Re: Hairless rat genetics?
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Originally Posted by
Rhasputin
Hairless is recessive, so you'll need to breed your hairless buck, to a normal female, then pick a female from the litter, and breed it back to the hairless buck, and you should get 25% hairless pups. They all look the same up until they're about 1 week old, then you can see their whiskers are kinky, and their fur grows in wavy. They'll have the baby fur until they're a few months old.
If you pick a female from a normal female X hairless buck litter, and breed her back to the the hairless buck, you should get 50% hairless, 50% het hairless. If you take a couple of the same litter (het hairless) and grow them to breed, then you should get that 25% hairless rate.
