Chocolate Fawn and Chocolate Tort

We have met Fawndella and Rocher a few days ago when they wish their daddy a Happy Father's Day.  

Let's take a look at their colors.   On the right is Rocher who is named after the delicious chocolate Ferrero Rocher, a chocolate tort.  aabbC-D-ee    In Rocher's case, there is one more known factor: he carries dilute gene d because his daddy Brighton is a lilac tort.   So his color genes can be updated as aabbC-Ddee.   In the case of tort, if it's chocolate based, it has bb and called chocolate tort.   Tort in the current SOP is actually black tort (will be changed to black tort in the next SOP), the color genetics is aaB-C-D-ee.   The black tort and the chocolate tort are clearly distinguished.

As the name suggests, Fawndella is a fawn.   Our current standard does not distinguish black fawn and chocolate fawn, just call it fawn.  It listed in the fault "Any smut, ticking, ear lacking, or faint grayish band in wool".    In order to get a fawn that is totally "clean", it needs to be chocolate based A-bbC-D-ee.    And Fawndella is a chocolate based fawn; since her mom is a chocolate fawn but dad is a lilac tort, so her specific color genes are AabbC-Ddee.      Her color is considered as desirable because there is no smut or grayish band or ticking.    If the bb is replaced by B-, the fawn will be considered a "smutty fawn" thus not as desirable according to the current standard.  In essence the current standard considers black fawn as a fault.    We will compare the black fawn and chocolate fawn in tomorrow's post.   

To be realistic, there are only 5 points assigned to color so this is more of a discussion than a selection guide.   The wool and body are much more important on the show table.     In Betty's barn, the English Angora with the highest number of winnings is Chu's Zeeva, see 

https://ncag.blogspot.com/2019/05/happy-8th-birthday-zeeva.html    and Zeeva is a black fawn.