Little Agouti Hairless, and questions :)

[SlitherinSisters]

I took pictures of him tonight for a lady that emailed me wanting a pet rat. I'm guessing him at 4 weeks. He had a rough start with his crappy hairless mom. She likes to leave her babies scattered around to freeze to death. I was only able to save him and his hairless sister.

Are my hairless rats crappy ones, or do they all take quite some time to lose their hair? It's so weird that they are born hairless, grow some mangy hair, then lose it again.


The whiskers start out curly, then get straight with a little age. I wish I had rexes Every time I see those curly whiskers and hair I get excited. They are straightened out already for those wondering.


His skin will be the agouti color and he'll still have the berkshire markings once he sheds right?

[SAMPSON-BP]

If your not happy with the hairless, feed them off and get rexes

Are both the parents hairless or carry the gene? if he's a true hairless he will lose the hair, if he's just a carrier it will stay.

I believe his skin will end up being pink, since he's not a black rat, and I can see some of it through the fur. He will unfortunately not have any visible markings.

Just go rex, you can still get hairless, and rexes are so much cuter

[Rhasputin]

I don't think that rat is hairless.
I think it's double rex. If it was hairless, it wouldn't have that much hair at this age, and would be balding in some areas.

[bad-one]

Idk, could be a true hairless. Mine never go all nude unforturnately. Still, that one does seem to have a lot of hair for the age, pics of the parents?

[snakesRkewl]

It does look like a double rex to me too.

[SlitherinSisters]

You think so? His mom is a hairless and his dad is a standard dumbo that has thrown hairless with a het hairless girl. I have his sister that is a hooded soon to be hairless. It seems to take mine a few months before they are completely bald. I'll keep an eye on him and see what happens though. His sister looks a lot more mangy than he does. The lady that wanted him hasn't responded, so I may end up keeping him.

Here's a better picture of his whiskers. I've had other babies like him with slightly curly whiskers like him, and they have turned out hairless, eventually.


Rex is codominate right? So if his hairless mom was also rex then she would have thrown rex before right? And she would have had to be bred to a rex to make a double rex right?

[snakesRkewl]

Rex is a Dominate trait and yes to produce a double both parents need to carry the rex gene.
http://www.afrma.org/rexrat.htm

Do you have pics of the daddy rat?

[SlitherinSisters]

This is about the only picture I have of him, and that's actually the mom with him. Maybe she is a double rex rather than a hairless, but she lost all the fuzz several month ago and hasn't grown any back. He was about 4 months in the picture and she was 3 months. He's the one I call my 'wide stripe'.



I need to get pictures of the agouti "hairless's" sister because she is also 'hairless' and really mangy. I'm not sure what the heck is going on with these guys. Could that female produce double rexes with a standard male? Like I said he has thrown hairless babies with a het hairless female. They did have less hair than that agouti boy in question.

[snakesRkewl]

Here's what I think..lol

The mom is a double rex and the dad is a standard coat so every baby from that pairing should be a rex, unless of course the hairless gene comes into play.

Rex's can show some bare skin especially around molt so I bet the baby is just a rex and the hairless areas will fill in as it ages.

I have some black rex mom's that I've finally got out of my breedings that always threw ugly rex's that didn't have nice full coats.

[SlitherinSisters]

Hmm...I see what you are saying. So it's possible that she's a double rex and throws all rexes, but they are crappy rexes. That makes sense.

Here are some pics I just took

Dad



The boy in question, once more


With his 'siblings' different mom same dad


His sister, also a weird hairless/rex




Don't ask me how, but the mom to the weird babies has a litter on the ground already. She must have gotten prego the day after she gave birth. She's a crappy mom so I took the babies from her last time and threw her back in with the male-only the two survived. This time, the first time in 4 litters, she is actually keeping them alive. They are only 2 days old, but they are still alive and doing well! We'll find out a bit more about her genetics with these babies I think!