Playin' with my food :)

[Linds]

Hehehe... if I'm gonna be stuck breeding all of them, might as well have a bit of fun with it too! A hobby within a hobby :p I've never seen these around anywhere, I have solid (w white belly), sort of an orange roan, and hooded orange variations of the colour. It is sort of an intense strain of t+ albinism, it is totally cool. They remind me of creamsicles :) I almost lost them for a little while, and when I started breeding the orange ones to browns and blacks I began getting sort of caramel coloured rats. Not what I was going for, but I've finally got the orange back! Current project is to make the smooth-coated orange rats more vibrant, and make orange rex rats, but so far I haven't had much luck with the rexes. The best I have produced is sort of a halfway point between the beige and orange, one day I will get them to be as vibrant as the smooth coated ones :)

<img src="http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/503/22orange3.jpg">

[CHRISANDBOIDS14]

HAHA! Sweet colors and Eyes! Sounds fun! You could come up with a new "morph".

[Auskan]

Linds - it is fun isn't it? I used to breed mice when I was a kid for many years, and I loved the experimentation with colors to see what you get when you cross this with that. Since getting my rats, I've started paying more attention to them in the pet stores and my local stores only have all white, black or the black/white hooded ones (my female is black but all her offspring are b/w/hooded). I also like the orange/creamsicle look & was thinking about something along these lines, but finally decided that since they are being bred to feed and the snakes don't care what color they are, and I don't really have the time now anyway, that I won't go that route.

[Syco]

I started doing this with my mice also, got lots of really cool colors. The only problem was with the different colors all of a sudden they started taking on "personalities" . I found that I had too many "keepers" and had to go back to all white, if you can't tell them apart it makes it easier when you have to off them for snake food! :)

[vanderkm]

Very nice Linds - like many people I got hooked on genetics of rodents when breeding feeders. Worked with red mice (satin and normal coat - never rex) and they were gorgeous - like this rat. Expect you would have quite a pet market for creamsicle rats.


thanks for sharing,

mary v.

[marisa]

I also get into breeding mice for certain colors. I hate white mice and breed them out of any new colonies I get. I seem to gravitate to orange mice LOL. I keep back the most of those, can you tell?

<img src="http://8snakes.myftp.org/marisa/furry/Rodents/orangelitter.jpg">

:D

Marisa

[sapphire_moon]

now those are cute, they have a rounded nose, not a pointy nose!! lol