My first female just had her babies!

Here is my first female with her first litter of 9!

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...aand9babes.jpg

Congrats :), I had 2 deliver yesterday 24 pinkies total. Fed off all but 5

These are too little to feed to my snakes. And I hope a few are gonna be holdbacks to expand my colony.:) The rest will more than likely find their way into the bellies of my snakes.

lucky. my first female had really large babies and all born dead =[ i gave up...

good luck with yours!!!

Aww, I'm sorry. I've only had her since Monday. She was prego when I got her, 3 other females and 2 males. I think one of my other girls is prego too(fingers are crossed), but not too sure yet. Can't wait to see the colors start to show! I feel like the proud mama!:D

I just got my first pair and the female looks preggers! I can't wait.

I had 2 of mine have still borns, I fed them off. I will be monitoring their next littlers to see if it happens again, if so they will also be fed off & replaced.

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Originally Posted by thewesterngate

I just got my first pair and the female looks preggers! I can't wait.

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I know that feeling! I had been on pins and needles for the last 3 days!

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Originally Posted by llovelace

I had 2 of mine have still borns, I fed them off. I will be monitoring their next littlers to see if it happens again, if so they will also be fed off & replaced.

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I read somewhere (I think on this forum) to cull, cull, cull in the beginning. So you end up with all healthy, well-tempered rats. So that is what i plan on doing too.

I don't know about tempers changing by culling, I cull and I don't cull and they are all sweet either way.
What you end up with is chunky little weanlings that weigh as much as a small size rat typically weighs.
When I cull down to 4-5 kits by week 2 the remaining ones end up HUGE at 4 weeks old :P

Congrats on your first litter! I've had about 5 litters drop in the last 5-6 days. Total of 65 pinks in just those litters. I gave 30 to a buddy of mine, fed off about 10 so far, and have about 20ish left. I have at least 2 litters a week regardless, so I'm over the excitement part. The biggest litter I had was 23 babies, of course with that many they tend to be smaller than average pinks.

The first few litters are always exciting, but when you get a colony, and the pinks just explode all at once, you have your hands full.

Trey

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Originally Posted by snakesRkewl

I don't know about tempers changing by culling, I cull and I don't cull and they are all sweet either way.
What you end up with is chunky little weanlings that weigh as much as a small size rat typically weighs.
When I cull down to 4-5 kits by week 2 the remaining ones end up HUGE at 4 weeks old :P

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Well being as how I am just starting, I won't be getting rid of that many that soon. My snakes only eat live and the balls both eat small rats. So they won't be taken from mama before they are weaned. My baby rtb has only eaten small mice so far. Hope I don't have a problem switching to rats. But I don't anticipate the boa will eat more than 1 from this litter. The ones that i don't hold back for future breeding will be sold to a friend as feeders after they are weaned. So if the plan holds there shouldn't be any chunkies!

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Originally Posted by Chuckels

Congrats on your first litter! I've had about 5 litters drop in the last 5-6 days. Total of 65 pinks in just those litters. I gave 30 to a buddy of mine, fed off about 10 so far, and have about 20ish left. I have at least 2 litters a week regardless, so I'm over the excitement part. The biggest litter I had was 23 babies, of course with that many they tend to be smaller than average pinks.

The first few litters are always exciting, but when you get a colony, and the pinks just explode all at once, you have your hands full.

Trey

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Thanks Trey! Yeah, I know the excitement will wear off. This is going to be part of a family business, so there should be a payoff for all the work. I can't wait till we are getting multiple litters a week! And hopefully the demand will be close to the amount produced!:please: We have an huge area nearby that has repeatedly been on craigslist begging for different size rats! Which was part of my reason for getting into this. Looking forward to having my hands full...:cool:

Well The rtb had no problem taking a few of these. Just been eating a bit more frequently. He took 4 for me. So I have 5 of the babes left...2 males and 3 females. My step-son claimed the extra male, who will not be a breeder.

Lil Mama was pregnant when I got her, and as it turns out, I do believe I bought the daddy of this litter as well :D He was the only Siamese that they breeder had that was breeding age.

But here are some pics of the babes we are keeping...

Now I know this little guy, Archemedes, is a Rex, but what would you call his markings/coloring?
http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_1984.jpg

This is my little Siamese girl, Sadie, who is going to be bred back to her daddy.
http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_1988.jpg

This little guy, Jericho, is the one my step-son decided to keep.
http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_1982.jpg

And these 2 little girls, Jinko and Cookie, are gonna be bred to their brother Archemedes.
http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_1989.jpg
http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_1985.jpg

All thoughts and comments welcome... :)

The first one is hard to tell the color, it looks like a blue hooded rex :confused:
What color are the eyes also?

Is it this color?
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...z/PICT8540.jpg

or is it Siamese hooded like this
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...z/PICT4320.jpg

Actually, no, he is not blue at all. His head is a light beige and his back markings are a darker beige, and kind of look like an argyle sock lol. And his eyes are ruby. Thought there might be a name for the dual colors or the shape of the markings.

Here is a pick of his face... I think you may be right about the siamese, now that I take a closer look... (sorry it's a bit blurry)

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_1997.jpg

So does the color on his face and the ruby eyes kinda confirm he is a siamese hooded?

Ruby eyed Siamese would be my guess?
Typically the hooded markings go away and they end up looking like any other Siamese as an adult.

Ruby eyed Marked Siamese with Rex Coat
http://i915.photobucket.com/albums/a...z/PICT7410.jpg

That looks almost identical to my little Archemedes! I am a bit sad that his markings may go away... think they're pretty cool. But hey, I really like the siamese, so I guess it's ok :cool: Makes sense too... Here is his daddy... Sy, the siamese in this pic...

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_1992.jpg

Well its been almost a month... and I wanted to share updated pics of little Archemedes. Although he isn't all that little anymore LOL But he is definitely a Seal Point Rex Siamese and losing those cool markings he had.

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_2049.jpg

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_2044.jpg

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_2040.jpg

Just in case you didn't catch on, he is from my first litter from the original post.

Thanks for looking!

congrats on your first litter :) We had our first liter on Sunday, second on Monday and a third yesterday - Today we had a female who died before she had her babies. Never thought i'd be excited about rat babies.

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Originally Posted by extremeballs

Here is my first female with her first litter of 9!

http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...aand9babes.jpg

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Wow - what was the average size of your litters? We have been averaging 7-10 per litter for our first three

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Originally Posted by Chuckels

I've had about 5 litters drop in the last 5-6 days. Total of 65 pinks in just those litters.

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My first litter was 9, my second was 7, third was 14, forth was 16, fifth was 2(but 1 died), sixth was 3, seventh was 6 or 7(all dead), eighth and ninth litters reabsorbed for some reason??? Whew... lots of litters, but unfortunately, not many babies. Still trying though. I think my mistake was breeding high white to high white, before i knew any better. Man, I can't believe i have had that many litters already! My rex blue agouti girls produced my biggest litters, so it is possible to get that many from 5 litters. That's only 13 a piece.

These are all from my rex blue agouti moms:
http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_2021.jpg
http://i1216.photobucket.com/albums/...s/100_2022.jpg

well i guess my agouti girls are not blue agouti after all. My info was apparently jumbled. They are just plain old agouti. But that's ok. They are still pretty and throw some great babies!:P