A Colorado Rat Breeder-Camarattery
A Colorado Rat Breeder Blue Dumbo, Dwarf & Standard Rats Dark American Blue, Russian Blue, Siamese, Burmese & Roan or "Husky". Self, Hooded Down Under, Recessive Blazed, Masked & Patched. Satin, Rex, Hairless & Harley Coat. Color Breeding.
| Camarattery rats are known for their loving dispositions, robust bodies, playful personalities, long life, general lack of health problems, gorgeous coats & intelligence. |
| Camarattery mainly specializes in Self and Hooded patterns. We are the oldest breeder in Colorado so our beautiful patterns, excellent health, and gentle temperaments are firmly bred in to our lines. |
| Amy is a AFRMA sanctioned judge, so all of our rats adhere to those strict standards of excellence. |
American Blue
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Blues are our passion. We
breed for non diluted dark American and Slate Blue rats. We breed
our blues for self and hooded. We have bred our dark American blue rats
since 2004. Our blues are the oldest established line of blues in
Colorado. They have not shown any health problems and are very long
lived. Our blues are a very strong and robust line of animals. They are
very large boned and genetically very sweet personalities. None of our
lines show aggression or bad temperaments in any way. Our blues are our
favorite line. We are the most proud of this line. The blues that we
work with are from RAMR, BFF, RG & PNS lines. Our Blues are very well loved here in Colorado. We would not change them for
anything.
Russian Blue
Cama Lovely Rita
Bred by Camarattery
Our Russian Blues are bred for Self, Siamese, Burmese and marked. Many of our Harley coats are Russian Blue. Our Russians do not carry mink which can muddy up their appearance. They are nothing but dark and beautiful blue!
Cama Lovely Rita
Bred by Camarattery
Our Russian Blues are bred for Self, Siamese, Burmese and marked. Many of our Harley coats are Russian Blue. Our Russians do not carry mink which can muddy up their appearance. They are nothing but dark and beautiful blue!
Black Eyed Siamese
Cama Big River, Cama Carlene, Cama John
Bred by Camarattery
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We breed the black eyed Siamese to be self patterns. We breed them for dwarf and for standard sizes. I had the pleasure of breeding and bringing in Colorado's 1st ever black eyed Siamese! Our Siamese come in Russian blue point or Seal point at this time. All of Our Siamese are bred for VERY dark points. Our Siamese & Burmese rats are from Connie Perez. She shipped me 2 very beautiful 100% UK blooded Burmese rats to start this line.
Cama Big River, Cama Carlene, Cama John
Bred by Camarattery
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Bred or Co bred by Camarattery
We breed the black eyed Siamese to be self patterns. We breed them for dwarf and for standard sizes. I had the pleasure of breeding and bringing in Colorado's 1st ever black eyed Siamese! Our Siamese come in Russian blue point or Seal point at this time. All of Our Siamese are bred for VERY dark points. Our Siamese & Burmese rats are from Connie Perez. She shipped me 2 very beautiful 100% UK blooded Burmese rats to start this line.
Burmese
RG St. Jimmy Cama
Bred by RG Rat Genesis
Our Burmese are bred to be dark and I prefer the Siamese and Sable varieties because of that. At this time I breed all of my Burmese to be self's. We also breed Wheaten Burmese and Russian blue Burmese. Camarattery also had the pleasure of shipping in and breeding the 1st Burmese in Colorado. Burmese are bred into my dwarf line as well.
Our Siamese & Burmese rats are from Connie Perez. She shipped me 2 very beautiful 100% UK blooded Burmese rats to start this line.
RG St. Jimmy Cama
Bred by RG Rat Genesis
Our Burmese are bred to be dark and I prefer the Siamese and Sable varieties because of that. At this time I breed all of my Burmese to be self's. We also breed Wheaten Burmese and Russian blue Burmese. Camarattery also had the pleasure of shipping in and breeding the 1st Burmese in Colorado. Burmese are bred into my dwarf line as well.
Our Siamese & Burmese rats are from Connie Perez. She shipped me 2 very beautiful 100% UK blooded Burmese rats to start this line.
