What are the different colors??

[ericzerka24]

Alright so I've looked up and down on the internet and I've been having trouble finding names for the different color patterns of ASF’s. Let me know if I got these right

Agouti??


Pied??


Fawn??

[ericzerka24]

If someone could post pics with different color names that would be great!

[Mike Cavanaugh]

You have to search the old threads... it is here somewhere....

[ericzerka24]

I did but I didn't really find much

[NotaMallard]

I'd call the first one ruby-eyed headspot cinnamon, the second pied agouti, and the third headspot (unless there's white on the rump, then it's pied) pink-eye dilute.

[Rhasputin]

The third, is known as Argente. It means that the coat is a diluted version of agouti.

The fur will be yellowish tan on top, and have a grayish blue undercoat.

If you breed the argentes into your cinnamons, you will get less of a blue undercoat from what I understand. The Argente, is a recessive gene.



Your first may be cinnamon, which is a shade of agouti. And the other, is a piebald agouti.

[suzuki4life]

so your argente is an albino+agouti?

if so then I look forward to having some.

[ericzerka24]

so your argente is an albino+agouti?

if so then I look forward to having some.

Haha i have no clue! I call em "Dark One", "Spotted One", "Orange One", "Evil :cens0r: ", and "Mean Little :cens0r: ". Thats the color scheme I go by and it seems to work.

[snakesRkewl]

LMAO, I have similar names for my asf's

[Rhasputin]

No. Argente isn't Albino + Agouti.

Argente, genetically would be something like A/A p/p or A/a p/p (using mouse genetic codes. I'm sure that ASF codes are different letters probably, but for simplicity's sake, we'll use mouse codes)

The A's are agouti genetics, and the p's are pink eye dilution. Pink eye dilution is not the same thing as Albino.
The ASF has two have two copies of the recessive 'p' or pink eye dilution gene, to display yellow fur, and pink eye.