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Re: Five Future Breeder Female Rats
they are very cute. I am strongly considering breeding rats smalltime.
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Re: Five Future Breeder Female Rats
They're all so pretty!! Squeekers does indeed make some mighty cute babies! I can hardly wait until I finally get to start working with rats myself!
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Re: Five Future Breeder Female Rats
That last little girl is cute. Is she agouti? And I believe she is a wedge-blazed capped, not split capped. I'd be a little wary working with the high-whites, Jo(which that last little baby is as well as her brother). They can give you some issues.
I can't believe how big that Honeychild baby is! My lord. Gonna be a big girl, lookit those feet.
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Re: Five Future Breeder Female Rats
Ok, for some reason I like Daisy for the tan capped, and Mini for the other. I suck at names, so feel free to go with something else.
Christie
Reptile Geek
Cause when push comes to shove you taste what you're made of
You might bend, till you break cause its all you can take
On your knees you look up decide you've had enough
You get mad you get strong wipe your hands shake it off
Then you Stand
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Re: Five Future Breeder Female Rats
Originally Posted by SatanicIntention
I'd be a little wary working with the high-whites, Jo(which that last little baby is as well as her brother). They can give you some issues.
For those who are just getting started - what sort of issues?
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Re: Five Future Breeder Female Rats
Yep she's an agouti capped like her momma, her sister is the beige capped. So that's a wedge not a split, thanks Becky, I'm still learning about the different coat markings.
Robin, from what I understand there can be genetic issues with megacolon in certain high white or patterned rats (like huskys, blazes, etc.). Here's a link I have on the subject.
http://ratguide.com/health/digestive/megacolon.php
For this reason any females I use that are high white, have blazes or are husky marked are specifically bred to my darkest male. For example, these two sisters who are capped (especially the wedge blazed female) will be bred to Damian, a self black male, to cut down on the risk factors. So far I've not had any megacolon in the colony but should it occur those rats that produced the affected litter would not be bred to each other again as it's a pretty awful condition for any animal to live through.
I think it's fairly rare but since we do have rats in our colony that fall into the higher risk category, I make sure to breed to avoid any problems with this disorder.
Big Bertha is huge Becky LOL. Hard to see in the pic of her but she's a black hooded like her father. She and Supernova are from the last breedings of both HoneyChild and Casanova as both are now retired. HoneyChild has always produced exactly 15 pinks per litter. This last litter was only 6. HC's litters are always big rats even with 15 in a litter, but this last litter was amazing. Every one of the 6 are really big for age! I wonder if HC's was making enough milk for her usual 15 and these 6 little piggies got really big meals LOL.
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Re: Five Future Breeder Female Rats
Nice rats!! Ill have to take some more pics this weekend of my breeders.
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