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,