Quote Originally Posted by littleindiangirl View Post
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
Ok I see! Goodness there's a lot to this! It's fun to learn about! Thanks for taking the time to share!

Quote Originally Posted by Bettacreek View Post
If you breed one of the albinos back to a parent, you'll get about 50% albinos. There's nothing really "special" about the albinos, they're not hard to come by or anything.
I know they're nothing special, but it was exciting getting something other than agouti or black! And quite unexpected after 30+ babies.