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Title: Color of your chin
Post by: luvmychinchins on October 17, 2006, 05:05:29 PM

What color of chin do you want or have??????????





 this is my first poll, i hope it goes well!!!! ::dancingspot::im excited!!!

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: Sweetnessheart on October 17, 2006, 08:02:36 PM

I love "ALL" Chinchilla colors!  My favorite, I think, is black velvet....or wait.....white mosaic....or wait...... standard .....I can't make up may mind!!    ::shrug::     rofl

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: ChinchillAZ on October 17, 2006, 10:27:17 PM

 ;D  I'm with Sweetnessheart!  I love them all!

I have Standards, Black Velvets, Beiges, Mosaics, Ebonies, Tans, and a TOV Mosaic.  I really love the freckles in the ears of the Beiges and the way that Mosaics change in color so much.  I'm also very fond of Pink Whites and am currently waiting to see if my Homozygous Light Tan/Mosaic pair manages to throw any with their first litter.   :::grins::

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: chinchillagrl06 on October 18, 2006, 11:15:06 AM

My favorite is not an option. I am completely in love with violets, but I like all the colors. :)

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: ChinchillAZ on October 18, 2006, 01:32:28 PM

You know how long the list would be if ALL possible colors were an option...   ;D

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: chinchillagrl06 on October 18, 2006, 01:38:26 PM

I know it! There are so many colors. :)

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: luvmychinchins on October 18, 2006, 07:34:24 PM

yeah, i only did the most common, (or a least i thought were the most common,) colors. if i did all of the colors, that would be alot of colors!!!! rofl ;D

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: ChinchillAZ on October 18, 2006, 07:39:57 PM

I think for the most common colors, I'd go with:
Standard
Black Velvet
Beige
Mosaic
Ebony
Violet
Sapphire

The others are all basically combinations of the above.  (i.e. Brown Velvet = Beige + Black Velvet, Tan = Beige + Ebony, etc.)

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: Summer on October 19, 2006, 08:10:26 AM

 :::grins:: My list would be to long. But Fav. are mosaic, violet and the standard. :chin:

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: Debbie.nl.ca on October 19, 2006, 03:55:42 PM

I voted black,including the med or hetero ebony, I think they have such awesome markings. BUT I too love them all.Breeding the beiges/br.velvets and everything that can come from the beige genes I find the most fun.Drop in an ebony gene and give me med. tans. I love them too.
So trying to pick one is almost impossible for me ;)
I just love a nice solid white I have, and my tov homo beige is still on the top of my list.
Funny my least favorites are the violets, and from what I've seen in pictures the Sapphires would be my second least. I haven't had one of those, or seen on in person so I'm still open to the sapphires. ::nod::
I don't and won't breed my violet, I just don't think they'd sell here. :::(((

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: ChinchillAZ on October 19, 2006, 04:06:55 PM

Quote from: Debbie.nl.ca on October 19, 2006, 03:55:42 PM

I don't and won't breed my violet, I just don't think they'd sell here.

I think it takes a LOT of work to breed Violets and Sapphires and have them maintain good fur quality.  I'm just not willing to do it, myself.  I'll work with the mutations that are a bit easier.  I'm just lazy like that, I guess.   ;D

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: chinclub on October 19, 2006, 04:14:14 PM

It does take a lot!!  It took me 3 generations of careful breeding to get my violets that won color phase and reserve color phase at the MCBA show last year.  It takes a lot of patients but once you get just what you were working for it is so worth it!!

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: ChinchillAZ on October 19, 2006, 04:26:26 PM

I think it's great that there are breeders who do take the time to breed violets and sapphires properly and who have that dedication and patience!   ::nod::

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: chinchillagrl06 on October 19, 2006, 04:51:57 PM

Violets have come along way. Just in the past year I have seen a big improvement in the violets I've seen. :)
I think Saphires still have a long long way to go before we will be seeing anything that would be considered quality.

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: McCaille on October 19, 2006, 08:48:09 PM

Our herd consists of Standards, Mosaic, Black Velvet, Pink White and we have one lonely hetero beige rescue boy.

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: Jo Ann on October 20, 2006, 09:36:55 AM

::silly::We have standard gray, beige, white mosaic, pink white, black velvet, TOV brown velvet, tan, ebony, violet and some that can be mixed within these ... haven't tried the sapphire yet.  Notice I said yet ... I do see that they are improving each year ... good breeding takes time, patients and knowledge.  Violets have come a very long way since I first came into breeding ... for years I thought I would never breed violets, but I do have them now.   ::nod::
   
 ::wave::
Jo Ann

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: chinchillagrl06 on October 20, 2006, 12:20:57 PM

I think within the next 5 years we will be seeing some really beautiful violets out there. There are a few now, I haven't seen a lot of big violets. My violet male is between 650 and 700 grams and he is HUGE compared to the violets I saw on the show table. I am hoping to breed him someday to a big blocky standard girl with Perfect fur. I think I could get some beautiful VC's from him. My friend and I are supposed to be going up to Bowen's Ranch to see the Neubauers sometime soon. I want to take Mystique with me and see what Gary thinks of him. and maybe pick him out a girlfriend.  ;) Hopefully I will be back on my feet in the next 6 months and can start my plans for my chin herd.  :)

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: chewy on November 16, 2006, 08:26:00 PM

I really like the Black and the White's. I dont know all the technichal names for them yet  :-\ but i do like them! I dont really know what my Chinchilla's color is called either. He is Grey with some DARK grey almost black markings.

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: Leslie on November 17, 2006, 02:33:23 PM

Chewy, your chin is a probably a standard.  Is he grey on top and has a white belly?

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: ChinnyGirl on November 17, 2006, 02:41:42 PM

hey!

i have a ebony.....................and i love her so!


 :chin: ::gobananago:: ::fruit:: ::balloon::

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: chewy on November 20, 2006, 03:05:05 PM

Yea he has a white belly! so he is a standard then? ::silly::

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: Marie14625 on March 27, 2007, 06:28:46 PM

 ::silly::  Trixie is a grey, but if I did get another, I rather like the looks of the blacks and the whites.

Marie

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: Chili and Tez on June 21, 2007, 08:18:48 PM

Yeah, I could not choose a favorite color. I love my two which are standard and biege, they're beautiful! ;)

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: balletgirl on November 09, 2007, 09:50:39 PM

I love all chinchilla colors too.  My top 2 colors are violet and white mosaic.  There is an absolutely adorable violet chinnie at the pet store that I'm saving up for! I almost have enough money for him! :::grins::

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: kat473 on November 10, 2007, 08:08:31 AM

I love them all.

I have 2 Homo Beiges, 2 Brown Velvets, 1 Violet, 1 Mosaics.

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: chinchillagirl on November 10, 2007, 08:00:47 PM

I love them all too. I have a white mosaic ::silly::

Title: Re: Color of your chin
Post by: BritneyFreak on December 13, 2007, 03:46:49 PM

I have a beige and a standard but the next time I get a new chin I want a white one for sure ;)