Finally, an agouti!

[littleindiangirl]

Last night I peeked in on my albino girl's litter and pulled out 3 agouti chubs! Only three out of 13, the rest were either black or albino or himalayan (heavy on the albino). I will definitely be holding back one of the berkshire agouti females. This is pretty exciting for me since I am over run with those beige and blacks and himalayans.

Also, I was able to keep a beautiful siamese berkshire a few weeks ago. I'm hoping I can breed her to a self boy and get rid of the white modifiers in the lines. I'm trying for a lot of selfs in my colony. I like to see the whole body with color, it's just nicer to see a gorgeous full body color amongst all of the hoodeds and berkshires.

[AdamJB]

Where the pics? lol We always love to see baby ratties!

[littleindiangirl]

I was just going to say, I realize my error in posting with no pics! I will post them up tonight... sorry peeps.

[Jay_Bunny]

I want to see pics!

[MarkS]

So, you've got all those nice color mutations and you're excited about getting normal wild type rats? To each their own I guess.

[mlededee]

I personally really like agoutis and have held back several from my own colony. But that's just me!

[littleindiangirl]

I suppose it seems that way, but I really wanted agouti's because I really like the depth and color. I really like them. I got tired of black and beige and albino rats.

Plus, I would love to get all the combinations possible with agouti's. Fawns, ambers, cinnamons, blue agouti's... there's quite a bit to be done with those "normal" rats too.

[littleindiangirl]

Ok! Here's the little chubs weighing in at 25, 27, 29 grams and a day shy of their 2 week birthday. The female is the hooded, and the 2 berks are males.



LOL, I sorta want to keep all of them too.

[frankykeno]

Oh very nice agouti's! I have a number of them in our colony and I do love the variety of colors and patterns they'll throw when combined with other rats. I've yet to see one of our agouti's have any genetic faults either and the two agouti/white females I have are two of my most prolific breeders. I think they are a good rat to have in the breeding pool of any colony.

[littleindiangirl]

Thanks Jo, I'm stupidly stoked about getting them.