Are there really Hermaphrodite rats?

I didnt read any of the replies.

I have produced THOUSANDS of rats and have never seen a hermie.

Guys it is very simple to sex any rodent

1 hole = male
2 holes = female

how i've been doing it since I was raising gerbils as pets when I was 8 years old (of coarse with mommies help)

but a breeding male rat should be easy to tell.....like said above they just kinda hang there. I've never came across an adult that could hide them from me yet. I find mice are harder to tell with that method sometimes, but with them its still 1 hole/2 hole

There is such a thing as hermaphrodite mice, and rats. Most commonly, it's just a female with a sealed vagina. So they are 100% female, just not functioningly female.

These mice and rats can appear to be male, because their vagina can swell and sometimes look like testes.

That doesn't make it a hermaphrodite. That just makes it a malformed female. A hermie would have BOTH sex organs.

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Originally Posted by Rhasputin

There is such a thing as hermaphrodite mice, and rats. Most commonly, it's just a female with a sealed vagina. So they are 100% female, just not functioningly female.

These mice and rats can appear to be male, because their vagina can swell and sometimes look like testes.

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Originally Posted by tomfromtheshade

That doesn't make it a hermaphrodite. That just makes it a malformed female. A hermie would have BOTH sex organs.

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This sounds pretty much what it looks like. I am just going to assume she is infertile and feed her off to one of the boa's.

Here's how you tell (you made me dig up some OLD pictures! LOL)

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...ats/boyrat.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...ts/girlrat.jpg

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Originally Posted by tomfromtheshade

That doesn't make it a hermaphrodite. That just makes it a malformed female. A hermie would have BOTH sex organs.

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I realize that. I didn't mean that to say 'most herms are females with sealed vaginas' i just mean that most people that think they have a herm, most often have a female with a sealed vagina.

There -are- herms, but they're not nearly as common as the sealed vaginas. And it can be inherrited, too. There isa specific line of show mice, from Mike Chiodo in NY, that more often than others, throws the sterile females with sealed vaginas. :)

Also, a herm doesn't have both sex organs. Most often it has one main set, and a slightly deformed version of the other parts. It's also possible to have a uterus, and a fully formed penis and testes, but no vagina. It's possible to have a vagina, and very large, penis like clitoris as well. There are lots of varrying degrees of hermaphrodites.

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Here's how you tell (you made me dig up some OLD pictures! LOL)

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...ats/boyrat.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...ts/girlrat.jpg

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AHHHHH! Rat Porn!!:rolleye2::confused:

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Originally Posted by Powerspythons

AHHHHH! Rat Porn!!:rolleye2::confused:

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Sorry - should have put a disclaimer on the post......for mature audiences only! :P

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Here's how you tell (you made me dig up some OLD pictures! LOL)

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...ats/boyrat.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e9...ts/girlrat.jpg

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Wow your making me sorry I asked this question. No seriously I know what a female and male are suppose to look like. I would take a picture of her if Mork hadn't of had a snack already. She looked like a female but hmmmm trying to figure out how to explain what it looked like. Alright from her Vagina to her butt there were two oval lumps that ran from V to B. When I pushed lightly on the lower part of her stomach they would protrude even further. The post about it a sealed vagina swelling giving resemblance of balls made sense. So pretty sure that is what it was.