Birthing photos, WARNING live birth pics...rat kitten development day by day :)

[CathyBogart]

Hehehe, my Zylle is finishing up raising fifteen!

[wolfsoul]

how many babies are in a standard litter....

I read that the average is six, but they can have up to 21 or 22

[luckies4me]

My biggest litter was 14 I think...my smallest was three.


You should see the picture I have of Cocoa (another Cocoa, a stadard cinnamon dumbo, not my agouti girl ) feeding three different litters. She had 28 babies total, hers, my Roxys and her sisters. She had pinkies, 1 week olds and 2 week olds lol. We only lost three and they were the runts....one died after weaning from a neurological disorder. But anyways, she had tons of milk and all the rest grew up healthy and happy. End of story lol.



This litter is doing wonderful! WolfChan how are your babies doing? I started a thread about my tortoise if you want to look, it's in Pet General. lol The pics are great. I will try to take some of Geicko later today.


The babies are SO big already! Their whiskers are easier to see now, with just a tiny hint of fuzz starting to grow. Their ears aren't as folded and they aren't as see through no more. I will update later with Day 3 pics!


haha guess what happened last night? My baby boys stayed the night in the kitchen and they got out of their cage. I woke up this morning and Dan says that they are running around the kitchen. So I get up and look and I go into the kitchen and they all come running to me lol with this look on their face like "Mom, we didn't do anything I promise" hehe. One look at their big bloated tummies and you can tell they got into the cat food! So I'll have to fast them til noon to give their little tummies a chance to relax.

Thank goodness they came to me right away and they didn't get into trouble. Since they are out all the time they know to stay around the cage. This could have been a lot worse! The cats were inside and they just ignored them. But that's one reason why I love my kitties!

[wolfsoul]

She had 28 babies total, hers, my Roxys and her sisters. She had pinkies, 1 week olds and 2 week olds lol. We only lost three and they were the runts....one died after weaning from a neurological disorder. But anyways, she had tons of milk and all the rest grew up healthy and happy. End of story lol.

My friend used to breed her rats, (well, try ) and one of them had kittens around the same time her mouse also gave birth.
But her rats, for some reason, always abandoned their babies. She was always very careful not to stress them out, or touch them too soon, so we thought that it was odd
So she gave those 3 rat babies to her mouse, who of course, being a motherly mouse, took them in. They nursed with her the whole day, but she must not have had enough milk, because when my friend came home a couple days after, the rat kittens were pushed aside, dead It was really sad
I hope I have no problems with that happening. Although I've heard many stories of animals, even fixed ones, lactating for other animals, and so I always think that would be cool to happen incase one of my girls abandons her kittens

[tikeyas_mom]

a mouse mom is much to small to feed 3 hungrey baby rats, they were bound to die. She only could have a rat odoptant mommy not a mouse, it is just to much work for a small female mouse to handle.

[luckies4me]

Sorry the pics are so blurry, they will be better tomorrow I promise See how much darker they are today? Their ears are also starting to unfold.

[tikeyas_mom]

they are soo cute. . how much do you sell them for?

[tikeyas_mom]

does your rat have enough nipples for all thoughs 11 babies?

[luckies4me]

Originally posted by tikeyas_mom
they are soo cute. . how much do you sell them for?

Dumbos sell for $25. If there were tailless they could be as much as $50 for a show quality buck. Their all sold though lol.

[luckies4me]

Originally posted by tikeyas_mom
does your rat have enough nipples for all thoughs 11 babies?

Yep! Rats have twelve nipples so she has one extra.

[tikeyas_mom]

I dint know rats had 12 nipples. hamsters only have 8. . what the heck it a tailless? they dont have tails??

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

cute!!!!!!

earlier you said that they made a lot of noise.... what kind of noises do they make (i am sure this is a stupid question and the answer is squeaks.. )

CUTE CUTE CUTE!!!!!!!!


I LOVE THEIR LITTLE TAILS!!!!!

[luckies4me]

Nope tailless are tailless lol, no tails on those hamster butts!


Here is a pic of the first tailless baby born in my rattery...





Here is Dreamy. He is the father to a lot of my tailless carriers. I have since rehomed my tailless buck but will have a new boy this summer.

[luckies4me]

Originally posted by Sara luvs her Tinky
cute!!!!!!

earlier you said that they made a lot of noise.... what kind of noises do they make (i am sure this is a stupid question and the answer is squeaks.. )

LOL Yes they sqeek and squeel lol. They are really really loud when they want to be, like when they are fighting over a nipple lol.

[Sara luvs her Tinky]

I can't believe how cute they are!! I have never gotten to see little baby mice before!! Thanks for sharing pics for us on this thread.... it is mind blowing how much they have grown in just a couple of days!!