I got a variegated/dalmatian!!!

[Sariel]

You people are slowly starting to sway my once solid foundation of only buying my feeders in frozen bulk -.-;.

I love that little black male, Id so make grabby hands for him if I wasnt living in a place that didnt allow rodents :/.

[SlitherinSisters]

So many different colors!

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

Oh dear, I haven't found ONE that explain it all. I have to use several. I do have a "fancy rat" book that my granny gave me that I usually go by. It's a little bit aged so it doesn't have all the colors/marking that are out today. I've yet to find a good site that has all the colors.

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

I remember reading that name somewhere, I'll have to do some more researching.... I'm pretty sure on the apricot because it said when they are babies it's very orange.

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

Oh I love dumbos!!!! I haven't found any dumbos around here and I'm really scared to bring new rats into my colony Good luck with the dumbo colony!!! Yeah, I can imagine at first glance once they grow up that it would be extremely hard to see the hood! I would keep him if he was a she. I'm sure I'll get another one of these days. I want to breed that variegated back to mom and see what I get!

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

Oh please!!! Too bad you don't live in Iowa

You people are slowly starting to sway my once solid foundation of only buying my feeders in frozen bulk -.-;.

I love that little black male, Id so make grabby hands for him if I wasnt living in a place that didnt allow rodents :/.

Oh yes, you should start breeding them! They are so cute and it's so much fun to play with genetics especially when you get something new! All I had were hooded, caped, albino, and two agouti selfs till this litter!!! And my only colors were fawn, black, and agouti. I even had 3 funky hoodeds that I held back to start breeding for really wide striped hoodeds, but once I saw that variegated boy those three got fed off

The little black one is extremely cute! I just don't know if I could justify having 4 male breeders! Granted one has been due to die for about 6 months now, he just refuses to let go, but I'd still have 3 male breeders....hmmm, tough choice for sure!!! I would give him to you if I could!!!

[ballpythonluvr]

Awwww! They are soooo adorable!

[tomfromtheshade]

Here is the blue variegated blaze het dumbo male that I was talking about.





He is available if anyone wants to add him to a breeding project.

[Jay_Bunny]

Very cute! This is what I love about breeding rats. The amazing colors and patterns they come in. Sometimes you get some really great surprises. For instance, I bred my amber self male to my agouti berkshire female and got a mix of all sorts of colors and patterns. Black hoods, black berks, agouti variegated, a silver (not sure what his official color was) blazed, black hooded blaze, a dumbo albino, and agouti berkshire.

[SlitherinSisters]

Oh my gosh that dumbo is sooooo cute!!!! I wish it wasn't so ridiculously expensive to ship rats

To anyone who loved the little black berkshire he won't be food. My mom made grabby hands before I even showed her a picture!!! I might have to send a girl with her so she can get some babies out of him. Put him to work!!!

[Jay_Bunny]

Yay for not being food! I bet he loved the promotion!

[tomfromtheshade]

He's not a dumbo. His dad was a dumbo...he just carries the trait. Its recessive. So, when bred to one of my variegated blue het dumbo females he should produce about 25% rex, blue, variegated, dumbo babies...or that is the hope.

Oh my gosh that dumbo is sooooo cute!!!! I wish it wasn't so ridiculously expensive to ship rats

To anyone who loved the little black berkshire he won't be food. My mom made grabby hands before I even showed her a picture!!! I might have to send a girl with her so she can get some babies out of him. Put him to work!!!

[PurplePython]

Yay for not being food! I bet he loved the promotion!

lmao @ the promotion

[SlitherinSisters]

Yay for not being food! I bet he loved the promotion!

I'm sure he appreciates the promotion!!!

He's not a dumbo. His dad was a dumbo...he just carries the trait. Its recessive. So, when bred to one of my variegated blue het dumbo females he should produce about 25% rex, blue, variegated, dumbo babies...or that is the hope.

Oh my bad, I missed the het part. He sort of looks like a dumbo even though he's a het! I would love to have a dumbo, but all our fancy rat breeders in the area quit breeding Good luck with him! Be sure to post the pictures of his pretty babies! Do you know if variegated is recessive? I'm guessing that it is since I've never had a variegated before