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This is Lauren from Expert Village and we're going to talk about white chinchillas. A pink-white
chinchilla is what we typically call a pure white chinchilla they have pink skin, pink
ears and feet and then a pure white coat and they also have red eyes. They are a combination
of a white and a beige chinchilla and since the beige gene can sometimes show there is
times that they will have beige markings mixed in with the white hair. Mosaic chinchillas
are an off-shoot of the pink-white, they are white with colored markings and this can be
white with grey markings which is the mosaic, there's a white with violet markings which
is a white-violet, they can be white with ebony markings which is an ebony-white or
if the colors are reversed they can have a grey body with heavy white markings which
is a rarer called a reverse mosaic. Note that the pink-white chinchillas and chinchillas
with white in their background have to be bred with caution. There is something called
the lethal factor which is when you breed two white chinchillas together and the babies
that come out of that breeding can, if they're a white lethal chinchilla, they actually don't
live long after birth they die soon after because of the genetic makeup. Stay with us
and next we're going to talk about violets.