I've been breeding mice for a bit over a year for my snakes needs but recently started breeding rats as I'm feeding them more and more. I purchased a ginea pig enclosure kit and 1.3 adult rats, the females surprinsingly weren't very easy to find!
My first female rat gave birth a little over a week ago to a litter of 18 pups! I had never ever had such a big litter with my mice, the biggest being 13 and the usual being 8-9, this with over 20 females going at one time!
3 rat pups were eaten but I don't know who was the culprit. Don't matter too much to me cause I still had 15 nice plump ones left
Now, another female gave birth this morning to what looks like at least 14 babies!!! This is great!!! The 1 week olds are looking so darn cute and they are really fat! They are already the size of small adult mice and probably weigh already more than them!
The most amazing thing about rats though I have to say is how much cleaner they are and less stinky!!! By far less stinky than mice, you can't even compare it! When others used to mention this I had a hard time believing it as the size difference is so big and they are both rodents. It's surprizing that mice stink so much for their small size, you can bet that my mice colonies have greatly been reduced!!! LOL, I only have 1.2 now and they will be fed off this evening most likely
I've switched all but my BP's over to rats, the corns love them! I'm hoping that the balls will be tempted by some plump fuzzy rat pups!
Pixie
Rats are so cool!!! :)
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