My Adventures in Rat Breeding

[nightwolfsnow]

you have nice breeding stock, rats are such great animals to work with and i think compliment the reptile hobby.

Thanks! I certainly agree there. Genetics were what got me into Balls, and rats have interesting genetics as well with a much faster process to work on them.

I love working with rats too!

I actually have a very exciting litter on the ground right now: Solids, Berkshires, Blues, Blacks, Color Points, Albinos, Dumbos, Genetic Hairless, and Dwarves are all possible from this pairing. And my red eye marten is about to pop too.

I honestly enjoy the rats more than the snakes now lol. They are such intelligent and unique creatures.

Wow! That's a very wide variety. Right now I have a litter of all russian blues and albinos, markings include berkshires, hoodeds, blazed capped, and I got my first two variegated, most of these are also dumbo. The second litter is very confusing, I expected all agoutis and blacks since I paired a champagne and a fawn, but it turns out they both carry the opposite gene, so it looks like I got a champagne, two fawns, and a silver fawn in addition to the agoutis and blacks. My other three litters are too young to tell for sure what I got yet. The red devils are pretty cool, after I work on these lines I might look for some of those.