Your Rats: Colours & Markings

[Kim]

Aug 26, 2008 15:53:19 GMT 10 @kaligneyrats said:

Hughie looks a bit like Tama, but with less of the orange in his coat and a little more of the pale brown, and the blue is on 3/4 of the bottom of his hairs.

As with every colour there are slightly different shades in the one colour, so some Cinnamons will have a more browner orange and some will have a more Orange look.

Aug 26, 2008 15:53:19 GMT 10 @kaligneyrats said:

I had an american friend say he was a Cinnamon Agouti about a month ago.

Unfortunately American colours do differ, although sometimes only in name, to Australian colours, so what may be a Cinnamon Agouti in America may be just a plain Cinnamon here in Australia.

Which is were things can get confusing. Also because we can ship our rats to America we are finding that Americans are able to see the differences in colour that we cant because we can not bring in American rats to look at.

Our Cinnamon is different to what Americans call Cinnamon and so our cinnamons are now being called Aussie Cinnamon in America.

Emily from EaglesEye Rattery in America has a comparison on her web site. Please check out the following link to the page on her site to see what I mean - www.dreameyce.com/eagleseye/rattery/ratinfo/AussieCinn.htm

In the first photo of Lucky (American Cinnamon) and August (Aussie Cinnamon) you can only really see Augusts head.

But Lucky in that photo could be called a Topaz here because of the bright orange look to his coat.

Yet in the 2 smaller photos under that first pic Lucky doesnt seem as orange and both look like Australia Cinnamons as we do have that varying shades as I mentioned.

Yet the babies at the bottom of the page are a different story as I have never seen a 2 week old Cinnamon baby here in Australia that looks agouti like that one does.

But because their colours are possibly geneticly different to ours if they bred an Aussie Cinnamon to an American rat then chances are the colour mutated to give that darker colour.

[kaligneyrats]

Aug 26, 2008 18:17:19 GMT 10 Kim said:

Emily from EaglesEye Rattery in America has a comparison on her web site. Please check out the following link to the page on her site to see what I mean - www.dreameyce.com/eagleseye/rattery/ratinfo/AussieCinn.htm

In the first photo of Lucky (American Cinnamon) and August (Aussie Cinnamon) you can only really see Augusts head.

But Lucky in that photo could be called a Topaz here because of the bright orange look to his coat.

Thank you for clearing that up for me Hughie and Gingi's colouring looks just like August's. It really is a relief to finally know what colours they are.

Thank you again

[brendan]

what color do you call an all black rat.

[Kim]

Black in Australia is actually called Silvered Black, but some people just call it black.

So an ALL black rat would be a Silvered Black Self.

Or just Black Self if you want to use that instead of the silvered bit.

[wulfyskingdom]

I'd use silvered black sounds so pretty. I have a silvered mink too, hes a pretty grey all over with lots of silverey white fur showing through.

[pagz]

Could somebody post a double rex? When I first started looking for Rats they said there are no hairless rats in Australia, and that a double rex is probably the closest you're going to get.

[Colleen]

Like you said, double rexes are the 'closest' you are going to get to hairless rats, but they do have patches of hair on them, and have a thin coat in places.

don't have any pics, sorry