Looking for fancy blue rats

[CornerStone]

I want to breed some rats to feed my boa, and I thought to make it fun, I would try to find some fancy rats. I have been trying to find solid blue rats to purchase, but was amazed to see that the ratteries that have them require contracts of care! The contracts range from requiring you to take the rats out every day to play with, to not being able to give them away without prior screening and approval of the new owner! And of course, they can’t be used to breed feeders.

I know I could sign a contract and breed them anyway, but I am an honest person and won’t do that.

So, does anyone out there know where I can find some fancy self blue rats that won’t mind having them breed for feeding? I have a mind to start a fancy rattery myself and offer them to the public with no contracts required, but I need some starters first.

[Blueeheeler]

Where are you located? I breed blues and berkshires. PM me maybe we are close enough to make a deal. Jamie

[CC]

Blue rats??? What size are they?

[haroldo359]

and can someone post a pic? are they, like, smurf blue?

[Blueeheeler]

they are more like gray blue. I have hoppers up to adults. I have to take some pictures and post them for you. give me a minute. Jamie

[Blueeheeler]

Here are some pictures.

[haroldo359]

look like feeders to me. nice pics.

[CC]

Originally Posted by CornerStone

The contracts range from requiring you to take the rats out every day to play with, to not being able to give them away without prior screening and approval of the new owner! And of course, they can’t be used to breed feeders.

That's just weird. Having to take a RAT out everyday and play with it?????? Makes no sense to me. And I personally have no use for rats except for feeders. Guess different people like different things though.

[Blueeheeler]

I play with all of my rats daily...This way I know that I am not going to get bit and my kids love to play with them also. Breeder rats are pets too! Jamie

[haroldo359]

to each his own. people think i am crazy for having snakes.

[Gecko-Guy]

that second pic almost makes me feel sad that he is going to be fed to a snake....

[Majexto]

haha, nice noses they have. Really odd looking. Anyway, theyre not really blue, not that I see anyway. Good luck finding them! Would it be going against the contract if you bought them, bred them, then bred them again, then feeding the offspring of them?

[CornerStone]

They are very specific that any offspring and any generations after cannot be used as feeders. I have tried to get around the contract honestly, but no go.

My kids would be taking the rats out daily and playing with them as well Its just that we would do this voluntarily, not under obligation of a silly contract.

[Ed_r]

Ummm How is anyone going to enforce a contract of that type? they would have to spy on you constantly. They just dont want competition in breeding. You bought it its your pet you can do as you please with it. If they were to even take you to court, its the animals right to be able to breed.

[John_White]

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[Quakezombie]

Hey everybody.
I am curious Cornerstone..how much were they selling these blue rats for ?

Blueeheeler : Do yours have any reduction in litter number ?

My rat feeder colony originally began with a pair of adult hairless.
Which had two downsides...

Small litter number.About half that of the standard albino (haired).

Some of the mothers would eat all their offspring.( I read somewhere that the hairless gene produced females that could not lactate/?)

One neat thing though both of the hairless founders were also het for albino,hehe.
So now i am outcrossing the albino hairless males to albino(haired) females and getting full litters.
Het for hairless feeders