OK, so I'm in way over my head now LOL. Just got into the snake breeding thing and so far have an ARS rack with 14 snakes and a few critter cages (5 gallon / 10 gallon / 20 gallon / 40 gallon) with some mice, African Soft Fur rats, and now just got my first bunch of 'regular' rats. I'm trying all three to see what I like best (I like them all right now!). So I figured since this is a rat forum I'd post a few photos of my new baby rats that I just picked up today. I got seven of them because the guy at the pet store couldn't tell me the difference in sex and I figure with seven I should have some males and females. I can always feed off the others to my adult male Australian Woma python, he is a beast! So I just pulled these babies from the mom, I'm hoping they are old enough to wean, correct? Their eyes are wide open and they seem like they should be able to eat food just fine, the only problem was that they came from a rack system and were too small to get to the food and water and still nursing from mom. Here are a few photos, can you tell me which ones are male and female? How many males / females per cage would you set up? Can I run all seven together in one big cage? So many questions, I'm such a newbie!!!

I'm just guessing, but are #3 and #7 males and the rest females????

Baby Rat #1:


Baby Rat #2:


Baby Rat #3:


Baby Rat #4:


Baby Rat #5:


Baby Rat #6:


Baby Rat #7: