Eva's Rat Colours Page - Fawn

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Runatun Xi and 2 of his sons

My pet rat Runatun Xi and his two fawn sons
Aristoteles Iso & Aristoteles Isarro.

Fawn
Overall impression: Orange brown rat with darker ticking and lighter belly colour. There shall be an even demarcation between top colour and belly colour. No white patches or hairs.
Undercolour: Lilac.
Band colour: To be a rich dark brownish orange fawn colour.
Ticking: To be chocolate.
Belly colour: To be a light greyish brown.
Feet: To conform with body colour.
Eye colour: Dark ruby, almost black.
Genetics: A-rr.
Other name/s: Topaz (NFRS), Argente and Ruby Eyed Silver Fawn.
Development of colour: Born with pink eyes. Eyes are almost black at 14 days of age when the rat baby opens its eyes.
Known since: A very common american rat colour that the american rat breeders is said to have bred for around 30 years. Imported to Sweden from the US in 1986.

Runatun Xi

Xi, my lovely pet.

Aristoteles Iso

Iso, son of Aristoteles Iksa and Runatun Xi.

Unknown fawn rat

A typical Swedish Fawn rex rat,
eyes are reddened by the flash.
This photo I took years ago at a show.

All and every one of my Silver Fawns has more colour! I have yet to see a good fawn in Sweden... Agaton sits on the arm of his owner Essi Gerrby, who had an extreme sun tan when I took this photo. The palest Swedish Fawns even have their own name, they are sometimes called "Gold Creme".

Agaton

An old photo of a Fawn rat called Agaton.

Here is the best fawn I ever saw in Sweden, Ville Vintergäck, and this little baby boy is bought in a pet shop. He belongs to a friend of mine.

Ville Vintergäck