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A black Irish
doe, born 1985
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Crombie, cinnamon
pearl buck from 1983
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One of the very
first Black-eyed Whites, born in 1984
and bred by Diane
Schofield-Wildman.
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Prudence - one
of my most favourite rats of all time. She once chased my Siamese cat around
the room! Born in 1983.
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Frodo, a stunning
Black Variegated, 1983.
This variety was
still quite rare back then.
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Frodo, again.
Some of my black
varigateds were exported
to the USA in1983
and founded lines there.
Frodo's littermates
went to Karen Robbins and Joy Ely.
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Firan [fee-rahn].
Black Berkshire doe. Her name is the Arabic word for "rat".
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Maggie Milk
Mouth and her litter sired by Frodo.
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In 1982 I was
given an unusually coloured bluish-looking agouti rat found in a Dorset
pet shop. I bred on from them to produce interesting new colours. This
is Helva, a cinnamon diluted by this gene.
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Lio was one of the
rats from this experimental line. He was the nearest anyone had ever seen
to a Lilac rat at the time. Some of these rats went to Rosemary Quaid and
were the vital ingredient to producing the first Black Eyed Whites. Roy
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A Mink doe and
her litter of Champagne and Mink, 1982.
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A closer look
at one of the champagne babies from the litter on the left. Although it
looks like a pink-eyed white, it was in fact a pale, mink-based champagne,
aa/mm/pp.
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