Violette Had Babies

[Airedalekisses]

Congratulations!! Love to Mother and babies-poor Violette must be exhausted- 11!!
she'll have her figure back in no time!! and the children grow up so quickly, sniff sniff!!

[wolf_Q]

Congrats! Glad you got to be there when it happened!

[shais_mom]

Yea!!

[Desert Arabian]

Here are some more pictures:
They sure are vocal...they LOVE to squeek, especially when mama moves or leaves the nest. Too cute!! I can't stand it!!

[popcornbird]

11?!?! WOWIE! Congratulations! Glad she gave birth before you went to camp. Are you going to keep them all?

[Desert Arabian]

Originally posted by popcornbird
Are you going to keep them all?

I would if I could!!!!!! If I had a job to pay for the 40lbs of food they'd go through in a month (and 100lbs of wood shavings). Afterall, they are piggies!

[janiceruth]

Here is Sonny. I he were a she it would have been Sunny.

[All Creatures Great And Small]

Oy.......it's going to be a fun summer for me, juggling baby ratties! I'm telling you, her room already looks like a pet store with all the various and sundry cages/supplies in there. I'm not too enchanted by "pinkies", but once they get their fur and those little seed eyes open up, I'll be in their spell.

We usually keep just one female from the litter, so mama doesn't have to go through complete trauma from losing her babies. The pet store is more than willing to take the others back, and it's the easiest solution for us, since we are not breeders by choice, but by pet store personnel stupidity . It's always a sad day though when the babies have to leave, but I know our limits and what we can afford to care for.

I'll be tracking their progress with photos, so I'll post some here and there.

[luckies4me]

When do you plan to hold the babies?


Do they have to go back to the Petstore? You can always advertise on rat lists, the Rat Fan Club etc. and also put an add in the paper. Especially if she has blues, I am sure they could be placed very easily. I would hate to see them go to the petshop and get pregnant there and start all over. Is there any way to make sure the petshop seperates the sexes so this doesn't happen? Another thing I would worry about is them going as snake food.


Have you checked them to see if they have milkbands? I think I see one in the second photo. She looks like she's taking very good care of them. Congrats to both the new grandma and the new great-grandma, ie YLL and ACGAS. lol


I bet you can place some of the babies online, I can even help. Rat message boards are great, and cute pics always sell people.

[TheAntiPam]

Congratulations times 11!!! I'm so glad you were there for the big event - being away and hearing about it long distance would be such a bummer!

By the way, what is a "milk band" ???

Hurray for pinkies !!!

[luckies4me]

Originally posted by TheAntiPam


By the way, what is a "milk band" ???

Hurray for pinkies !!!

A milk band is exactly that lol, a band of milk that you can see in the stomach. baby ratties are see through, you can see the stomach, what's inside the stomach, the heart etc. If there is a white band underneath the skin near the stomach, that is the milk the babies have swallowed. If there is no band, they are not getting enough milk and they may need to be supplemented or a surrogate mother found. Hairless does have a very hard time lactating, but most "furred" mothers have no troubles. Blues are known to have some bleeding disorders, but it's still pretty rare now a days. When blues first started to become known a lot of them were dying in labor, from complications due to loss of blood.


Most breeders have eradicated these problems now though, so it's something you really don't have to worry about. The color blue is fairly new to Australia. We know that it's the same gene, but the blues there are having bleeding troubles. Oh no, I have started going way off topic. I will shut up now lol,

[luckies4me]

Here's a pic of a milkband, it's clearly visible in the baby on the right. The pics is of my last litter of seven.

[ChloeLove]

Congrats to you and Violette, the babies are ADORABLE!

[janiceruth]

All Creatures.....did you see the large pic of my Leo, looks just like one of yours...

Have you read Harriot's biography by the the way, or has any of you?

I still need help figuring out how to put pictures with my sig. and within the text box instead of a link. Where are the directions?


Thanks so much...

[wolfsoul]

Sorry, but why are you taking them to a petshop?

The cycle will just be started over again. They won't split up the litter and the females will become pregnant.

I agree with luckies, put an ad in the paper or on the internet. I find that it works best when you put them in the paper. Tikeyas_mom got hundreds of calls that way for her baby hammies.

Please reconsider taking them there, everyone is always saying how pet shops are evil, and so I just can't bear to hear of little baby ratties going there