Look what I got out of a black and an agouti hooded rat!

[littleindiangirl]

Thanks for all the info! Maybe I wasn't clear... the mom is a black hooded and the dad an agouti hooded. If any of them where ambers they would have been selfs right? The rest of the litter were all dark hoodeds.

Self denotes the lack of agouti (the banded hair) and can ALSO be used as the name of a black animal.

I know, confusing, but thats the way I learned it and I tend to fall back into that terminology.

So, its like this... If both parents WERE het for PED, you would have gotten:

Champages [PED on non agouti]
Ambers [PED on agouti]
Blacks (if the agouti was het for black)
and Agoutis (agouti is dominant)


But since you didn't, that is a strong suggestion that your parent rats are het for albino.

You would have gotten

Agoutis
Blacks (again, if the agouti rat was het for black)
albinos