GENETICS GUIDE PRODUCING UNUSUAL VIOLET CROSSES Written By - Anjela Ross Crystal Chinchillas

BREEDING THE ULTRA VIOLET

The Ultra Violet, or Violet Velvet, or Violet / Black Velvet cross as it is known, is a beautiful and relatively easy
mutation to breed. You do not see it around very often, but if you wish to have a Violet with a dark Violet
veiling to the fur, such as the pattern that is seen with Black Velvets, then this is the one for you. The animal still
should possess a clear white tummy, with very dark Violet fur on the head and back, lightening up over the sides,
as seen in a Black Velvet, but then obviously the colour is Black and not Violet.

STEP ONE
To breed your very own, you can follow the information give below.
You will need to have a Black Velvet carrying Violet. You can sometimes purchase these, but if not then you
can breed on yourself. Breed a good Black Velvet to a Violet and the result will be -
50 % Standard Violet carriers
50 % Black Velvet Violet carriers
 

STEP TWO
When you have a Black Velvet Violet carrier, you need to mate this to an unrelated Violet.
The results of this mating will be as follows -
25 % Standard Violet carriers
25% Black Velvet Violet carriers
25 % Violet
25 % Ultra Violet
So, you have a one in four chance of breeding an Ultra Violet.
 

The way to check that you have one, is that the Ultra Violet will show the dark violet stripes on the front paws, the
same as a Black Velvet does. This way you are sure that your Violet has Black Velvet in it.
 

BREEDING THE VIOLET / WHITE CROSS
 

The Violet / White cross is a very attractive animal. Maybe I am biased, but I tend to think all animals with White are
beautiful, especially when they are densely furred and have nice clear, blue white fur. Mixing Violet with White helps to
give you an even bluer white fur colour. The Violet / White cross can be an interesting mutation to breed, as every one
tends to look different. This all depends on what the white you breed to your Violet contains, a tipping gene, a spotting gene
or both. The tipping gene gives regular Whites the silver appearance, where the hairs are tipped with grey. When you achieve
this effect in a Violet / White cross, then obviously the hairs of the animal are tipped with Violet instead. The spotting gene,
is what in usual Whites gives you mosaics, with cute grey patches random over the body and face. With the Violet / White
cross the patches are then Violet. Obviously, with both tipping and spotting genes, you can achieve an animal that has
tipped fur and patches of Violet colour over the white.

STEP ONE
So how do you breed one?
Well, firstly you need to mate a full Violet to a regular White.
This combination will produce -
50 % Standard Violet carriers
50 % White Violet carriers.
You need a White Violet Carrier
 

STEP TWO
When you have a White Violet carrier this will need to be bred to an unrelated Violet
              This combination will produce the following offspring -
25 % Standard Violet carriers
25 % White Violet carriers
25 % Violets
25 % Violet/White crosses.
 

THE VIOLET / EBONY CROSS

This is one to try, if you feel up to a challenge! A beautiful mutation, that takes time to get your hands on, but is well
worth it when you do! The Violet / Ebony cross, has the appearance of a Violet. Except, that thanks to the wrap around
colour ability that the Ebony contributes to this mutation, the Violet colouring wraps the whole way around the body.
Following the below breeding steps, here is how to get your own Violet / Ebony cross.

STEP ONE
You firstly need, two full Violets and two full Homozygous Ebonies.
Breed the Violet to the Ebony, so you have two pairs, that should produce you-
Heterozygous Ebonies, carrying Violet.
 

STEP TWO
The animals all need to be unrelated, as you need to then breed the two Heterozygous Ebonies carrying Violet together.
Doing this, will produce you the following combinations -
Out of a chance of 9
   2 Violets carring Ebony
2 Ebonies carrying Violet
    2 Heterozygous Ebonies carrying Violet
    1 Ebony
    1 Violet
1 Violet / Ebony cross
One out of nine will be the animal you desire; which is only an 11.1% chance. It could be born in the first litter,
or it could take you a few years.
 

ANOTHER OPTION
If, you wanted to speed up the process, to give you more chance of breeding a Violet / Ebony cross, then you can also
follow these breeding combinations -
Breed a Violet carrying Ebony to a Homozygous Ebony carrying Violet
This will produce -
25 % Heterozygous Ebony carrying Violet
25 % Violet carrying Ebony
25 % Homozygous Ebony carrying Violet
25% Violet / Ebony cross
With these matings you are then given a one in four chance of breeding the Violet / Ebony cross, so hopefully you
would breed that special mutation a little more quickly!