White & Mosaic Chinchilla Facts

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Summary: Find out facts on white and mosaic chinchillas in this free video.

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Lauren Von Lehe Lauren Von Lehe began the Chinchilla Rescue and Adoption Network while living in Arizona and working at the Second Chance Center for Animals. They were not ab... read more

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White & Mosaic Chinchilla Facts

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.

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