Weird...kinkys...confused....

Where did you get them? I know some breeders work with fancies as well as feeders and mix genes to see what comes out.

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Originally Posted by wilomn

Where did you get them? I know some breeders work with fancies as well as feeders and mix genes to see what comes out.

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I hope this makes sense.....

I got the mother in bin9 from someone on here that was getting rid of their rats. She had babies and I kept the blackest one. I then paired the blackest with a Seal-point Siamese female that was from a rattery. I kept a little Siamese male....he grew up....he went into bin9....they had babies and now I have two weird little babies and I don't know what kind they are.

Ahhhhh, mystery ratses. I get some weird ones sometimes too. It's pretty cool.

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Originally Posted by wilomn

Ahhhhh, mystery ratses. I get some weird ones sometimes too. It's pretty cool.

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Hahaha, yep! I love when I get weird colors and/or coats unexpectedly.

Ugh.....I told myself I wouldn't get attached to anymore rats. No more rats I love, no more heartbreak when something bad happens. How did this little boy get past my guards?!
He is the sweetest little thing ever. LOVES to cuddle up and fall asleep with you. And LOVES to lick. Now that he's walking a ton, I've also already taught him to come and run over and climb onto my hand when he is called. He caught on incredibly fast.
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n.../P6160532a.jpg
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n.../P6160537a.jpg

He was cleaning his face :love:
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n.../P6160553a.jpg

Looks like rex to me. If he was hairless, his hair would be thinning out by now.

Looks rex to me too which means one of the parents is a rex.
Rex coat's do not just pop up, it's a Dominate trait and has to be present in one of the parents to be passed along to the offspring.
Color could be beige, I can't really see the eye color

Yeah, so far his hair isn't thinning out at all. It's just getting thicker every day.
His parent's hair is as straight and normal as can be and I know rex is dominant....that's why I was thinking that maybe it's some other type of recessive kinky hair rat?
And in the pictures, it doesn't show it well, but he does have points (dad is a Siamese). But his coat is kind of a variegated pattern (like mom).
I'll get some pictures of the parents today.

*Note: the parents ears are still healing from a mite outbreak I had a little bit ago. They are almost back to normal now. So if you can see little bumps on their ears, that's why.

Anyways, here are the parents....
Here's the mom. She's a weird variegated. Parts of her are black and then random patches are a very pretty light brownish color and then of course their is the white. I have produced more like her. It doesn't show right away though. The babies will start out black and have the same pattern as mom, then as they age, they'll get those random color patches.
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n.../P6180594a.jpg
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n.../P6180597a.jpg
Here's the dad. He's still pretty young. I hate how his eyes glow in pictures.
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n.../P6180598a.jpg
http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n.../P6180599a.jpg

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

Looks rex to me too which means one of the parents is a rex.
Rex coat's do not just pop up, it's a Dominate trait and has to be present in one of the parents to be passed along to the offspring.
Color could be beige, I can't really see the eye color

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True in 99% of the cases, but it can pop up seemingly randomly from standard parents. ;)

I don't know how to explain it technically, but it can be hidden, and pop up in later generations similarly to how a recessive works. It happens in mice too, a friend of mine 'moustress' has had this happen several times.

I'm pretty sure the 'brownish' patches on the female rat are called 'rusting'.