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Standard Grey
Standard chinchillas are the most common color you'll see. Standards coats, range from very light grey to a very dark grey, sometimes almost black. |
Pink White
Pink/white is a cross between a beige and a white chinchilla. The coloring is white but also with some beige color. |
Hetero Beige
A beautiful chinchilla with one beige dominant gene. |
Homo Beige
Very light champagne color. This chinchilla color has 2 beige genes, and is reccessive. |
Black Velvet
Black Velvet is a TOV standard chinchilla. |
Brown Velvet
Brown velvet (also known as beige TOV) is the result of a black velvet and a beige. The leg bands are brown, just as a black velvets leg bands are black, and the underside is white. |
Silver Mosaic
Silver Mosaic- To produce silver or white mosaics, the offspring should have 1 white gene and 1 standard gene. |
Ebony Mosaic
This is a cross between a white mosaic and an ebony. |
Hetero Ebony/Charcoal
Charcoal is a chin with a very dark black- brown fur. Their belly is also dark brown and black as well. |
Hetero Ebony TOV
Hetero Ebony TOV- This chinchilla can range from light to dark depending on how much of the ebony gene it has. This chinchilla color has 1 ebony gene and 1 TOV gene. |
Homo Ebony
Homo ebony is a reccesive gene. Every hair is shiny black. No white hairs at all. |
Pastel/Tan
Tan and pastel chinchillas have the beige and ebony genes. Their bellies are the same color as the rest of their body. |
Pastel/Tan White
Pastel/tan white chinchillas have the beige, white and ebony genes. Pictured below is a pastel TOV white female and a tan tov white female. |
Violet
Violet chins have only two violet genes, because they are recessive. you must breed a violet to another violet or violet carrier to get violet offspring. |
Violet TOV
A cross between a black velvet and violet.The underside is all white and the rest of the body is a dark violet coloring. |
Solid Violet
The entire body is violet, with no white hairs at all. A solid violet has a wraparound effect to its body, and its belly is completely violet unlike a violet or violet tov, that has a white belly. |
Solid Violet TOV
Same as a solid violet, except with the TOV veiling. |
White Violet
This chinchilla is a mosaic with white and violet fur. |
White Solid Violet
This is a picture of Starfire, a white solid violet female. |
Sapphire
Sapphire has a coat similar to a standard, but with a bluish tinge to it. The difference between the two, is sapphires have pink ears and noses whereas standards have grey. |
TOV Sapphire
This is a picture of a tov sapphire. |
Solid Sapphire
Solid sapphires have the ebony and sapphire genes. Their bellies are as dark as their backs. |
TOV Solid Sapphire
This is a picture of one of our kits born here recently out of a TOV sapphire/ebony carrier and a ebony/sapphire carrier pair. |
Sullivan Recessive Beige
This is a picture of one of our kits born here recently out of a standard/sullivan recessive beige carrier and a black velvet/sullivan recessive beige carrier pair. Sullivan recessive beiges are rare beiges, with jellybean red eyes. They first originated at Lloyd Sullivan's ranch. |
Goldbar
This is a picture of Goldilock's, a goldbar female. This mutation is very rare. The first golbar was born on the Baar ranch in California in 1995 out of two standards. |
White Sapphire
This is Dolly, our reserve color section champion white sapphire female. She's probably the largest and most beautiful white sapphire I have ever seen, weighing over 800 grams in weight and having done so well at our last show. She is out of a TOV ebony white/sc/vc male and a sapphire female. We are very proud of her! |
Solid White Sapphire
This is a picture of one of our kits born here recently out of an ebony mosaic/sc female bred here and a ebony/sc male bred here. This boy is showing alot of his solid sapphire markings at this time. |