Question on colour

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Hi everybody,

Can anyone please tell me what 'pastel'colour is? Is it 'pink'?
When I brought my girl Lok from the Chin shop, the salesgirl told me that
Lok's colour was pink. Now after I received Lok's birth certificate, it
states that Lok's color is 'pastel'. Is pastel same as pink? I'm puzzled.
Lok is white on the whole, with a tinge of beige on the hair tip over the
head and tail. She has ruby red eyes, pink paws and pink ears. Can anybody
tell me what colour Lok is?

Neko

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At 02:17 PM 7/16/96 EDT, you wrote:
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>Hi Neko,

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>>Can anyone please tell me what 'pastel'colour is? Is it 'pink'?
>>When I brought my girl Lok from the Chin shop, the salesgirl told me that
>>Lok's colour was pink. Now after I received Lok's birth certificate, it
>>states that Lok's color is 'pastel'. Is pastel same as pink? I'm puzzled.
>>Lok is white on the whole, with a tinge of beige on the hair tip over the
>>head and tail. She has ruby red eyes, pink paws and pink ears. Can anybody
>>tell me what colour Lok is?
>

>There are two types of pastel, Dark pastel and light pastel.
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>A dark pastel chin is one which is homozygous for charcoal with a single
>(heterozygous) dominant, beige gene e.g. the Tower Beige. This chin is beige
>all over but has a belly that is beige not white.
>
>If the chinchilla is Homozygous for both Beige and charcoal, then it is a light
>pastel. If two of these chins are mated together all the babies would be light
>pastel because both characteristics are passed on in the in the same sperm or
>egg.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
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Michael, Thanks very much for your information!
My Lok 's colour is quite light and her belly is of creamy colour.She is
light pastel, am I right?

Neko