I'm so excited!

They are all adorable! Thanks for taking the time to post the pictures. Baby rats are just so cute.

Thanks for taking a look. I love seeing baby rats. :) I'm hoping that Thing 2, my black hooded girl gets pregnant soon so that Vegas won't have to wait long for a cagemate. He won't be able to stay with his sisters and he'll be took small to live with the big boys, so he'll be all by his lonesome until Thing 2 has her first litter and I can hold back a baby or two from that litter. :)

What a beautiful litter! Very healthy, plump, little sausages. :D

It makes me miss breeding rats. Some of my favorites were always the PEW's, they always have the best personalities. They were also great mommies, and actually, my PEW's had a longer average lifespan.

My best momma rat is a beige self. She is wonderful and produces great babies. She even adopted a little pinky that was refused by one of my snakes and that baby is now tottering around and attempting to play with Ray, Doe's biological daughter, who is 2-3 times her size. Its really cute.

I want to expand my colony, so now I'm on the lookout for rats. I have 4 breedable females, 4 hold back females that are growing up, 3 breedable males, and 1 hold back male, so I have a small colony right now. I want to find a dumbo female to breed to my dumbo male, but they are rare in pet stores. I have seen a few at the pet store I get reptile stuff from but those rats are not the best quality. They tend to have illnesses and low weights.

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

The fawn/cream hooded looks more cream in real life. He doesn't look as red. Not sure why he's showing up red in the pictures. Maybe its because the lighting in the room has a yellowish tint and its messing up the color in the picture.

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They will look cream to you alone, but next to a beige they are clearly redder at that age. As she grows up she will lose that orange red color and probably be hard to tell from a dark beige.

So is he considered a fawn hooded, or cream hooded?

I would personally call him a fawn hooded. He's super light and I have a feeling that as he gets old the color will fade a bit. I've got a fawn hooded female that faded a bit with age.

Fawn :)

Mmk. He is so adorable. We are going out today to pick up some more breeder females. They will go into QT, of course. :) How long should QT be?

I'm hoping to find a dumbo female, but we shall see. I'm also going to be picking out some breeder mice. :)