New Litter(s) - Just sharing!

I now have two new litters on the ground. The first contained 13 babies, second contained 8 babies. The moms are a beige (or light fawn) blazed berkshire, and a black headspot berkshire. Dad is an agouti berkshire. The beige girl had her babies (13 litter) first, about a week before the black girl (8 litter). Looks like I have mostly agouti, with some black, beige and/or fawn in mostly berkshire, some with higher white sides. Seeing there aren't any obvious hooded, I'm thinking the moms have the variegated modifier instead of a straight H/h berkshire.

Just thought I'd share a few pictures. I'm excited to have babies again. :)

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...ps60e543a2.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...psdb66102d.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...psba2b2f62.jpg

beige mom:
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...ps6934c765.jpg

I love that baby in the middle of the litter with the big head spot!

Mom looks like a fawn, not a beige :confusd:

Wouldn't she be fawn if her eyes were red? She does look slightly agouti.

I am leaning toward fawn, but a lighter one. She looked more beige when I got her several months back, and with her more recent molt she's gotten brighter.

The number of agouti in the litter kind of indicates she might be fawn too.

So is beige the black form of fawn?

Agouti with R.E.D. (A/- rr) becomes fawn
Agouti with P.E.D. (A/ pp) becomes amber
Black with R.E.D. ( aa rr) becomes a beige rat
Black with P.E.D. (aa pp) becomes champagne

Is a rr or pp rat a white rat with red or pink eyes (PEW)?

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Originally Posted by aldebono

So is beige the black form of fawn?

Agouti with R.E.D. (A/- rr) becomes fawn
Agouti with P.E.D. (A/ pp) becomes amber
Black with R.E.D. ( aa rr) becomes a beige rat
Black with P.E.D. (aa pp) becomes champagne

Is a rr or pp rat a white rat with red or pink eyes (PEW)?

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Yup. Beige is the "black" form of fawn, created by the ruby eye dilute on an otherwise black rat.

A white rat with pink or red eyes is usually albino (genetically c/c, covers up all other genetics), but sometimes can be a multi-dilute including the pink-eye dilute. Usually multi-dilutes have some shade of color though, however pale.

Misread that, lol, carry on :P

Very cute and very healthy looking :) I see hundreds of rats every day but it never gets old :gj: