Worthless Thread

They are adorable. Well - fed off 10 of the rat pups. Five were previous rat eaters, but have also been eating mice with me (Sophie, Casper, Piper, Oliver and Pandora has had rats before). Four previous mouse only eaters (Bailee, Pretzel, Mackenzie and J-Lo) readily took a rat pup and Oliver and Casper were offered two. Oliver took his second, and Casper refused, so Pandora got that one.


Scarlett looks so relieved to go from 12 babies to 2. I think that two others that were offered rats will eventually switch, their rat pups hid behind the water bowl, so I removed them and dropped in more curious mice and they snapped them up immediately (Bindi and Reese).

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

LOL don't worry dear, after all the cute factor wears off and you are quite happy to see the cute and full snakes and a few less rats to manage believe me. Congrats on another fine litter there Miss Robin the Rat Breeder! :) Looks like Caesar is doing his work well. See I told you going around pet stores peering at the working end of young male rats would pay off with a good studly one LOL.

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That definitely helps, but also the good advice from you to make sure the ladies were about 250 grams before they were introduced to a male helped as well. I believe their nice weight for their first breeding also helped in such nice sized litters. Karl's excitedly waiting for Foxy's litter, he wants to pick out two pets from her for his very own! LOL

Thanks hon. I just firmly believe healthy, bigger moms have a better chance to produce healthy, bigger litters. Why waste your time and the rat's resources on breeding too early, getting little litters (number or sizewise) when a bit of patience will give you better odds of everything going very well.

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Karl's excitedly waiting for Foxy's litter, he wants to pick out two pets from her for his very own! LOL

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Look at Karl getting all into the rat breeding! Good for him!

congrats on all the rats!

I recently picked up a 1.2 trio and are keeping them in a 37x17 enclosure. one of the females looks to be in the early stages of pregnancy from what i have seen some of my rats do. she is constantly just stretched out instead of kind of hunched over just sitting there. i cant wait for more ratties