Agouti Colors
Agouti colors in Angoras include Chestnut, Copper, Chocolate Agouti, Opal, and Lynx. Agoutis have banded hair shafts, giving the appearance of "rings" when the coat is blown into. With the long hair of angoras, the rings are muted compared to shorthaired rabbits. If the rabbit is shorn rather than plucked, the color tends to fade over time. Agoutis have white bellies, normally with gray under color. They also have white on the underside of their tails and on their footpads. Their eye circles and nostril markings will be white or light tan. Pictures of each color will be posted as they become available.
Chestnut is the "normal" color for rabbits, the same color you see in wild rabbits. The surface color is a rich chestnut, ticked with black-tipped guard hairs. It has one or more intermediate bands of tan, alternating with slate, with a blue-gray under color. Eyes are brown. Chestnuts appear black at birth, with light under parts, then the color of the rings develops as the bunny's coat comes in. Note the difference just a week or two can make in the pictures below.
The babies in the photos above are from Angel Filby of http://www.angelsbunnies.com/
The older doe is a Chestnut German hybrid doe owned by Abby McDufford of Sunshine Rabbitry
Thank you both!
Opal is a dilute Chestnut. Where a chestnut has black, an Opal has blue. The chestnut is replaced with fawn. The under color is light blue.
All of the photos above are English Angoras from Angel Filby of http://www.angelsbunnies.com/ Thank you!
Chocolate Agouti is simply a Chestnut with Chocolate replacing the Black. This is a French Angora, Starwist'sButterskotch, from Laura's French Angoras, email LaurasAngoras@yahoo.com Thank you!
Lynx is a dilute Chocolate Agouti. This darling is from Fern Valley Rabbitry. Thank you, Reina!
