Welcome to the world MMA12 Litter!

I would like to welcome to this world our newest little babies...

Pinkies!

Things could not get anymore perfect with this litter...

Born Jan 1st 2016! New Years Day!
12 babies born - one for every month of the new year!
6 girls & 6 boys!

I honestly usually do not name my litters, except for the ones I am keeping. It is just too many names to go through & I don't like reusing names. But after just about everyone suggesting it.... I will be naming each of the babies after a month. It is really just too perfect not to.

Mom & babies are doing great. I knew Meg would be an excellent mother. All the babies have huge milk bands, they look like they may pop!

These babies will be available for adoption on Feb 12th for those interested. Please contact me for more info & you can reserve your babies now.

BCA9 Litter

Introducing my lovely BCA9 Litter.

Sadly this was an accidental litter. My sweet little girl Charlie decided to out smart me and managed (what I thought was) the unfathomable feat of getting to the boys cage. Even the best of us can make mistakes and be out smarted by a rat! She is just like her mother, my heart rat Khaleesi and always looking for ways to test her boundaries. Well the lesson was learned the hard way and it will never happen again!

While Charlie's litter was a surprise, I am trying to make the best of it.

They will all be available for adoption after October 20th.

9 babies, 6 boys & 3 girls.

BKB4-Litter Day 8

The babies refused to cooperate during picture time...they kept crawling all over the place!

I will admit I think I am smitten with these ones. Perhaps the small litter size affected that. I planned on keeping like 2...but we will see!

This is what I dealt with them crawling:

girls being too cute

Baby rat development- week 1

The first week of a baby rats life is full of small changes and not much in the way of excitement after the birth itself!

When babies are first born they are called pinkies. They are born pink, naked and with eyes and ears closed. Healthy babies will be very wiggly and may make loud squeaking sounds.

Around day 3 they will show the first signs of their pigment and you will begin to get your first idea of their markings.

Each day they may darken and grow larger and chubbier. By day 6-7 they are wiggly little things and may crawl off a bit when removed from the nest!

By day 7 their eyes & ears are still closed but they have started to show the first bit of peach fuzz.

For more on baby development check out my page here

BKB4-Litter Day 5-7

*Picture Heavy

The babies are doing amazingly well. One of the males (bkb4-1M) is alittle chunker. He is so chubby. I just love their big fat bellies. It is probably alot nicer with such a small litter for all of them to get plenty of nums.

Their momma, Khaleesi is an amazing mom. But she is already getting bored lol. She is my most active, intelligent, on the go rat, and sitting still taking care of babies is just too much for her. Poor girl. So I keep getting the pouty face & letting her out to play. Putting a wheel in her cage tomorrow and so far has been threading paper towels through the bars for her to pull inside the cage and tear apart as nesting material. It gives her some stimulation. She is being absolutely sweet and letting me steal her babies away for pictures with no care.

 

Day 5

You can tell the big chunk here. This is my largest boy (on the left) compared to my smallest girl

Day 6

momma

I am going to guess that we have a black capped (bkb4-1M), a blue berkshire (bkb4-2M), a blue bareback (bkb4-3F), and maybe a pew or himi(bkb4-4F)? We will see when they get some furry butts on them lol

BKB4- Litter Day 4

Day 4 of my little babies <3 They are getting their markings and I can't wait to see them with fur!

Head Shots

BKB4-Litter Babies Day 3

BKB4-Litter Babies, Day 2

The little rittens are on day 2. I am fairly sure we are looking at 2 boys & 2 girls.

July Rat Babies! BKB4-Litter

Proud momma Khaleesi gave birth today to 4 bouncing bundles of kitten joy! 

Welcome to this world little angels!

Proud to say that mom & babies are doing very well.
The new babies are dumbos. Haven't checked sex yet. *Crossing fingers for a mix of genders lol*

Babies will be listed as:
OUAM-BKB4-1
OUAM-BKB4-2
OUAM-BKB4-3
OUAM-BKB4-4