Hooded & Down Under
Down Under
Many adopters ask me "what is a down under?" The answer is simple, a down under is a rat who's back pattern is mirrored on its belly. If the rat is a hooded it will have a straight stripe on its belly. If it is a variegated it will appear as the same splashing on its tummy. If it is a self you will see a solid belly which masks the marking all together because the self already has a solid belly and in this case the only way to know if the rat is a DU is to breed it. A down under can come in any pattern of rat. But high white marked rats and hairless seem to be lethal to the DU marking and should not be bred together. The Aussie breeders asked us not to breed DU to HW rats in particular because of the health risk. Hopefully that will change some day, but as of now we are not allowed to breed them together. This was an agreement with the Aussie breeders and Connie Perez who brought them to the US. So instead of breeding HW rats into our Du line, we have a second shipment of recessive blazed rats that we received from Connie Perez of RG Rattery (Rat Genesis) in 2009. These are safe to breed to DU. With the receives there is no known health issues like there is with blazed high white rats. These recessives originate from Bonnie Walters line. She selectively bred and tested them with down unders from 2005 - 2009 before she let them out into the public. I received the 1st shipment of them after RG bred them for a few generations. Needless to say we are thrilled to have both genes and you will start to see DU blazes popping up in our rattery as time goes on.
Right now my hooded and down under line is bred for American blue and black. Currently our down under rats for the most part are from BFF in California. These are a smaller family of rats. The second family I have is from a breeder in Arizona. This is a larger bodied family of rats. At times because of the BFF line I do get variegated patterns a lot in this line, but I am in the process of breeding that out and only doing hooded. I do get a nice mixture of Manx rats that come from the BFF line. I do breed the Manx, and the mutation for the Manx gene is heavily present in this family. To read more about that please read my brief Manx page. Both lines of hooded and down under are bred into my dwarf line.
I have not allowed any other Colorado breeder to breed my DU line. All DU rats from my line that appear at another Co rattery are illegally bred and should be avoided. This has happened; this is why I mention it.
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Down Under
Many adopters ask me "what is a down under?" The answer is simple, a down under is a rat who's back pattern is mirrored on its belly. If the rat is a hooded it will have a straight stripe on its belly. If it is a variegated it will appear as the same splashing on its tummy. If it is a self you will see a solid belly which masks the marking all together because the self already has a solid belly and in this case the only way to know if the rat is a DU is to breed it. A down under can come in any pattern of rat. But high white marked rats and hairless seem to be lethal to the DU marking and should not be bred together. The Aussie breeders asked us not to breed DU to HW rats in particular because of the health risk. Hopefully that will change some day, but as of now we are not allowed to breed them together. This was an agreement with the Aussie breeders and Connie Perez who brought them to the US. So instead of breeding HW rats into our Du line, we have a second shipment of recessive blazed rats that we received from Connie Perez of RG Rattery (Rat Genesis) in 2009. These are safe to breed to DU. With the receives there is no known health issues like there is with blazed high white rats. These recessives originate from Bonnie Walters line. She selectively bred and tested them with down unders from 2005 - 2009 before she let them out into the public. I received the 1st shipment of them after RG bred them for a few generations. Needless to say we are thrilled to have both genes and you will start to see DU blazes popping up in our rattery as time goes on.
Right now my hooded and down under line is bred for American blue and black. Currently our down under rats for the most part are from BFF in California. These are a smaller family of rats. The second family I have is from a breeder in Arizona. This is a larger bodied family of rats. At times because of the BFF line I do get variegated patterns a lot in this line, but I am in the process of breeding that out and only doing hooded. I do get a nice mixture of Manx rats that come from the BFF line. I do breed the Manx, and the mutation for the Manx gene is heavily present in this family. To read more about that please read my brief Manx page. Both lines of hooded and down under are bred into my dwarf line.
I have not allowed any other Colorado breeder to breed my DU line. All DU rats from my line that appear at another Co rattery are illegally bred and should be avoided. This has happened; this is why I mention it.
Recessive Blazes
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Bred by RG Rat Genesis
This line came from Rat Genesis Rattery (RG) in San Francisco CA in 2009, and originated from Bonnie Walters (BFF). I talked about them briefly in my Du specialty area listed above this one. These are NOT high white rats. They do not have the megacolon problem that HW rats do. There is no known health issues with this variety of blaze. These are safe to breed to the Down Under rats, hw rats are not safe with Du rats.
When Camarattery got our shipment of these wonderful blazed rats, we also got the beautiful DARK slate blue coloration. Also we received the gorgeous very spotty variegated patterns. We do not plan to change anything about these lines except to add dumbo. We like them the way they are.
