Well the first litter of rats is 2 weeks old tomorrow. VERY cute too. They are a darker tan/light brown on their butts and their heads are a real light tan. Two of them have a light tan head, a white body with a set of black spots down their backs! Anyone want a pet? LOL
Anyhow... 2 mommas popped babies yesterday. 14 in one litter and 10+ in the other (that momma was kind of skittish so I let her be). Two more should be popping babies soon, REAL soon!
I have mommas and babies all over the place!
The boys are set up like this:
Captain mac is alone (and spoiled) He's not gaining weight as fast as I would like but at least he's eating and healing just fine.
The other 3 boys are in a 30L and getting along amazingly well.
I think I need to eat more food from boxes...the mommas are ripping things all over the place to make nests
Not one momma ate any babies and I got to watch 8 of them being born yesterday!
That's the update

Seems like you've been pretty busy lately keeping an eye on all those little ones,,,,,congrats and good luck

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" The United States Marine Corps......sure we are a department of the Navy,,,,,,we're the MENS department "

Whew, been there and done that. Those things drove me crazy. Had to hurry up and feed them all to the snakes.

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:D I'm smiling because I have no idea whats going on!

I'm doing it this way Venus:
The mommas will raise up the babies to the sizes we need for the snakes, freeze the babies, then they will get a break while we feed off all the babies and then start all over again
In other words, I'm trying to time out the litters but I haven't quite figured it out yet! LOL I'll figure it out though

Hey, send some ratties my way! No, don't, I don't need any more Hey, if the moms are wanting nest material, paper towels work good, as do the tubes they come on, but toilet paper isn't very good. Since I down a 12 pack of mountain dew in a day, I use those boxes for the rats and mice. Makes cleaning easier too cause I just throw them away and replace them.

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Good Idea!! Thanks!