RABBIT COLOURS

The number of coat colours found in rabbits is long and sometimes confusing.

The following list covers the basic colour descriptions or colour groups found.

Agouti: bands of colour occur on each hair - the colours of these bands vary depending on the type of agouti coloration.
Black: dark black.
Black otter: black body with lighter underside, hair may be orange tinted at the border of the black and lighter colour.
Blue: medium or slate blue.
Blue otter: blue coat with fawn tipped guard hairs, fawn areas.
Blue steel: blue with silver or tan "ticking"
Blue tortoiseshell: blue and beige.
Broken: white with any colour patches or spots, with nose markings, coloured ears, and eye circles.
Brown-grey agouti: blue at base, then medium tan, charcoal, and tan at tip.
Californian: white body with black on nose, ears, tail, feet.
Castor: brown over top, slate blue undercoat, with orange or red in between.
Chinchilla: slate or black blended with pearl, black tipped guard hairs.
Cinnamon: rust or reddish-brown colour.
Chocolate: deep dark brown.
Chocolate agouti: bands of tan and chocolate with a chestnut tip.
Chocolate chinchilla: chocolate and pearl with chocolate tipped guard hairs.
Chocolate steel: chocolate with tan or silver ticking.
Chocolate tortoiseshell: creamy chocolate with fawn.
Copper agouti: bands of red/orange and dark slate with red at tip, ticked with black tipped guard hairs.
Cream: pinkish beige to almond.
Fawn: straw colour.
Frosted pearl: pearl with black, blue, chocolate or lilac shading. 
Grey: three different colours of hair: black, black with tan tip, and black with tan band, and slate under colour
Light grey: agouti with slate blue at base, off white in middle, and light grey at tip, with black tipped guard hairs.
Lilac: pinkish pale grey
Lilac chinchilla: lilac and pearl ticked with lilac tipped guard hairs.
Lilac steel: lilac with tan or silver ticking.
Lilac tortoiseshell: lilac and beige.
Opal agouti: slate blue at base of hair, then gold, then blue tip.
Orange: light to bright orange.
Pearl: light creamy grey.
Pointed white: white with black, blue, chocolate or lilac coloured nose, ears, feet, tail (like a Himalayan colouring).
Red: rich brown red colour.
Sable: dark greyish brown.
Sable marten: Siamese sable colouring with silver tipped guard hairs.
Sable point: cream body and sable on nose, ears, feet and tail.
Sandy: reddish tan.
Seal: dark (almost black) sable.
Self-group: solid colour in black, blue, lilac, blue-eyed white, and ruby eyed white.
Shaded group: colour transitions from dark to light (e.g. frosted pearl, sable, sable point, Siamese sable, seal, and tortoise).
Silver or silver fox: silver with white or white tipped hairs.
Silver Marten: black, blue, chocolate or lilac with silver white markings and silver tipped guard hairs.
Tan Pattern: marks (not necessarily tan) on nostril, eye circles, jowls, inside ears, belly, inside led, underside of tail. Groups included marten and otter colorations.
Ticking: solid or tipped guard hairs different from the main coat colour interspersed throughout the coat.
Tortoise: orange with black, blue, chocolate or lilac.
Tortoiseshell: orange or dark fawn and black.
Tri-coloured: white with any of black and orange, lavender blue and fawn, chocolate and orange, grey and fawn.

White: blue eyed white ( bew ) red eyed white ( rew )