The Standard Chinchilla was produced by a French breeder named M.J. Dybowski, who claims to have gotten this breeding from a wild gray rabbit, a blue rabbit, and a Himalayan. This is a four-class breed. Senior bucks weigh about six pounds, and senior does weigh about six and one-half pounds.
This breed has a compact body type. It's body should have well developed shoulders and hindquarters, and the depth should aprroximately equal the width. The topline needs to rise in a gradual curve from the ears to the center of the hips, and then fall smoothly downward in a curve to the tail. The body should have equal balance, with a slight taper from the hips to the shoulders.
The head should be medium full with a well filled face and jaw, and a short neck. The ears should be carried erect and in proportion to the rest of the rabbit. The tips of the ears need to have black lacing. The eyes need to be large, bright, and bold.
The feet and legs should be straight, with medium fine bone. The front feet and outside upper part of the hind legs should be ticked in a uniform gray and match the body color as much as possible. The inside of the thigh and the tops of the hindfeet need to be white with blue undercolor.
Standard Chinchillas have rollback fur. The fur should be about 1 1/8 to 1 3/8 inches in length, very dense, with fine texture, and with a gentle rollback. It should also be free from molt or hutch stain, smooth, glossy, and bright. The color needs to match that of a real chinchilla. The undercolor needs to be a dark slate blue at the base with a pearl intermediate ring, and the top edge being a narrow black band. Above this, there is a very light band that is brightly ticked with jet black guard hairs of uneven length. The neck fur should be lighter than the rest of the body, but strictly confined to the nape of the neck. The chest is ticked lightly with a uniform pearl, slightly lighter than the body. The body color should extend as far down the sides as possible. The belly color, next to the skin, needs to be white or blue, and the outer color needs to be white. The eye circles need to be well defined and narrow, and of a light pearl shade. The underside of the tail is white, while the topside is black, interspersed with white hairs. The eyes may be brown, blue-gray, or marbled, with brown being the preferable color.
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