I got a variegated/dalmatian!!!

[SlitherinSisters]

Oh I'm so excited! These have always been my absolute favorite marked rats, but I never thought I would get one! I've never seen one in person and I've only seen very few on the net. I'm so excited!!!

Here he is. Of course it's a he Oh well, I suppose it will be much faster to spread his genes this way. His mom was an agouti self (a wild colored rat) and dad was a fawn caped. Would he be considered an apricot color?



It was a pretty crazy litter, a little of everything!
His mom was an agouti self (a wild colored rat) and dad was a fawn caped.



I've got a question for your color experts. I usually get fawns, but this litter gave me these dark fawns, I'm guessing apricots(?) and then I also go this little bugger. What on earth color is he? I was thinking he must be a dilute of some sort, but I can't figure it out.


And the two I really want to keep, but I might have to feed off the black one because it's a boy too!!! This is the first little I've ever gotten selfs that weren't agouti selfs! I'm pretty happy about his litter other than all the cool ones are boys!

[SlitherinSisters]

Holy cow, photobucket is running in snail speed today! Hopefully other people can see the pictures, they aren't all coming up for me.

[twistedtails]

He's cute for sure!

[twistedtails]

Holy cow, photobucket is running in snail speed today! Hopefully other people can see the pictures, they aren't all coming up for me.

I actually copied the link, pasted it a new window and deleted the i587 before the web address.

[SlitherinSisters]

I actually copied the link, pasted it a new window and deleted the i587 before the web address.

Huh....I wonder why it is being a pain. Photobucket is being ridiculous to me!!! Every other website is working great for me, but not photobucket

Ok now they are all working for me! Hopefully they show for everyone else now!

Oh my....I apologize for the horrid spelling/typing. I work night shifts on Saturday and Sunday night and I can hardly hold my eyes open. I've only had 2 hours of sleep since yesterday afternoon

[Danounet]

So many different colors!

So hard to keep track of Rat genetics, where is there a good site that explains EVERYTHING?

[4theSNAKElady]

I think that color may be called "dove"? But I'm not completely sure.

[het.pied]

thats awesome! right now im slowly trying to convert my whole brreding colony to dumbos. i have one mother thats a dumbo so ive saved this one self male that is het, and 4 of his sister(het as well). the girls are just getting to breeding size so well see what we can get in the next month or two!

EDIT: also i have a female that i kept back that is hooded, kinda like you light one but she is extremely light. at first glance it looks like an albino, but if you look really hard with good lighting you can see the pattern. its crazy

[tomfromtheshade]

I will have to post some pictures of my blue, rex, variegated, blaze, het dumbo guy. He's available if anyone wants him LOL.

[ed4281]

too cute