Quote Originally Posted by Rhasputin View Post
Hairless don't always carry something?

Don't get a hairless female. They can have lactating problems, and it's better to completely avoid it, than to find out the hard way that yours has lactating problems, and have to start all over, and kill a litter of pups.
Thought they did. Rex, I think, because you have to breed two rexes together to get a hairless or something?

The only place I can get females is Petco, so no special stuff there.

Quote Originally Posted by bad-one View Post
Actually, you can tell from day 1 who's hairless if you look closely. The whiskers are practically non existant for hairless pinks when they are born. The normal ones have short but straight whiskers. My momma rats don't mind me getting in a count after birthing and nursing them

I do agree 100% that it would be better to have a hairless buck. Especially if you don't have the time or space (or a need for a steady supply of pinky sized feeders) to dink around and see if your females are capable of rearing young.
*notes that* :p
My girl is also good about me buggin' her for the most part.

That's the plan! I do have plenty of time to screw around with rats though. Not like I have a job or anything.
And the corns never reject a mass of squealing pinks. Nom nom nom.