Not a bad week

You appear to be doing well on the rat front! Now all you need is a really good female that'll give you 15 pups or more. ;) One of my brand new breeders, had her first litter about 5-6 days ago, and gave me 15...I was so pleased with her!! I was really used to getting 10-13, so I had to re-count a few more times to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. :)

It's a bit amusing, how obsessed with hygiene rats are. Amusing because people think of them as filthy, nasty creatures, when really, they bathe more than we do! Of course, they could just be considered covered in rat spit, rather than clean...but, I personally find them to be very clean little fellows.

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Originally Posted by RKO

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.

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It usually works that way. Take the time up front with any animal to make sure it's healthy and well started, you get a better breeder in the end. Glad to hear things are going better for you this time around. :)

I'm fine with the sizes they're throwing now. I just feed all the babies to my hatchlings. I'll grow them out for a (very) little while then in with the hatchlings they go and mother gets to rejoin the rest of the stock.

My other African dropped 7 pinkies today as well.