3 siamese

Just a picture I liked of my 3 siamese rats. They're female, so they are not as dark pointed as males are, but still pretty impressive to me. All I have had before these girls were himalayan, and the darkness of the points on a himalayan is nothing like a good siamese.

Unfortunately, I can't hold back any males at this point in time. I have 6 as it is. :P

The foremost girl is a Russian blue siamese that I am so proud of lol, but it is hard to capture, even more so on a female. Perhaps she will give me a nice male R. blue siamese in the future. :)

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...iamesetrio.jpg

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One more picture that sort of captured the difference between the R. Blue girl and her sister the seal point siamese.

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i2...amesetwins.jpg

They are adorable, I am jealous and if I was closer I would just ratnap one of them :rofl:

Deb you can ratnap as many as you'd like. I swear every other litter either has tons of himalyans, or the few and far between siamese. They really are quite pretty, and it's always a nice to see another little dark butt siamese in a litter. :)

Ohh they are beautiful! :P

OMG I want one! PM if your willing to let one go hehe. Please?!?!?

-Chris-:D

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Originally Posted by AVALover5498

OMG I want one! PM if your willing to let one go hehe. Please?!?!?

-Chris-:D

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Lol, only if your nearby. I don't ship em. ;)

Where are you located? I'm totally willing to drive.:D

-Chris-

You use these for feeders? They are very beautiful.

Those are holdback females. I havent yet named the two younger ones, but the oldest is Sierra. (yes I know... I spend too much time with the rats)

What are the genetics of the Siamese rats? I have one breeding with an albino and the babies are consistently albino, so I assume its recessive?

very nice Connie!

I have a few of them also.

:)

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Originally Posted by Brimstone111888

What are the genetics of the Siamese rats? I have one breeding with an albino and the babies are consistently albino, so I assume its recessive?

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i got this info from http://www.afrma.org/siameserat.htm

When Siamese is bred to Albino, the resulting litter will be all Himalayans. These animals are in theory pure white with dark points. In reality they are usually light cream colored with rather light points. Unfortunately, no one (that I know of) in Southern California is specifically working on these, and what are usually shown as Himalayan, is in truth just very light Siamese.

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Originally Posted by Brimstone111888

What are the genetics of the Siamese rats? I have one breeding with an albino and the babies are consistently albino, so I assume its recessive?

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The siamese gene is located on the albino locus. I'm rusty on the inheritance, but it would seem that I get albinos and himalayans in the same litter. And will get siamese and himalayans in another litter.

Those are very cool looking! :cool:

Too cute! We used to have rats as pets before we had the snakes. They are so smart I was surprised when we got them. I never realized how trainable they were.

Precious!!! :)