Female pics, and there house. DUW!

[stangs13]

These pics really suck, because the rats move so darn fast! they are my females. Three of them. The self female has a white almost arrowhead shaped stomach..is she still a self?

This is where Cass lives!



The girls all together!



The black "self"



La casa de Rat!




Clean little garbage disposals!




I am going in the way that Jo keeps her colonies. With the plastic shelving units. I am wanting to pick one up tomarrow. Idealy this exact one!

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html...A1VC38T7YXB528


I am going to have the breeding/female tub on top, with Cass's tub and then maybe another female/breeder tub and then a grower/feeder tub! It is perfect for my colony, I jsut wish you could find snake racks like that...lol.

[takagari]

you are going to want two grow tubs. one for males one for females

but i only have one breeding pair right now. 15 babys first shot
hehe she will do two more then i will retire her

[stangs13]

Oh yeah!

Ill just turn one of the ubs on the bottom around, for another grower tub! Thanks alot!

[frankykeno]

Awww they look cute.

As for the "self" one. It's not a Self if it has any other markings, it must be one uniform color to be called a Self. It's likely from what you are describing an English Irish. Check out the pic in this link and see if that's what her markings are (great site for all sorts of info other than markings).

http://www.afrma.org/ratmkd.htm#engirsh

Remember to seperate your feeders at 5 weeks of age or before when they are weaned. You don't want rats that should be eating and growing into nice feeders to be wasting their energy trying to mate with their siblings.

[stangs13]

The thing is is that her triangle covers alot of her bellie. And those ones triangles are only a little spot.

[frankykeno]

Ahhh well then maybe she's a Berkie. Check out this link with pics of various Berkshire marked rats. Does she have the white feet that Berkie's have (I couldn't tell clearly from the pics).

http://www.dapper.com.au/whatrat.htm

[stangs13]

Yep! She has white feet, and a white tipped tail. She has got to be a black berk! Resembles them very well. Thanks jo!!