odd patterns! pics..

I have a few oddballs in this litter. I love mixing in Rex blood! Rex dad x black hooded dumbo female.

This little gal is a definite keeper..
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...irdhooded1.jpg

Weird..
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...res/oddsib.jpg

Odd little patch of beige on his butt! (shaded area on left butt is actually beige while whole body is white otherwise..)
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...s/weirsib2.jpg

ha, that first one is cool looking.
Just bought some more rat cages today and there is a show saturday, hoping to pick up some cool ones.

I like the "weird" one. Heehee.

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Originally Posted by jamesw

ha, that first one is cool looking.
Just bought some more rat cages today and there is a show saturday, hoping to pick up some cool ones.

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Saw you are in florida. Where is this show?

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Originally Posted by Snikt228

Saw you are in florida. Where is this show?

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jacksonville.

Very pretty babies, but honestly, I wouldn't breed them. All are high white and since you may not know their lineage, it's just not a good idea. People don't seem to understand the significance of megacolon until they actually get a megacolon baby(or a whole litter of megacolon babies) and they have to euthanize them because the litter can't thrive and they are suffering.


What female rat are you breeding to get those? If you want to keep breeding her, stick with a self male, one who is only one solid color. That would be your safest option.

It is a Self if his belly is white? I don't think I have ever seen a rat without at least some white on its belly. Male is gray rex with a tad bit of white belly.

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Originally Posted by SatanicIntention

Very pretty babies, but honestly, I wouldn't breed them. All are high white and since you may not know their lineage, it's just not a good idea. People don't seem to understand the significance of megacolon until they actually get a megacolon baby(or a whole litter of megacolon babies) and they have to euthanize them because the litter can't thrive and they are suffering.


What female rat are you breeding to get those? If you want to keep breeding her, stick with a self male, one who is only one solid color. That would be your safest option.

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So it would be ok to keep them though? The top one is super friendly; I think that it is male. I would like to keep it as a pet.. but would it be ok to breed it to a solid female? I will find one if so.
Mom was a regular looking black hooded.

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

It is a Self if his belly is white? I don't think I have ever seen a rat without at least some white on its belly. Male is gray rex with a tad bit of white belly.

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No, not a self with white on it's belly. My Scarlett is a blue self, including her belly. She does throw black berkies (white on the belly, black all everywhere else).

I still wouldn't breed them, since you don't know their whole lineage. I never feel comfortable breeding rats that came from pet stores, since you don't really know where they came from, or if they have had problems before. Sometimes I don't even feel comfortable breeding my rats with pedigrees, if that says anything.

You could probably keep the girls as buddies for the resting females, and the boys as friends for weaned males.

Rats that aren't considered high-white are berkshires(white socks and white belly), selfs(no white anywhere), hoodeds, irish(white on chest), english-irish(white on chest and tummy but not feet), siamese/himalayan. Yours are good examples of high white: first one is a possum marked, second is a variegated w/headspot(anything with a headspot is considered high white), and the third is something that I'm not familiar with, might be considered a low quality dalmation, I don't know...