The Light Gray is one of the more popular colors of the Flemish Giant. It's known for it's "dashing" good looks, and the charming personality that usually accompanies that color. Not quite as "perfected" as the sandy, it's still a very widely shown and widely popular color. It has it's fair share of difficulties, but doesn't exceed any tolerable limit by most standards as do some other varieties. Lt. Grays are also a key variety in the creation of the Steel.
The ideal light gray shown on a table would be very similar to a chinchilla in coloration. It is an agouti coloration, having three rings of color, plus black tipped guard hairs. The undercolor is a slate blue, intermediate ring is PEARL (not white), and top ring is a silver gray color. The black tipping should be evenly distributed to avoid harlequin striping, blotchy or uneven appearances, or shadow bars. The ears are laced black, the inside of ears, around eyes, underside of nose and chin, underside of belly, and underside of tail, feet, and toes are white.
GENETICS OF THE LIGHT GRAY:
A- B- cchd cchd D- E- en en "w w"
Light grays are a form of chinchilla, dictated by the "C" series gene. It is possivle for grays to have "cchd c" or one albino gene (c). This can be told by whether or not the bunny produces white when bred to a white. Otherwise if no white is produced it is safe to assume the animal is "cchd cchd" or having two chin genes as the full color gene typical of all other colors of Flemish "C" would overpower that chin gene. Light grays are also agoutis, just like sandies, and fawns. To be genetically true to light gray they should also possess the wide band gene "ww" which makes their intermediate band wider and brighter than your typical chinchillas. Although this isn't how a lot of them look so it may either be that many don't possess this "ww" and should or the wider brighter bands are results of modifiers not wide band gene. If the animal appears darker like a chinchilla with narrower intermediate band it is probably safe to say it does NOT possess the wideband gene or "ww" but could possibly be "W w" or "W W" which would both be dominant (regular banding) over the wideband.
