She's Nestbuilding!!!!!!!! Yay!

[wolfsoul]

Congrats!!!! I can't wait to see pics of those little ratties!!! Pics pics pics!
What colours and patterns are you expecting?
I'm guessing that you are making a new thread right now lol.

I read that the best time to breed is between 4-7 months, and that after it is more difficult because the birth canal fuses together properly Anyways, 8 months isn't that bad an age, I'm glad it worked out accordingly!

[tikeyas_mom]

does it matter how old the male rat is??

[wolfsoul]

I think the age of the male would only affect the amount of sperm produced when mating, therefore determining the amount of kittens


One time I read about a female rat who was 3 years old, and the people bought it and put it with their males, thinking it would be fine because she was so old, and she got pregnant But her babies were healthy, and she was fine, so it was a happy ending!

[tikeyas_mom]

maybe she had babies in the past and it mad it easyier.

[wolfsoul]

Well, luckies4me did say that this was her first litter...

[luckies4me]

LOL The funniest past few minutes just happened lol!


I was typing my new thread and my neighbor came over and told us we had deer in the backyard so I got up and ran outside lol just in time to see O'Malley chasing the deer around. It was the funniest thing, he would chase the deer and then they would come sniff him and he would try to pounce them again. I wish I had a zoom camera to catch the action lol. I dn't know if the pics came out but if they did I will post them. The deer were SO cute!


So then since Morgan was out there we played for a little bit in the grass and than we took some pictures of her. She's such a photogenic pooch. We just planted some flowers and stuff so I had her pose in front of those...even though she pretty much trampled them all already lol.


Ok NOW I will go start the new thread hahaha.

[wolfsoul]

lol, finally, I've only been waiting forever and ever jk

[tikeyas_mom]

Me 2 I wanna see the lil babies ..

[Desert Arabian]

Originally posted by luckies4me
My dumbo cinnamon doe has started nestbuilding so labor should be onit's way shortly

That's odd...Oreo, Skittles, and Nugget built their nests days before they give birth. LOL, mine are goofy so I can see why they would build it days before. (The tum-tum is so cute.)

[luckies4me]

Originally posted by YellowLabLover
That's odd...Oreo, Skittles, and Nugget built their nests days before they give birth. LOL, mine are goofy so I can see why they would build it days before. (The tum-tum is so cute.)

Yours are normal lol. All does are different. Some build a week before, some the day they have them and some NOT AT ALL.


I got the cutest pictures of Morgan everyone! I will post them later tonight so check out Dog General. Of course I look way retarted in the pics but I'll post them anyway.

[iwuvsmypuppy]

i cant wait to see all of the pictures!!! and who said moms cant do EVERYTHING in one day.. my mommy sure does!

[kingrattus]

Luckies... u said u can see them moving in her tummy. When I first bred Rattus, I was scared to touch her cause for a couple of days I could see many lumps swimming around her belly, I found it neat & creepy. But I decided to hold her only once to see if I coulf feel them swimming around in her. I put my hand into her cage & let her get on my hand on her own. I then cuped her with both hands & it had to be the freakest feeling ever. But it didn't seem to bother her cause she fell asleep in my hands (which was a first & last). That night she had her babies & there was 19!! I was soo scared cause I didn't know if she was able to feed them all. so twice a day I split the babies into 3 groups & left one group with Rattus for an hour to feed & held the other 2 groups with me, once all 3 groups had a good drink, I left them all with Rattus. All 19 survived until they were able to feed themselves. Rattus's litters were always huge, one was 18, 20, & 21, thats all I bred her, & then she became a nanny for unwanted litters (she did that on her own), but I had to put her in a cage by herleft cause she was taking care of too many babies & wasn't doing well... Rattus loved being a mother too much... & she hated being way from the babies, everytime I took her out of her cage she would hop off my bed & try to get into the cage with the babies... So I waited until her last litter was big enough not fo fit through bars & I picked the one that looked like her daddy & stuck her with Rattus to make her stop breaking out of her cage & try breaking into the babies cage... I named the baby girl Rat & Rat turned into her mother, just what I needed, 2 baby lovers... OI I refused to bred Rat a second time, I just het her & Rattus nanny the negelcted ones & motherless ones & the runts. It was the only way I could calm those 2 down & stop distroying my cages... Silly Silly Girls!!

[luckies4me]

KingRattus, I posted updated pics in the new thread, which has the Warning:Live birth blah blah blah thread lol.