A Colorado Blue Rat Breeder, A Colorado Rattery
A Colorado Rat Breeder. Camarattery, Breeding Dumbo, Dwarf & Standard Rats In Dark American Blue, Russian Blue, Wheaten, Burmese, Siamese & Pearl Merle. Breeding Self, Hooded Down Under, Blazed & Marked Patterns. Satin, Rex, Hairless & Harley Coats.
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Breeding dwarf rats since 2006 when I had the pleasure of introducing Colorado to dwarf rats
for the 1st time!
Baby pictures will be on a baby blanket
My American Blue Self Line
(I use the mink line to out cross the blue line)
(I use the mink line to out cross the blue line)
 Cama Love at First Feel American Blue Self D/C Dwarf |  Cama First Blood Black Berkshire Rex Dwarf Carries American Blue |
| Very sweet. Seems very tiny. Best way to describe her is "perky". | Wonderful in every way. Very outgoing & playful. One of my favorite dwarfs. She is my Alfa female. 1st Rex Dwarf In Colorado! |
 Cama Back In Business American Blue Irish D/C Dwarf |  Cama High Water Black Berkshire Dumbo Dwarf Carries American Blue 1st Female Dumbo Dwarf In Colorado |
| Very sweet. Mellow and playful. She is the darkest American blue I have ever seen in the state of Colorado! | Very sweet. Just about the perfect playful temperament. She loves to play with everyone! |
 Cama Whole Lotta Rosie Black Self Satin Dumbo Dwarf Carries American Blue | |
| Still a baby... |
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My Siamese, Burmese, Black Eyed & Russian Blue Self Line
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| Very Sweet and very tiny. Her litter was the 1st litter of dwarfs in Colorado from a dwarf x dwarf breeding. |
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My Hooded Down Under Line
 Cama Up To My Neck In You Black Hooded D/C Dwarf |
| Absolutely perfect markings. |
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My Mink & Merle Line
(Still in the dwarf carrier stage)
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My Hairless Line
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My Hairless Line
 Cama Suzy Lee Black Self Dumbo Dwarf Carries Hairless |  Cama Rag & Bone Agouti Self Dumbo Dwarf Carries Hairless |
| Just very sweet! Wonderful in every way. She is beautiful and playful. | Wonderful in every way. Very outgoing & playful. She is the smallest of them all! She is one of my favorites! |
My American Blue Self Line
(I use the mink line to out cross the blue line)
 Cama Andrew Black Self Dumbo Dwarf Carries Hairless & American Blue |  Cama Next To The Moon American Blue Dumbo Dwarf Colorado's Very 1st Blue Dumbo Dwarf! |
| Super sweet and playful. Just a joy to be around. He is very energetic and loves everyone. | Very sweet. He has a couple if Irish hairs on his chest so he is almost a mis mark Self. |
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My Siamese, Burmese, Black Eyed & Russian Blue Self Line
 Cama This Means War Burmese Self Dwarf |
| Very Sweet and very tiny. His litter was the 1st litter of dwarfs in Colorado from a dwarf x dwarf breeding. |
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My Hooded Down Under Line
(Almost all of the rats in this line come from Manx or Manx carrier parents)
 Cama Powerage Black Hooded Dwarf Carries Burmese |
| Still a baby.... Very nicely marked. |
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My Mink & Merle Line
(Still in the dwarf carrier stage)
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My Hairless Line
 RRLM Astro Cama Agouti Berk Hairless Dumbo Dwarf Carries Hooded. |
| My favorite rat. So outgoing and playful and mellow. He needs to know about everything that is going on. He is what I want all my dwarf to be. I can't improve on him. He is very small. |
| Super sweet and playful. I can't ask for a better dwarf. Very outgoing. He is all up in your business. He is very small. He is one of my favorites. |
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Camarattery's Dwarf Rats
Camarattery introduced this state to our 1st dwarf rats in May of 2006.
Many of the rats on this page page are dwarf some are only dwarf carriers. I have bred dwarf into all of my lines and will have dwarfs in every color and type I breed. Sometimes I breed just to get dwarf and sometimes I don't.
Dwarf is the newest type of rat and they aren't really out there in the public so to speak. They are very slow to breed and certainly take incredible amounts of time and patience to produce. There are also certain things to consider when adding them to your existing colony of rats. For one they are smaller and can't hold their own towards a much larger standard rat that is territorial.
Standard rats are adopted out at 5 weeks of age, but dwarf rats at 5 weeks of age are much more delicate and smaller in stature. I will be adopting dwarf babies out at 6 weeks of age to give them an extra week to "beef up" and not get lost amongst your other rats. Any time you get a dwarf and you are getting a sibling friend for him you will be taking the pair home at 6 weeks of age. All of the dwarf rats adopted from my rattery will be going home with a baby friend for him, so plan to wait until the ages are correct and they can go home together.
