Two New Female Breeder Rats

Neat finds! I would have snagged those, too.

Sorry guy's this is a question for Becky and Joanna. I'm keeping back some female rat's if I breed them to their father's in the future would I have problem's?

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Originally Posted by SatanicIntention

Ok, Jo, we think she is an actual tricolor, so I'm going to go sit in the corner and be all jealous. :couch: Of Envy... :P

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Huh? What's a "tricolor"? I'm only seeing two colors and I'm clueless as I've never heard the term tricolor in reference to a rat. Guess it's time to Google LOL. Patches is a rare rat color/pattern? Geesh I got her and Squeekers for free when I traded them some of my plain old hooded feeder rats that had outgrown my snakes size range. This pet store seems to get some awfully pretty rats in their feeder tanks. It's the same place I picked up Frankie, our American Blue Berkshire (male breeder) awhile back.

ARRRRRGH As usual I forgot to log Mike out and me in! This is Joanna of course not Mike :oops:

Well Google failed me! I couldn't find an example of a tricolor. Help Becky!

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Originally Posted by emilio

Sorry guy's this is a question for Becky and Joanna. I'm keeping back some female rat's if I breed them to their father's in the future would I have problem's?

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I wouldn't see a problem with one generation back but that's about it. I wouldn't breed the "granddaughters" back to the original sire. That's a lot of inbreeding and rats are generally pretty badly inbred already coming out of the pet stores. Too much inbreeding ends up with genetic issues and then the whole point of raising healthy, chubby feeder rats goes out the window if you start losing litters to that.

We keep two males and try to avoid doing much of that. I have let one female breed back to her father as they produce some show quality black hooded rats (perfect hood, perfect straight unbroken stripe) that I enjoy seeing and make lovely looking pets.