Dilute with Agouti (Dilute Carrier) will have some Dilute and some Agouti. Dilute White bred with Dilute White will always result in Dilute babies. As Dilutes reach old age they can go a more creamy colour overall and the stripes can become quite pale. This colour is a recessive gene. Young Dilutes tend to have more prominent stripes and also tend to look whiter than adult Dilutes. Dilute's stripes come though after about 2 weeks and at first the stripes look shiny and are almost transparent. The feet have white fur with the toes and pads being pink. Babies are born pink with no nose stripe and take time to develop white fur, they stay pink while Agouti get stripes. The eyes are a ruby red colour that looks black from a distance (not pink like in Albinos), the irises are a light blue the whiskers and claws are always white.
Dilutes don't have a stripe down the centre of the tail, the face may have cream markings but sometimes these are very faint. The tail is white with cream edge and the skin/bone part can clearly be seen down the centre. The next colour of chipmunk i bought, this chipmunk is white with five creamish stripes on the back, these may be dark or pale so they can hardly be seen. Hermione's babies 2nd litter - All Dilute Whitesĭilute White - sometimes just known as White or Dilute It also has the most variations of colour and can appear in any colour litter. This is the most common colour of Chipmunk and has remained the most popular. As Agoutis become older they can get more grey on the back of the neck and shoulders and the colours on the body generally fade and the stripes may go a rusty colour. The Agouti colour is a dominant gene because it is the original wild type and all Chipmunks regardless of their colour have Agouti genes.
Black baby born with tail skin#
Babies are born with a black stripe on the nose and dark eye patches and after a few days their heads start going grey, stripes appear on the skin about a week old. Claws and whiskers are white with black tips. The top part of these stripes are often ticked with grey or white hairs, as Chipmunks get older they may develop more grey or white hair ticking on the stripes behind the neck. When you really look closely at a Chipmunk's fur you see so much more colour/pattern than you first saw, they really are beautiful animals.The eyes are black with dark brown irises although in babies these are often light blue. Also the nose stripe is pale on the Cinnamon, a Agouti normally has a black one it also doesn't usually fade as an adult. Just because a Agouti baby has ginger stripes or rump it doesn't mean it is a Cinnamon carrier you will not know that until it is bred with the same colour as you expect it is carrying and it is normal for Agouti babies to have very ginger-red stripes when they first get their fur, in some cases they will stay very red, in others they will go greyer or browner I had one female who had creamy brown stripes. Also check the claws Agouti's have a hint of black in the claws, if they are clear they are usually Cinnamon. Agouti's can vary in colouring and shades quite a lot which can cause confusion with Cinnamon's, babies can have very ginger-red stripes but Agouti's never have the ginger tails Cinnamon's have or the very brown stripes. Underneath the tail can be a ginger-brown, These Chipmunks have brown/grey feet (pink paw pads) a white patch behind the ears, the ears are black and white, the rump can sometimes be a sandy colour or even reddish. The cheeks are a greyish/brown colour, while underneath the chin is white. The tail is brownish grey colour with black edging, black stripe down the middle and a white trim. There are three brown face stripes and two white on each side of the face with a white ring around the eye. The three lowest stripes on the body each get shorter in length.
The body colour is a brown grey (the hairs have black ticking, each hair is tipped with black) and there are five black brown stripes on the back, the middle stripe goes onto the tail and the back of the head while the others are shorter in length. On the body there are also two brown/reddish stripes and two white stripes. This is the basic colour of the Chipmunk i described on the About Chipmunk page. The main colour of the Chipmunk is the Agouti or Normal. Lottie's babies 2011 - all Agouti coloured I will be updating the photos on this page so please bare with me.
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