It was advised to me not to use feeder rats or marked rats from petstores as they don't have good genetics for breeding feeders. Right now we have two rats, one that is younger, and one who is almost full grown. Both are female (we exchanged the male for a new female) and one only has a few weeks to go before she is old enough to breed.

I would love to get into breeding different color and pattern variations but I don't know where to go to get these kinds of rats. I will post pictures of Smooch and Goose later tonight.