at what grams do you consider W-S-M-L

hey, just curious, at how many grams do you consider your rats to be weaned, small, medium and large? i see that there are a lot of differences in grams between some websites. i'm just trying to learn since i'll start my own breeding pretty soon. thanx

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Originally Posted by jben

hey, just curious, at how many grams do you consider your rats to be weaned, small, medium and large? i see that there are a lot of differences in grams between some websites. i'm just trying to learn since i'll start my own breeding pretty soon. thanx

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It often depends on who you talk to or what store is selling feeders.

Pups 2 weeks old

Weaners 3 weeks old

When I talk about small rats they are 4 weeks old rats 55/85 grams

And for medium 5/6 weeks old rats, 85 grams and over (I never feed anything older than that ;), females get 5/6 weeks old rats males 4 weeks old rats)

That's how I go with my colony now I can go to a pet store and it might be something different.

thanks Deb. last week i went to the petstore and bought a rat that was labeled as medium, when i got home to weight it, the rat was at 189g. that was one big "medium" rat.

I always use rodent pro weights

thanx lamina. i was just checking out their website.

Yep sizes vary from store to store and sometimes even week to week within a store. For several weeks I was buying small rats that were about 90g. Paid small rat price for them too. I got a medium that was about 200g! Now all of the sudden smalls are around 50g and mediums are not much bigger. Maybe a tad over 100g.

I've always judged by which of my snakes can eat it. If it's the girth of my big female bp's then it's a medium, girth of my 300+ gram bp's qualifies as small, and if my retic licks his lips it's a retired breeder.

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Originally Posted by dturner100

and if my retic licks his lips it's a retired breeder.

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LOL, thanx.

pinks are pink
pups have fur but eyes are closed.
weaners or peekers have their eyes have cracked and crawl...
weaned are small adults, eyes open and weaned
smalls sub 85g a month old
med sub 175
large sub 275
retired breeder over 275