Anyone else notice the fawns/beiges have the spider wobble? Video

At first I thought it was just inbreeding, but now I think it's like the spider wobble, inbreeding a long time ago or a genetic flaw. My sister had a fawn a few years ago that had it REALLY bad, all of my fawns and beiges have it now that I really paid attention. I fed off my beige female that had it really bad. Then today I had my dalmatian apricot, maybe just a really orange beige, on the coffee table and noticed he has the wobble too! It's very slight, but it's there. That's my travel cage, I took him to show someone.

Here's a really short video so you can see what I mean if you haven't noticed. (the colors are way off on my camera, that cage is actually a deep purple)
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...ats/th_001.jpg

That head wobble is usually an ear infection.

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Originally Posted by tomfromtheshade

That head wobble is usually an ear infection.

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Not ture at all. Some that carry the albino gene or is an albino will have the head sway back and forth. I have 2 that are pets now that exhibit this since they were old enough to drink water. They bred well and produced many litters.

Usually inner infections will cause some major pain/discomfort to the animal and usually wont have much strength to stand up since their equilibrium is off.

Video is of a female i had get inner ear infection at 4 months of age. You can see the discomfort.

YouTube - Rat possible injury/ear infection

I could definitely understand it being an ear infection, but they should have been dead by now.

I wonder if the fawn/beige have similar genetics as the albino. It would make sense for the fawns since they are pink eyed....hmmm....

Yes I would say so. I have a male that does that same thing. I think its funny my girlfiend and I say that he's got swagger. Lol seems to work with the girls cuz he is my best breeder

The swaying of the head in albinos is a lot of times because they have really poor vision and this may help them see better.

Swaying in dark eyed rats can mean the same thing also. Swaying can help the rat figure out how faw an object is. The images of an object move across a rats retina when it sways it's head, so objects that are closer will move faster than an object that is much farther away. I believe this is called motion parallax.

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Originally Posted by AkHerps

The swaying of the head in albinos is a lot of times because they have really poor vision and this may help them see better.

Swaying in dark eyed rats can mean the same thing also. Swaying can help the rat figure out how faw an object is. The images of an object move across a rats retina when it sways it's head, so objects that are closer will move faster than an object that is much farther away. I believe this is called motion parallax.

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Bingo, it's all about poor vision. :)

i have about 6 fawn\beiges. to are over 4 months old and the others were all just born. I normally pop around 5-6 of these guys out each litter even without holding any back to breed. I have not noticed the head swagger as i would call it though. Ill have to pay better attention to the two older ones and see if i notice any head movement like that.

Red eyed rats have poor vision so they rock back and forth quite often.
I rarely see dark eyed rats do it.