Just a few pics for fun.

This is Damian, a black male with a tiny white dash on his chest. He was less than impressed to get taken away from his first breeding cycle with three females for some dumb pics!


Damian checking out the camera....


Lightning, named by our son Mikey, for his funny facial markings (the red mark on his tail isn't an injury, just from a marker I use to denote babies as special and not to be fed off)....


Lightning is the smallest of the new males so he's got a bit of growing before hitting the breeding tub with some of our big adult female rats....


Casanova and his look alike son Supernova....


Poor old Casanova's getting that very old rat look and recently survived a very serious attack from another adult male rat (since disposed of for bad temperment). He's doing fine though and spending his retirement with his son and the other males. I've stopped counting after old Nova fathered 300 rats. He's been an excellent producer for us and we're hoping his son Supernova does nearly as well. He does seem to share his father's extremely gentle nature and is the easiest of the new males to handle.....


Casanova in his hay day. I know it's silly but I'll miss this big old rat when his time comes and unfortunately that's likely fairly soon as he's well over 2 years old now.