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Yay! Rat babies on the way!

Daeraelle

Daeraelle

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While cleaning the rat cage this morning I was reinspecting my rats just to be sure they were in fact two females and one male. I find it very difficult to tell the difference in juvy rats, and I took a whole day staring at compairison pics and my rats butts just to make sure. Well, I thought it would at least be another week or so, but my oldest female is pregnant! My male now has balls, which he was without, and she has a round belly growing. Which I'm excited about. The tiny little girl is still too young, and seems to be growing slower than the other two. They weren't cranky at all, and my mommy rat wasn't mad at me for disturbing her nest. I hope she stays that good tempered. I did take the time out of EVERY day when I first got them to play with them for at least an hour. They never bit, or seemed to want to. Which I found strange (they were just feeder mice from PetLand). But I'm happy to have good tempered rats, then again, they may be so inbred they're retarded, and their good nature isn't their fault. They are the most clumsy rats I've ever seen. Hopefully shortly I will have babies! I don't even need her to nurse them the first time, my snakes can eat rat pinks. So she has a buy out of being a good mom the first few times. I'm so excited. I haven't had little baby rodents in SOOOOO long. :D As soon as I find my camera I'll get pictures. My husband lost my digital camera. I haven't even gotten any new pictures of my snakes. Isabelle is getting so fat and growing so fast, she's twice the size of the male already. I need to take pictures. they're so cute, running around taking all the food out of the food bowl and putting it in the nest. I love my ratties. =^.^=
 
I've turned the house upside down. I think my husband took it with him when he was going out one night. He probably got drunk and left my camera in a bar somewhere. He swears he didn't take it though, and that I lost it.

I went to the petstore, and I could help myself. I bought another female rat. She's a generic lab rat, white with red eyes. I have the black hooded trio right now, and there were a few albinos in the tank with them when I bought them. Maybe I won't end up with just black hooded babies. The new female is trying to molest my male, she'll go up to him, sniff his butt and litterally crawl under him, and when he runs away she pounces on him and crawls under him again. He just grew his balls within the last two days, I think he impregnated my other rat by accident. He looks REALLY scared and confused. Lol. I expected him to be a pimp daddy, he's got three women, and he's running away from all of them, lol. My younger hooded female that isn't pregnant is molesting him like that too. I can't figure it out. The pregnant female is letting everybody know she's in charge and is bossing everybody around. I feel sorry for the poor little guy. :shrugs: But what can I do?

The petstore I buy the rats from is weird, if the right person is working he just lets me go into the back and pick out my own rodents. They are in display cases built into the back wall, so you can see them, but you can't hold them. So if someone is being anal, I just get them to bring me rat after rat to look at from the back. Anyway, I asked a new guy for a female rat, he goes in the back, comes out two seconds later holding a box. He starts ringing all my stuff up, and I take the rat out of the box, stare at her butt(just to make sure) I held her for a little bit (she's wild too, she kept trying to escape) and he was just staring at me with his mouth wide open and he says "It's not biting you?" That's my quote of the day, lol. I just looked at him and said "Um.. no" he said "Well, they usually do." :rolleyes: People.
 
If the albino was related to the black hoodies, she might also be a black hoody. Could be anything really since the albino masks it.

She could give you all black hoodies het albino or 1/2 albinos if the male is het albino.

Were there other colors or markings in the tank possibly from the same litter?
 
The hoodies came from a tank where there were all hooded and a few albinos. The albino I bought today came from another supplier, and they were ALL albino. So I'm hoping the hoodies are het for it? I have no clue about rat genetics.
 
Green Bean said:
LMAO Too funny! :roflmao:
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That's what I get for staring at them thinking "Poor guy he's being molested by the little girls" I got an eyeful. The rats are going back in the spare bedroom. :eek1:
 
Two of the hoodies (the male and the pregnant female) are brother and sister, lol. The smaller hooded female is probably closely related, she's a little younger and from another litter, and the albino came from some where else. I was hoping not to have them TOO imbred. I do have another 20gL waiting. The two hooded females that are possibly related are going to go in it with an unrelated male, and the hooded male and the albino will stay together. I might get another female to go with them, I'll have to wait and see how everything goes though.
 
Daeraelle said:
Hopefully shortly I will have babies! I don't even need her to nurse them the first time, my snakes can eat rat pinks. So she has a buy out of being a good mom the first few times.
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It'll actually be easier on her if you let her nurse one or two babies from each litter - this prevents her from getting mastitis because she'll start lactating anyway, even if you took the babies away as soon as you found them.

I try to leave at least two babies with my rodents (or have other babies growing on) to nurse from any mothers available.
 
Thanks, I may do that. You know, I do have a friend with a small boa that eats small rats. I could always pass them along.
 
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