Thanks, Deborah. I'll drop the curve down some to match your numbers. And yeah, I can't imagine someone with so many mouths to feed weighing every single rat. This is definitely more of a newbie chart.Originally Posted by Deborah
There is no need to feed anything larger than a 150 grams rat to any BP.
Here Females 1000 to 1500 grams get rats anywhere between 80 to 100 grams.
Females 2000 grams and over get rats 100 grams and over maxing out at 150 grams, and I do have 3500 and 4000 grams females.
Their metabolism is very different and slows down tremendesly one of the biggest problem in captivity is that they are overfed, and consequently will eat less consistently.
You want an animal that feed with consistency feed smaller meals weekly.
Males get even less nothing more than a 89 grams rat every 7 to 10 days.
I don't weigh anything BTW can't imagine weighing 100's of rats, but when you have done that a whole and raise your own rodent you just know that rats a certain age are a certain size.
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