New Litter(s) - Just sharing!

[sorraia]

I now have two new litters on the ground. The first contained 13 babies, second contained 8 babies. The moms are a beige (or light fawn) blazed berkshire, and a black headspot berkshire. Dad is an agouti berkshire. The beige girl had her babies (13 litter) first, about a week before the black girl (8 litter). Looks like I have mostly agouti, with some black, beige and/or fawn in mostly berkshire, some with higher white sides. Seeing there aren't any obvious hooded, I'm thinking the moms have the variegated modifier instead of a straight H/h berkshire.

Just thought I'd share a few pictures. I'm excited to have babies again.







beige mom:

[aldebono]

I love that baby in the middle of the litter with the big head spot!

[snakesRkewl]

Mom looks like a fawn, not a beige

[aldebono]

Wouldn't she be fawn if her eyes were red? She does look slightly agouti.

[sorraia]

I am leaning toward fawn, but a lighter one. She looked more beige when I got her several months back, and with her more recent molt she's gotten brighter.

The number of agouti in the litter kind of indicates she might be fawn too.

[aldebono]

So is beige the black form of fawn?

Agouti with R.E.D. (A/- rr) becomes fawn
Agouti with P.E.D. (A/ pp) becomes amber
Black with R.E.D. ( aa rr) becomes a beige rat
Black with P.E.D. (aa pp) becomes champagne

Is a rr or pp rat a white rat with red or pink eyes (PEW)?

[sorraia]

So is beige the black form of fawn?

Agouti with R.E.D. (A/- rr) becomes fawn
Agouti with P.E.D. (A/ pp) becomes amber
Black with R.E.D. ( aa rr) becomes a beige rat
Black with P.E.D. (aa pp) becomes champagne

Is a rr or pp rat a white rat with red or pink eyes (PEW)?

Yup. Beige is the "black" form of fawn, created by the ruby eye dilute on an otherwise black rat.

A white rat with pink or red eyes is usually albino (genetically c/c, covers up all other genetics), but sometimes can be a multi-dilute including the pink-eye dilute. Usually multi-dilutes have some shade of color though, however pale.

[snakesRkewl]

Misread that, lol, carry on

[WmHrbst]

Very cute and very healthy looking I see hundreds of rats every day but it never gets old