I figured that it seems like many people are breeding and keeping rats, so I would take some shots of my little colony. I really want to ramp things up in the next month or so.. having to feed off all of my youngsters to the baby BPs kinda puts a damper on things! I want one more great male and maybe 3-4 more girls..
They are usually seperate in 10-gallon tanks when nursing babies. I did put them together for the group shot; usually it's the male in with one female at a time that is to be bred.

4 of the 5.. one of my females is close to birthing so I left her be.


First off is Rupert, the super stud. He is both tame and intelligent with nice looks to boot.

Next: Blackie. She is actually a sister to Delphi who I will post in a little bit.

Delphi. She is high-white, granted. But I bred her from 4 generations of high-whties that did not exhibit or produce megacolon. This was before I knew about the MC possibilities. I do breed her and she has never produced defective babies.


And my solo mouse, for now, Icy. She is actually pretty tame when not nursing babies. She is the only mouse I ever thought of as "cute."

And yes, she had 13 babies.. some are buried underneath the others