What color is this??

[BlackLava]

when they first started to get their "colors" i thought he was gonna be a blue hooded rat, but now that he has a little more fur, im not sure what color this is its similar to a blue, but looks more of a "champagne" color. anyone know what color this is? he is the only one out of a litter of 10 that came out this way LOL. the rest are all black hoodeds.







with some of its sibs...



these babies are starting to crawl around, but they seem a bit young to be crawling around already??



on the other hand these older babies are getting big already most of these, if they are female, will probably be holdbacks. we are planning on building another rat rack LOL.





i like their shiny black furs



this is one of the litters i have been excited about, i think this blue female is preggo finally, she looks HUGE all of a sudden lets hope for lots of blues

[LooseAFur]

looks like a buffet!!!! Congrats on the breeding!

I would say its a greyish blue??

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[BlackLava]

well yea thats what i call it, but i was trying to figure out what color mutation it was actually called

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[XxPython_ChicxX]

I think its a fawn

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[RayRay]

Looks like what they call a lilac? I'm not sure. If it opens its eyes and has red eyes, that's what it is.

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[BlackLava]

he doesnt have red eyes, but it might be a fawn. however, without knowing the genetics of the parents idk if i can call it "whatever color mutation" without knowing the lineage, if its a recessive gene.

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[XxPython_ChicxX]

Fawn rats

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[BlackLava]

do those have dark eyes, or red? this one looks exactly like the one on the right

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[XxPython_ChicxX]

When i was working at the pet store i had to deal with alot of rats...had a few that were born that looked just like yours...the one is the middle i find usually has red eyes...but the last one on the right...had black..so i bet anything yours is a fawn..cute little guy

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[Sakara]

awwwwwwwwwwww, so many babies

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[Jt.]

The blue female does look pregnant. But I can't tell with my own rats until the last week.

I have two litters right now. The litter of 13 turned 2 weeks today and is identical to your litter 'cept for the 'fawn' baby.

The second litter is only a few days old and am hoping for some dumbo's. I bred a daughter of my dumbo male back to him in hopes of big eared babies.

Rat babies are so cute!

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[Nittany221]

I have a GIANT dumbo blue male we named Templeton and he frequently producese fawn babies, like the three in the picture by Python to black hoodeds and solids. One of these days I need to get a picture of him. He's massive and all his babies are huge. I outcrossed his daughters, and then started breeding the babies of his daughters back to him to try and breed for super huge rats. I'll let you know how that goes lol but he weighs at least 2 lbs. He's a beast!

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[BlackLava]

holy crap!! thats a huge rat you have any pics of him? hes like a chihuahua LMAO

i do think its alot of fun seeing what the babies come out looking like, very interesting

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[Alex]

Very awesome litters!

I actually had a litter about a month ago with 3 that looked like your mystery rat. They ended up having black eyes, with champagne-ish fur. They're slightly more...gray? than the other champagnes.

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[kenyabloodstone]

That baby is a fawn we used to breed rats for a petstore as pets and did a lot of different colorations. My mom's favorite rat looked like that baby and it was her fawn. The Blue rat is most definately preggo lol wtg

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[HERPHAPPY]

Back when I was in college (& long before I got into snakes!) I had a family of pet rats like that! Some call it champagne, or buff or fawn...whatever! The natural 'agouti' rat fur is a mixture of that & black/gray, so you get a recessive fawn now & then when the dark colors are missing; 'blue' is missing black & brown (-or fawn)!

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[AGActaeonia]

It's what I call a "Caramel" like Alpha.

I've Fulls, Aberrants, Stripes, you name it.

They look like Blue's when they're fuzzies, but become more and more tan (just short of brown) as they age.

Here's Alpha.

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[kenyabloodstone]

Alpha is a big rat lol but beautiful

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[AGActaeonia]

He's proven HET for 5 different morph combinations and the size of a small cat, lol.

Great temperament though. Very viable breeder too.

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	Heterozygous Heterozygous - the animal carries the gene for a genetic trait but does not outwardly demonstrate the trait. Example: A boa that is het for albino looks normal but carries the albino gene. When it is bred to another het for albino boa or an albino boa, a percentage of the offspring will be albino.

	Morph A morph is a color or pattern variation that is proven to be genetic. Common morphs include albino, anerythristic, gentically striped, Hypomelanistic, and many others. Morphs also include combinations of simple traits such as "Sunglow" which is Albino and Hypomelanistic. These traits may be recessive traits, co-dominant traits, dominant traits, or created through selective breeding (ie Pastel).