A new kiddo followed us home!

[Aundrea]

Hehe, okies.

Here's the group shot of all the new bubs:


The guy in the middle is staying here, as well as the one on the far left and/or the one on the far right. The rest will be adopted into rat-friendly homes.

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG Are they freaking CUTE or what????????

I want the 2nd one from the left and the 2nd one from the right.. Ohhhhh heck I want them all LOL. Damn they are sooo cute. Post their pics of them growing up. I would LOVE to see pics of them growing up.

[tyflier]

I have a rat friendly home...

They would get along so nicely with everyone...for about 3 minutes...

[Topaz]

Mmmmm.... buffet!

Not in this house!

Rats were my first non-dog pet, and I'll most likely always love them more than any other pet. We try to keep our pets and feeders completely separate. That's why we buy our frozen feeders instead of breeding our own...we just couldn't kill something we brought into existence..so we let someone else do it fo us

This litter came from Calypso, a used-to-be live feeder that has a background of Ball Python slaying. I hope that snake owner learned their lesson!

[Lori P]

Cute litter!!!

At what age to rats begin breeding? Same as mice?

[Topaz]

Rats -can- breed at 5 weeks, but it normally doesn't happen until 7 to 8 weeks old. I separate babies at about 4.5 weeks just to make sure none of the boys gets the mom preggers again.

[Loren]

I like to raise my replacement breeders up, separated by sex, until the females look pretty much big enough to be having babies. I dont keep track of days or weeks or weights, I just go by looks. Otherwise they get pregnant as soon as their bodies will do it - I prefer to give em' a bit more size.
Seems like I get pretty good size litters that way while keeping the moms in decent shape.