This is my first rat litter so i'm kinda excited and i'm taking a few pics. It's pretty cool to watch these little buggers grow up. Today they just opened their eyes and started roaming around. I can see how mom is already getting tired of them following her around everywhere now. I started out with 7 and now i'm down to 3. I'm getting the feeling that next week will probably be the last week or maybe 2 that I can use them as food.

As far as telling if they are male or female this early the ones with the 6-8 dots or so on the bottom are females right? I assume those are the nipples.


4 days after birth:



About 9 days after birth:



14 days after birth (today):