What is a Ragdoll?
They are a large breed 10-20 pounds, that started in 1965 by a woman name Ann Baker,
Ragdolls the name because they are very floppy and some will lay limp in your arms, they should be an indoor only cat due to there delicate nature, they are a great breed for everyone including children once socialized.
These cats have medium to long hair but do not shed hair in hunks and rarely mat up at all. 
For those who are interested in the solid and mink colors I will describe what they are and where they came from.
These colors are not new and are a part of the old Ragdoll, they are not a new breed but from an old line, they are the same as the pointeds unless you want more color.
When Ann Baker started her ragdoll breeding program in 1965 she used an all white cat named Josephine and bred her to a Birman looking male name Daddy warbucks (both below)
Josephine
Daddy Warbucks
She produced solid black kittens and white kittens and kittens with white feet. Ann bred the colors down until she was satisfied with what she was producing. She created mink, solid and pointed. Ann was more into the pointed look but continued to breed minks and solids to keep them in her lines as she liked these also.
She produced her first show ragdoll cat (below) a seal bicolor, using the colored cats above.
she also produced solid blacks whites and minks and sepia kittens which are very deep in color, the seal bicolor cat below was shown in the 1970s and was recognized as a Ragdoll. This was the traditional color and pattern called the pointed.
The cats she used for the Ragdoll breed were Persian, Burmese and Birman looking cats. Perhaps others were used. Buckwheat and Daddy warbucks produced the first registered Ragdolls.
Picture of Buckwheat female offspring
Baker produced solid ragdolls and minks out of her beginning breeders and continued to use them in her Ragdoll breed, there were many solid and minks registered as ragdolls in the 1970s and 80s as well as the pointed.
Other breeders around these times that were working with Ann had disagreemnets about the breed and were fed up with Ann as she was very demanding and wanted things her way.
Ann had claimed that the ragdoll was part human and part raccoon this was one reason others working with her wanted to leave her side and start there own breed, these breeders went ahead and took the minks and solids and created a new breed Called the Ragamuffin, with Anns lines mink and solid, breeders used these to keep these colors.
Although today called ragamuffin and has new lines not related to today's ragdoll some have pedigrees with ragdoll lines, mostly older lines that are now being continued.
When two minks are bred together you will get an even deeper color almost black, this is called Sepia, it is not a solid ragdoll but of its own color.
Minks are registered just like the pointed ragdoll, breeders wanted to continue to keep these older colors so they are breeding them back into the Ragdoll.
Most breeders that breed these still breed pointed as well. Some ragdoll breeders do not want to breed these colors and are against brining these colors into the ragdoll, however there is no stopping these colors, if one looks on a 1970s or 1980s old pedigree you will see many minks and solid ragdolls.
I will be using the oldest lines I can find in these colors, they are closer to the old ragdolls that were mink and solid lines instead of out crossing to Ragamuffin with the new lines.
My goal for minks in my cattery is to breed rich colors with darker aqua eyes, with very fluffy coats and stocky build.
When breeding minks we always try to use cats with deep aqua eyes and not the pale aqua, we use a pointed parent with extremely blue eyes bred to a mink with deep aqua eyes.
Solid Ragdolls
Solid ragdolls still basically the same, stem from older lines using Josephine's Offspring. Though it is rare to trace back an actual gene at this time these cats were used, many are still used in breeding programs and mostly in the Ragamuffin lines.
Although these lines can be in Ragdolls found in older lines, most solids being bred into Ragdoll now days come from Ragamuffin lines, a large amount of breeders do not want to add Solids to the ragdoll lines as most are from Ragamuffin and feel it is mixing the breed. Ragamuffin contains lines of Persian and other breeds containing solid colored cats.
We do not plan on breeding any Ragdolls that do not have blue or aqua eyes. Ragdolls should be a blue eyed breed.
Ann Bakers first ragdoll litter consisted of solid black and one mitted black. She used these colors, mink and solid to get the Ragdoll that we see today, by breaking down the colors, She got the pointed light body dark pointed look. Some breeders still use solids and minks to improve the lines of there traditional ragdolls and to widen the lines to perhaps lose unwanted bad genetic traits and lessen inbred lines. Some breeders only bred solid to solid.
I believe in only using the purest solids and minks to breed into the Ragdoll.
The only difference in the solid colors is that only the whites will have blue eyes. Some solid whites will have green or gold. solid blacks will have gold or green sometimes extremely rarely blue eyes. Solid ragdolls are slightly more stocky with slightly a different eye shape, there coats are thicker but slightly shorter then pointed ragdolls.
The solid colors are Black solid, black in mitted and bicolor, solid blue in all patterns. calico in all patterns. Solid white, solid Red. The solids can also be torbie. that is lynx with black and flame also called calico lynx, Solid chocolate and lilac.
Mink lilac bicolor Muffin
If this were a pointed lilac bicolor it would be very light in color and the body would be white or off white.
Love potion, a darker Smokey blue then a pointed blue.
A mink always has body color and looks Smokey and will have aqua eyes. 
Pointed blue mitted, light body
Pointed should always have blue eyes, very rarely they will have a hint of green, this is due to the older genes or lines showing themselves again, also if one crosses to may solids in there pointed line one can lose eye color!
I myself and most breeders always want to be sure that the pointed ragdoll has only the blue eyes, so when breeding pointeds to minks or solids, deeper blue eyes should be bred to weed out any green on pointed type kittens.
