Rowangate Decade to Deliver - Russian Blue Striped Roan
Silver Variety Champion 2010

Photo Courtesy of Lois Mattsson
The National Fancy Rat
Society Standard of Excellence
Striped Roan (banded husky): A strikingly marked bi-colour variety with
roan colouration, symmetry and contrast being important impressions.
Clearly distinct from existing marked varieties. Pattern: The
striped Roan shall have as symetrical markings as possible. The chest,
belly, sides and all the legs to be completely white. Head: A wide
inverted V shaped blaze including the whisker bed, coming as close to the eyes
as possible without touching the eyes, and coming to a point between the ears.
Jaw line and underside of the head must be white. Eye color to conform to
the standard for the base colour. Body: From the head, the colour
runs back covering the ears and continues along the body with no suggestion of a
hood, in an unbroken horizontal stripe, symetrical and as straight as possible.
The stripe to be approximately 5cm wide. Demarcation shall be as clear cut
and even as possible. Tail: Unmarked preferred. Faults:
White spots in coloured fur/coloured spots in white fur. Brindled
demarcation line, demarcation line too low. Lack of white on face or a
completely white face. Stripe too narrow or broken, any suggestions of a
hood.