What am I?

[JenH]

I just started breeding rats and I got some cute ones in the first litters. I have no idea what they are....

I have 1.4 where dad and one of the moms are black hooded stiped (?) and 3 of the girls are what I thought were albino. Some have a little light coloration on their back at their shoulder blades.

This one is a cutie that I will probably be keeping. Yes her eyes are pink.



Here is a younger litter. Are those blue hooded pups? And what do you call the solid colored ones?



They are so cute!!

[Jyson]

The one in the first pic is a blond hoody. As for the other hoodeds they look like normal hoodies, still cute though.

Btw, Excellent Pics

[ThyTempest]

http://www.hawthorn.org.uk/varieties.asp

The ones in the first pic is beige hooded.

The "solid" blacks are called selfs if they dont have any white anywhere on their body. Look at the standards for berkshire, irish and English Irish on the link I gave you to determine which they are, if not self.

As for the darker hooded pups, definitely not blue, but I am not really sure what. They could potentially be a very dark beige hooded, but even that is a really big stretch. Another option is a chocolate, but I don't know much about the genetics of this color, and based on the parents, I really doubt this is the case.

I would say they are agouti hooded, but if the parents were either black hooded or albino (though I suspect they are some beige variation), then I dont see any possible way for you to have produced agouti coloring.

[DrLew]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm look like "FOOD"

[JenH]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm look like "FOOD"

Yes - they are food and the snakes are enjoying them... :-)

[Michelle.C]

I see a Light Beige Hooded (Also called a Champagne), Mink Hoodeds, and Black Hoodeds and Black Selfs/Irish/English or Berkshires (Depending on the amount of white).

Chocolates are very rare, hardly any rodent hobbyist actually own them.

[JenH]

That picture is a bit dark... there is no brown in those lighter ones....

Let me snap a pic of an older one that looked the same as those pup...

[ThyTempest]

I see a Light Beige Hooded (Also called a Champagne), Mink Hoodeds, and Black Hoodeds and Black Selfs/Irish/English or Berkshires (Depending on the amount of white).

Chocolates are very rare, hardly any rodent hobbyist actually own them.

Edit: I must have been mixing mink up with a different color....now that I went back to look at them again, they do look like mink hooded. Good production, from what I hear, mink's are fairly rare too.

I agree though, chocolates are very rare, and I really doubt it is the case, but that is the closest coloring I can think of based on those pics.

[JamieLynn]

remember although your origional breeders may have been "albino"-ish, albino parents don't always have all albino babies. I had 2 albino mice once have a litter of 13, all 13 where solid black, now there are colors and patterns coming out.
I also had a fawn hooded dumbo girl that was bread with a black hooded dumbo male, and some where black hooded, some fawn hooded, then I got a couple blue, and some champagne. the next generation gave me some hairless too.

[JenH]

remember although your origional breeders may have been "albino"-ish, albino parents don't always have all albino babies. I had 2 albino mice once have a litter of 13, all 13 where solid black, now there are colors and patterns coming out.
I also had a fawn hooded dumbo girl that was bread with a black hooded dumbo male, and some where black hooded, some fawn hooded, then I got a couple blue, and some champagne. the next generation gave me some hairless too.

Yeah - with 4 litters I would say dad isn't het for albino.....