This line came from Rat Genesis Rattery (RG) in San Francisco CA in 2009, and originated from Bonnie Walters (BFF). I talked about them briefly in my Du specialty area listed above this one. These are NOT high white rats. They do not have the megacolon problem that HW rats do. There is no known health issues with this variety of blaze. These are safe to breed to the Down Under rats, hw rats are not safe with Du rats.
When Camarattery got our shipment of these wonderful blazed rats, we also got the beautiful DARK slate blue coloration. Also we received the gorgeous very spotty variegated patterns. We do not plan to change anything about these lines except to add dumbo. We like them the way they are.
Blue Marked Line
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We also have a new/old marked line. It is a line I have been working with since 2004 but in 2006 I added the blazed and masked family to it. I have only had them bred for hooded & Self in the past. These markings are from Rattie & Matties Rattery in AZ. They are bred to be Russian Blue and all dumbo. The patterns are typically masked, capped & patched. Many in the line have blazes also. They are a very long lived line and have a very solid pedigree and verifiable health and temperament history. The markings in this line are not dominant as you would expect, they are all recessive. I cannot get them to produce dominant. Even the blazes need 2 copies to produce it. This is something that I would not expect by looking at their patterns. But it has bred true 100% of the time here at my rattery, including every rat listed above. At one time before I got the line there were both dominant and recessive blazes being produced in the line. But the dominant gene is long since gone from my line.
Hairless
Bred by Camarattery
For almost as long as I have been breeding I have bred beautiful naked hairless. My Hairless are bred to be super bald and very long lived. I prefer to breed them into the PEW coloring because this gives them the pink "rubber chicken" look that I love. Other colors are popping up in the line at this time as I am out crossing to bring in great health. And of coarse all of my hairless are dumbo!
Bred by Camarattery
For almost as long as I have been breeding I have bred beautiful naked hairless. My Hairless are bred to be super bald and very long lived. I prefer to breed them into the PEW coloring because this gives them the pink "rubber chicken" look that I love. Other colors are popping up in the line at this time as I am out crossing to bring in great health. And of coarse all of my hairless are dumbo!
 Black Roan |  Chocolate Roan Dumbo |
 Cinnamon Manx Roan |  Agouti Roan Baby |
Bred by Camarattery
I got my 1st Roans from RG in 2009. My goal is to breed only the Black Roans because this color looks better. Harley has been bred into this line for a different texture to the coat. Also the line carries Manx heavily. They will be bred for all dumbo and all Self.
Dwarf
Camarattery had the pleasure of introducing dwarf rats to Colorado for the 1st time in May of 2006. I have bred dwarf into all of my lines. Any color or pattern I breed for has dwarf bred into it including dumbo. Dwarf is one of my favorite things to breed for. Not only are they beautiful and cute, but they take up less room in my cages and I love them! Their personality is wonderful! The dwarf is a very new gene and I love working with it!
Camarattery was one of the first set of lucky breeders who received the dwarf rats when they hit the breeding community. They had all come from a lab and those went to Lil Rug Rats Rattery. She sent them to RRLM, OFR and PNS, but PNS sent hers to WCRR who gave them all to me when she stopped breeding after only having one litter of dwarf carriers. So my dwarf are not closely related to the main 2 originating breeders you see out there, being RRLM and OFR. I have kept mine separate from those lines.
Camarattery dwarf are bred to be very robust and hardy like our standard sized guys. They have the same "type" as our thick boned standards. They are also very long lived.
 (Adult dwarf male) Cama Dirty Deeds Bred by Camarattery |  (Adult dwarf male) Cama Rocky Raccoon Bred by Camarattery |
Camarattery had the pleasure of introducing dwarf rats to Colorado for the 1st time in May of 2006. I have bred dwarf into all of my lines. Any color or pattern I breed for has dwarf bred into it including dumbo. Dwarf is one of my favorite things to breed for. Not only are they beautiful and cute, but they take up less room in my cages and I love them! Their personality is wonderful! The dwarf is a very new gene and I love working with it!
Camarattery was one of the first set of lucky breeders who received the dwarf rats when they hit the breeding community. They had all come from a lab and those went to Lil Rug Rats Rattery. She sent them to RRLM, OFR and PNS, but PNS sent hers to WCRR who gave them all to me when she stopped breeding after only having one litter of dwarf carriers. So my dwarf are not closely related to the main 2 originating breeders you see out there, being RRLM and OFR. I have kept mine separate from those lines.
Camarattery dwarf are bred to be very robust and hardy like our standard sized guys. They have the same "type" as our thick boned standards. They are also very long lived.
