Lots o babies!

Well, three days ago Mia, my dumbo had her litter. 22 of them! Two passed away so she was left with 20. Idgey today had a litter of 8. Mia seemed a bit jittery so I removed four of her pups and stuck them in with Idgey who promptly jostled them under her.
Mia has since calmed a bit.

I'll get pictures in a few days when they are a bit more interesting then colorless pink squeeking blobs.

But still, 22. No wonder she looked like she ate a grapefruit.

Oh wow congrats! Do you have pics of her before she gave birth when she was a grapefruit?

Wow that must have been one big momma before she popped!

dang that's awesome. I wish I could find a few to pop out that many

Nope, no pictures of her grapefruit stage, but she looks happy to be deflated now.

Anyone have pics of the different stages of babies? Pinkies to fuzzies to hoppers, etc..

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Originally Posted by Snikt228

Anyone have pics of the different stages of babies? Pinkies to fuzzies to hoppers, etc..

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Rodentpro has some very good comparison pics of rats and mice.

Wow the biggest litter I've seen is 18 and I thought my rat, Alita, would burst! It's great you had another female to foster some of that huge litter off on.

Here's some pics of stages of rat development. I've been promising the Admins to do a sticky pictorial following one litter of rats through birth to weaning. I really need to get that done!

Here's a few pics though from my files. Hope they are helpful.

Example of a "pear shaped" female indicating pregnancy. This one in particular delivered about 5 days later....
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ytodeliver.jpg

Heavily pregnant female rat. This is the one that delivered 18 pinks later that day....
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ahugebelly.jpg

Nursing newborn pinks. They tend to come out very red in color at first.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...Litterof18.jpg

Circles indicating visible milkbanks in newborn rat pinks. Shows momma rat is doing her job!
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2.../Milkbands.jpg

Four days later the pinks are showing their eventual coat markings.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ayoldpinks.jpg

At about 8 days of age they become rat fuzzies (aka crawlers). They still have their eyes closed and their ears flat to their skulls but have developed lovely silky coats.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...izasLitter.jpg

At around 15 days of age their full coat comes in, their eyes open, their ears become erect and they become rat pups. I don't have any good pictures of rat pups because they will NOT stay still LOL. This is the best I can do right now.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ts/HiThere.jpg

I wean our rats around 5 weeks of age. Here's a pretty typical male rat weanling.
http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...Lightning1.jpg

Wow, thats a lot of babies. My female that prolapsed had 16 and I thought that was a lot