Is this a rex rat?

They've turned into mutants! Both are almost completely bald except for peach fuzz on the bodies and a bit of fuzz left on their heads. Kinda funny looking. Also included is a pic of one of their normal dumbo sibs.

Wow--never seen 'em actually go 'bald' before!
Are you going to keep any back as future breeders or feed them all out?

I only have the two, and am definitely going to hang onto them and see what happens. Dinking with the rodents is almost more fun than dinking with the snakes and gratification comes a lot sooner!

Originally Posted by MagickalMorphs

Dinking with the rodents is almost more fun than dinking with the snakes and gratification comes a lot sooner!

No truer words were spoken.

That's awesome. If, by some chance, you sell your excess to pet stores, hairless rats go for bigger bucks...I'm just sayin!
Strange that it would just pop up like that after having your colony for that long.
I had to introduce hairless into mine to get more hairless. The funny thing is that yours actually went bald! None of mine did that...they either kept the kinky fur or were born hairless.

I realize this is a bit old but anyway, they definitely appear to be Rex. Curly whiskers and waved coat... Other than the true hairless/Sphynx (no whiskers, nothing) rats, hairless vary quite a bit. Hairless rats are generally the result of two Rex rats bred together, resulting in a Double Rex or "Hairless". This can be anything from random patches of fur, fur that comes and goes, to a slight peach fuzz on the body with more fur on the face--along with the curly whiskers. I would say definitely hang onto them and see what happens!

Hi, I breed hairless rats... you can find my website by looking up bareskinrattery Anyways those are patched hairlesses that come from the DOUBLE rex gene....usually though there is a hairless gene SOMEWHERE UNLESS you have bred brother to sister and there is a double rex gene can you get a patched hairless WITHOUT mating it to a hairless!! The patched hairless will NOT produce other hairless pups unless mated with another patched hairless, or a hairless.... SO if you bred one to a normal haired rat you WONT get anything except regulars... SOOOO if you want to continue that line you NEED to get a hairless somewhere! cause you cannot breed those two together, BUT again, if you breed one of those with a regular, you will not get anything like what your seeing.....

Originally Posted by himmie

I realize this is a bit old but anyway, they definitely appear to be Rex. Curly whiskers and waved coat... Other than the true hairless/Sphynx (no whiskers, nothing) rats, hairless vary quite a bit. Hairless rats are generally the result of two Rex rats bred together, resulting in a Double Rex or "Hairless". This can be anything from random patches of fur, fur that comes and goes, to a slight peach fuzz on the body with more fur on the face--along with the curly whiskers. I would say definitely hang onto them and see what happens!

ALSO sorry... just to let everyone know, its a myth that TRUE hairlesses dont have whiskers, they do!

I have seen plenty of Sphynx with no whiskers... Look up some images.

I did breed the male to normals and got one litter that had several of these hairless babies in it. Breeding the female to a regular male produced no hairless babies though. Strange.