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Scott W
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Checking my rat colony yesterday, must admit I'm pleased with the litter sizes 
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lol93
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| Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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| How many babies are there, Scott? |
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BallGuy
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That's possibly and idea for the next competition, instead of jelly beans in a jar.
Wow that's a fair few, will they be with you long?
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Scott W
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| BallGuy wrote: |
Wow that's a fair few, will they be with you long? |
 no, all in ratty heaven already
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Thought that might be the case, was just looking for a delicate way to put it in case they were for once (on a reptile site) pets. 
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Blimey We just had our first successful litter or about 10 or so and I was pleased, thats put our girls efforts to shame I'll be showing her that pic so she pulls her socks up xxxxxxxxxxxx
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| callmechook wrote: |
Whats a pet rat?????? |
One of these
(Excuse the mess on the floor )
How many babies did they have each? They must surely be reaching full capacity looking at the number you've got?  
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That is a hugmungous litter How many on average do you get per litter?
Do you keep the adults in groups or pairs? It's just I was thinking of setting up a rat colony but best to know how many they produce before I start.
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Scott W
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| peaches wrote: | That is a hugmungous litter How many on average do you get per litter?
Do you keep the adults in groups or pairs? It's just I was thinking of setting up a rat colony but best to know how many they produce before I start. |
small confession, that was actually from 4 females but on average I get 8-10 from group housed females and 14-22 from females that birth in seperate cages.
There was approx 56 in that cage above (average of 14) so it was still a great litter. Click on my main website, go to the care and breeding section, then Rodent Breeding Systems, plenty of info there
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[quote="neep_neep"] | callmechook wrote: |
Whats a pet rat?????? |
One of these
I knew that really and thats one amazing cage, ours live in a convertsed cabinet nothing as posh as that  Rats are a very cool animal the parents are pets but the babies are dinner I'm afraid xxxxxx |
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