My rat gave birth unexpectedly...

Well... When you put a boy and a girl together... babies are generally the end result. I think we went over that in health class, probably 5th grade or earlier?

Why did you breed the rat if your snake won't eat frozen? Those rats will quickly outgrow your snake by the time they're about 7-8 weeks old(your snake definitely doesn't need a medium/large rat, they're fine on weaned or smalls).

Might want to just stick with getting one prey item a week from the store... Less wasteful.

My snake has eatten a couple medium rats and he has been fine on them. he doesn't like the pinkies he won't touch them. he won't eat frozzen either. I found someone localy that wants some rats as well so we have the situation figured out.

Still, why did you breed?

We tried to breed them at first and then it turned out the male was sterial so we sold them male. than 2 months later our female started showing signs that she was pregnante. but its ok thought no need to get all deffensive about it i just had some questions, out python eats them just fine so problem solved!

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Originally Posted by Mice"R"US

We tried to breed them at first and then it turned out the male was sterial so we sold them male. than 2 months later our female started showing signs that she was pregnante. but its ok thought no need to get all deffensive about it i just had some questions, out python eats them just fine so problem solved!

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We know why you think you ended up with babies. I'm just wondering why you tried to breed at all if you didn't think your snake would eat them?
Not feeling deffensive :P I'm mostly just curious. If you tell me you were curious about the cycle of life I'd take it. lol

We tried breeding them at first because he was ready to switch to rats. He was eatting about 4 mice a week so we tried breeding rats for awhile and it never worked so we went back to mice and he still is eatting alot of mice per a week. So we are trying to switch him to rats and get ride of our mice.

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Originally Posted by Mice"R"US

We tried breeding them at first because he was ready to switch to rats. He was eatting about 4 mice a week so we tried breeding rats for awhile and it never worked so we went back to mice and he still is eatting alot of mice per a week. So we are trying to switch him to rats and get ride of our mice.

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He may be ready to switch to rats but if he won't eat f/t and isn't big enough for a full grown rat yet, I'd say feed him multiple mice instead of switching. I mean what are you gonna do with the ones the get to big for him?