1
General Breeder Chat / DianeKS from Bel Air, Maryland. Kit colors reverse mosaic?
« on: July 04, 2013, 09:18:29 PM »
My White Chin Sugar had three kits yesterday and I am trying to interpret the colors. The Sire Honey is White and Sugar's sister Cookie is heterozygous Ebony. There is beige in the background of the sire. Cookie is helping nurse the three kits since she has a single 6 week old male kit Bon Bon who is violet. The female kit in Sugar's litter is Black with a white blaze vertically down her nose and a white spot on her back and one on her tail. I assume this is reverse mosaic but wonder if the color will get whiter as she matures? One male kit is White with light silver spotting, I think he will be white or a light mosaic. The other male looks like he is solid violet like Bon Bon (no white belly). I am watching them carefully since the female kit Oreo is tinier than her brothers. They all hopped out of the nesting box this morning and have been active at the bottom of the 5 foot tall cage. I keep hammocks in the cage so when the kits start climbing up they will not fall and get hurt.