Prego?

[ShawnT]

I have a couple females that are getting big around the abdomen area. This girl is the biggest out of all of them.

Bad pic but you get the idea:






Is she pregnant? If so how much longer till babies?


Shawn

[atp151415]

hold her upside down by the tail and youll be able to tell

"just what i saw on ralph davis' youtube stuff!" lol

[ShawnT]

Any other opinions? Any idea how far along she is?

[munding]

yeah. that's what i did cause i thought she was just unusually fat. when i held her by the tail, she looked like the prego mom from ralph's video. and 2 days later she dropped babies.

[AjBalls]

Overall size looks small to me. How big is she? Look like a small rat, if so I would just say fat.

[frankykeno]

Personally I don't like flipping a preggo female rat upside down by the tail. It suddenly shifts a load of pinks around and would press a swollen uterus upwards towards her vital organs.

Instead you can just as easily grasp her under the front legs (armpits sort of) and dangle her gently for a moment with her hind feet just touching your other palm. If she's preggo and starting to show it, she should look like a nice fat pear.

The rat looks pregnant to me but she seems to have the body shape of a fairly young female. What was her weight prior to breeding?

[ShawnT]

I think the pictures makes her look small....shes nearing 300grams

[ShawnT]

Just weighed her and she is 335g....When I got her she was around 280g or so

[frankykeno]

Must just be the angle of the picture then or how she was hunched up a bit. That's a fine weight for her to be breeding.

[ShawnT]

I spotted a bit of blood in her tub tonight! Should be soon!!