genetics

[Petboy15]

If I breed a white/black hooded to a fawn w/ ruby eyes, what do I get?
What about the hooded to an albino rat?

[tigerlily]

I'm not sure about rat genetics. I know the hoodeds are a recessive gene, and unless the fawn also carries that gene then they will likely be selfs. Here's a link that may help, but without knowing lineage you never know what you'll get.

http://www.afrma.org/rmindex.htm#breedcolor

[frankykeno]

It's hard to say, rats are generally allowed to breed indiscrimately so you never know with pet store ones what will pop out. All I can tell you is what I get from mine. My big male black and white hooded bred to a ruby eyed beige (fawn) generally produces a lot of black berkshires or self blacks with a tiny chest spot or strip (not really enough to be classed an english or irish). He throws a lot of albino's to bred to almost every other color female. I get a fair few hoodeds as well, some are quite nicely marked, some are very broken stripes.

[lord jackel]

It's hard to say, rats are generally allowed to breed indiscrimately so you never know with pet store ones what will pop out. All I can tell you is what I get from mine. My big male black and white hooded bred to a ruby eyed beige (fawn) generally produces a lot of black berkshires or self blacks with a tiny chest spot or strip (not really enough to be classed an english or irish). He throws a lot of albino's to bred to almost every other color female. I get a fair few hoodeds as well, some are quite nicely marked, some are very broken stripes.

I agree...I would hate to have to do a gant chart for rats talk about an eye chart.

[Petboy15]

Thanks, what a coincidence. My male is a b/w hooded too, and I have 2 fawn females and 2 albinos.