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16-Feb-05, 03:36 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-05 Location: Bairnsdale, Victoria Age: 24 | | |
Well I started to breed my own feeder rats a few months ago with a single pair. The female has had 2 litters. The first have already been used and the second litter were hoppers. I was going to freeze them today when I got up to find them eating the mother!
Has anyone else had this happen? Could they have killed her and eaten her or is it more likely she died and they started eating her. They were well fed and I don't have any idea what happened. Either way it was pretty gross (little rats looking at me with red eyes and blood spattered faces) so I think I might stick with buying frozen from the local pet shop.
Oh I forgot if there is anyone in the East Gippsland area who wants a free adult male rat PM me. The pet shop doesn't want him back and my darwin couldn't handle such a large meal. |
16-Feb-05, 03:40 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Feb-04 Location: Sydney | | | | RE: Cannibal Feeders
I'd say she has died and to show their complete respect they ate her.
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16-Feb-05, 03:59 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Up the Ral Ral Creek. S.A. | | | | RE: Cannibal Feeders
It happens! If one dies the others will eat it. 
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16-Feb-05, 04:10 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Feb-05 Location: Bairnsdale, Victoria Age: 24 | | | | RE: Cannibal Feeders
I knew that the males can eat the babies and such but I never expected the babies to eat the female, especially since she was looking fine when I went to bed last night. 
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16-Feb-05, 04:22 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: Sydney Gender:  | | | i had that too!!!!
the daddy rat died and the babies decided to dig to china from the bum all the way to the ribcage!
it was like their own little tent  when i saw this there were 2 inside!
GOO!!!!!!
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16-Feb-05, 04:35 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Up the Ral Ral Creek. S.A. | | | | Ewwww!! Sounds gross doesn't it? It happens quite often in our ranch.
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16-Feb-05, 04:38 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: sydney | | | Ewww that is gross indeed! Frozen for me thanks, they just lay there quitely, no feeding or cleaning and the tend not to do anything disgusting! 
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16-Feb-05, 07:03 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-04 Location: North Carlton, VIC, Australia | | | | Yeah, that happens, make sure you kill all involve now though as once they have tasted blood, they are useless. Kill the now, freeze them for at lease 6 weeks as you dont know what the mum die of, then feed em to your snakeys, **** happens, but you are still way better off breeding them yourself if you have 3 or more snakes, the savings are unbelievable.
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16-Feb-05, 07:39 PM
|  | Badonkadonk Bandit Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Nikonia Gender:  | | | | I had an adult female that was looking a bit dopey, the next day I found her dead with a 1cm diameter hole deep into her chest cavity.
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16-Feb-05, 09:20 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-04 Location: Victoria | | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by instar Ewww that is gross indeed! Frozen for me thanks, they just lay there quitely, no feeding or cleaning and the tend not to do anything disgusting! | What do you mean they will become 'useless' after eating the mother? Do they get a taste for blood and turn into murderous mice and start killing live siblings?
Sounds scary. . .psycho mice :S
Too much effort breeding them, i like them dead and frozen 
Speaking of mice. . .a wild one just ran under my dish washer ! First mouse we've had  | |
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