New Additions! Dumbo, hairless, blazes, and weird stripe

I went to the airport to pick up some snakes, and while I was up there I met up with a guy who I've been trading rats with and he had some really awesome rats!

The blazes are just too darn cute! The ones that look mangy are hairless rats, they just haven't lost their baby fuzz yet. All of these guys are het for dumbo! I think you can tell, they have huge ears!
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...a/rats/034.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...rats/035-2.jpg

Only the weird stripe dumbo and one hairless are males.
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...a/rats/043.jpg

This guy has a really weird pattern. Is there a name for it?
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...a/rats/040.jpg
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...a/rats/037.jpg

I also picked up a blue agouti!
http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t...rats/047-1.jpg

Looks like an over-marked hooded to me. :)

I thought that at first, but the color should go under his chin and down his chest a bit. I've noticed that this stripe pattern has been popping up on the web recently. :weirdface

They all look awesome, i just never liked hairless rats, but food is food! I used to breed specifically for Dumbo, but mixing coats and colors was just as fun!

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Originally Posted by steveboos

They all look awesome, i just never liked hairless rats, but food is food! I used to breed specifically for Dumbo, but mixing coats and colors was just as fun!

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Agreed! They are soooo much fun to breed! I just love to play with genetics and see what kind of freaky things pop up!

agouti is the wild type color, so you cant really have a blue agouti. unless im mistaken and agouti refers only to the banding of color on the hair, not the actual color. and id say that striped guy is hooded/berkshire, doesnt seem too out of the ordinary to me. gotta love dumbos though lol

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Originally Posted by BAMReptiles

agouti is the wild type color, so you cant really have a blue agouti. unless im mistaken and agouti refers only to the banding of color on the hair, not the actual color.

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Agouti is a dominate trait and can mix with recessive blue with no issues, I've made quite a few and will be making more in a month or so if the odds gods allow.
I bred a blue rat to an agouti rat and saved two agouti girls that carry the blue gene and am now breeding them to a blue rat to make agouti blues :P

You can have all kinds of shades and colours of agouti.
Golden agouti
Red agouti
Agouti
Blue agouti
Argente (pink eyed agouti)
Cinnamon

There are other shades that just don't have names. But there are all kinds of agoutis. (:

Hooded berkshire makes sense. I have a bunch of these, except they're speckly around the edges. I really like the marking. :)

so agouti mainly refers to the banding on the coat, not the color? from all the stuff i saw it sounded lke it was jsut the wild type. interesting

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

Agouti is a dominate trait and can mix with recessive blue with no issues, I've made quite a few and will be making more in a month or so if the odds gods allow.
I bred a blue rat to an agouti rat and saved two agouti girls that carry the blue gene and am now breeding them to a blue rat to make agouti blues :P

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Sweet! So that means if I breed him back to his daughters I should get some blues?! I have wanted blues since I started. My first pet rat was a blue hooded! I wasn't sure what the genetics were and if I could actually get some blues or just agouti blues. He's really neat next to my normal agouti, the color difference is stunning. I need to take a pick with them together!

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Originally Posted by Rhasputin

You can have all kinds of shades and colours of agouti.
Golden agouti
Red agouti
Agouti
Blue agouti
Argente (pink eyed agouti)
Cinnamon

There are other shades that just don't have names. But there are all kinds of agoutis. (:

Hooded berkshire makes sense. I have a bunch of these, except they're speckly around the edges. I really like the marking. :)

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Hmm, I suppose that makes sense. I have some hooded berkshires, but like you, they all have speckling where the color meets the white. It's definitely a weird pattern going on and it is genetic. The sire and all the siblings all had the perfect 'stripe' pattern. :confused:

Maybe it's just a poor berkshire. The AFRMA site has an image of a very nice berkshire on their standards page. It's common that poor berkshires will have markings up their sides and on their arms and feet. :P

Cool looking rats though. I know I really enjoy mine!