Molting.

[KTyne]

Soooo, I had no clue that rats molted and got an adult coat until I started using this forum.
My question is, how old are rats when they molt into their adult coat? I have a suspicion that my Pashmina is molting because the area around her nose has gotten much lighter but I'm not sure if she's too old to molt? She is apparently approximately 4 months old.

 

[eagle]

Mine usually molt around 3-4 months.

 

[jorats]

Love the name Pashmina. 3 to 4 months seems about right. But it can be younger as well, it all depends on their level of aging and maturing.

 

[KTyne]

Ahhhh ok, so she probably is molting! She has started to turn from looking more brown-ish to looking more blue like I was told she was. ^_^
And thanks jorats! I had named my first rat Bijoux because I liked the name for one, but it was also a character off of Hamtaro (a japanese cartoon about hamsters, lol), and so I named Pashmina and Penelope after characters off of the show as well!

These are the characters, lol.

Penelope

Pashmina

Bijoux!

And thanks again for the help guys! These 3 girls being my first rats I'm definitely learning a lot!