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Re: Rats - Colors and Coat Markings
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Re: Rats - Colors and Coat Markings
They're so sweet! Thanks for sharing your perma-ratties with us. =)
0.1 ball python (Cleo), 0.1 surinam bcc (Carmen)
1.0 sunglow motley corn (Jenson), 1.0 albino burmese (Lourdes)
1.0 cat (Nicky), some mooses and ratters, 1.0 hubby (Rick)
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Re: Rats - Colors and Coat Markings
Thanks Jamie and Cass. Some of the examples were from my feeder bins as I don't have adult breeders in those specific colors or markings. I recently saw an American Blue male rat in a feeder tank at the pet store but the pet store was considering keeping it back for future breeding...dang it all! I've always wanted a blue! I also don't have any dumbo eared rats so that's something I'm keeping an eye open for. Jet is the closest we come to breeding a fully black, nice shiney coated rat. Mike really likes the look of those.
I love the first pic. Midnite's blaze is a bit off center so she sort of has this permanent goofy look LOL. She's also the wierdo rat that stockpiles lab block and sits on it so none of the other rats can figure out where it went. She's a hoot and was originally part of Beth's science fair project on rat nutrition and growth rates.
I figure if you breed rats you may as well have some fun with it LOL.
Last edited by frankykeno; 07-02-2006 at 12:30 PM.
~~Joanna~~
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Re: Rats - Colors and Coat Markings
you got it going on with the rat morphs jo! sooner or later i'm going to have to get into rat breeding, not my thing but it does have alot of pros with snake care/breeding.
vaughn
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Re: Rats - Colors and Coat Markings
Oh yep Vaughn I'm the Rat Morph Queen...hahahahahahaha! Actually there's tons of funky colors if you look at those fancy rat breeders sites. Amazing really but since they do make spectacular pets as well as great feeders, I can see why folks would selective breed for certain coat colors/patterns/types.
I love breeding my own feeders! Other than the whole "I'm a frustrated farmer" issue, I love knowing exactly the quality my snakes are fed, the convenience of tailoring my feeder sizes exactly to each snake, the money savings over buying live locally and heck I actually like rats and seeing what babies pop out of different pairings so it's a good excuse to have a bunch of them around LOL.
Once I've joined our local Herp Society I may see if it's worthwhile expanding my rat colony and breeding a bit for sales locally. I don't want to get into it big time but since I enjoy it so much I wouldn't mind making a few bucks here or there and lord knows I usually have enough spare rats around anyways even with the small colony I have now.
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Good stuff for sure! My fiance managed to pick up a male and a couple females. She has already named them Tommy Lee and Pam 1 & 2.
I will post some pics tonight when they are settled of them and my crafty craftsmanship that went into the new rat enclosures! Don't worry I havent gone to the dark side yet and started measuring holes or anything like that!
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[QUOTE=jglass38]Good stuff for sure! My fiance managed to pick up a male and a couple females. She has already named them Tommy Lee and Pam 1 & 2.
you going to sell videos of them breeding? lol, i don't even want to think what you, a webcam, and a bunch of rats could do!
vaughn
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Re: Rats - Colors and Coat Markings
[QUOTE=kavmon]
Originally Posted by jglass38
Good stuff for sure! My fiance managed to pick up a male and a couple females. She has already named them Tommy Lee and Pam 1 & 2.
you going to sell videos of them breeding? lol, i don't even want to think what you, a webcam, and a bunch of rats could do!
vaughn
I hadn't thought of that, but its a good idea!! A little cheesy 70s porn music and I think ill be the next Girls Gone Wild guy...Rats gone crazy!
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Hmmm how about Pamela and Heather since they were both blondes married to Tommy Lee LOL. And btw Vaughn if you ever saw rats spend errrr "quality time together" you'd be impressed! LMAO
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