What is this?

[carlson]

So I'm just getting into the breeding rats and I got a male from a friend trading him for a male I had. I don't know what his coloring is called tho. I'm hoping that one of the babies from the litter I just had is a female and in the future he will be paired to a blue hooded dumbo but gotta wait little longer until I'm for sure with the sexing I've done but fingers crossed for it cuz I think they'll make nice babies.

But again what is his coloring called? He's in a I think bird cage right now an he likes climbing up to that branch

[Coleslaw007]

I thiiiiink he's a Russian blue, which are darker than the American blue, but it's hard to tell with the lighting. If he is Russian blue is recessive and not compatible with American blue so if your female *is* American blue, breeding them together will make double hets.

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[carlson]

My female is a dark blue she just had three babies that as of now look like two are blue hoods and one is full blue.
mom and dad of the babies
the baby on the right is the one I'm hoping is a girl

[Coleslaw007]

Mom looks like a Russian blue and dad an American so they're already het Russian.

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[carlson]

K cool so they will match up well ha still new too this so I'm really hoping the end two are girls and the middle is a boy so they can go to that guy and see what they give. They all look like they have the dark blue from mom like when I look at them they look Russian blue the one on the left is the lightest but i suppose can't tell much on a week old rat

[Coleslaw007]

Well since it's recessive unless one or the other parent was het the babies won't show but they'll be het. I THINK your female is a Russian blue, in the pic she looks kinna grey more than blue so it's kinna hard to tell for sure for sure.

This should help you sex the babies: http://www.afrma.org/sexing101.htm
It can be done from birth and it's pretty easy when you compare a male and female.

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[carlson]

Once they grow bigger ill get more pics of them but from what I know the parents are from a pet store north of me their from not same parents but sibling parents like bother sister of one set paired to brother and sister of another(that was all my mom could remember when the guy told her) so they should both have close to the same genes in them you'd think? I hope that explanation made sense lol

[carlson]

An that's the site I used it's my first litter and had the phone in one hand and baby rat in the other but the full blue one was the only one that looked like a male but I wanna make sure in a couple weeks before I say for sure

[Coleslaw007]

Once they grow bigger ill get more pics of them but from what I know the parents are from a pet store north of me their from not same parents but sibling parents like bother sister of one set paired to brother and sister of another(that was all my mom could remember when the guy told her) so they should both have close to the same genes in them you'd think? I hope that explanation made sense lol

Uh... I'm a wee bit too drunk right now for that to make sense lol. Do you understand how simple recessive genes work? **that's a serious question, lol please don't take it offensively, everyone starts out not knowing **

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[carlson]

I understand you need two recessive genes together to make it visual other wise any dominate gene will show and how the charting of them works but I don't know the gene markers used for rats and I'm still trying to learn the names of all the rat coloring haha. But as far as recessive and dominate and all that yes