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DP shows on Bay, so if you have bay chinchillas, it will show. Plus DP sometimes gives you pretty dapples, or will make the S+ dapples standout.

@Humboldt Thanks for your response! Still though, I thought DP only darkens the red parts of the bay coat, and that's the same part that chinchilla turns white, right? Cause if it can make some of that area come back as partly washed out black, that would be cool. I think then I'd add hom DP to my brown chinchilla gmt project.

Chocolate chinchilla with satin sounds beautiful! I was thinking about going that direction with my brown chinchilla. I'm definitely going to add chocolate but I'm not sure I can afford satin as well. I love livers too, so it struck me as kinda funny when I realized I was almost turning what started as a silver black horse into what could be taken for a flaxen liver chestnut! Both red-based and black-based horses and they can look almost exactly the same.

I did spend a while using the search to compare chinchillas with and without DP and I couldn't really tell that there was any difference, that's why I came here to ask. There's usually a lot of other genes and white markings that can make it hard to tell as well.

@Alianne Those are beautiful horses! That makes sense that the extra bling genes are there mostly to add value to straws, though I can see the little bit of color the satin adds on Cacophony of Comets. I'm starting to really love that look, I think it's making me a fan of satin. But I don't think of S+ as just bling on chocolate chinchilla browns. I love what it does to the edge between the white and the chocolate, it makes it really nice and dapply. :)

@Kintara, Thanks for your input! I agree, DP is a must in almost all of my lines, I was just wondering if I was being wasteful by wanting it in my chinchillas as well, but I guess not! I was almost glad when I thought I'd be able to save on the GMTs by skipping DP, but it looks like I'll be adding it to my chinchilla boy after all. I'm sure I wont regret the extra cost. :)

That was my thought . . . but people seem to like it so much.

With sooty and no DP

Chin Clone 1

With sooty with DP

Chin Clone 2


They are identical. :)