Right now, I have a male hairless rat in with 4 females. Out of 30 babies born, one was hairless(sort of, since she's not lost the fuzz mangy coat look yet, but she's not looking great today?). I'm holding back all the females to pick out the most friendly and prettiest ones to perhaps breed to a hairless. Is this the right tactic for getting hairless rats?

I've gotten 3 male hairless, one per litter, from a certain bin of furred rats. I don't know the background of any of the rats in the bin.

I also still have this "silver" hooded male. I haven't got any decent picture of him, but he was sold to me as a feeder since the previous owner couldn't get him to breed. I put him in with 4 young females and he's produced crazy amounts of babies, about 1/3 of which are also the same "silver" hooded color. None have shown blue, none have been solid "silver".

The "silver" is a whitish grey, not a blue, very much ticked with the "white" hairs making him look even more "silver" and less blue. I haven't found any pictures online that look just like his color, perhaps because some of the examples are of young rats. But many of his young that I'm growing out are looking VERY like him, while some have a touch of brown color instead of the very pure looking "silver". I put one of his sons to some females, to see if he is as prolific as dad, but so far, it's not impressive. The females and he are still young though. The "silver" hooded females are almost big enough to try breeding, so I'll be setting them up soon.

Any ideas? I'm new to rattie genetics, and I'm trying to study up but most of the places I read up on will give a standard of what the color IS, but perhaps not how you GET the color. Many colors will state what you need to GEt the color, but no examples of what it looks like, or they use terms for colors I don't know, and can't find examples of.

One of the types I liked the look of mentioned "brown" but none of the other listed colors were "brown". It's frustrating. And many don't mention recessive or what combos you have to go through to get that color.

My new blazed rats are now getting big enough to breed too, I like how sleek and healthy they are. I still don't have rex rats, which I would love to get.