Not a bad week

A few days ago a smaller rat, that I had no idea was pregnant, dropped 12 baby rats. 3 days later, my biggest female, who I knew was pregnant, dropped 12 babies too. None of the babies made it 3 days though. And on Thanksgiving my most anticipated female (African rat) dropped 8 babies. And I must say, African rat babies are uuuuggllyyy!

Now at the moment I have another heavily pregnant female rat and a heavily pregnant African rat. And two more rats that are just putting on weight.

My male has been a stud. Breeding every female in sight. Which leads me to a question. When you observe, if you do, your males breeding a female does he seem to "groom" his ummm... hmm.. how do I say this... penis... right after "the job is done"???

ya i seen it...thats what they do i guess

Sounds like things are rockin along well with the rat colony.

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Originally Posted by RKO

My male has been a stud. Breeding every female in sight. Which leads me to a question. When you observe, if you do, your males breeding a female does he seem to "groom" his ummm... hmm.. how do I say this... penis... right after "the job is done"???

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Yep male rats are very (how do I say this nicely) "hygiene conscious" LOL. They thoroughly clean themselves after every mating.

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Sounds like things are rockin along well with the rat colony.



Yep male rats are very (how do I say this nicely) "hygiene conscious" LOL. They thoroughly clean themselves after every mating.

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Good to know. Just yesterday he was running after every female in sight! Which is like 7, since I pulled out the heavily pregnant one. At first I was thinking he had some type of STD:oops:

Alright, the heavily pregnant female rat just popped about 30 minutes ago. Gave birth to 9 babies.

Whoops, just popped another, make that 10! So 40 babies in the past week. Think I might grow these ones out a little...

Make it 11...

LOL Maybe that's why they don't get STD's! Sounds like your female rat isn't done yet. She'll finish up when she's ready - looks like she's popping out a decent sized litter for you.

Neato, I love when they give me larger litters. I had one last month that gave me only 2 babies! She was older anyway and is now digesting in my friend's BCI's stomach. But I had a girl give me 13 babies overnight now.. so I am happy too.

Final count was 11. I'm glad this breeding project has really kicked off. My first attempt took me 4 months to get one litter. Second attempt took only about 2 months to get the first. This one has taken a bit longer since I bought all the females as small rats. But its really paying off now.