lots of rat pics

[TeaNinja]

i was bored and my female rat is SUPER PREGNANT so i figured i'd snap some shots. she had 12 babies her first litter and she's even fatter this time. i also gave the rats a little buffet.

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[TeaNinja]

http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/af184/teaninja/superpregnant021.jpg
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[TeaNinja]

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[NennaMeerkat]

What are those veggies and such you are feeding them? I wish my girls would eat their veggies like yours are doing!

[TeaNinja]

i mixed them up some spinach salad and mixed greens, (usually some apple slices but i didn't have an apple today) some raspberries, some orange pieces and some carrots. they have a feeding frenzy when i put all that stuff in.


it's funny.....i took those pictures and made this post earlier tonight before going out to my friends. i come back to 16 squeaking pinkies ;)
they look a little bit smaller then the first litter, but that's probably because there are 4 more babies this time.

http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/af184/teaninja/ratbabies2001.jpg

i knew she was going to pop soon.

[stephanbakir]

MMM berries, mail some over for my...rats

[TeaNinja]

all 16 babies survived the night; she's a great mom.

[stephanbakir]

Grats man!

[Xochiquetzal]

aw i love rats , but alas they are illegal here! I can only have ratcicles ! (much easier to keep but not great for pets lol)

[stephanbakir]

Edmonton has a law against rats? I was there last summer and my friend had like 60 in his basement =/ (sells them to friends as pet food)

[NennaMeerkat]

Oh new babies!!! Feeders or not I always get excited about baby rodents. They are sooo cute! Congrats on such a big litter! You may still lose one or two due to the large size. Good mom or not there are usually weaker pinkies that just can't get to mom's teet.

How many albinos are you going to keep before you have enough? LOL I can just imagine you with 20+ albino rats cause you can't stand to use them as feeders.

[TeaNinja]

lol i'm just going to use the albinos as feeders also. i just kept the male albino because he was the only albino in my first group of breeder rats.

[NennaMeerkat]

Ha ha okay. When I bred mice for other people a long while ago I couldn't bring myself to sell off ones that had spotted coats. The mom was a great producer of babies and every once and a while she would produce a brown and black speckled baby. In the end I had nearly 10 of these mice and no room to really keep them properly! That was when I stopped breeding mice all together and found everyone new non-feed you to my snake homes.