Adult Rats need love too...

These are a few of my "pet" makers

Blue Self Rex Coat mom with 15 babies currently
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT3016.jpg
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT3013.jpg

Blue Berkshire Standard Coat mom with 14 babies currently
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT3071.jpg

Agouti Berkshire Standard Coat mom with 7 black double het dwarf/blue babies currently
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT3065.jpg

Agouti Double Het Blue/Siamese mom with 17 babies currently(minus a few black babies that became food)
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT3058.jpg
With her blue, black, agouti and Siamese babies
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT3059.jpg

Adult Dwarf Double Rex male...
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT3049.jpg
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT3039.jpg

Agouti Blue mom with 8 agouti and black double het dwarf/blue babies
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT3006.jpg
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT3008.jpg

Male Pink eyed Siamese rex coat
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT2982.jpg
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT2987.jpg

Black eyed Siamese soon to be mom preggo with her first litter
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT3003.jpg
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT2993.jpg

I'm a sucker for blue rex babies :P
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...e/PICT3036.jpg

Thanks for looking :)

How could you NOT be a sucker for a blue rex baby?! Holy moly is that thing cute! You have some gorgeous rats. And it sounds like they have some pretty big litters!
I also have some pet rats (in a mansion rat cage separate from my feeders and breeders. Haha).....people always think I'm weird (well, weirder :rofl: ) when they find out that I have snakes and pet rats.

Thanks for the pics, the blues get me too :)

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How could you NOT be a sucker for a blue rex baby?! Holy moly is that thing cute!

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Hah, yeah he is a cute one.
Blues are what got me interested in making pet rats and sent me on the pursuit of finding quality breeding stock.

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You have some gorgeous rats. And it sounds like they have some pretty big litters!

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Thanks! and yes I have had some really big litters lately except from my dwarf boy who some how got his girls to only drop 7, 6 and 10 kits. Last month I had four litters of 18, two of 17 and numerous litters of 15 and 14 :) A few smaller litters but on average it was a great month.

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I also have some pet rats (in a mansion rat cage separate from my feeders and breeders. Haha).....people always think I'm weird (well, weirder :rofl: ) when they find out that I have snakes and pet rats.

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lol, oh yeah it's bad enough with how some people treat snake people but when they find out you also breed pet rats it sends some of them over the proverbial edge :rofl:

Can dwarfs randomly pop up? One of my females recently had a litter and one of the babies (well, it's not really a baby anymore) is still teeny tiny. All of the others are much bigger.
And where can you find black-eyed Siamese?! I can't find them anywhere!! Or how do you make them? Also, I noticed that your Siamese have what looks to be very light fur (and pretty much all other Siamese that I see in pictures). The Siamese girl I have has more of a tan fur that starts shading starting in the middle of her back and is very dark by the time it gets down to the base of her tail. Is she not a good quality Siamese?
Sorry for all of the questions!

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Can dwarfs randomly pop up? One of my females recently had a litter and one of the babies (well, it's not really a baby anymore) is still teeny tiny. All of the others are much bigger.

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No it's not random but rather a recessive trait so both parents need to carry a copy of the dwarf gene to make them.

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And where can you find black-eyed Siamese?! I can't find them anywhere!! Or how do you make them?

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I am not sure where you can find the black eyed Siamese unless you live local to me ;)
I really like the black eyed ones but the ruby eye and pink eye ones are nice too IMO.

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Also, I noticed that your Siamese have what looks to be very light fur (and pretty much all other Siamese that I see in pictures). The Siamese girl I have has more of a tan fur that starts shading starting in the middle of her back and is very dark by the time it gets down to the base of her tail. Is she not a good quality Siamese?

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I'd want to see a picture of her to hazard a guess but maybe she's young still?
They start out quite golden colored and as they age only the points stay dark.

Pinkie blacks and Siamese
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...l/PICT8121.jpg

10 day old Siamese
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...l/PICT8067.jpg

5 week old
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...exCoatMale.jpg

Adult Siamese
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...14911Small.jpg

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Sorry for all of the questions!

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NP any time :gj:

Thank you very much for the information and pictures. She's not that young though (she's around 6 months old and just had her first litter of 11 today!). I will start a new thread with my Siamese girl because I feel bad taking over yours. Thank you again and hopefully you can help me when I get around to making a new thread and post some pictures.

Oh my gosh I wish I had pet rats that were half as cute as yours!!! AWWW! :love: I'm hoping to start making some pet rats to actually give to people for pets. I'm SLOWLY getting my dumbos up and running. I only had boy dumbos to start with, so I had to make het girls, and I'm finally getting some dumbo babies! :pinkele:

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Oh my gosh I wish I had pet rats that were half as cute as yours!!! AWWW! :love: I'm hoping to start making some pet rats to actually give to people for pets. I'm SLOWLY getting my dumbos up and running. I only had boy dumbos to start with, so I had to make het girls, and I'm finally getting some dumbo babies! :pinkele:

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Awesome!
Dumbo's are super cute but a quality top ear is also IMO.

Here's A blue top eared I made in early 09 just as I was transitioning over to all dumbos...
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d1...s/PICT3594.jpg

I was lucky enough to be able to pick up my original breeding stock(good timing) and have really enjoyed making some super friendly pet quality critters.
Our original group of 12 rats set us back over $400 but over the almost 2 years I've bred them it's been well worth that original investment.
All Dumbo's and the ability to produce black's, blue's, Siamese and Dwarf's with Rex's and Velveteen coats made it an easy choice over buying standard black hooded and other mass produced top eared rats.

I've since hooked up with a partner and we share rat genetics so neither of us are doing too much inbreeding unless it's necessary.