The mother of the babies was Bonita, and the father Aristoteles Ifarro. The litter was born on the 16th of May 1999 and consisted of eight babies, mainly blue agoutis based on German Blue. Their names were Aristoteles Ihanni, Aristoteles Ihera, Aristoteles Ihlan, Aristoteles Ihuvon, Aristoteles Ihaste, Aristoteles Ihira, Aristoteles Iheba and Aristoteles Ihaste.
Ihanni, Ihlan, Ihira and Iheba were berkshires, Ihaste was irish. Ihera, Ihuron and Ihse had no markings. Ihaste was the one I liked best, he had very good temper, which is what I value most in a rat.
The photo shows Aristoteles Ihira, belonging to a friend of mine.
Ihaste was mated to Runatun Varia and they had a litter consisting of ten babies born on the 29th of August 1999. This was an interesting litter with both German Blue Agouti and silver fawn among other colours, and this was my Im-litter.
Since I had both the German Blue gene and good temper I had a lot of pressure on me to produce nice German Blue rats for other breeders, so I did once mate two German Blue Agouties that were littermates, Aristoteles Ihaste and Aristoteles Ihse. They had a litter consisting of only four babies (inbreeding reduces litter size) and one of the babies were just gone when they were five days old, so then they were only three babies. The babies were born on the 11th of September 1999 and the babies were two German Blue females, Aristoteles Ioba and Aristoteles Iossa, and a rather sickly male Aristoteles Ioker with a colour that didn't really look like anything, or maybe he just looked like an albino . I still don't know what colour Ioker was. This was my Io-litter.
Ihera was mated to Runatun Xi and they had a litter consisting of eleven babies born on the 8th of October 1999. This was my Ip-litter.
Copyright Eva Johansson.
Last update: 12th of January 2006.