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Scott W
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 Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 11:40 am Post subject: Freaky Rat |
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Well what with finding the 'mouster' last year in my mouse colonies, this weekend I have found a tailess rat....exactly the same condition as the mouster...ie. a perfect little stub for a tail.
I thought it may of been chewed off etc but it's clean and unscarred, definately born like it.
Anyway, he will be added to my freaky rat breeding projects...ie the bald rats (these have all now produced young with thick 'rex' type hair, they were all mated with normal hooded rats).
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| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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A RAT FIEND, I have a picture of you in my head dressed in a white coat in a basement lab experimenting with mutated rats! I am sure the thought will pass. 
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| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| LOL, when i read that i had exactly the same thought. |
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| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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I reckon he's got a guillotine stashed away somewhere....
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Evil Elvis
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| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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I recently had a tailess rat too, but i suspect even though it was clean etc it was nibbled, i have had several mice like it, they are buggers to pick up.
The bald gene abd the rex gene are interlinked, the super fury ones you got will produce some baldies. i have stopped breeding them, theyre fertilty rate is rubbish.  |
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| Posted: Mon May 01, 2006 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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we need pics 
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Scott W
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| Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 7:27 am Post subject: |
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| Evil Elvis wrote: | I recently had a tailess rat too, but i suspect even though it was clean etc it was nibbled, i have had several mice like it, they are buggers to pick up.
The bald gene abd the rex gene are interlinked, the super fury ones you got will produce some baldies. i have stopped breeding them, theyre fertilty rate is rubbish. |
I'm 100% sure this rat is genetic, although only breeding will prove either way. If it is, then I'm sure people will really like them as most people I know that don't like rats are put off by their tails
Yeah, I heard the bald rats aren't very fertile that's why I out crossed my first ones, should maybe strengthen it up a bit. They also seem to suffer badly with eye complaints especially the albinos, in fact I am going to remove the albinos from the breeding as they don't look healthy at all, eyes always 'streaming'.
The tailess mice I kept back for breeding with coloured mice have really done well. I'm not sure if it's 'hybrid vigor' or a good strain combination but the females are producing 16 plus pinks and almost a 100% weaning rate. NONE of the coloured babies appeared without tails although quite a few males had shorter tails than normal.
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| cornfan wrote: | | I reckon he's got a guillotine stashed away somewhere.... |
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Scott W
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some pics
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