Many of the rats on this page page are dwarf some are only dwarf carriers. I have bred dwarf into all of my lines and will have dwarfs in every color and type I breed. Sometimes I breed just to get dwarf and sometimes I don't.
Dwarf is the newest type of rat and they aren't really out there in the public so to speak. They are very slow to breed and certainly take incredible amounts of time and patience to produce. There are also certain things to consider when adding them to your existing colony of rats. For one they are smaller and can't hold their own towards a much larger standard rat that is territorial.
Standard rats are adopted out at 5 weeks of age, but dwarf rats at 5 weeks of age are much more delicate and smaller in stature. I will be adopting dwarf babies out at 6 weeks of age to give them an extra week to "beef up" and not get lost amongst your other rats. Any time you get a dwarf and you are getting a sibling friend for him you will be taking the pair home at 6 weeks of age. All of the dwarf rats adopted from my rattery will be going home with a baby friend for him, so plan to wait until the ages are correct and they can go home together.
How Our Dwarf Rats Have Changed Since I Brought Them Here:
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| The patriarch of Colorado's Dwarfs |
This is Colorado's 1st dwarf. All of the dwarf rats that have been legally born in Colorado are from this rat. He holds the title of Colorado's 1st dwarf agouti! I adopted him from a breeder in Arizona. Beau himself never bred for me but I had his children who did.
Here are his children:
Here are his children:
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| Hooded seal pt Siamese w/HW head spot. Later adopted with a strict non breeding status contract. Retired. |
Black Berk w/HW head spot. Later adopted with a strict non breeding status contract. Retired. |
Black Berk w/HW head spot. Later adopted with a strict non breeding status contract. Retired. |
These are Beau's children. They were all standard sized rats but they carried the dwarf gene from their father PNS Beau Duke. I adopted Them from Arizona along with their father Beau. Luke was bred to both of his sisters to produce Colorado's 1st born and bred dwarf rats!
Here they are:
Here they are:
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| Cama Dirty Deeds Black Berkshire w/HW head spot. Still here and never bred. But he has big plans to be bred. |
Cama Balck In Black Black Berkshire w/Hw head spot. Adopted to an Aurora rattery here in Colorado under strict contract not to be bred for the dwarf gene at the time she adopted him. This rat is has a non breeding status. |
Cama High Voltage Black Berkshire w/HW head spot. Bred and in my pedigrees. Adopted out with strict non breeder rights contract. Retired. |
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| Cama Thunderstruck Seal Pt Siamese hooded. He has a very nice hooded pattern. He has an excellent temperament.full Bred 3 times in my rattery. He is in my pedigrees and was shipped to Florida to LGMR rattery with breeding rights. |
Cama Over Dose Black Berkshire. Never bred and has since passed on. |
This was Colorado's 1st generation of dwarf rats! All sired by Luke and his sisters WCRR April Cama and WCRR Daisy Cama. My next step in the evolution of Colorado's dwarf rats was to make better patterned and tempered dwarf rats.
And here they are:
And here they are:
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| Cama The Razors Edge Seal Pt Himalayan Self Dwarf. Colorado's 1st dwarf Dumbo! Still here and has plans to be bred. Grandson of Cama High Voltage. |
Cama Inject The Venom Black Irish. Adopted out with a non breeding contract. Lives with High Voltage. Grand daughter of Cama High Voltage. |
Cama Riff Raff Black Self Dwarf. Still here and has plans to be bred. Grand daughter of Cama Thunderstruck. |
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| Cama Heatseeker American Blue Irish. Fathered one litter here at my rattery. I sent him to SERR Rodentry in DE with full breeding rights. Grandson of Cama Thunderstruck. |
Cama The Jack American Blue Pt Siamese Irish. Still here and has plans to be bred. Grandson of Cama Thunderstruck. |
Cama Touch Too Much Sable Burmese Berk. Fathered one litter here at my rattery. I sent him to SERR Rodentry in DE with full breeding rights. Grandson of Cama Thunderstruck. |
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| Cama Little Lover Burmese Hooded Dwarf. Still here and has plans to be bred. Grand daughter of Cama Thunderstruck. |
Cama Shakedown American Blue Irish dwarf. Still here and has plans to be bred. Grand son of Cama Thunderstruck. |
Cama Live Wire Seal Point Siamese Self Dwarf. Still here and has plans to be bred. Grand Daughter of Cama Thunderstruck. |
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| Cama First Blood Black Berk Rex Dwarf. Colorado's first Rex dwarf rat. Still here with plans to be bred. Grand daughter of Cama Thunderstruck. |
Cama Badlands Black Irish Dwarf Dumbo. Still here with plans to be bred. Grandson of Cama Thunderstruck. |
Cama Shot Down In Flames Seal Point Siamese Hooded Dwarf. Both Parents carry Manx. He is here and has plans to be bred. Also the grandson of thunderstruck. |
So as you can see this last generation has improved in pattern aligning with my 2 specialty goals which are self and hooded. I am getting closer all the time! Temperaments have really improved since the 1st dwarf as well! They are very sweet now! Also my inbreeding percentages have gone way down. They started at 28% because they all came from the same rat and now the next generation will be in the 15%- 17% range because I have been breeding my standard rats into the dwarf lines to improve them and keep them less and less related. They still need work to get them where I want them which is self, hooded and dumbo. But with the help of the new rats from RRLM and RAMR who I got new dwarf blood from I will be so much closer to my goals in 2008! I do plan to breed for the Burmese hooded gene with my dwarf rats, I was very pleasantly surprised with the one I did get this time around. It is a very beautiful combination. They are not accepted in the show just yet but still very beautiful nonetheless.
