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Re: Feelin' the Blues!
Lucy and Ethel? They're awful cute...=)
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Re: Feelin' the Blues!
They are adorable! Where did you get them?
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Re: Feelin' the Blues!
Very CUTE!!!! Blues are sooo pretty!
Grey Scale is a good thing...
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Re: Feelin' the Blues!
Oh how cute! I'm so jealous! I can't fine an American or Russian Blue rat in the whole city of Toledo let alone any hooded blues! I think yours are Russian Blue Hoodeds as they seem too dark to be American Blues (at least going by that photo) but Becky is our resident color/pattern expert when it comes to the rattie world. I'd pair them with a really nice Black Hooded male personally. Look for one without a blaze face and a good hood and solid spinal stripe. Then breed back his best son to the two moms and you should get a bunch more nicely hooded Blues (blue being recessive as far as I can tell). Blues can carry genetics for megacolon to apparently it's best to avoid breeding them to rats with husky markings, blaze faces and other rats considered high white, just to be on the safe side.
Lucy and Ethel, Romy and Michele (or Lisa and Mira for the actresses from that movie), Thelma and Louise, Etta and Pearl (female blues singers Etta James and Pearl Bailey)...just a few female pairs I could think of off the top of my head.
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Re: Feelin' the Blues!
Link for Russian Blue information....
http://www.afrma.org/russianblue.htm
Link to AFRMA Fancy Rats info on coat patterns and color types (links to dozens of pictures of all sorts of rats).....
http://www.afrma.org/fancyrm.htm
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Re: Feelin' the Blues!
Originally Posted by rabernet
They are adorable! Where did you get them?
Thanks Robin! My local petsmart carries them occasionally, these were the two friendliest ones of the group that they had. Luckily I know the pet care manager that works there, I know that she takes really good care of their animals.
-Jason
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Re: Feelin' the Blues!
Originally Posted by frankykeno
Oh how cute! I'm so jealous! I can't fine an American or Russian Blue rat in the whole city of Toledo let alone any hooded blues! I think yours are Russian Blue Hoodeds as they seem too dark to be American Blues (at least going by that photo) but Becky is our resident color/pattern expert when it comes to the rattie world. I'd pair them with a really nice Black Hooded male personally. Look for one without a blaze face and a good hood and solid spinal stripe. Then breed back his best son to the two moms and you should get a bunch more nicely hooded Blues (blue being recessive as far as I can tell). Blues can carry genetics for megacolon to apparently it's best to avoid breeding them to rats with husky markings, blaze faces and other rats considered high white, just to be on the safe side.
Lucy and Ethel, Romy and Michele (or Lisa and Mira for the actresses from that movie), Thelma and Louise, Etta and Pearl (female blues singers Etta James and Pearl Bailey)...just a few female pairs I could think of off the top of my head.
Thanks Jo! My best guess when I got them was Russian Blue Hoodeds, and semi confirmed it with the AFRMA link on blues when I got them: http://www.afrma.org/bluerat.htm. The page has pictures of blue hoodeds, but doesn't say if they are Russian blues or not...but like yourself I'd assume they are due to the lighter coloration.
As far as males I'm thinking I would like to find a black self, and a black hooded for studs. I plan on keeping back a male black hooded (het blue) from the first litter to produce blues of my own. And hopefully blue berks eventually by breeding the black self to the blue hooded girls and keeping a male from him to breed back.
They are definitely a lot of fun so far.
-Jason
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Re: Feelin' the Blues!
very nice girls . i want to get some blues one of these days .
Mark
reborn herper
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Re: Feelin' the Blues!
Originally Posted by JBallPython
Thanks Robin! My local petsmart carries them occasionally, these were the two friendliest ones of the group that they had. Luckily I know the pet care manager that works there, I know that she takes really good care of their animals.
-Jason
I got Scarlett, my Russian Blue self from Petsmart, but I never saw any hoodeds. I'll have to keep an eye out.
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