my pregnant ratties

Well dang Ricardo didn't do his jobbie! You know it took us a three males to get a decent stud. First male seemed to be infertile (or else bad at it and the females just kicked him away), the next male did the job but was awfully rough on our females, almost biting them enough to require stitches (he got to meet the big BCI real fast). Casanova was our third male and he's done extremely well and with the purchase of Frankie the American Blue, Nova is now Stud Emeritus. lol

Your females should cycle every 5 or 6 days so make sure he's there for a few cycles just to make sure he's done the trick this time.

well i sure hope ricardo doesn't turn out to be a dud... that would suck. i really don't want to have to care full time for a male... as the two females are enough for us... (which is why we have sleep overs with my friends male rattie) - so here's hoping! *fingers crossed*

well no more breeding for us. ricardo got beaten up pretty bad today... lots of blood in the cage ;(

so i've moved him to a different cage so he's safe and we are just going to buy our feeders.

thanks everyone for all the info i've learned on this... but i won't be using it!

poor ricardo!

Oh dear! I've never had my females go after a male like that. A bit of scuffling, squeeking and boxing but nothing horribly serious. Poor Ricardo! Maybe because he's not part of their colony they see him as an intruder that smells different or something. Will he be okay?

Hehe, Ricardo tried to get fresh apparently :)


How bad was it? Just a bite mark here or there? Sometimes guys just can't take a hint, hope he is ok.

I wonder if you put a pile of the females used bedding in with a strange male so he sort of smelled familar if that would cut down on aggression or put each female alone with him in a cage he'd been in for a few days (his territory) if that would avoid the females ganging up on him. I always rotate my females into my breeder males home cage in pairs and it's never been a problem but then they must know his smell somewhat...he lives downstairs from them in the rat colony rack. (poor guy has the "basement apartment" lol).

I've had problems in the past with a breeder male being overly aggressive but never with my females hurting my males. Course with the size of Casanova not many of the females would dare LOL but Frankie is a much smaller male and his first breeding seems to have gone well. Frankie did his thing, Stubby the female continued to eat her dinner (apparently less than impressed with the whole deal LOL....poor Frankie).

it's his foot... turns out once we got him cleaned up his toes was bleeding like crazy.

i'm not sure what i'll do at this point... i'll discuss it with his owner before i do anything more.