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"I'd say Chocolate Tort.
Lovely Angora!"
"fawn.
tort wouldn't have the eye circles.
angoras don't separate orange -- anything lighter than a red with brown eyes is a fawn. with blue eyes is a cream. Sidd - Orange genotype is tricky - varies by breed -- some it has to be chocolate-base, some a low rufus black-base. I forget which Hollands are.
color on the tips of the ears is 'smut' -- really common in the fawns. This is actually very little smut compared to most I've seen (including mine). Regardless of breed, you usually get more smut on fawns from 'mixed color' pedigrees and less if they are pure red/fawn/cream (better modifiers for no smut if you don't mix). Angora folks do a lot of mixing colors (and color is only a few points, so you lose basically nothing for smut), so smut is really common in angoras.
The nice bright color (as well as looks like chocolate on both sides of the pedigree) makes me think it is a chocolate-based (bb) fawn -- though you want to look at that eartip color really closely to decide whether it is black (B-D-), chocolate (bbD-) or even blue (B-dd). Theoretically, the blue-based should have blue eyes and so be creams -- but a lot seem to pop with brown eyes or eyes that start blue and darken to brown (which would be a DQ for other breeds - angoras just shift to show as a dark cream). Lilac-base (bbdd) almost always stay paler and have the purple-blue eyes (show as cream).
super cute by the way and really lovely color. "
some more discussion:
"annoys the geneticist in me (who wants consistency and each color to be one genotype - preferably standardized across all the breeds) - but the 'lumping' method used for the angoras (if it is REALLY high rufus it's a red, if it has blue eyes it's a cream, everything else is fawn) works pretty well and probably leads to less arguments over which something is. With only 5 points on color (and the show classifications just 'white' and 'colored' with almost every color accepted) angora folks tend to not sweat the details on color.
Need the right modifiers to get rid of smut - starting with wideband (ww) but others too. I find the angora breeders do a lot of color mixing (maybe because we show 'colored' as a single group? or just because with only 5 points on color its pretty much either a DQ or show quality - no in between?). Interestingly, the red angoras tend to not be smutty -- I assume because the only way to keep that really high rufus is to keep breeding red to red - which lets one simultaneously keep the proper modifiers. "
