Coat - Colour - Marking - types in Australia

Hi .. this is Kim ... I just wanted to let people know what we do currently have here in Australia ... again let me just state that some of these coat names or markings are not officially recognised by any Australian rat club, association or society...


What we have is..

- Coats -

Standard
Rex (Single Rex)
Double Rex
Patchwork Rex
Silk
Silky
Carasilk
Powder Puff (which is similar to a silky)
Velour

- Colours -

Silvered Black (black)
Agouti
Mink
Dove
Silvered Dove
Champagne
Buff/Beige
PEW (pink eyed white) (albino)
REW (ruby eyed white) (different to a PEW as eye colour is a dark red ruby)
BEW (black eyed white)
Topaz (fawn)
Argent
Silver Fawn
Cinnamon
Blue (various shades)


- Markings -

Self




Hooded




Berkshire




Irish




Variegated




Varieberk
(Drawings still being done)



Capped




Bareback




Blazed - White triangle - can be on any other marking)




Downunder (various types such a DU hooded, DU berkshire, DU spotted and so on)
- DU Bershire

- DU Hooded

- DU Spotted Hooded

- DU Spotted



Patched
(Drawing still coming)



Dalmatian - more and more spots appear as the rat ages - they start off looking like BEW's and slowly more and more spots of colour apear..



New markings are starting to pop up like crazy now that we have BEW rats, such as the Patched.



But for now the above markings, colours and coats are all we have in Australia.