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Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:21 pm

Well, when Josh came to bed last night at around 4:30am, he had heard the telltale meeping, and she had already popped out three. I checked on her this morning and shes bright eyed and active, with seven healthy and live babies! The moment I opened the 'quarium top, she was right there to greet me. She then proceeded to walk across the table to get to the other cage with the other girls. I opened the door for her, and while she was in there saying hello to everyone, making sure there was nothing good in their food bowl she didnt already have, and checking that the wheel still worked (? Dont ask me.) I took some blurry pictures of pinkies Mr. Green

They are blurry because I tend to shake the moment Im supposed to hold still, and I cant hold a camera still. Thats why all my pictures are blurry -.-

But anyway, she came back after that, checked on them, and was on her way out again but I stopped her because I just really needed to get my shower and get ready for work. So shes back on her nest of them again now feeding.

Seven is a good number, it could have been 10..12..14! But seven is a good safe litter. I will post pictures when they get fuzz..when they open their eyes..everything.

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Megan and the Hyper Hoppers. Blueberry and Butterfly, Naked Evee, and Chii.

Last edited by Reeney315 on Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:35 pm; edited 1 time in total

Fri Feb 03, 2006 5:29 pm

Congragulations!!! They are beautiful. Keep us all updated with the latest news and pics Mr. Green

Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:06 pm

AWWWW jelly beans. Shaz

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Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:29 pm

Milky bellies! ~sluuurrp~

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Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:53 pm

I came to work to tell my coworker- Im twenty years old and a grandmaaaaaa! Hoorray! I cant wait to go home at lunch and check on them.

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Megan and the Hyper Hoppers. Blueberry and Butterfly, Naked Evee, and Chii.

Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:23 pm

lucky!
Happy was a good one to have babies though. She's so friendly and nice ^_^

Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:44 pm

I am seeing myself as lucky! Mr. Green

I didnt want/need babies..I cant keep them permanently, and really wasnt in a place where I was ready for babies in my life right now- but none of that changes the fact that she was pregnant, the babies were coming, and they are here now. I refuse to see it as anything but a blessing- whether I was ready for them or not. I am happy and joyful in their birth, and will delight in raising them and enjoy every moment that I have with them until they are grown. And then after that, my rat situation will go back to normal with my girls, and it will have been a good experiance. Theres really no other way to approach the situation

Im happy, and they are so cute.

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Megan and the Hyper Hoppers. Blueberry and Butterfly, Naked Evee, and Chii.

Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:02 pm

Will you sex them when you go home?

I want to know how many boys I get to start harassing robert to let me have

Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:27 pm

Shoot- I went home to play with Happy but didnt think to sex them..Ill do it tonight. I let Happy have full living room outside time- its the only time I trust her to not disappear. No matter where she goes, she has to stop every few minutes and come back to check on the babies Mr. Green

I gave her about 15 minutes of running around time an dman, she didnt stop moving once. While she was busy we cooed over the babys and Josh held one. They are very sweet and squirmy. Ill check out their privates tonight, lol.

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Megan and the Hyper Hoppers. Blueberry and Butterfly, Naked Evee, and Chii.

Sun Feb 05, 2006 7:53 am

The babies are already getting pigment in their skin, and their little ears are popping off the sides of their heads. 5 of the seven have dark hooded markings (still dont know what color..probably black.) and the other two are very pink, and are probably PEWs. I took some pictures of how big they are getting:

Happy gets outside time multiple times a day as shes bored to death in the quarium with the babies. We have to put her back though- she doesnt check on them enough in our opinion, and we dont feel comfortable with her leaving them without attention for more than 10-15 minutes at a time. We've been holding the babies, and cant wait for their eyes to open!

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Megan and the Hyper Hoppers. Blueberry and Butterfly, Naked Evee, and Chii.

Sun Feb 05, 2006 9:30 am

and the boy to girl ratio?

Sun Feb 05, 2006 7:31 pm

I'm not sure of their sexes yet, Ive look at online photos and then at the babies and man, all my babies look the same. I figured- hey. How hard can it be? Compair them. When one doesnt look like another, you have two piles. But they all look exactly the same! I guess my eyes arent skilled enough to see a different yet, or maybe they are mostly boys or girls- Im not sure. Ill be able to tell more as they develope I guess.

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Megan and the Hyper Hoppers. Blueberry and Butterfly, Naked Evee, and Chii.

Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:37 pm

i sexed mine roughly at 7 days.. there are photos on my thread, update of the birth.. a lot of them look similar, but as they're so young it might help..

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Scamps
Warrior
Hero
Maggie n Flo
The Bunch of Tiny Pinkies

RIP Poncho.. The best second hand rat there ever was Mr. Green

Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:27 pm

Those pics did help! Ill try again tonight. They are only 3 days old right now, but ill try my best.

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Megan and the Hyper Hoppers. Blueberry and Butterfly, Naked Evee, and Chii.

Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:19 am

Well, using those pictures I was able to sex them! Once I knew what to look for it was easy.

BOYS

Boy 1- pink baby, probably going to be PEW
Boy 2- Black hodded, mismarked- theres a pink star/stripe on his forhead where white will be!
Boy 3- Same as boy two, but his white spot is a little different.

GIRLS

Girl 1- Probably a PEW
Girl 2- Same as boy 2-3 with a white spot
Girl 3- Same as boy 2-3, and girl 1..with a white spot. Is this weird that so many of them have these facial markings?
Girl 4- Black berk

Thats what ive got. Im pretty excited to see if their colors change any more before their fuzz grows in and to see if my predictions are correct.

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Megan and the Hyper Hoppers. Blueberry and Butterfly, Naked Evee, and Chii.

Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:22 am

She was probably physically intimate with a goofy looking msnrat >_>

Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:40 pm

The babies are not turning out to be black hooded and pews at all!

So far there is one thats all black, one thats all black except for its entire bottom half/belly. Two black hoodeds that each have a star of white on their forheads. One black hooded that has a T shape of white on his forhead..and the two PEWS? Why, they are growing feight markings as well! They are like ghostly gray markings, I hardly noticed them at first! What color will they be?

Cmon Celynny, you know you want him!

The babies.

Can you see the grey on the pinkies? especially the one on the back. Not only are they hoodeds of some kind, they each seem to have white markings on their faces as well.

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Megan and the Hyper Hoppers. Blueberry and Butterfly, Naked Evee, and Chii.

Thu Feb 09, 2006 11:52 pm

OMG The T rat is so mine (assuming we can afford to come get him O_O)

Check out that gorgeous baby! ^_____^

Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:06 am

Sorry on the terrible pic quality. Can anyone guess what the pink babies will be though? And is it abnormal to have so many of them (6 out of 7) to have facial markings?

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Megan and the Hyper Hoppers. Blueberry and Butterfly, Naked Evee, and Chii.

Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:12 am

Well form what babies I can see...
looks like a varigated with head spot, a bareback and some berks (one or two being possible variberks or whtiesides berks). The pics are not that clear.

Amy

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Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:17 am

Yeah, two of the babies that are all black have the two white stars on their forheads, and then one has that T shaped white on his face, and a black berk. But then these two pink babies that are growing pale grey fuzz- atleast I think its grey, even they have head spots although you cant see them in my pictures really. But I wonder if they will be grey, or tan, or what. Ive never seen a baby with that color fuzz- guess Ill have to wait a little bit longer for them to get some fur!

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Megan and the Hyper Hoppers. Blueberry and Butterfly, Naked Evee, and Chii.

Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:18 am

That all being said acutally, do you all think Ill have an easier time homing these babies than I would if they were PEWs and Black hoodeds plain and simple?

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Megan and the Hyper Hoppers. Blueberry and Butterfly, Naked Evee, and Chii.

Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:28 am

is there any chance you could have blues? i have a blue in my litter.. and there was no blue in my doe's litter (and she must have mated with one of her brothers..) but they were pink and then went a funny grey beige colour while they were still pink.. let me see if i have a pic of him/ her when it was pink..

is that the kind of colour? otherwise might be fawn or champagne.. i have a champagne, and i guess that could look grey as it comes thru.. would also be ruby or pink eyed.. just an idea, as i have no reallll clue about colours! i like my rats funky rather than showy!! Mr. Green

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~Bee~
Scamps
Warrior
Hero
Maggie n Flo
The Bunch of Tiny Pinkies

RIP Poncho.. The best second hand rat there ever was Mr. Green

Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:28 am

woah.. sorry that was massive..

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~Bee~
Scamps
Warrior
Hero
Maggie n Flo
The Bunch of Tiny Pinkies

RIP Poncho.. The best second hand rat there ever was Mr. Green

Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:59 am

Actaully that looks exactly like them, so I guess they will be light blue! Cool!

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Megan and the Hyper Hoppers. Blueberry and Butterfly, Naked Evee, and Chii.