Cultivation of rats – business extremely responsible. Think that as a result of pairing of rats their livestock will increase not by one-two kids at your place. It is necessary to look for good hands for 10-15 infant rats. If you are serious, pay attention to several important points.
Instruction
1. Rats breed with improbable ease and speed. Their Polovozrelost comes on the fifth week of life therefore beforehand separate males from females. Incest is not alien to rats therefore separate also relatives of a different floor.
2. At reproductive age at a female the techka repeats each 4-5 days. The schedule techek at each female especially individual not to get confused, note it on the calendar. Usually the techka begins in the evening and lasts all night long.
3. At the age of 18 months of a female enter a menopause time though separate copies can continue to give posterity, be attentive. The best time for first labor – 4-5 months. Childbirth at more adult female can be dangerous – bones of its basin already grew together that will complicate an exit of infant rats and will force to do to a female Cesarean section. Before the second pregnancy the female needs to have a rest not less than 2-4 weeks. Males are ready to pairing at the age of 6 months.
4. For pairing couple two rats connect approximately for 10 days. You learn, out of a techka the female can be quite aggressive in relation to a male. It is possible to notice the beginning of a techka at a female on an open vagina of bright pink color and on behavior - it curves a back, raises a tail, drives ears and in every possible way shows to a male what waits for pairing. Pairing in the period of a techka can repeat several times is a peculiar secure of the nature.
5. Pregnancy lasts 21-25 days. At some females the stomach increases by the second week of pregnancy. Closer to childbirth in a stomach it is possible even to notice the movement of infant rats. If the male lives in one cage with a female, is closer to childbirth it is worth settling out him as the female can enter a techka in 24 hours after the delivery.
6. You remember, the pregnant and feeding female can become very aggressive. The majority of females actively get ready for childbirth: find the suitable place and begin to create a nest - "родильню". However some females are engaged in the organization of a nest just before childbirth. Supply a rat with clean rags, white toilet paper is an excellent construction material.
7. About the beginning of childbirth you recognize by bloody allocations from a vagina of a rat. Usually childbirth lasts 1-2 hours. The female helps infant rats pads, licks them and has a bite an umbilical cord. The healthy infant rat surely peeps and moves, otherwise the rat mother eats the newborn, be ready to it. The lack of stir and peep says to a female that the cub was born unhealthy or dead. Provide to a female after the delivery continuous access to water and the strengthened proteinaceous food.
8. In one rat dung usually 10-12 kids. If you do not plan to leave all infant rats, in advance think of new owners. Consider, pet-shops use 50-90% of infant rats as a forage for reptiles.
9. Infant rats grow very quickly. At the age of 4-5 weeks they can be weaned, and boys need to be taken away without waiting for the fifth week. After at infant rats eyes opened (approximately in 2 weeks after the birth), it is possible to begin to play with them that they since early childhood got used to constant presence of the person nearby.