First African soft-furred litter!

Day 16 we have eye openage! My wife and I observed two of the little ones that had their eyes open tonight. There could be more but I didn't disturb them as most of them where sleeping. The two we saw had red eyes just like the mother. By tomorrow all of them should have fully opened eyes and I'll be adding a photo to my gallery growth log.

I can't wait to see a picture of them with their eyes open. They are so cute and furry!


-Andre

Everyone has had their eyes open for at least a day, here is a closeup of one of them...and my wife's lovely horse farm worn hands :P


http://warrenreptiles.com/gallery/ma...g2_itemId=1106

Very cute! Can't wait to see how they mature for you.

This litter was weaned yesterday at 3 weeks. All are doing well and VERY soft...my wife can't keep her hands of them :P

The other female in my main trio is well along so more on the way woohoo!


http://warrenreptiles.com/gallery/ma...g2_itemId=1115

Counted 13 babies this morning in the litter that dropped last night YEEHAA! That's more like it! The phasing out of my other rodents might be sooner than I thought if they keep this up.

Very nice Heath! I may have to get a pair of them off of you at some point.

4 weeks old today! http://warrenreptiles.com/gallery/ma...?g2_itemId=340

Most of them are about the size of a mature mouse. I handled a couple this morning again and they are still a bit jump but after a few seconds content to explore the length of my arm. I also gave them a treat you'll see in one of today's pics. The album is showing a pretty good evolution of maturity.


Also about to change my avatar pic ;)

Heath, have you noticed any noticeable difference in the smell from your African rat colony? I'm wondering if raising these instead of regular rats would help to eliminate/reduce the smell of a rodent colony.

When they're ready, and you have inventory, I'd like to try a couple and see if I can break Zeus' & Freddie's fasts. Zeus is at 9 weeks, & had a prev. small rat after starting fast of 8 weeks. Looks like Freddie is following in Zeus' squirmy path and has refused a rat four weeks in a row.


Since my temps and humidity are spot on, maybe the rats would do the trick....Hmmmmmm Otherwise I'll try live weanlings next Sunday. (I have six right now. Maybe they'll work.)

Good looking babies Heath. Continued good luck w/the larger litters and successful breeding/raising.

R