Greetings all!

As some of you may gathered from my first post in the breeding rat forum, I am working on making my own rat colony. Several of you suggested keeping a few of my baby females in order to provide more rats down the road. I had one baby rat left over from my rat supplier that I put in with my current mom, and we sexed it today and found out it was female! Had some great luck with that, as it will give me a female that is not a blood relative to my current rats. So great news on that front.

The blessing came in another form, though. My wife and I stopped by PetSmart today to pick up some rat food for our growing brood. As usual, I checked to see if they had any new female rats in that were adult/close to adult in size, as that would give me another female rat that isn't blood related. I hit the jackpot! My friends that worked there informed me that they had a few come in, but that they couldn't put them out yet because a male was found mixed in with them, and they were potentially all pregnant! They told me that the bad news is, is that if any end up being pregnant, they have to adopt out the babies instead of sell them. They know that I own snakes and that I'm setting up a colony, so they told me they would sell me one of the potential pregnant ones if I wanted it because they knew what I would be using it for. So, I manged to get a potentially pregnant female from a different bloodline today! I'm excited for my colony project! New blood line and a potential for snake food, too!