 6 months old. He only has a little over a month's worth of growth, so I'll try to add a better picture when he's in full coat.

He still has great deep coloration to his fiber, but it is definitely mellower than the shorter facial hairs.



This is the same chinchilla buck in full coat. His fiber is a gorgeous silver with just a bit of black & silver banding apparent on the tips of his guard hair.


CHINCHILLA








































There are also blue, chocolate, and lilac chinchilla color variations. Below are a few pictures of a chocolate chin.



Two day old chocolate chinchilla kits. They have white bellies and a chocolate coloration. You can't see in this picture, but up close you can see a silver hue with chocolate ticking.



The same two chocolate chin kits at 4 days old. See the white inner ear and tail bottoms?

Since no two are exactly the same there is a bit of variation between the coloration on these two littermates.



This buck was one of the two pictures in the previous two photos. 

Chocolate chins look similar to regular chins, except all black ticking is replaced with brown tones. Their fiber has a chocolate hue with chocolate ticking.


Here is a line-up from a litter of 9 kits:

From left are 3 REW, 2 chocolate chinchillas, 
1 chinchilla, 1 chocolate self, and two black selfs.

Notice how the ticking color on the chinchillas 
matches the coloration of it's respective self 
version?