its day 30

its day 30 and still no signs of babys so i took all the females that were with the males and am going to leave them out for 30 days to see if any are pregnant, and put new females with the males,

how long does it usally take for babys

i no they are usally prego for 21-24 days but shouldn't i have been haveing babys by now

If your girls aren't pregnat trade out the male. That being said my girls ovulate at differant times. I'll have one drop then 4 days later the next.My last girl dropped 2 weeks after the first of four.

i had 14 girls in with the males for 30 days every cleaning day i switched the males up

Our rats don't show signs of pregnancy until about 4 days before they give birth. More than likely, you will wake up one day and they will look like they swallowed a baseball. Our girls don't always ovulate together either. Currently, we only have 4 girls in the breeding cycle, 2 pairs. One pair always births within 2 days of each other. In the other pair, one girl didn't take on the first breeding, so we gave her a different male. Those two should give us litters within a week or so, but we don't know if both took to pregnancy yet.

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Originally Posted by ThyTempest

Our rats don't show signs of pregnancy until about 4 days before they give birth.

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:O 4 days before birth! Holy cow! LOL

My girls start showing about a week into the pregnancy. Maybe I'm just more used to it.


How old are the girls? Weight? What are you feeding them?

If you can, post a couple of pics with them in different positions. ;)

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

:O 4 days before birth! Holy cow! LOL

My girls start showing about a week into the pregnancy. Maybe I'm just more used to it.


How old are the girls? Weight? What are you feeding them?

If you can, post a couple of pics with them in different positions. ;)

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I was surprised too. We notice earlier on smaller girls, but especially with Ophelia...it takes a while. Almost overnight they develop the bulge. If we actually get them out, hold them, etc, we can tell earlier, about a week, maybe a bit more, like you said. At just a glance, I don't notice until about 4 days before.

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

:O 4 days before birth! Holy cow! LOL

My girls start showing about a week into the pregnancy. Maybe I'm just more used to it.


How old are the girls? Weight? What are you feeding them?

If you can, post a couple of pics with them in different positions. ;)

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they are all over 5 months now im feeding harlan 2018, weights not 100% sure my scale came up missing but before i introduced the males they where all around 250 grams +

i will try to get some pictures of some of them like i said i have had 14 of them in with the males for 30 days so i will do the ones that i thought where prego and a couple i have no clue about LoL

well here is 2 pictures then my camara battery died LoL

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...z/102_0022.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...z/102_0020.jpg

Both of those girls should be dropping within 3-4 days(tops), unless they are extremely fat. If they really are that fat normally, that might explain why you dont have pinks.