Look what I got out of a black and an agouti hooded rat!

[Bettacreek]

If you breed one of the albinos back to a parent, you'll get about 50% albinos. There's nothing really "special" about the albinos, they're not hard to come by or anything.

[SlitherinSisters]

Self denotes the lack of agouti (the banded hair) and can ALSO be used as the name of a black animal.

I know, confusing, but thats the way I learned it and I tend to fall back into that terminology.

So, its like this... If both parents WERE het for PED, you would have gotten:

Champages [PED on non agouti]
Ambers [PED on agouti]
Blacks (if the agouti was het for black)
and Agoutis (agouti is dominant)


But since you didn't, that is a strong suggestion that your parent rats are het for albino.

You would have gotten

Agoutis
Blacks (again, if the agouti rat was het for black)
albinos

Ok I see! Goodness there's a lot to this! It's fun to learn about! Thanks for taking the time to share!

If you breed one of the albinos back to a parent, you'll get about 50% albinos. There's nothing really "special" about the albinos, they're not hard to come by or anything.

I know they're nothing special, but it was exciting getting something other than agouti or black! And quite unexpected after 30+ babies.