Got one ready to pop any day now...

[frankykeno]

Well it seems that patience does pay off LOL. One of our breeder females (HoneyChild...okay I'm a sap and name them!) has suddenly gotten huge these past few days and looks ready to pop at any time. She's all set up ready to go in her own little maternity tank. Two of the other females look suspiciously chubby but can't say yet whether that's pregnancy or I'm spoiling them rotten with the chow line LOL.

The oldest and biggest of our females continues to not get preggie no matter how many males I've tried with her or how long I leave her with a male so not really sure what's up with Cookie. She's a Husky so I did read that I can't ever cross her to another Husky or a high white rat as there's a genetic issue with mega-colon in her offspring. She may just finish her life out as a pet (she started out that way so no biggie).

Wish us luck!


~~Jo~~

[SatanicIntention]

Finally! Silly things just never get pregnant. About the breeding of Cookie, she may be going through rattie menopause since you say she's quite large and heavy. She may be pregnant, but being so big boned, it might take the arrival of babies to signal that she was indeed pregnant, LoL.

I wouldn't worry about breeding her to Nova, he's a black hooded, so definately no worries there. Now if you bred her to a blazed husky or a black eyed white male, then you may have some issues. But seeing as a pet store would probably never have a BEW boy, it should be fine

Glad you're finally gettin' some beebees!

[mlededee]

congrats on the soon-to-be babies!

i thought one of my rats was about to give birth due to her nesting and whatnot but no babies yet. she's looking pretty fat and is much thicker and heavier now than my other non-prego female so i'll guess we'll just wait till she's ready.

[Shelby]

I had a rogue male get into my female-only grow out bin. (about 20 females in there) well.. they're starting to pop now.

What a bad boy.

[reptile-girl]

I had a rogue male get into my female-only grow out bin. (about 20 females in there) well.. they're starting to pop now.

What a bad boy.

lol thats hillarious!!!

[frankykeno]

Had a peek in at her just after lunch and look what I found! Best I can tell there's 9 big healthy pinkies under her, nursing madly (could be more didn't want to disturb anyone at this point). One seems a bit smaller than the others so who knows about the runt. Everything seems to have gone well and she's nursing every time I've peeked in.

Course I made her this nice pile of ripped up telephone book pages and flannel sheets like Becky suggested (on top of a layer of aspen) and she shoved it mostly out of the way to deliver LOL. When will it be okay to quickly move the female and babies to remove the slightly bloody newspaper?

HoneyChild and her first litter



~~Jo~~

[Shelby]

I like to leave them together for a couple of days before disturbing them.. to let them bond. I've had trouble if I disturb them too soon.

[wendyhoo9]

Congrats on dinner...er, I mean the babies!

[mlededee]

aaaw congrats! looks like a nice healthy litter.

[rabernet]

Finally, some babies!!! Congratulations!!!!