OK, these will probably be the worst baby rat pics you've ever seen, but I tried to get at least one pic of each baby. The tiny guys wouldn't hold still. We had less to choose from than I thought. Apparently there were others interested and got to the store an hour before we did and got 4 of the babies..Including the two females I originally wanted. We ended up with 3f / 1m... They only had 1 male left. Overall their heads look long and eyes are small. Ears were all "tulip" and some look pointed (almost like top ears but slightly lower..especially the berkshire girl). Luckily, I think the male has the best head shape (but small eyes) and he seems to have a very chill temperament. I'll post the two pics of the male first, then the 2 female hoodeds, then the berkshire girl. Sorry for the huge pic links. I really need to learn how to resize them.
One question.. If you can give me an idea of age that would be great... The lady I dealt with apparently doesn't know as much about them as I thought. She said they'd be 4 weeks this Saturday, then today said they were more like 3.5 weeks... In either case, I'm planning on housing the lone male with his sisters for another week or so. Hoping he'll still be too young to impregnate them for at least that long. We are going back to the store next Tuesday (when they get more rats in) in hopes that they'll have a similarly sized male to keep him cmpany before we introduce him to our current males. I've been told they have to be 8 weeks to intro safely.
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