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As someone who has bred Mini Rex for more than 30 years, I can assure you, this won't work. Rufous may be considered a modifier, but it is a gene (or rather, a polygene), and if you haven't got the genes to make it happen, it won't. Granted, you might just luck out and buy an animal of another...

By this logic, Steel is just a dark Chestnut, or Orange just a poorly colored Red. :idunno Anyone who is trying to breed showable Castors will never, ever get there breeding Chestnuts, they need to know the difference.;)

Castor and Chestnut are not the same thing. Castor is Chestnut plus the rufous modifiers. The deep, rich color of the Castor is only achieved with extra yellow/red pigment from the rufous modifiers; without them, what you have is a Chestnut (an unshowable color in both the Rex and Mini Rex)...