Hello all.
 
My first litter (ever!) will be five weeks old today.  They are very cute
and all are doing well.  Eyes are open on all of them and they are toddling
around very well.  Seem to be slightly ahead on development compared to the
litter documented in the FURO book on reproduction.  Color seems well
defined.  Mom is cinnamon, Dad is black sable.  Kits so far are-- one male
that looks to take after dad, very dark.  one cinnamon female marked exactly
like mom, very pale and reddish.  one slightly darker but still appears
cinnamon, panda and mitts, female.  Two silver, one panda, one panda
"wannabe" (patch of silver by right ear), both female, both with mitts.
 
Now for the color question-- i wrote ~3 weeks ago with a question about a
jill i saw at a renfest, but it was never answered, so i'm trying again,
this time with more information.  this jill was a solid dark yellow all
over, face slightly lighter but still yellow, dark eyes, black guard hairs
on tail.  looked like a DEW pattern that had been dipped in clover honey.
very pretty.  (i can be more detailed this time because she is sitting in my
lap helping me type this!).  Okay...  her owner says that her mother mated
with a mink.  i was browsing through the color section in the FURO
reproduction book, and saw a reference to a mink with "ambergold" colored
fur.  Could this be the color?  but-- she also has a severely twisted face,
which same book says is a result of inbreeding.  so...  any idea what the
color would be called, and if it could indeed be from a mink cross?  also,
this jill had a litter last year.  the daughter i have seen is white, not
yellow, normal face.
 
please, any info will help and be muchly appreciated.
 
val
 
                       "Shamrock"
[log in to unmask]        Valeriane Luke McNeill
Biology major/CS minor          Marine Biology/Zoology
[Posted in FML issue 1538]