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Spiderman Contributing Member
Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 157 Location: Warwickshire
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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Biohazard156 wrote: | Hiya
The gestation period for rats is usually 21-23 days after mating, you can sometimes find a vaginal plug in them after mating, depends if you fancy looking at their bits and pieces to see this though. I do it with mice so its easier to judge when they will be giving birth.
I dunno what you were planning to do..but seperating the females to litter down on their own might be a good idea, the other females and the male may fight over/trample on or eat the pups... you can obviously put the female back in after the pups are weaned or at whatever stage you need them. In mice, i notice pregnancy at about day 12...so she might be at that stage? She'll start to look like she swallowed an orange soon enough
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Thanks for the info Anna, don't think I'll be checking out their bits though lol . _________________ Deano |
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RoyalCrazy CaptiveBred Addict!
Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Posts: 944
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Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:14 pm Post subject: |
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Spiderman wrote: | Great news everyone , yesterday my black and white female gave birth to some lovely babies. Can't tell the exact size of litter at the moment because I don't want to disturb them too much. It's looking like 10-14 babies. Not bad for my first litter . |
Told you a week or less _________________
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johonny Captivebred Colonel
Joined: 19 Aug 2007 Posts: 2397 Location: right behind ya
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Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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show me the pics mate |
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Pyrockat Contributing Member
Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 72
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:25 pm Post subject: |
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Aww she's such a cute rat! (Still at the stage of feeling guilty every time I defrost a pinkie ) Good luck with the babies! _________________ 1 male caramel corn snake, Loki
1 probably male beardie, Thor.
2 cutesome lil girlrats, Foxy and Poppy. |
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