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    blues ?

    i picked up two new future breeders from work today . these two little girls were ear marked for my colonies as soon as i saw the color of them as peach fuzzies . i'm more or less in charge of our breeding colonies at the petshop so i almost always get first shot at any unusual ratties that we produce there . i think these two will add a little spice to the mix at home . i'm not sure what the pattern on either of these would be called , but i just had to have them . so without further adue , here they are .

    first 2 pics are of one , the last 3 pics are of the other one .











    i can hardly wait till they are big enough to produce offspring . one is going to be put with a champaigne rex male and the other will be going with a black self dumbo .
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    Re: blues ?

    Let's test my skills


    I believe the first one with more white on the belly would be a blue berkie, and the other one with just a little on it's chest would be a blue irish!

    They're awfully adorable! I love the blues!

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    Re: blues ?

    thank you i thought the first one might be a berkshire , but wasnt sure because all her feet are white . the second i really wasnt sure . she only has white front feet . i'm quite pleased with them no matter what they are
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    Re: blues ?

    Those are some very nice blues. They are a lot bluer (if thats a word) than any of mine im a tad bit jealous

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    Re: blues ?

    thank you sir i really lucked out with them . so far they are the only blues produced at the shop . i didnt even know we had any rats carrying the genes for it .
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    Re: blues ?

    That last picture is unbearably cute!
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    Re: blues ?

    Quote Originally Posted by markface
    thank you i thought the first one might be a berkshire , but wasnt sure because all her feet are white . the second i really wasnt sure . she only has white front feet . i'm quite pleased with them no matter what they are
    Handy little link for you....

    http://www.afrma.org/ratmkd.htm#engirsh

    I think from the pictures they are American Blues not the darker more steel colored Russian Blues but hard to say in a photo really and since Blue rats bred with other colors produce so many shades of Blue it gets really confusing fast LOL. The first one looks to be a Berkie and they should have those little white feet. The second could be an Irish or an English Irish (I can never really get the difference LOL). They are both cute though! Congrats on the new breeding stock for your colony. Blue is a simple recessive so a bit of line breeding will get you a nice group of them (unless those are male and female and not both females).
    ~~Joanna~~

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    Re: blues ?

    thanks yall .

    joanna , i have that site bookmarked already along with several other rat sites ,but thank you all the same the second one pictored is closer to an english irish going by the discription , but she doesnt have any white on her hind feet . they are both definately females so once they start breeding , i might pull a male from one and a couple females from the other to eventually put together . my hopes are to eventually get some blue rex dumbos somewhere down the line .
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    0.1 coastal rosy boa
    1.1 mexican rosy boas
    1.0.1 kenyen sand boas
    0.0.4 house geckos

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    Re: blues ?

    Yep it is a handy site. Our breeder/feeder colonies aren't ever likely to exactly match the markings/colors of show/fancy quality rats but it's a handy guideline nonetheless. Blue dumbo rexes would be very cute....too darn cute to feed off but might make a nice sideline selling them for pretty pets.
    ~~Joanna~~

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    Re: blues ?

    Quote Originally Posted by frankykeno
    Handy little link for you....

    http://www.afrma.org/ratmkd.htm#engirsh

    I think from the pictures they are American Blues not the darker more steel colored Russian Blues but hard to say in a photo really and since Blue rats bred with other colors produce so many shades of Blue it gets really confusing fast LOL. The first one looks to be a Berkie and they should have those little white feet. The second could be an Irish or an English Irish (I can never really get the difference LOL). They are both cute though! Congrats on the new breeding stock for your colony. Blue is a simple recessive so a bit of line breeding will get you a nice group of them (unless those are male and female and not both females).
    Woo Hoo! I got it right! Oh yeah!!!!

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