Can Siamese start as hooded?

[aldebono]

AKA Cuteness alert!

Will they molt their hoods off and become solid Siamese?
I am picking one of these boys up from a friend to add to my colony. Just wanted to know exactly what they could be as she doesn't have any visible Siamese in her colony and she referred to them as "the dirty nosed babies that pop up every once in a while."

[Rhasputin]

It's not really a hood, it just looks like it.
Siamese are notorious for having really strong molts. Some will start off a solid point colour, and molt into base colour. Yours there are perfectly average molting siamese, the smudges will disapear in a few weeks or so.

[aldebono]

Words can not express my excitement right now. But dancing banana can!

Edit: I thought Siamese were co-dom? Need one to make one?

[aldebono]

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[Jessica Loesch]

No, siamese is recessive.

They are too cute for words.

Congrats.

[aldebono]

Ok well for some reason I thought it was co-dom.
Thanks! I will get more pictures of them when I get them tomorrow.

[snakesRkewl]

Siamese are recessive and can start life off as hooded.
It's a hooded Siamese, or Triamese or marked Siamese take your pick.

[aldebono]

Very cool, learn something every day. I guess Rex is the only dominant mutation then out of the more common ones?

[snakesRkewl]

Very cool, learn something every day. I guess Rex is the only dominant mutation then out of the more common ones?

Not the only, but the most common besides dominate the high white gene.

The weird part about rex's being dominate is that typically a dom X dom breeding would yield 3/4 dominate and 1/4 standard coat.

Rex X standard coat acts like a dominate trait in that half the kits will be rex and half will be standard coats(by odds).

Rex X Rex acts more like a co-dominate trait Rex X Rex = 25% double rex 50% rex and 25% standard coats.

And to complicate things further a double rex X double rex acts somewhat like a dom X dom breeding in that a double rex X double rex = 75% double rex and 25% mixture of standard coats and whats been termed a "loose rex".

Rat genetics are just plain strange...lol

[satomi325]

Yes! My favorite female started out as a beautiful Tan hooded. I was actually a little bummed out she molted all her color. Now she's all Siamese.

When I first got her. Still looking very much like a tan hooded:




Tan starting to fade, but not noticeable yet:



Chest and dorsal markings starting to fade:





Her points are coming in and her hood is disappearing:



Currently: