Rat color id please

Thank you! :)

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This is what I'm seeing:

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Originally Posted by DrDooLittle

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/4yhanyma.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/7emebave.jpg

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First picture looks mink, but second picture looks blue, maybe Russian blue. I see what looks like heathering, so I'm leaning toward Russian blue.
Markings look like bareback with head spot.

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Black, blazed hooded or variageted (leaning toward variegated, but can't see the spine stripe well enough).

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http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/5utunyhu.jpg

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Russian blue blazed berkshire

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http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/ybu3u3a9.jpg

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fawn (red/ruby eyes) or silver fawn (pink eyes) blazed variegated.

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http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/de4ubery.jpg

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Looks like a blue agouti color, can't tell if it is American blue or Russian blue agouti though. marked is variegated with headspot.

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http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/u2y3ypuh.jpg

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Russian Blue, berkshire or irish depending on how much white is on the belly.

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http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/9a4yze9u.jpg

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agouti hooded

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http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/ymaparyv.jpg

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/anyde5yv.jpg

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Black, looks like berkshire from the white on the side.

Thank you, that's what I was looking for. :). So does varigaited mean mottled coloring through out? So what makes them a Berkshire? Is Berkshire the coat pattern, not color?

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Originally Posted by DrDooLittle

Thank you, that's what I was looking for. :). So does varigaited mean mottled coloring through out? So what makes them a Berkshire? Is Berkshire the coat pattern, not color?

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Yes on variegated. Basically a variegated has the hood (with or without a blaze or headspot), but instead of a stripe (broken or solid, an ideal hooded has a solid stripe) down the back, they have spotting like a dalmatian. The Berkshire is a marking: white feet, white belly, and sometimes a headspot or blaze, ideally half the tail is white but that doesn't always happen either. Irish would just have a splotch of white on the belly instead of the whole belly being white. "American Irish" is more of a circle, "English Irish" is a perfect equilateral triangle between the front legs with the point pointing at the back legs.

ETA: And the genetics for all of these markings are all related and on the H-locus. Hooded is a simple h/h, Berkshire is a H/h, where self (completely solid, no white at all) is H/H. The variegated, bareback, dalmatian, Irish, and several others are modifiers on that locus. I can't remember all of the codes used for the different genes, but I think they include (might have dominant/recessive mixed up too) h^i, H^re, and H^ro (this is the "Robert" gene, aka Essex).

variegated
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/IMG_1693.jpg

Agouti berkshire(standing up)
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT9065.jpg

blue on left, blue agouti on right ... Agouti makes the blue look orangish
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...z/PICT2748.jpg

English (I think)
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...z/PICT0385.jpg

Baldie
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...z/PICT6352.jpg

Bareback
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...z/PICT4297.jpg

Self, All black no white anywhere
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...ckSelfRex1.jpg

Capped
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a.../Victoria1.jpg

Sorry I'm late to the party.

This is what I see.


http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/4yhanyma.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/7emebave.jpg
Russian Blue Bareback


http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/evesutab.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/7emybamu.jpg
Black Lightning Blaze Variegated

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/5utunyhu.jpg
Russian Blue Blaze berkshire

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/ybu3u3a9.jpg
Fawn variegated

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/de4ubery.jpg
Russian Silver variegated

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/u2y3ypuh.jpg
Russian Blue (looks berkshire to me)


http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/9a4yze9u.jpg
Agouti hooded



http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/ymaparyv.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/01/27/anyde5yv.jpg
Black Berkshire

Thank you all so much! Now I have a clue what these cute little guys are!

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As far as I know a silver is a blue rat diluted with the pink eye gene like this ...
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/PICT3822.jpg

This is the product of blue X agouti blue, both parents carried the pink eye gene since they came from a pink eyed Siamese.

The one I wondered on the silver, is from the blue, and he came from a Siamese mom, with the red eyes.

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Originally Posted by DrDooLittle

The one I wondered on the silver, is from the blue, and he came from a Siamese mom, with the red eyes.

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It's american blue, they are pretty silver blue colored.
The lighter it is can be an indicator of it carrying a red eye recessive gene.

I have produced a ton of American blues, it's pretty much my favorite color besides Fawn.
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT3974.jpg

American blue with a sibling russian blue. I bred russian blues to American blues before I knew they were incompatible, so a lot of my rats carried both genes and made both types of blue rats in the same litters
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...ebluegirls.jpg