Also it will still be quite some time before I have dwarf dumbos available. The wait list is not being generated for those yet as I don't have the genes for it.
The next generation is here! And they have gotten so much better!
Also it will still be quite some time before I have dwarf dumbos available. The wait list is not being generated for those yet as I don't have the genes for it.
The next generation is here! And they have gotten so much better!
Dwarf Baby |
Dwarf Baby |
| Cama Back In Business American blue Irish Dwarf carries dumbo. Great grand daughter of Cama Thunderstruck |
Cama High Water Black Berkshire Dumbo Dwarf. Colorado's very 1st female dumbo dwarf. Great Grand daughter of Cama Thunderstruck. |
I am very happy with this generation of dwarfs! They are either dumbo or carry it. I will add more from this generation as I get pictures.
Around the same time that Back in Business and High Water were born I had my 1st generation of dwarfs from my completely new dwarf blood from RRLM and RAMR were born. These are not related to my existing colony of dwarf rats at all.
Here they are:
Around the same time that Back in Business and High Water were born I had my 1st generation of dwarfs from my completely new dwarf blood from RRLM and RAMR were born. These are not related to my existing colony of dwarf rats at all.
Here they are:
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| Cama Rag & Bone Agouti Self Dwarf. 100% New dwarf blood from Ca & AZ. Carries Hairless. |
Cama Suzy Lee Black Self Dwarf. 100% New dwarf blood from Ca & AZ. Carries Hairless. |
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| Cama Sam Hall Agouti Self Dwarf. 100% New dwarf blood from Ca & AZ. Carries Hairless. |
Cama Andrew Black Self Dwarf. 100% New dwarf blood from Ca & AZ. Carries Hairless. |
More generations of my dwarfs are now here and continue to get closer to what I want them to be. Please see the above page for my latest updated generations!
Info About Dwarf Rats
Dwarf rats are completely resistant to several types of cancer. Because they are growth hormone deficient they also cannot develop many cancers as well. So this is great news for rat fanciers! Not only do dwarfs live as long as the larger rats but they have almost no risk of getting of cancer.
There is not a good resource for finding info about dwarf rats, and since I am responsible for bringing dwarf rats into Colorado it is my intent to provide that information.
More info to come.......
There is not a good resource for finding info about dwarf rats, and since I am responsible for bringing dwarf rats into Colorado it is my intent to provide that information.
More info to come.......
At times I may have a few rats that are marked with a "
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above the name. I will post pix after they grow a bit so they
can finish molting. This way you can see what they will look like as an
adult.
I
may also use a baby rat drawing, these are copyrights of
RattieMattiesRattery and formatted specifically for the Camarattery
site. They may not be stolen/used or removed from this site for any
reason without written consent from the artist.*D/C = Dumbo Carrier
My different lines are only bred together with their same line. This is called "line breeding". For example I will only breed my "Dumbo Self Line" females to my "Dumbo Self Line" males. Some rats are used as an "out cross". This means that, this rat is used to compliment a line of rats and bring in new blood, that rat is half of this line and half of another line. So that rat will be bred into my lines and have babies that are related to my lines. This type of line breeding strengthens the animals. It locks in great health, temperament, and excellent confirmation. It makes them stronger in every way. It also allows me to test my lines to make sure there are no weaknesses ie.... tumors bad immune systems poor bone structure and bad body shape. So it allows me to weed out any potential problems. And as a result I am left with nothing but strong healthy beautiful animals. It is rare for me to "inbreed" (brother sister breeding's). However, that is a great way to occasionally "beef up" a line, if need be.For a list of my rats weight scale click here.
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7/25/07
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