Novel Colour Combinations.

 

Violets

Any one attempting these combinations must realise that due to the softness of the violet fur any chin produced will have a weakness in this area. The double mutation combination can also lead to smaller kits with poor confirmation. They should at some point be crossed back to Standards or violet carriers to improve the strength of the offspring.

 

Blue Diamond

 

 

A mutation that is catching every one's interest at the moment is the Blue Diamond. This seems to be a combination of two recessive mutations, namely sapphire and violet. This is doubly difficult to breed due to the fact that carriers will have to carry both recessive mutations. As yet there is only one breeder in the UK producing this mutation.

 

 

 

Violet Wrap

 

 

 

In this mutation the violet colour wraps around the entire body of the chin. The white belly is no longer present due to the presence of the ebony gene. Good ebonies are fairly hard to find unfortunately, so a lot of the violet wraps seen are fairly small chins with poor conformation. Though this isn't always the case. There are a few very nice violet wraps available from those breeders who are willing to spend the time and money on what is a very difficult project. Only very good quality chins should be used with good, strong fur, and text book conformation.

First, you need to buy an ebony chinchilla carrying violet, or breed your own. To do this cross a violet chin with a full homo ebony chin. This will produce 100% heterozygous ebony carrying violet.

Having now obtained your heterozygous ebony carrying violet, you will now need to cross it to another heterozygous ebony carrying violet. This will produce 2 heterozygous ebony carrying violet, 2 violet carrying ebony, 2 ebonies carrying violet, 1 ebony and 1 violet/ebony. This should explain why they are so expensive due to the amount of work involved in producing them.

 

Violet/white cross

No two chins of this type of pairing are alike in colour due to the randomness of the distribution of colour. Like the Wilson White or Mosaic, you get patches of colour over the entire body of the chin, but in this case, the colour is violet not the Standard Grey.

First you need to have a white chinchilla carrying the violet mutation. This can either be bought from a breeder or you can breed your own. To do this you will need to cross a violet with a white chin, from this pairing you will get 50% standard carrier (if you use a Wilson White, if you use a pink white you will get 50% beige carrying violet), and 50% white carrying violet.

This white carrying violet will now need to be paired to an unrelated violet. The possible results of such a pairing are, 25% Standards (or 25% beige) carrying violet, 25% whites carrying violet, 25% violets and 25% violet/white crosses.

 

 

Pearl.

Again this is a fairly easy mutation combination to produce.

First, buy a beige violet carrier from a breeder, or try breeding your own. To do this cross a violet to a beige or brown velvet. Any babies that are born that are beige are crossed to another unrelated violet. The kits produced in this generation should be 50% beige carrying violet and 50% Beige violets or Pearls. Sometimes when Pearls are born they look like Pink Whites, but as they get older they change colour to a sort of strange beige colour with a white nose. They tend to have very soft fur, which makes them unsuitable for showing (usually, though not always).

 

 

 

 

Ultra Violets.

 

 

This is quite a straight forward violet mutation to produce. You will need a black velvet carrying violet and a violet to produce this mutation.

If you can not purchase a black velvet carrying violet from a breeder, and you have the cage space to breed your own, then you will need a good quality black velvet (I would recommend buying the best you can get as black velvets carrying violet tend to lose a lot of the coverage across the neck and shoulders), and cross this with a violet. You will produce 50% Standards carrying violet and 50% black velvets carrying violet.

Having hopefully now produced your black velvet carrying violet, you will now need to cross this with an unrelated violet. You now have the possibility of producing 25% Standards carrying violet, 25% black velvet carrying violet, 25% violet, and 25% ultraviolets.

 

 

 

Beige

 

Tans

Pastels

 

Pearls

 Again this is a fairly easy mutation combination to produce.

First, buy a beige violet carrier from a breeder, or try breeding your own. To do this cross a violet to a beige or brown velvet. Any babies that are born that are beige are crossed to another unrelated violet. The kits produced in this generation should be 50% beige carrying violet and 50% Beige violets or Pearls. Sometimes when Pearls are born they look like Pink Whites, but as they get older they change colour to a sort of strange beige colour with a white nose. They tend to have very soft fur, which makes them unsuitable for showing (usually, though not always).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sapphires

Combining sapphire with other mutations is not something I would recommend for the beginner. The sapphire is such a weak mutation from the point of view of health and fur quality that it is far too risky for the novice to attempt. This section is therefore intended for the curious, for them to see what can be obtained.

 

 

Sapphire Wrap.

This is the same as the violet wrap which combined violet and ebony with the only change being the incorporation of sapphire instead. Heterozygous ebony, homozygous sapphire. At the present time there are only two breeders in the UK breeding this colour combination of which I am one.

 

 

 

Royal Blue.

This is a black velvet sapphire, or TOV (Touch Of Velvet) Sapphire. Heterozygous velvet, homozygous sapphire. Again it is very rare in the UK, and good quality ones are even rarer.

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Diamond

 

 

A mutation that is catching every one's interest at the moment is the Blue Diamond. This seems to be a combination of two recessive mutations, namely sapphire and violet. This is doubly difficult to breed due to the fact that carriers will have to carry both recessive mutations. As yet there is only one breeder in the UK producing this mutation.

 

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