COAT TYPES AVAILABLE IN AUSTRALIA
Standard
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Standard is the most common coat. Fur is short smooth and straight. May have long guard hairs. Males are more course than females.
Single Rex
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Single rex has a slight kink in its coat, whiskers may be wavy. Generally single rexs fur will straighten up as they get older. Fur may thin as the rat ages.
Double Rex
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Double rex has quite a curly coat. Whiskers are also curly. Babies generally lose a lot or all their fur as they go through their moult between the 5-10 week mark. Whiskers and coat stay curled their entire lives.
Silk
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Silk has longer soft straight fur. Males stay softer than standard coat, and females are also very soft to touch.
Patchwork
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Patchwork refers to bald patches on the rat.
There are 2 types of Patchwork; Rex and Silk. Patchwork rex have the double rex coat and Patchwork silk have a similar textured coat as standard silk.
Patchwork rats get bald patches or thinning of the coat in patches over their bodies through out their lives. Both types go through a complete moult leaving the rat almost 'naked' between 5-10 weeks old, and may lose or get thinner fur as the rat is reaching old age.
There are 2 types of Patchwork; Rex and Silk. Patchwork rex have the double rex coat and Patchwork silk have a similar textured coat as standard silk.
Patchwork rats get bald patches or thinning of the coat in patches over their bodies through out their lives. Both types go through a complete moult leaving the rat almost 'naked' between 5-10 weeks old, and may lose or get thinner fur as the rat is reaching old age.