/an/ - Animals & Nature » Thread #345939

[7 / 0 / ?]

Anonymous Fri 28 Nov 2008 06:38:00 No.345939 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By:

Hello /an/

Here's the situation, I have two female rats and only one cage. I want to get one of them pregnant so I can feed the babies to my pacman toad. I'll be buying a male soon who I want to dispose of once I know my rat is pregnant, but how would I go upon getting only one pregnant? Would I have to buy a small cage for them to fornicate in and how would I know for sure that she's pregnant?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Nov 2008 06:57:00 No.345944 Report

Quoted By:

What the fuck does your picture have to do with this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Nov 2008 07:07:00 No.345951 Report

Quoted By:

Oh geeze, I forgot to put in a picture of some cute rat, excuse me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Nov 2008 07:24:00 No.345957 Report

Quoted By:

Yes, you'll need a separate cage. I can't remember for sure, but female rats cycle every four days or something like that, so if you want to make sure she gets pregnant, leave her in there with the boy for a week. By around 14 days, you can palpitate her midsection area and should be feeling little lumps the size of rice grains--those are her pups--and by 17 days it should be fairly obvious whether or not she's pregnant. She'll give birth at around 21 days, so you have quite a bit of a wait ahead of you if you do go about this route.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Nov 2008 07:26:00 No.345959 Report

Quoted By: >>345961

Thanks.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Nov 2008 07:30:00 No.345961 Report

Quoted By:

>>345959
Oh yeah, and you might want to keep her separate from the other girl while she's pregnant, because (depending on how big you want the pups to be) she might not take care of them if there's another rat in the cage with her, or the other girl might kill them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Nov 2008 07:54:00 No.345967 Report

Quoted By:

At first I read 'rat' as 'cat' and I was about to rage.

Capcode	All Only User Posts Only Verified Posts Only Moderator Posts Only Manager Posts Only Admin Posts Only Developer Posts Only Founder Posts
Show Posts	All Only With Images Only Without Images Only Spoiler Images Only Non-Spoiler Images
Deleted Posts	All Only Deleted Posts Only Non-Deleted Posts
Ghost Posts	All Only Ghost Posts Only Non-Ghost Posts
Post Type	All Only Sticky Threads Only Opening Posts Only Reply Posts
Results	All Grouped By Threads
Order	Latest Posts First Oldest Posts First

On these archives

Your latest searches