Surprised to See this in the Rat bin

Only ever had a all gold female that passed 5 months ago. Never did she pass on her genes.

Then today i clean the rats and wean some and find this lil guy out of nowhere. 90% of my stock is siameses

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Daww! So adorable! I love the wishbone on his forehead.
Are you going to breed him or feed him off?

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Originally Posted by Xotik

Daww! So adorable! I love the wishbone on his forehead.
Are you going to breed him or feed him off?

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Not sure, I think its a boy, and im all set on males as all my racks are full. And my males i got now are big Studs.

ah, he's cute!

Will he molt or will he look like that forever?
I've had 2 rats that looked exactly like that and both molted into siamese.

He wont molt into siamese as the fur is gold. Ive had others like this but not gold that molted to siamese.

Only time will tell but my guess is no

Wow, very cool looking rat. It's funny what pops up in the bins every now and then.

It makes sense since you have siamese, that every once in a while you would something like that. It'a a recessive gene, and it can hide for a long time before popping out. ;)

What color would that be considered?

To bad there's no way to ship live feeders because I'd totally take that guy.

You can ship them Via airlines or Fedex with approved vet documentation, Proper package they cant get out of and label box accordingly

Fedex does rodents now? Are they allowing it for general public, or only for businesses with accounts?

It used to be in their rules that any mammals including mice were not allowed to be shipped. But then I always wondered how come the feeder companies could ship the mice. :confused:

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Originally Posted by Rhasputin

Fedex does rodents now? Are they allowing it for general public, or only for businesses with accounts?

It used to be in their rules that any mammals including mice were not allowed to be shipped. But then I always wondered how come the feeder companies could ship the mice. :confused:

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I was told by my rep as long as the packaging was chew proof for the next day air shipment they were allowed. Also to include vet papers stating their healthy and so on within the box if stopped. mark the box well stating Live Warm Blooded Mammal.

Might recheck with them, ive never looked deep into is as the box alone wont be cheap plust the $60 shipping.

Too cute! You should keep him!

Thanks for the info Rich!

We're importing mice from Europe right now. . . I know all about shipping prices and crate prices. . . :(

$60 wouldn't be bad. I'll look into it some, people would be really happy to hear about it.