Some of the rat pups! They are so cute. Most of these will go as pets :)
-Amber-
The oldest mice pups have their eyes open. They will be weaned sometime this week. Muffin and his albino females create agouti babies. I also lost a male rat. Not sure what happened to him he was doing fine the day before but I did get him to a pet store where he as being sold as a feeder and those usually aren’t the healthiest. But good news is some of the females look pregnant. Ill get pictures some time this week of the mice.
I now have my shelves for the snake rack. Thermostat is in transit, not sure whats going on with the heat tape yet. The rack will either be in my room or a spare room we have. Not sure yet because I also wanted to put my mice on it and they are very noisy at night. I’ll keep you all updated as we get everything together.
-Amber-
We got some mealworms for the piranhas and they took no interest in them. So I figured I could see if my rodents would enjoy them as a snack. Some of the mice took them right away, others weren’t interested. 90% of my rats just wanted the cap they were in but my oldest rat (We just call her the Old Lady) knew exactly what to do and munched on one very happily, shes always been very food driven. And a black blaze female also took one. Some rats were more interested in my jeans or the small tongs I was using to pick up the mealworms. (mealworms don’t bother me as long as I don’t touch them)
-Amber-
The rat pups tonight! One little guy has a weird pimple like thing on his stomach right above his man parts. I’m thinking its an infection from the umbilical cord not healing right but to be honest I am clueless. It looks like it has puss in it, not sure what to do about it.
Little rat pups are getting fat. There is one baby that was just born so I’m going to have to keep an eye on him to make sure he/she getting enough milk.
My oldest litter is ready to go to new homes. Selling 2 of them, keep 2. I have 2 fawn females that I can’t resist keeping. Also have a new litter of 8, it had one still born and one died a couple hours after birth but the 8 alive all look healthy and have milk in their bellies.
Four rat pups, two are going to be hold backs and the other two will be pets since my snakes are off feed.