Rattery update - planned breedings

Because some of my waiting lists are starting to fill again, we have the following breeding planned.

Jem and Bo -
Jem is a beautiful powder blue that is a velveteen/rex mix fur type. Standard ears, berkshire. Social personality, but nothing extraordinary with her personality.
Bo is also a beautiful powder blue. He has standard fur and dumbo ears. He is social, but a little reserved. Has not been sick or had any health issues.

This is a breeding done for the study. We are working with unknown genetics completely and most, if not all, of the babies will be kept within the network. This may be the beginning of a Social Rats Adoptions blue line, if all goes well. We will be trying to determine health and longevity of the babies, both bred and non-bred, which is why some are going to breeders. Anyone who adopts from this breeding must be willing to give updates at least every 3 months on health and temperament.

Shi and Bo-
Shi is a pretty standard fur, standard ear powder blue. She was given to Social Rats Adoptions to help start the blue line. Most babies will be available for adoption. Standard adoption agreement required that you will need to inform me of all health and temperament issues and give cause and date of death when it occurs.
Bo is listed above with Jem

Harmony and Batman -
Harmony is a dumbo fawn veriberk, standard fur. She is a first generation soy free rat and this is also for the study.
Batman is a top ear, standard fur beige masked male. He is an unknown genetic, coming from a breeder that breeds for temperament but was unable to provide a pedigree. He was on soy until he arrived here.

Because this is a breeding for the study, all adopters will be required to contact with an update every 3 months, with any health or behavioral issues and with cause and date of death. You will also need to keep me updated on diet as well, so I know who is soy free and who is not when it comes times for them to cross over.

If I am correct, this litter should have a longer lifespan and a lower risk of cancer or tumors. THey should also have a properly functioning immune system with no issues. They will have ZERO exposure to soy, including through the mother, which our first gen do have a small amount of soy in their brains when born. This litter is believed to the best we can get as far as we can get with diet. It is our belief that if these babies are kept strictly soy free, but on a healthy diet, that they will live to be at least 3 years old, hopefully closer to 4 or more.

The grandmother and father of the mother of this llitter is still alive and well living here.

The grandmother, Taffy, is now 20 months old and retired. She has only had 1 respiratory issue, when she came off of the soy, no other health issues. She has shown no signs of cancer at all. No heart issues, no kidney issues, no organ issues at all that have been seen. She has not had any major weight losses in her lifetime. When she did get sick, she responded well to the amoxicillin, cleared up without incident.

Taffy's son and the father of Harmony is Tanner. He has never had any health issues at all. Even when he came off of the soy, he did not have an immune system reboot that caused him to get sick. Tanner is now 13 months old and is still used for breeding. Although he is an alpha personality, he has never shown signs of aggression. Like his mother, Tanner will give kisses and groom his humans when being scratched in just the right spot.

Donna, Harmony's mother, is currently nursing her second litter of babies and is doing well. Donna, like Tanner, did not get sick when coming off of the soy and did very well. She had soy during pregnancy, but not during nursing or afterwards. Harmony has been soy free all of her life. Donna is a very sedate rat when she wants to be and has shown no aggressive tendencies towards humans. She is an alpha, so is a dominant personality, however she does recognize Taffy as queen of the colony and does not dispute this. Donna is also very much of an explorer as well.

So, this Harmony's background is fully known for a few generations. Batman is the unknown in this mix, but he is very sedate, very passive and is about a year old. Since the soy status of the father does not affect the babies, it is safe to use him for this litter and we should get some masked fawn rats. I am working to try to eliminate the alpha personality from the lines at the moment, which is why I am using Batman for the father of this litter. Batman was chosen after some careful consideration and although Harmony is only 4 months old at this time, the minimum age I will breed, she has also grown very well, very quickly and I expect all of the babies to be a very healthy size when full grown. I will be keeping 2-4 rats from this litter for myself, so continue the soy free lines and to work on my dumbo masked lines.

If you are interested in adopting or reserving from this breeding, please contact me at tami@socialrats.com

Tami
Social Rats Adoption and Rescue