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Which colour varieties of the natal rat exists today?

Denna sida på svenska. This is a rather new species to be kept as a pet and you would not expect any colour variations to have appeared yet, but we already have several different colours and markings! And hopefully we will soon be able to show our natal rats here in Sweden, since I have written standards for all the colours and markings I've seen so far, to be used by the Swedish mouse club.

In addition to the colour varieties I have myself there are a few others. I have learned that albino natal rats exists here in Sweden, but I have never seen any. Even ruby eyed natal rats is supposed to exist, but I have never seen any of those either...

All colour varieties of the natal rat I have seen so far:

Agouti. Agouti is also called the wild colour of the natal rat. This colour looks like agouti on all other small pets, like the rat and the mouse. The photo shows my pet Donny.
Agouti Pied. Agouti with white head and white rump. This is my pet natal Tony.
Agouti Spot. Agouti with white spot on the forehead and a white spot on each cheek. Some animals can actually have four spots, since the spot on the forehead can divide into two and produce one spot on the forehead and one in the neck (I have had a baby looking like that!). The baby in the photo in Aristoteles Charlie, Agouti spot.
Cinnamon. A brown version of the agouti, with no black hairs at all. The photo shows a young cinnamon baby. This has for many years been the most common natal rat colour in Sweden.
Cinnamon Pied. The photo shows my two first natal rats ever, and their litter of 11 babies. Bonzo is the Cinnamon Pied male, and Bina the Champagne Argente female. Unfortunately Bina died of unknown causes, leaving me to hand feed the babies you see in this photo when they were just 14 days old... All babies except one grew up to be nice looking adults. I sold four of the babies and kept the remaining 6. These, along with Bonzo himself, all were my favourites.
Cinnamon Spot. This is Aristoteles Conrad, one of Charlie's brothers, see Agouti Spot.
Argente. Argente is a pinkeyed light brown or reddish yellow colour, with blueish undercolour that you can see if you blow gently on the fur. I don't have this variety yet, so I can't take any photos.
Argente Pied. This photo shows Edda as a baby, her colour grew much stronger as she matured into an adult female.
Argente Spot. This photo shows Aya as a baby, her colour grew much stronger as she matured into an adult female.
Champagne Argente. A combination of Argente and Cinnamon that looks like a pale Argente. I don't have this variety yet, so I can't take any photos.
Champagne Argente Pied. The photo shows Aristoteles Biza, Champagne Argente Pied. She is a daughter of of my first two natal rats ever, Bina & Bonzo. Biza is my favourite female natal rat.
Champagne Argente Spot. I don't have this variety yet, so I can't take any photos.

20 days old Agouti and Cinnamon babies in the same picture,
not such a good photo, but note the colour of the tails and the ears...

Adult Agouti Spot and Cinnamon Spot males in the same picture,
note the colour of the ears...