April 2008: dam - Zephyr Peggy Sue (chocolate american cinnamon dumbo)
sire - Zephyr Conker (agouti, carrying american mink, chocolate, british blue, and dumbo)

litter 2008-S1 : The aim of this litter is to produce dumbo american mink based rats for future breeding. Expecting black, agouti, chocolate, chocolate agouti, american mink, american cinnamon, chocolate american mink, and chocolate american cinnamon, some dumbo.
If blue has been carried by Peggy, then also british blue, quicksilver, lilac, chocolate quicksilver, and their agouti versions.
Peggy Sue
Conker
details: 18th March - mated, kittens due 10th April
08th April - moved into the nursery cage
10th April - Peggy had a difficult labour: after giving birth to 4 live littens and 1 dead one in the morning, she needed veterinary treatment in the afternoon, and gave birth to a few more kittens in the evening
11th April - 6 kittens remain alive, all appear to be boys, 3 dark eyed, 3 pale eyed
14th April - sadly one little boy died overnight, but the other 5 seem to be fine
16th April - Peggy has taken in a little newly born foster girl whose mum wasn't able to care for her
buck 1: black dumbo
buck 2: chocolate dumbo
buck 3: american cinnamon
buck 4: chocolate american cinnamon
buck 5: quicksilver agouti/platinum agouti
Click here for their family tree.

last days of pregnancy: a sizeable tummy at 19 days, and moving into the duna at 21 days

11/04/08 - one day old:

12/04/08 - two days old:

13/04/08 - three days old:

14/04/08 - 4 days old:

15/04/08 - 5 days old: lined up, left to right, bucks 1-5

16/04/08 - 6 days old:

17/04/08 - 7 days old: individual pictures
all together:
 buck 1:
buck 2:
 buck 3:
buck 4:
 buck 5:

18/04/08 - 8 days old: pictured with their younger foster sister who seems well capable of holding her own!

19/04/08 - 9 days old:

20/04/08 - 10 days old: individual pictures
foster sister, now 4 days old:
 buck 1:
buck 2:
 buck 3:
buck 4:
 buck 5:
the litter palette:

21/04/08 - 11 days old:

22/04/08 - 12 days old: the boys are beginning to scoot about and try to see through their eyelids

23/04/08 - 13 days old: most of the boys have eyes!
foster sister, now 7 days old:
 buck 1:
buck 2:
 buck 3:
buck 4:
 buck 5:

24/04/08 - 14 days old:

25/04/08 - 15 days old: the foster girl now has eyes too, so may actually be older than 9 days

26/04/08 - 16 days old:

27/04/08 - 17 days old: playing in a basket

28/04/08 - 18 days old:
foster sister, now 12(?) days old:
buck 1:
buck 2:
buck 3:
buck 4:
buck 5:

30/04/08 - 20 days old:

01/05/08 - 21 days old:

03/05/08 - 23 days old: playing in the mary cage
Peggy with her foster daughter:
buck 1:
 buck 2:
bucks 3 and 4:
buck 5:
buck 5 capturing and then losing someone's tail!:

07/05/08 - 27 days old:
foster sister:
buck 1:
buck 2:
buck 3:
buck 4:
buck 5:

10/05/08 - 30 days old: getting used to their freddy cage

12/05/08 - 32 days old:
Mum:
foster sister:
buck 1:
buck 2:
bucks 3 and 4:


buck 5:

15/05/08 - 5 weeks old: individual pictures
foster sister:
buck 1:
buck 2:
buck 3:
buck 4:
buck 5:

22/05/08 - 6 weeks old:
foster sister (5 1/2 weeks old):
buck 1:
buck 2:
buck 3:
buck 4:
buck 5:


We kept the chocolate dumbo - Uncle Albert, and a cinnamon (buck 4) - Sgt. Pepper from this litter