Can Siamese start as hooded?
AKA Cuteness alert!
Will they molt their hoods off and become solid Siamese?
I am picking one of these boys up from a friend to add to my colony. Just wanted to know exactly what they could be as she doesn't have any visible Siamese in her colony and she referred to them as "the dirty nosed babies that pop up every once in a while."
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Re: Can Siamese start as hooded?
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aldebono
Very cool, learn something every day. I guess Rex is the only dominant mutation then out of the more common ones?
Not the only, but the most common besides dominate the high white gene.
The weird part about rex's being dominate is that typically a dom X dom breeding would yield 3/4 dominate and 1/4 standard coat.
Rex X standard coat acts like a dominate trait in that half the kits will be rex and half will be standard coats(by odds).
Rex X Rex acts more like a co-dominate trait Rex X Rex = 25% double rex 50% rex and 25% standard coats.
And to complicate things further a double rex X double rex acts somewhat like a dom X dom breeding in that a double rex X double rex = 75% double rex and 25% mixture of standard coats and whats been termed a "loose rex".
Rat genetics are just plain strange...lol
Re: Can Siamese start as hooded?
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aldebono
What a cutie pie!!!
Thank you!:)
Re: Can Siamese start as hooded?
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aldebono
It is any misplaced white marking other than an unbroken solid hooded and a self correct (higher than berkshire)? I know that there are also exceptions with this such as variegated and dalmatian.
This is correct.
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I guess you find out if the high white is recessive or dominant by breeding the high white to a self as the self is naturally dom?
That would be a good way.
If your odd-eye is dominate then you'll end up with blazes right off the bat.
If it's recessive and the self doesn't carry the recessive high white gene then you won't make any blazes or odd-eyes, just carriers.
That's the tricky part, if the self carries the recessive high white and you make blazes right away you won't know for a fact anything without further breeding.
Once I knew my high whites were recessive I started breeding it into everything I had, lol.
