When it comes to assorted hedgehog breeds, the choice is reasonably simple. African Pygmy Hedgehogs are the most typical type of trained hedgehogs. However, when it comes to selecting a hedgehog color, or determining what color your hedgehog really is, things get more complicated.

According to the International Hedgehog organisation, there are 92 different color varieties for hedgehogs, and these colours come from the white-bellied hedgehogs as well as the Algerian hedgehogs. The colors also come from Pinto hedgehogs and Albino hedgehogs. While we can’t cover all the color classes here, we will describe the most typical hedgehog colours.

First, there’s the salt and pepper hedgehog. With salt and peppers, only five percent of the quills can be solid white, but the pricks are usually white with black bands. A pepper and salt hedgehog will have a white face, and his mask, ears, and nose will be black. The belly will be white with black mottling.

Grey’s are also common, and there are 2 varieties : Grey and Dark Gray . If the hedgehog is a dark gray, he is going to look very like the pepper and salt, except his pricks will have rusty brown outer edges, and the skin on his shoulders will really be a dark gray. With a gray hedgehog, this skin is a lighter shade of gray.

Chocolate hedgehogs are not to be confused with brown hedgehogs. A brown hedgehog has white pricks with light brown bands, and may or may not have a light coloured mask. His eyes will have a blue ring round the outer edges and his shoulder skin will really be pink with some gray. A chocolate coloured hedgehog, on the other hand, has dark brown bands with a light brown mask and light gray shoulders.
Cinnamon colored hedgehogs are very pretty. They have white pricks with cinnamon brown bands. Cinnamons don’t have a mask, and they have pink shoulders. Dark Cinnicots, black eyed Cinnicots, and Ruby eyed Cinnicots look very like cinnamons. Their pricks are white, but they have bands of cinnamon and a pale orange color too. The faces are not masked, and their shoulders are pink. As the names suggest, the Black Eyed Cinnicot has black eyes, and the Ruby Eyed Cinnicot has ruby coloured eyes.
Other common colors for hedgehogs include champers, apricot, and pale apricot. Fizz hedgehogs have white pricks with beige orange and cinnamon bands and pink shoulders. Their faces are not masked and they have ruby coloured eyes. Apricots have white pricks with beige orange bands, an exposed face and ruby eyes, and the pale apricot has white pricks with yellowish orange bands.

So, as you can see, while hedgehogs would possibly not be unique by reproduce, as cats and dogs are, hedgehogs are far more unique by color mixes, implying that while 2 hedgehogs might be classed as an identical color, they are indeed quite unique.

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