New Pick-up................YAY me LOL

Went to my local shop to get a couple fuzzy mice for feeding day tomorrow and what did I find??????????
Been thinking about one for a while and I was finding males every where but I wanted a female first.:D:D

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h1...-43-18_927.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h1...7-43-25_10.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h1...-42-52_682.jpg

Question is........... What happens IF I breed her to a normal haired rat? Do I need a hair-less male too?
I am happy to have new blood in the pool, and she is sweet as can be too.:gj:

Could you say no to that face for $5 ??:D

Mine was 3.49 :rofl:

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...103-New-Female

I believe mine is pregnant so Im curious to see what comes about.

Cool looking rat:gj:

Do you know if she is true hairless or double rex? I can't really tell from the pictures. A true hairless typically has trouble lactating properly and raising her litter, assuming she has no complications while giving birth. Casting complications aside, if she is a true hairless and you bred her to a normal coated male, you would have some babies that carry the hairless gene, and some that do not, all of which will come out looking normal.

A double rex female will have no problems with babies, but you will only get more double rexes/patchworks/mock-hairless babies if you breeder her to another rex. If you breed a double rex to a normal fur, you will end up with some babies with curly fur, and some with just a smooth coat.

Breeding hairless females is not good unless you have a female available to be foster mom.
Your female has a lump on her side, hairless rats are very susceptible to tumors and that looks like one, I wouldn't breed her if that's the case :(

Double Rex(Homozygous Rex) is similar to any other Homozygous breeding IE: Super pastel X Normal makes all pastels..

Double Rex to standard coat makes 100% rex

I did notice the tumor on her, and have seen it on almost every male around here too.
Either way, she is just too cute to pass up on with the wrinkly skin and the huge dumbo ears:blowkiss:

Please don't breed her knowing she has a tumor of some kind.
If you have the guts, you can poke the lump with a hollow needle, and see what comes out, because it could just be a cyst or an infection.

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

Your female has a lump on her side, hairless rats are very susceptible to tumors and that looks like one, I wouldn't breed her if that's the case :(

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Originally Posted by Rhasputin

Please don't breed her knowing she has a tumor of some kind.

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I just spent some time with her and looked her over better than I did yesterday. I am thinking more that it is a scar but I am not for sure. She has one on her belly too. They dont look like any tumor that I am familiar with so I am going to run her by my vet in a little bit because I have to take one of my dogs too. She said she would look at her for no charge so I will let you know in an hour or two:rat:

Great. :)

They will probably aspirate it for you. Let us know the results! :)

Also, I believe your girl is a double rex. ;)

I have a dumbo hairless male that I bred to his dumbo daughter and produced a few dumbo hairless babies but my question is how can I tell the difference between true hairless and double rex? sorry for the thread hijack Pit.

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sorry for the thread hijack Pit.

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YOU :hijackd::hijackd::hijackd::hijackd::hijackd::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl :
No worries, we are all here to learn something.:gj:

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Originally Posted by jben

I have a dumbo hairless male that I bred to his dumbo daughter and produced a few dumbo hairless babies but my question is how can I tell the difference between true hairless and double rex? sorry for the thread hijack Pit.

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A double rex will have curly whiskers, eyelashes, some body hair (almost always), and sometimes pigmented skin.

A hairless should have none of these things, with SOME having whiskers. :)

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Originally Posted by Rhasputin

A double rex will have curly whiskers, eyelashes, some body hair (almost always), and sometimes pigmented skin.

A hairless should have none of these things, with SOME having whiskers. :)

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Thank you:gj:

Sorry guys, its been a hectic couple of days.
My vet looked her over, we actually found 5 "tumor" looking spots on her.
3 were ruled out as they are scars, her belly looks like she might have gotten in a couple good fights.
The other two she had questions on so she pulled a small plug from each but the lab she uses didnt find anything out of the normal on them:confused:
Either way she said she would be good to breed after her two biopsy spots healed up but said I should keep an eye on the pups to make sure they were growing at a good rate. She said if there were nursing issues I would need a foster mom and with 28 females I think I am good to go:cool:
She is sweet as can be till you try to hold her down to look her over, then its almost like a fight for her life?? As soon as you let her go she is cool again:O

Shes adorable anyway!:P