Bunnylady
Herd Master
Agouti isn't a color, it's a pattern. Agouti patterned rabbits have light colored rings around their eyes, light color around their nostrils and under their jaws, light colored fur between their toes, and inside their ears. Their bellies and the undersides of their tails are white. They have a light colored triangle in the fur behind their ears. The hairs on the body of an agouti-patterned rabbit have bands of color on them, a dark band at the end, then a light band, then a grey band closest to the skin. Blowing into the coat causes the bands on the hairs to line up, producing a "target". Chinchilla, Lynx, Opal and Squirrel are all agouti patterned colors, but the one with black on the fur tips and yellow as the second band is called Chestnut, or Chestnut Agouti.embkm said:They are soooooooo much cuter now! Their eyes opened yesterday and they are starting to hold thier ears up a bit. I will have to post new pics tomorrow!
Oh, and the "black" ones are not black. I think they are agouti colored? Maybe? LOL Not sure but looking at other website pics, that is what they look like.
Are these Brownie's babies? Looking at a picture of her that you posted on another thread, I wasn't quite sure that she was agouti patterned. She looked like she might be tan patterned. The tan gene produces the light eye ring, white belly, and all that, like the agouti, but the body hairs lack the light bands. If she is tan patterned, she's a Chocolate Otter. If Brownie is a Chocolate Otter, her babies might turn out to be Black Otters. They're looking good, whatever color they are!