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Old 04-01-12, 04:36 PM   #271
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Yeah well, the sink is right there in the basement and from what Ive heard, automatic watering systems are prone to flooding. I personally know a guy who gave up on watering systems for that very reason. He lost so many rats due to drowning. Besides, this makes it even more likely we will always keep a close eye on them.
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Old 04-01-12, 06:19 PM   #272
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That looks really nice Gary!

I had a first time mother give birth a few days ago to 9 pinkies but unfortunately they were all dead when I found them. I also have a couple of more first timers pregnant. My current pinky count is 37.
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Sorry about the dead pinkies but the new ones are very nice
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I am too stressed about finding a place to live right now to worry about a few pinkies. Heck a monotheism from now I may have to get rid of them all anyway.
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Monotheism????? A month from now is how it should have read.

Anyway I received a huge surprise today. A female rat gave birth to 10 pinks( plus 2 stillborn ). I also found four pregnant mice in my colony.
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I'm gonna have to start culling newborn pinks for a while now, have to collect them up as my snow girl just clutched 17 eggs yesterday!!
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Woohoo!!!!
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I know, it was quite a surprise actually because she didn't give a pre-lay shed, I had been checking each morning for a pre-lay shed and peeked in yesterday morning and saw EGGS!! crazy.

So, good thing colony #1 is almost full of breeders (3 are too young) and I just have to throw a male in with the starter females from colony 2 now that they are old enough to breed.

I still need adults too. but can use rat hoppers too for a bit, while I collect enough pinkies for if all the eggs hatch out.
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That is awesome! Congratulations!
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Old 04-03-12, 11:53 AM   #280
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Monotheism????? A month from now is how it should have read.

Anyway I received a huge surprise today. A female rat gave birth to 10 pinks( plus 2 stillborn ). I also found four pregnant mice in my colony.
That is great! You know what they say, "they breed like mice" This goes a long way to bringing your numbers up for sure.
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So my rat pinks are doing great. Another female rat will give birth in the next five days.

I also found 19 pinkies in my main colony. I segregated them out with the female nursing them and a couple of other pregnant girls. I lost two of those pinkies while still in the main colony.
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I think youll find that rats are much easier to breed than mice.
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So I just picked up sine rats, three females , a male and 11 fuzzies.
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So last night I had 23 mouse pinkies and16 rat pinkies born.

My total number are as follows.

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2 males, 33 females, 20 hoppers and 23 pinkies.

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2 males, 6 females and 27 pinkies.
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Nice! Your numbers are going up for sure. Your male to female ratio on your rats is just right however on your mice, you need more males IMO. I would go with at least 3 more for that number of females.
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