Colorado Rat Breeder-Camarattery

Due to the CA breeders sever concern about many of their American blues haiving the Hemophilia bleeding issue we have chosen to end the American blue lines out of CA here at our rattery. One of the very breeders some of our new blues came from is discontinuing breedeing them herself, so this is a red allert for us.

This is not a risk we want to take in our rattery. Our blues are very healthy, and very much the most loved line of blues in Colorado, so we don't want to ruin that. It is unfortunate and we do not balme any breeder for this. It's just one of those things that happens when you breed, health issues will happen at times. But the better breeders will end a line if there is such repeted concern. And we have had many CA breeders tell us that they are seeing these issues poping up after 5 or so generations of having a line. We have decided to heed their warning and not breed more of the same here. Our goal is to improve rats, not to continue to breed a color because its a pretty color. There are always better options to help the rat as a whole. Since we do adopt to other breeders, it would not be wise to spread this sort of gene into the rat commuity.

This does not mean that every American Blue line in CA has the issue, but we were told by the adopters of our line that this was the case in those lines. This includes the Russian blue and Chocolate lines that were shipped to Colorado in 2008. Since they are all related, they have to be adopted out.

To learn more about the issue the California blues are dealing with in many cases please see this article:

http://www.afrma.org/med_bluebleeding.htm

But alas! We have our line of healthy blues to offer still! We even have more to offer after a new shippment! This will only strengthen the American Blues here at Camarattery!