Finally found some rats!

[Scubaf250]

I've been wanting to breed feeders for a while and its been increasingly hard to find feeder these days so it was a good excuse to get started.

This is my male.


And the two females I believe this one is an albino hairless. The breeder didn't know what the dark one was. She said it's ether a hairless or described it as something that sounded like a double Rex to me. I think she was just getting in to breeding rats after breeding mice so she was still learning.





I want to get one more female but I'm not sure what yet.

Thanks for looking!

[LotusCorvus]

Cute! I've always liked hairless. For another female get something with fur though - hairless do have a tendency to have problems with breeding (mostly in providing enough milk for the babies, especially with their first litter). With a nice light boy like that maybe look for a cinnamon agouti or a beige girl? Looks like you already have an albino and a black berkshire (albeit hairless/double rex versions). that way you'll have most of the basic color groups covered for lots of variety in the babies.

[Scubaf250]

Thanks for the advice! I wasn't aware of the breeding problems the hairless have... I'll try to get them to have a litter at the same time as the haired female I'm going to get so they can help each other out. =P

[satomi325]

True hairless have issues with producing milk. If I understand correctly, double rex doesn't have these issues. So if those two females are double rex, there shouldn't be a problem.

[Scubaf250]

Interesting, should I not breed these girls until i have some more females that can foster just in case they sre hairless?

If they are double Rex does that mean that they are like a super rex (homozygous) and all babies will be Rex?

[satomi325]

Interesting, should I not breed these girls until i have some more females that can foster just in case they sre hairless?

If they are double Rex does that mean that they are like a super rex (homozygous) and all babies will be Rex?

I think that would be a safe decision for now.
And yes. Double rex will throw all rex babies.

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[Scubaf250]

Thanks for the info! She did have rex available too and they where in the same grow out tub so there is a chance that one or both is double rex but I'm going to find another female tomorrow.