My first liter!

[Adam Chandler]

I of course mean litter. I really should not type these things up as soon as I wake up ><

Anyway, my female BEW was starting to get more and more pear shaped everyday so I wasn't surprised yesterday evening to come downstairs and hear squeaks from 14 little pink things in one of my rat tubs.

Newborns:


About 18 hours old:



I do have a couple questions.

Can you tell from looking at the babies if they are getting milk?

Is it that white spot to the right of it's belly button?

Also I've noticed the mom sometimes runs around the tub, trampling the babies, giving them cuts and bloody marks. She also seems to burry them alot, like completely cover them with substrate. Are these normal behaviors?

[Jessica Loesch]

Yes that's the milk congrats!!

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[rperry03]

Congrats!

I now have 3 momma's in a cage. 1 gave birth 4 days ago and 2 of them today and yes so far they all have moved them by picking them up, dragging, and trampling on them. They also like to build barriers around and cover their litters. To say the least, very interesting and entertaining to watch!

[extremeballs]

Two of my moms and their litters were together for a little bit... One of the younger ones got hurt through all the fighting over them... I had to feed it off to my baby rtb because it had a huge slice behind its head and 2 smaller slices on its back and tummy. I think we can expect that sort of thing once in awhile. Everything you've asked about it seems is just normal behavior from my little bit of experience so far.