Help needed in identification

[JeanneNicole]

My daughter is desperate to find out what breed or mixes her two new baby boys are who are now 11 weeks.

We would have loved to have got them from a breeder, but unfortunately there were no local breeders and having just had shoulder surgery travelling long distances was not option.
So we did the unmentionable and got them from our local pet shop(at least they had been checked by the vet on site). We have been told they are from the same litter.

Appologies in advance as the photos are not the best. Scabbers has darker grey colouring but in the photo it has come out more brown

This is Euan


This is Scabbers

[izzerie]

Euan is a dumbo roan and Scabbers I'm not 100% about because the photo is very small but I think he's a mink hooded

[JeanneNicole]

Thank you so much for this. Do you think they could be from the same litter and if Euan is a Roan is he likely to lose all his colouration and go completely white?

[bazu]

Roans do tend to fade, but I've had some retain a large amount of grey, some go a nice dapply grey-white, and others go almost completely white. They do tend to retain a certain amount of grey, but it really varies.

It also happens very gradually - 6 months down the line, you'll look back at baby photos and be shocked

[JeanneNicole]

Will let my daughter know that and let her know not to worry about Euan changing colour.

Do you think that Euan and Scabbers could be from the same litter?

[Mayamy]

Genetically I don't think there's any reason they can't be, but obviously no way to really know

[JeanneNicole]

Many thanks

[Jem Q]

You can get hooded and roan/striped roan in the same litter, as well as mink and black, so don't see why they couldn't be siblings.