Big Litter

My favorite rat (shh, don't tell the others) is a blue hooded dumbo girl named Yoshi. She gave birth the other day to 18 pinkies! That is the biggest litter I have ever seen from one of my rats. And this was her first litter too! I'll be taking pictures today and posting them up. So many cute pink things!:P She was bred to a beige berkshire. His mother is supposed to be het for dumbo but my sister has not proved her out yet, so Bradley may carry it or not. We will see for sure if any of the babies are dumbo. :)

Wow, congrats. on the sake food! :salute:

Thanks. :P Some of them will be snake food, some will be kept as breeders. I hope to keep about 4 girls (or more, depending on if I can organize the animal room to accomodate more tubs. I am very interested to see what colors come out of this pairing. :)

Its good to keep babies from big litters...hopefully they can retain those good genetics and be great breeders...

Yea, I guess we will have to wait and see if her next litter is just as big. If it is, I'm keeping as many females from her litters as I can. I feel like I'm swimming in rodent babies right now. Yoshi gave birth a few days ago, Noel just gave birth tonight, one of my mice had a nice sized litter today and I'm expecting another 1-2 mouse litters in the next few days.

Congrats on the big litter and the many other litters as well!:D:P

Thanks. They are starting to develop color now. Some dark ones and some light ones. I can't wait! I really hope I have some dumbos in there. I love rats!:P

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

Thanks. They are starting to develop color now. Some dark ones and some light ones. I can't wait! I really hope I have some dumbos in there. I love rats!:P

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I love seeing rat pups when they still have those eyes closed! When I volunteer at the reptile sanctuary I'm normally in the mouse & rat room now cleaning up after them and I see anywhere from a newborn litter to jumpy weaned rats.:D

I just got my first male rat and I already love him. He loves hangin' around me and doesn't wander off:)

Aww. Yea I saw pictures of him in your thread. He is such a cutie! I never thought I'd like rats as pets but I fell in love with them. Yoshi is a shoulder rat. She loves riding on your shoulder won't try and run off.

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

Aww. Yea I saw pictures of him in your thread. He is such a cutie! I never thought I'd like rats as pets but I fell in love with them. Yoshi is a shoulder rat. She loves riding on your shoulder won't try and run off.

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Yeah I didn't really think I'd own rats until I came to this site. I blame this site for all of the good snake-related things that happen to me. From morphs to breeding BPs to rats. Everything. I will eventually make a thank you thread, I'm planning on it:D:P