How to Breed for a Clean Fawn

 

This is a fawn English Angora without any black or gray tips.  If we are writing up a pedigree, it's just stated as "Fawn".  However, if more genetic information is desired, it should be stated as a "Chocolate Fawn".   

This is a French Angora with a very clean face and wool, no black or gray tips.  Another chocolate fawn.  

It is listed in the SOP that it is not as desirable to have smut ticking ear lacing or faint grayish band in wool.   The above two fawn do not have any of these, sometimes it is called it a "clean fawn".   How do we get a fawn that is "clean", actually it is very simple, select the parents that are either chocolate (bb) or chocolate carriers (Bb).    The "clean" fawn is an agouti patterned chocolate tort!  The genetic make up is A-bbC-D-ee.