More Baby Rats!!

[mues155]

Well here are the 22 baby rats that my double rex sisters had last thursday.
They have all been looking great and growing like weeds! I got a couple sweet looking markings out of this litter Im pretty exited!



Seems like this one is a capped..


A cool lookin possum blaze


Cute little hooded thin blazes


A whole mess of rat babies!

[snakesRkewl]

Woot, congrats on the pretty food

[MoshBalls]

Great! They are so cute. Where did you learn all the marking names. I am looking around the net and on here and checked out a couple of books from the library (mostly from the kids section, not a great pet rat book collection) but I still hear people talking about different types that I didn't know before.

[Michelle.C]

Seems like this one is a capped..


Cute little hooded thin blazes

The top one is a Bareback. In the second photo, the one on the left is a capped/stripe and the one on the right is a blazed capped/stripe. Very cute.

[billye1982]

Woot, congrats on the pretty food

That is what I was thinking, but they sure are cute

[mues155]

Great! They are so cute. Where did you learn all the marking names. I am looking around the net and on here and checked out a couple of books from the library (mostly from the kids section, not a great pet rat book collection) but I still hear people talking about different types that I didn't know before.

Just google "rat colors" or "rat markings" and websites will come up with photos of different rats, usually home made by people to show rats. I love breeding them, even if I dont feed live and all my snakes are on f/t I still sell them to other people and enjoy just watching them grow and seeing what markings they turn out to have.

The top one is a Bareback. In the second photo, the one on the left is a capped/stripe and the one on the right is a blazed capped/stripe. Very cute.

Cool thanks, the website I referred to wasnt that in depth on having a ton of different markings.
What I find interesting is I have one male that breeds about 5 females in my small colony and so far he has passed on his blaze to a total of 6 rat babies from the different females. I find this very cool, i wouldnt have thought that was such a passable trait.

[azmodane]

I used to hate rats and thought they were disgusting until I started to breed them and you see the wonderful side of them. 22, beautiful litter