Prego?

I have a couple females that are getting big around the abdomen area. This girl is the biggest out of all of them.

Bad pic but you get the idea:
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/8...ture041sn8.jpg

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/5...ture043vn2.jpg

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/1...ture044dy4.jpg

Is she pregnant? If so how much longer till babies?


Shawn

hold her upside down by the tail and youll be able to tell

"just what i saw on ralph davis' youtube stuff!" lol

Any other opinions? Any idea how far along she is?

yeah. that's what i did cause i thought she was just unusually fat. when i held her by the tail, she looked like the prego mom from ralph's video. and 2 days later she dropped babies.

Overall size looks small to me. How big is she? Look like a small rat, if so I would just say fat.

Personally I don't like flipping a preggo female rat upside down by the tail. It suddenly shifts a load of pinks around and would press a swollen uterus upwards towards her vital organs.

Instead you can just as easily grasp her under the front legs (armpits sort of) and dangle her gently for a moment with her hind feet just touching your other palm. If she's preggo and starting to show it, she should look like a nice fat pear.

The rat looks pregnant to me but she seems to have the body shape of a fairly young female. What was her weight prior to breeding?

I think the pictures makes her look small....shes nearing 300grams

Just weighed her and she is 335g....When I got her she was around 280g or so

Must just be the angle of the picture then or how she was hunched up a bit. That's a fine weight for her to be breeding. :)

I spotted a bit of blood in her tub tonight! Should be soon!!

good luck!!!

congratulations!:)

I just checked on her and she only has one? She's had that one for about 2 hrs. I also found a dead one in the opposite corner...

Is this normal...or is she not done? Or maybe she ate all the other ones?


Shawn

unlikely

rats don't eat there young

The only time they do is if they are already dead or possibly dying. The more nervous rodents such as hamsters tend to be the ones that will eat their young if they are nervous & stressed out about their surroundings.

Rat mothers are very capable of eating their young for no stress related reason and it is well documented. Is it as common as mice or hamsters? No, but I have had some new mothers eat their whole litter.

If she is done giving birth to a large litter and ate part of a few, I wouldnt worry about it. It may have been dead, or defected, or she ate it because of the nutrition. The only thing you can really do is put her in a quiet area, and not bother her while she settles down and takes care of her babies.

I dont like to bother my first time mothers, I like to get an idea of how they handle interaction when they have a litter before I really take a close look at what they have.

Yea I don't get it. I checked on her today and couldn't find the live baby....She still looks pregnant. She's in my basement so she's definitely in a quiet area.

Has anyone had a rat have a few babies than the next day have the rest??


:confused:

....She's also made a beast of a nest

That doesn't sound good.. There is likely a baby stuck in the birth canal if it's been that long. If you don't get her some help, then the babies will die inside of her, she'll become septic and then die herself. It is a very painful death and not something I would ever want to wish on any of my animals.

What she is doing is not normal..