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cute pix...the 'grey girl' even looks sweet!
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Wow those littel babies are too cute, it almost makes me want to go out and buy some, but i couldent, i would get too attached and i would be really sad when it was time for rocky to gobble them up.
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Aw, is she licking your hand? My female breeders are both nasty little brats, but my male is a friendly guy. Isn't it funny how we sometimes get attached to the adults, but feed the babies off to our snakes without blinking an eye?
Only thing I hate is when one gets out. I can't have the luxury of keeping the rats in a closable room; they're in the laundry room and inevitably go behind the washer/dryer. But I have been more vigilant about not letting them get out, after spending an hour chasing down an escapee. You'd think my cat could help in capturing it, but he was scared, lol.
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I saw a grey and white one this weekend that was very cute, and thought it would be a good one to start a breeding colony with, except that I'm not quite ready for that yet. They can actually make pretty good pets if you get them young enough, but then it's hard to feed them off. ;)
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Are there any that are acually pets to you? I was thinking of getting am ouse. Just for the irony of it.
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Is your ball a striker?
i thought about keeping two of the mice that rocky didnt eat (back when i fed live) becuase i had an extra ten gallon with bedding,food,dishes,toys for rodents but i decided not to and i whacked them and put them in the freezer so i could try feeding frozen.
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I have 4 fancy rats. 2 hairless and 2 normal hooded. The hairless are the funniest ones of the group. We got Mama, our elderly one, as an adult and she's the sweetest rat I have ever come across. Loves to lick and jump from my shoulder to my boyfriend's shoulder and vice versa. Never get any live feeders or pet rats from Petco... They have a parasite problem. Our first rat we got there, a little girl, had tapeworms and coccidia. This little feeder mouse I "saved" from being eaten, has pinworms and who knows what else, I didn't both looking through the whole fecal slide. The little girl rat is the same age as our hairless male. He's huge and almost full grown, but she's half his size. So I'm thinking that having parasites and a bad diet(they were feeding an alfalfa-based diet-which they can't digest for anything) early on caused her growth to be halted. Frozen feeders you won't have problems with, just make sure they're frozen for at least 30 days or so. Sorry for venting, it's just that Petco here and in Temple are both the biggest rip-offs I've ever seen. Grrr...
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Looks like you have one heck of a colony going there! Food or pets?
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The grey one is just going to be a breeder/pet until she dies; she's the SWEETEST rat I have EVER come across! (And I deal with upwards 1000 rats per week at my work). All the rest are bred for food.
Jennifer
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Becky, could you recommend anything to de-parasitize rats? I don't know if my rats have anything, but I always freeze them for a month or more before feeding to my snakes... I would be interested in deworming them just in case one should get out and get caught by my cat (yikes, that'd be ugly...)
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If they are all together, then more than likely they all have the same thing. Take some poo to the vet, get one fecal done, and buy enough wormer for all of them. If it's coccidia, that may take 3 weeks or more to get rid of totally. But tapeworms, pinworms, and roundworms only take about a week or so to get rid of. I went to my school, did my own fecal, found out what the rat had, and went to my vet and told him what she had and what I needed. I got a tuberculin syringe (1cc) full of Albon for coccidia and 1/4 a tablet of Droncit for tapeworms for around $6 and that lasted more than 3 weeks, just for 1 rat. They only need one drop PO (by mouth) per day for however long the vet says. Freezing them for that amount of time will kill whatever is in them, so no worries there. It's like us eating sushi, sometimes the fish has tapeworms and the eggs are in the muscle for an amount of time until the turn into the worms and migrate. But we eat that meat and Voila! we get tapeworms too. Yummy... :) But anyway... For animals that are kept together, like Petco's nasty feeder mice, they will usually get pinworms. The vet will stick a piece of tape to their bum and put the tape on a slide, dye it and look to see if there are any worms/eggs stuck to the tape. If you have any other questions, just ask :-D
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very similar to the setups I use if your going to breed rats and mice dont waste your time with aquariums I have to feed every 2 weeks water once a week cleaning 12 tubs takes me 20 mins max
http://www.chondrosunlimited.com/Pho.../rackwater.JPG
http://www.chondrosunlimited.com/Pho...at%20rack1.JPG
http://www.chondrosunlimited.com/Pho...s/ratrack3.JPG
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Nice looking setup as well Robert.
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My rat breeding colony
Wow robert, I like your setup alot. Much more aesthetically pleasing than mine!
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For those who feed f/t, poo question
Nice rat racks! Either of you guys ever catch them chewing on the plastic?
I went with the monolithic cage motif myself, lol
https://ball-pythons.net/modules/cop...at%20Manor.jpg
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Thats an awesome cage, i like it alot :)
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steelsack definitely has the best rat condo i've ever seen. I love that thing, and i'd never keep rats :)
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sSNAKESs
dang dude you really went all out! that looks more like something you would keep an iguana or several ferrets in!
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Steel.. this is what I have come up with after a couple attempts The tubs I use are buss trays and are totally smooth inside so nothing really for themto chew on . In previouse attempts I tried to use off the shelf rubbermaids which have little edges which they were fine with for a long time .. but if the food runs out for 20 mins or they get bored they start chewing on the first thing they can get a hold of and has not been a problem with the buss tubs
Gin I am also getting quite a collection of Gray hoods in my colony they seem to be a dominant gene
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