Keepers & my favorite girl. DUW

These are some of my keepers for future breeding.

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~This Agouti male is the sweetest little guy!
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~Beautiful Siamese female which retained her ear & rump color.
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~This is the 1st Siamese with a sister who lost her rump color.
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~And here is my girl. "Big Momma" She is a gorgeous grey 450 gram sweetheart.
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Nice! I'll be getting some weaned rat pups and raise them up, been doing a lot of research on breeding:D

wow Foschi, they are nice, good luck with your future breeding.

I had many more black and white at first but I have been holding back all the ones with the lightest colors. I now have Champagne hooded & self, Fawn H & S, Agouti H & S, Blue H & S (tho Im still not sure if they are russian or british blue) the 2 Siamese girls which Im trying to breed to make more, and my big blue/grey girl. The first pic I posted above is a champagne self but I just couldnt capture the color.

I love the lighter colors :)

~Fawn hooded female. Another keeper/breeder.
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It's funny how we breed for certain traits. Where yours is color, almost all of my rats are dumbos. I adore dumbos, so that's what I tend to hold back, and as a result, I went from all top ears to almost all dumbo's.

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Originally Posted by rabernet

It's funny how we breed for certain traits. Where yours is color, almost all of my rats are dumbos. I adore dumbos, so that's what I tend to hold back, and as a result, I went from all top ears to almost all dumbo's.

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I agree! It is funny how we are breeding these things to be eaten, but we always hold back our favorites :P

I don't have a favorite yet, I've just been holding back colors/patterns I don't have as a breeders already. Although, I wish I had more colors and patterns to chose from :(

To the OP, your rats are super cute! I love fawns, and I would love a Siamese! I used to have a bunch of really cute rex babies, but I made the mistake of bringing home a pet store rat and pretty much lost my entire colony :( Thus, I have a boring colony.

Sorry, but what does DUW mean?

dial up warning

That Siamese is really pretty, but what is rump color? they both look the same to me D:

AWW there beautiful. I cant wait to get sum females in for my two males. Here they are. Blue guy and Charlie.

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