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		<title>Judging the upcoming spring show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, since Emilie from Echo Rattery is taking a semi-permanent hiatus from the rat world, I&#8217;ve volunteered to the NIRO BoD to judge Best In Show at the spring show this year. The problem with BIS judging is that it&#8217;s hard to predict whose rats will be up on the table. The best solution is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bvrattery.wordpress.com&blog=7653998&post=523&subd=bvrattery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bvrattery.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/judging-the-upcoming-spring-show/</link>
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		<title>Genetics Tutorial: Agouti Locus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Genetics Tutorial: Agouti Locus
The Agouti locus is one of the few loci which expresses on a dominant gene. Few people realize it, but Agouti creates the only two real colors for rats: Agouti and Black. Further modification of the color dilutions is all the differentiates a Black from a Russian Blue.
Because Agouti is a dominant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bvrattery.wordpress.com&blog=7653998&post=520&subd=bvrattery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bvrattery.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/genetics-tutorial-agouti-locus/</link>
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		<title>Genetics Tutorial: Part One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rat color genetics are extremely simple. It&#8217;s really disheartening how many of the breeders out there simply do not know what produces what, or are unable to identify the colors on their own litters.
Most rat colors are the result of a double recessive gene on a single locus. The more loci involved, the more complicated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bvrattery.wordpress.com&blog=7653998&post=518&subd=bvrattery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bvrattery.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/genetics-tutorial-part-one/</link>
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		<title>Epilepsy</title>
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Above is a 15-second video of a very young rat named FHR Kobol having a grand mal seizure. The event happened during cage introductions when Kobol and his brother Arthur came out of quarantine and were introduced to three large, amiable adult bucks. The seizure itself went for about 180 seconds, included foaming at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bvrattery.wordpress.com&blog=7653998&post=511&subd=bvrattery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bvrattery.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/epilepsy/</link>
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		<title>Continuity of Bloodline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the 2009 rat show &#8220;season&#8221; is now over, and everyone gets to hibernate for the winter. We take what we&#8217;ve learned from the shows and our conversations with one another and we plan for the coming year, we make lists of the rats we really liked and hope to see bred, we evaluate our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bvrattery.wordpress.com&blog=7653998&post=508&subd=bvrattery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bvrattery.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/continuity-of-bloodline/</link>
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		<title>Background: The Marked Rcinn Outcross</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The basis of my Russian Cinnamon line has always been very good Selfs. This is sad because I&#8217;ve always wanted them to be Berkshires! Sadly, because of the enormous suppression of markings we have going on in the population locally, our rats tend to swallow marked lines and spit out bad Selfs with three white [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bvrattery.wordpress.com&blog=7653998&post=505&subd=bvrattery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bvrattery.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/background-the-marked-rcinn-outcross/</link>
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		<title>Anatomy of a Bloodline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is going to be an ongoing series of posts, probably stretching over the next several years, so strap in, gentle reader!
I occured to me that in the coming year I am taking on two new &#8220;outcross lines&#8221; into the rattery. One line will bring markings into my Russian Cinnamons and one line will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bvrattery.wordpress.com&blog=7653998&post=500&subd=bvrattery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bvrattery.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/anatomy-of-a-bloodline/</link>
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		<title>To tide us over!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enjoy a video of the babies playing until the website is fixed!
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		<link>http://bvrattery.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/to-tide-us-over/</link>
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		<title>Russian Cinnamon &#8211; Selection and Mistakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about selection with my Russian Cinnamons lately, and talking to Kirstin about it. We&#8217;re both very disturbed by the tendacy that the new fad of Russian Cinnamon breeding has brought out (and can I say how much I HATE that my personal project color has become the &#8220;new thing?&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bvrattery.wordpress.com&blog=7653998&post=492&subd=bvrattery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bvrattery.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/russian-cinnamon-selection-and-mistakes/</link>
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		<title>Cage cleaning day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, every Monday, I have to&#8230;
Put all the rats in travel tubs. This necessitates 10 tubs. When I have a litter in a tub I&#8217;m missing one and have to haul out a spare cage for those rats.
Pull all the cages off their bases. Each cage gets hauled outside to the driveway (up one flight [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bvrattery.wordpress.com&blog=7653998&post=491&subd=bvrattery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://bvrattery.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/cage-cleaning-day/</link>
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