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22-Apr-04, 07:02 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-03 Location: Brisbane | | |
Hi All,
What time span do you give your female rats from giving birth to returning them to the male again?
I give them 6 weeks min., but Ive heard some people say 3 is ok.
Cheers
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22-Apr-04, 07:28 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: G>F>A>C AFRO!! | | | | i heard some people just keep them together all the time and they sort it out for themselves. |
22-Apr-04, 07:30 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Dec-03 Location: Mostly on the lounge watching the TV. | | | | As soon as the litter is weaned from the mother and taken away from her to grow out which is about 3 weeks. In fact with a lot of mine the male is there all the time anyway.
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22-Apr-04, 08:59 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Mar-04 Location: Perth WA | | | | I keep mine together all the time - probably not good for their internals.........but being healthy isn't going to help them when they have a rest in the freezer!
I've got a female now who's given birth to approx 33 babies in 6 months - shes pregnant again and I've never seperated them. |
22-Apr-04, 09:02 PM
| | Suspended | Join Date: Feb-04 Location: Sydney | | | | I keep them together all the time. I have 3 females to 1 male in each cage.
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22-Apr-04, 09:02 PM
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22-Apr-04, 09:31 PM
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22-Apr-04, 10:18 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jan-03 Location: Melbourne O>I>G>L Souly! | | | as soon as the young are weaned I whack em back in and start all over again  |
23-Apr-04, 06:28 AM
| | Subscriber | Join Date: Apr-03 Location: Brisbane | | | | Thanks for the feedback everyone, My girls have been having a cruizy ride! Time for them to 'think of england' a bit more! lol
Next rat question,
What do you guys give them to keep them parasite and worm free? and how is it administered. |
23-Apr-04, 08:53 AM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-03 Location: Up the Ral Ral Creek. S.A. | | | | Hi, we keep our rats 3 to 1 all the time. Wormout Gel from Vetafarm, Avian Insect Liquidator from Vetafarm. Wormout Gel we put through the watering system(you have to mix it up very thoroughly to get rid of the lumps- a whisk is good), Avian Insect Liquidator we mix up in one of those backpack spray thingos. Spray our whole 27ft truck container, nesting boxes(take the food out), sawdust bedding material - We usually change this first. just spray everything! Walls, floors, light spray on the ratties. Any critters that you treat, make sure you stick to the withholding period before feeding on to reptiles, don't want any snakes dying hey? I think Dave uses a 7day withholding period after worm treatment and the same for the spray. We would use Top of Descent Spray, but it is so darn expensive in a spray can. Not economical for us I'm afraid. It works straight away, and you can also feed on immediately! We know the main ingredient is d-phenophrin in TOD. Trying to find somewhere to buy a bulk spray. Does anyone know of a supplier please? We think the mites might come with our bulk sawdust. We do a spray approx. every 3 months. Cheers Cheryl | |
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