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[Amon Ra Reptiles]

So with the site crashing the other post is gone . This is the updated pics of my hairless dumbo . You guys called it a Rex . Well anyway here are the updated pics . The three of them are still just fuzz lol.

Now I had here is the other type that came out of our dumbo rats. They have like wavy coat. Any ideas?



Now just some cute pics

[Rhasputin]

Okay, mystery solved I think!

The first ones are double rex. Two copies of the rex gene make a really ugly patchy rat like that. Some end up completely hairless, some end up with a light coat of fur, but most end up somewhere in between.


The other ones with the curly hair are rex. One copy of the rex gene, makes a curly coat.

[Michelle.C]

Were the parents rex? I've seen a lot of double rex, most grow their coats in and out (or half way). Does yours stay hairless?

The bottom one could be a Velveteen since the whiskers don't appear to be heavily curled and the coat is a soft wave rather than a tight curl.

A rex buck.

[Amon Ra Reptiles]

Well ya see I have no clue about rat genetics. We breed rats for feeders and were givin 2 female dumbos and decided we would try breeding dumbos. So we bought a male n 2 females from a pet store. Our one grey female looks like your pic ( same looking fur ) lol I'll just post pics of the parents. Lol ...... It's hard enough to get BP genetics down now I'm Tryin to get rats down.

[Michelle.C]

It's probably a double Rex then, but post pictures.

[Amon Ra Reptiles]

Ok here is mom. She has kinda a weird coat.



Sorry such bad pics . They were not to happy about it lol. And here is dad

[Amon Ra Reptiles]

Better pic of the father

[Michelle.C]

Father is not a Rex (no wave to the coat, no curls to the whisker), the mother looks more like a Velveteen (pretty much the same genetics as a Rex). Neither have curly whiskers, which is a good way to identify rexes. Velveteen rats have a wavy coat and little to no curl to the whiskers.

It's hard to tell by the pictures, and I'd have to know what lighting, etc. But the female appears to be a Blue Agouti.

I'm going to go with what I first though and say you hit a recessive hairless. It also appears that you have a decent source on getting your rats. It's not uncommon for breeders/hobbyist to have hairless in their colonies.

Not to mention there are probably no less than 6-7 ways to get a hairless rat (some recessive, some co-dominant). Some are completely bald (even their whiskers), others have no body hair with just like fuzz on their face, another has fuzz here and there and even patchwork hairless. Not to mention that these are considered standards and even a true hairless can have patchy hair.

[snakesRkewl]

To me mom looks like a Russian Blue Agouti but it's hard to tell in low light pictures
American blue agouti's are much different looking...

Preggo mom "in glow" lol

[Michelle.C]

AWWWW! Very cute! I love it when they look like they've eaten a small village.

I agree about her being a Russian over an American Blue Agouti.

To me mom looks like a Russian Blue Agouti but it's hard to tell in low light pictures
American blue agouti's are much different looking...

Preggo mom "in glow" lol