I have heard of a fair few colours in the Uk. Most of them are infact here, some sadly are some breeders getting carried away and making “colours” more complicated  than need be.

Here is a gallery of all the colours available in the UK.  Remember that accurate colour identification can only be performed after the age of 9 weeks.  Prior to that you are only looking at the juvenile colour. As well. the colour will begin to fade past the age of 1 years old.
*All photos on this page are from bramblewood
Salt n Pepper



Dark Grey
Dark Grey, Smudge sprinkles

Grey
grey male, Chalkey



Chocolate
Male choc , Lewis


Brown
Feamle brown, Acorn

Cinamon
feamle cinnamon Queen bee

Dark Eyed Cinnacot
Note: the nose is not like the nose of a brown hedgehog it has a certain pink quality to it..

Female dark eyed cinnacot (Liberty)

Red Eyed Cinnacot
Male red eyed cinnacot barleigh

Champaign
Champaign, the highest level of cinnacot. Note how it has mostly apricot banding with a few cinnamon.


Apricot
Apricot, a very beautiful colour. Note how all the banding on quills are all the same colour. A must in the colour apricot

Pale Apricot
Pale apricot not as striking as standard apricot. But still a nice warm colour.


Albino

Dewberry albino


Snowflakes
note: If the hedgehog has 30% or 95% white quills it still falls into the snowflake category.
If you count more than 20 banded quills, it is a snowflake.



Champaign Snowflake



RED EYED CINNACOT SNOWFLAKE






Chocolate snowflake Brandy
Chocolate Chip (chocolate snowflale)

female snowflake Jetzi
Dark grey Snowflake


Pinto
female,Connie





Snowflakes

Snowflakes in theory can be produced in any colour that is already in the UK.  Just takes some careful planning and a bit of  luck.

There are some who say there is a dominate snowflake gene. Sadly this is not quite true. I have bred   the so called “dominate” snowflake gene to a hog with no snowflake in her line and guess what out of 6 babies none snowflaked. Also I have bred the same line to a brown flake and only 3 out of the 5 flaked. As you can see it does not seem very dominate. With snowflakes you need the male and female both to carry the snowflake gene as this gene is recessive.

Whites

At bramblewood hedgehogs, when our whites are born they are infact white from an early age and do not go on to develope banded quills. See photo below*. The whites are not just snowflakes that flaked well at 6-12 weeks of age. Here they are mostly white from baby to adult. We have had hogs that snowflaked and reached a very high% of white but do not become whites as such. But did do a good impression..lol :o) 

Whites come in PLATINUM, SILVER CHARCOAL WHITE, CHARCOAL WHITE, CHOCOLATE WHITE,BROWN WHITE, CINNAMON WHITE. CINNACOT WHITE, CHAMPAGNE WHITE AND APRICOT WHITE.
 
bews at almost 3 weeks
Babies at 3 weeks

Adult Whites hedgehogs


Grey White


Brown white


Brown White






Pinto
Pinto is a dominate gene, so you only need one carrier or visual pinto to pass on the traits.  As with snowflake it can appear on  any colour just needs careful planning and a bit of luck.
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If you have a hedgehog you think colour wise is not featured on our "Colours in the UK" page. Please send them in I would love to feature some of the newer colours. bramblewood_hedgehogs@yahoo.co.uk
I know there is just a beautiful hedgehogs all over the world, just this page is more of a study of the colours that are in the uk.

If you would like to learn more on how we feel about colours and how we produce certain colours please click here.

Carl Eo :)