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Ebony
"Homo" dark / "hetro" or dilute ebony, charcoal/gray wrap
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This color has been called a weakly dominate recessive  gene.  It is the strangest of all chin color genes because of this.  The "best" ebonies are a deep black all over. Their fur is shiny, but as they get  older, the shine diminishes.

The distinction of this gene is the "wrap" affect negates the white belly of gray, beige and BV.  It can also combine with gray to produce
gray wrap/charcoal,
Breed ebony to beige and get
tan.   Ebony and BV get you  TOV ebony,.  Ebony white cross* is also possible.  The dark the black in the ebony strains the more dramatic the differences in the coat.

Breeding with Ebony is quite difficult as the color can go through many stages to get the "true"  dark Ebony.
Breeding Ebony to other recessives like violet or shappire and wrap the color over the light belly and darken the shade of the coat.

Other colors I would like to breed to ebony include
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Violet ~ PW ~ Tan ~ BV ~

            Hetro or Homo ebony?? Do they exist?  
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Ebony3 - eb male and gray wrap female ` Ebony4 `
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