My first female just had her babies!

Here is my first female with her first litter of 9!

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...aand9babes.jpg

Congrats :), I had 2 deliver yesterday 24 pinkies total. Fed off all but 5

These are too little to feed to my snakes. And I hope a few are gonna be holdbacks to expand my colony.:) The rest will more than likely find their way into the bellies of my snakes.

lucky. my first female had really large babies and all born dead =[ i gave up...

good luck with yours!!!

Aww, I'm sorry. I've only had her since Monday. She was prego when I got her, 3 other females and 2 males. I think one of my other girls is prego too(fingers are crossed), but not too sure yet. Can't wait to see the colors start to show! I feel like the proud mama!:D

I just got my first pair and the female looks preggers! I can't wait.

I had 2 of mine have still borns, I fed them off. I will be monitoring their next littlers to see if it happens again, if so they will also be fed off & replaced.

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Originally Posted by thewesterngate

I just got my first pair and the female looks preggers! I can't wait.

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I know that feeling! I had been on pins and needles for the last 3 days!

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Originally Posted by llovelace

I had 2 of mine have still borns, I fed them off. I will be monitoring their next littlers to see if it happens again, if so they will also be fed off & replaced.

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I read somewhere (I think on this forum) to cull, cull, cull in the beginning. So you end up with all healthy, well-tempered rats. So that is what i plan on doing too.

I don't know about tempers changing by culling, I cull and I don't cull and they are all sweet either way.
What you end up with is chunky little weanlings that weigh as much as a small size rat typically weighs.
When I cull down to 4-5 kits by week 2 the remaining ones end up HUGE at 4 weeks old :P