Doe, our beige female, dropped her babies tonight. Actually we caught her in the act of birth. 9 babies were out, a few with their cords still attached. Since she was in the same cage as Kermit, her mate, I didn't want her getting pregnant again so soon, so we moved her and the 9 babies into a nursing tub. So far we have 9 but I'm hoping she's not done yet. Will me moving her cause her too much stress? Will she eat the babies?
And also, what might the babies look like? The mother looks like this...
http://spoiledratten.com/_uimages/be...ge08222005.jpg
Please note that this is not my rat and I am only using this image because my camera doesn't have batteries and I want to show what Doe looks like.
The male looks like this...
http://www.miceandrats.com/images/rat_hoo.jpg
Please note this is not my rat and I am only using this image to show what Kermit looks like...or what he sorta looks like.
So what should the babies look like? Beige like momma, black hoodeds like dad? A mixture? Beige hoodeds? I know nothing about rat genetics.
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